Hilift

2023: "A Party in Cannes Announces a New Hollywood Power Player". Something like ~300 attendees, probably $10 million. Zaslav and Graydon Carter co-hosted. There were rumored to be thousands of bottles of Dom champagne, which is probably inexpensive in bulk.

https://archive.is/ITc2a

You have minimal to zero leverage of the native Windows debugging, logging, or instrumentation. At best an opaque box with one knob and hopefully it doesn't fail or you will be roaming the countryside learning how to perform correlated packet captures at various levels of crappy obtuse networking. Could be useful for concealing non compliant vulnerable applications from pesky security vulnerability assessment teams. Combine that with the price is right and it is a solid 97% win exceeding performance metrics bonus pool refreshed.

No. The UK refuses to accept reality, which is a poverty rate 12% higher than the US, and families with three or more children poverty rate of 47%. The cost of benefits and other costly boondoggles compete with these failed public works ventures. The largest water utility has £20 billion debt and will probably need to be un-privatized. They probably breathe a sigh of relief knowing that France is twice as bad financially, so that feeds the denial mass delusion. And the economy doesn't have the fantasy growth that was expected, so automatic additional borrowing. And it's budget season. Yay!

Mobile is such a second class operating system platform. I look forward to doing everything with Meta eyewear that also corrects vision impairments.

This seems like it should be an easy task for an AI to implement. For example, the question "what is the most helpful rated negative review of the book 'Original Sin' by Jake Tapper?" There are obvious and prominent "helpfulness" ratings of reviews, but they don't seem to be scraped, at least not by Gemini. Additionally, Gemini reports seemingly inaccurate or minimal effort information:

"It is difficult to pinpoint a single "most helpful" negative review of Original Sin by Jake Tapper, as helpfulness ratings on platforms like Amazon or Goodreads are dynamic and subjective, and the provided search results *do not include specific user reviews with their respective helpfulness votes*."

https://share.google/aimode/OnWrGe4j508c4u3gh

The typically tier 2 carriers are the main ideal perfect market for eSIMs. If you want to do everything online, you really can't if it relies on a physical something. I would estimate 90% of the market is for mint mobile and consumer cellular. eSIMs are a genius move progression from the old burner phone days, from the perspective of overhead costs and flexibility.

Most of the funds lost to SBF were recovered. And CPZ has a pardon. Crypto has evaporated about $2 trillion in assets since then.

"Multiple Active Result Sets=true;"

Ironically, the GitHub Desktop Windows app is quite nice.

It is a setting in connection string in the client app.config, "MultipleActiveResultSets=true;".

Multiple Active Result Sets (MARS). During large query responses or bulk loads, "full" packets cause an additional packet to be sent over the wire with about five bytes to hold the MARS "wrapper". The net result is one full packet, and one empty packet on the wire, alternating. The performance impact in LAN latency is negligible. However on higher latency between AWS and your premises it has a terrible performance impact.

MARS isn't strictly needed for most things. Some features that requires it are ORM (EF) proxies and lazy loading. If you need MARS, there are third party "accelerators" that workaround this madness.

"MARS Acceleration significantly improves the performance of connections that use the Multiple Active Result Sets (MARS) connection option."

https://documentation.nitrosphere.com/resources/release-note...

> The direct cost is the easy part

I don't think it is easy. I see most organizations struggle with the fact that everything is throttled in the cloud. CPU, storage, network. Tenants often discover large amounts of activity they were previously unaware of, that contributes to the usage and cost. And there may be individuals or teams creating new usages that are grossly impacting their allocation. Did you know there is a setting in MS SQL Server that impacts performance by an order of magnitude when sending/receiving data from the Cloud to your on-premises servers? It's the default in the ORM generated settings.

Then you can start adding in the Cloud value, such as incomprehensible networking diagrams that are probably non-compliant in some way (guess which ones!), and security? What is it?

> Near 100 per cent probability of continuing to function against multi-megaton weapons (i.e., underground location).

That of course wasn't possible, only a best effort. There was also the pseudo belief that ICBM missiles could be intercepted, and an entire system was designed and deployed (Project Nike), then decommissioned in 1974 due to it was a waste of money.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Nike

This month, London police discovered and intercepted a shipment of 1,000 stolen iPhones destined for ... China.

"46 people were arrested, including two men who were detained in London last month on suspicion of handling stolen goods after 2,000 phones were found in their car and addresses linked to them."

These aren't local street thugs. This is a massive, global criminal enterprise:

"London Metropolitan Police, which had initially assumed that "small-time thieves" were behind the city's wave of phone thefts, got their first major lead on Christmas Eve last year. A woman using "Find My iPhone" had tracked her stolen device to a warehouse near Heathrow Airport."

"We discovered street thieves were being paid up to 300 pounds ($403) per handset and uncovered evidence of devices being sold for up to $5,000 in China."

https://www.timesunion.com/news/world/article/uk-police-unco...

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/uk/industrial-scal...

"fail to secure"?

Do you really think that with all of the years of iPhone device and account takeovers, from a text message requiring no reading or interaction, Apple with their maximum controlled walled garden aren't facilitating? Apple spent billions moving factories because the US government told them to. They are the keymaker.

