Stranger43

I wonder why US companies keep pulling stunts like this despite the data showing little negative impact of unionization to overall productivity nor company survival.

It looks to be a purely dogmatic ego trip where somehow blind loyalty is demanded even when it's not actually necessary.

There is in general a lack of understanding that bad cycling infrastructure can be significantly worse then no cycling infrastructure as it often create more dangers, here the better solution would be to design for lower speeds and shared road usage.

It should and the if it don't this is going to lead to "House Select Committee on Assassinations" levels of distrust with the entire sector.

Its still possible that this is a freak occurrence but any agency claiming that as a proven fact right now is going to look suspicious.

The likely scenario is that the local electrical utilities supplying/servicing the chargers will take over the operation in the shadows until they develop their own brands and change the signage and payment terminals.

The Immediate effect is likely going to be that the prices are going to be readjusted to make sure the network makes money for the owners without Tesla funneling investment capital(they likely cant raise anymore) into the network.

It's the rational consequences of Tesla failing to turn it's charger network into an network effect creating an monopoly for Tesla.

Essentially the ploy was for Tesla to use the charging network as a loss leader to make Tesla the only/most viable EV brand, and because both roads and electricity grids are well regulated utilities that failed so from here on the only source of money for Tesla is going to be the company revenue/profit, as it's phase as a buy an monopoly startup is over.

The problem with the later generation raspberry pi's is that almost everything that made the early generations special have been eroded, to the point where almost every project where the GPIO is required is better served by an mk 2 then an mk 5

The real problem is that where the mk 1 and mk 2 was fully utilized with the mmc/sd cards and usb power supplies people had kicking around in closets and a case made from scrap wood, this slowly stopped being the case with the later models meaning that it was no longer a real alternative to an ESP32 for electronics hobbyist, and that all of those "near mandatory" addons pushes the prices up near that of more powerful N100 based devices.

Lost of labor hours are the real answer.

Basically what would happen was that someone would write it down on a paper form, mail that form off to the typing pool at the corporate headquarter where some clerk would then type it into the central system with a delay of 5-10 days from point of sale to recording into the inventory management system being totally normal, leading to a lot of overstocking and waste.

So to run offline would mean getting a hold of a lot of people that aren't there anymore in addition to reintroducing all of the risk(and fraud opportunities) that running without real time access to centralized data.

Tesla failed at the monopoly grab that most VC funded tech companies depend on for their "valuation" and super-normal profits.

Cars have no network effect as the roads are open standard accessible to any vendor and Tesla never had any secret sauce that kept well funded competitors from competing.

Once the big traditional manufacturers started taking electric cars with diver assist features seriously they had the skill and money to match(and in some cases exceed) Tesla and that means Tesla will have to price their cars competitively.

Do we have actual data for this other then the usually wrong common sense derived from our cultural values?

Most drugs are relatively harmless if taken rarely and in relatively low doses, the problem is that a lot of users don't and that because of our shared cultural history Alcohol typically gets a pass where as things not alcohol is vilified even if the data(as is the case for Cannabis) suggest that they might be more equal in actual harm done.

and yet thats only ever brought up when defending windows despite the fact that MS is cauing this kind o issues every 3-5 years.

So how is it that people can go from XP->vista->10->11 and not break the bank on retraining or from windows to MacOS but somehow anything else is impossible.

This is not an logically coherent argument against linux it's basically admins being scared of having their decades of investment into wintel ecosystem devalued.

The problem is that because your applications is windows specific your not comparing windows to linux your comparing whatever legacy mess of custom applications that people use to get their job done to whatever your replacing you win32/winforms legacy stuff with(which is something you have to do anyway as that platform is dying).

For AWS we rely almost entirely on backup/restore and database level log shipping on prem this is is in some cases argumented by storage level(netapp and previously hpe