Apple could do a lot of things, such as preventing the black market for stolen phones from existing. A single city, London, had 80,000 phones stolen in 2024.

"...Onwurah argued that "robust technical measures" such as blocking stolen phones taken overseas from accessing cloud services could make devices "far less valuable".

"She also pointed to comments by Mobile UK, the trade association of the UK's mobile network operators, who said blocking IMEI in other countries was a "necessary step to dismantle the business model of organised crime".

"However, she said when giving evidence, Apple, Google and Samsung had avoided saying why they would not implement the technology." <--**

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2y037pg41o

I would take that further and say that residential solar without batteries has been proven to be a bad solution. Solar with batteries allows utilities and consumers to schedule when power can be sent to the grid. California utilities consider solar without batteries a PITA, and incentive structures have changed to reflect that shift in policy.

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/distributed-energy-reso...

https://enphase.com/blog/homeowners/understanding-nem-30-and...

No details? I say we assume it was an expired certificate outage.

You don't owe anything. You're spending someone else's money!

Are you serious? California has an $180 billion annual obligation just for Medicaid (Cal-Aid). Los Angeles borrowed $1 billion to fund DWP operations this year, and borrowed $3 billion to borrow another $3 billion to fund a $6 billion renovation for the LA convention center that no one wants. Denver wants to borrow $1 billion to basically fund operations.

Neither party has any intention of repaying any of the $38 trillion, or care what it is spent on.

https://www.torched.la/why-this-convention-center-expert-is-...

> 90% of medias in France belongs to a few wealthy families that are friends with him.

That isn't a problem if the electorate aren't easily influenced.

Countries providing much of the foreign aid are sometimes in denial of poverty in their own country. The UK is projecting 22% in 2024/25 to 23% in 2029/30. Bangladeshi and Pakistani households are 53% and 47%. Families with three or more children 44%.

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn07...

Even with redundancy, the response time between NYC and Amazon East in Ashburn is something like 10 ms. The impedance mismatch and dropped packets and increased latency would doom most organizations craplications.

Possible, but considering that US Ozempic revenue is $10 billion per year between only Medicaid and Medicare, that would attract customs attention. The US market was projected to increase to $58 billion by 2035.

I sense an incoming report supporting the space hail theory.

Spying was a profession 400 years ago due to the intense rivalry of France and England. Vast sums and amounts of time were spent on various schemes. Probably for revenge for losing western Europe in the 100 years war. Religion seems to have been mostly a cover for plunder and stealing treasure. France remained mostly Catholic, however the religious turnover in England created interesting dynamics.

The proprietor of Maryland landed the title Baron Baltimore through friendship with the spymaster to Queen Elizabeth, "whom Calvert had met during an extended trip to the European mainland between 1601 and 1603".

"He also held the title of Earl of Salisbury in 1605 and Lord High Treasurer in 1608, making him the most powerful man at the royal court."

The Calvert family lost the Maryland estate after the armed insurrection of 1689, however the Crown returned the estate to the Calvert family in 1715 "after Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, declared in public that he was a Protestant."

The final "23rd Governor of Restored Proprietary Government" Sir Robert Eden, 1st Baronet, was the great great grandfather of Prime Minister Anthony Eden.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Calvert,_1st_Baron_Balt...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_of_Maryland

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Treaty_of_Dover

*Medicaid, not Medicare. And the actual amount is $85 billion, due to Medicaid is available to nearly anyone, and it is only a coincidence it is the reason for the government shutdown.

> I don't think people understand how the economics of these apps (and websites) work

That is unfortunate, due to Mark Zuckerberg has redefined the successful business model. META is on track to clear $80 billion per year in net profit. Like it or not, they have a mutually beneficial relationship with advertisers and investors. It's like a Unicorn reproduced with an ATM. It's one of the stocks that seem like neutral ground for institutions, like TSLA. There has to be a high table where those guys talk on phones carried in suitcases.

To put $80 billion per year in perspective, that is approximately the amount of annual federal Medicare matching funds reimbursement for the state of California (Cal-Aid).

I'm predicting there will be a startup to focus on large scale forensic identification of archived samples of various things. Particularly items that may have been important enough to save in a freezer for 70 or 80 years. The refinement and availability of devices to measure microscopic amounts, and AI to process and sift through mundane results. From my experience with science, laboratory procedures before the 1980's were generally inconsistent and inadequate. Contamination was not uncommon, something biological investigators had to deal with when investigating early HIV cases. Wouldn't be surprised for an "empty the freezers" order from the FDA or CDC. Probably located underground in a BSL 4/5 facility in Arizona or Utah.

AI really is good at finding new viruses, due to simple DNA sequences look like noise to humans. But then you may have created a different problem.

"The Butlerian Jihad was a cataclysmic, millennia-long holy war that completely eradicated artificial intelligence, computers, and sentient robots from human civilization. Taking place over 10,000 years before the events of the original novel, the Jihad was a violent reaction to humanity's over-reliance on and eventual enslavement by "thinking machines". The ban on advanced AI became a foundational law of the Galactic Imperium."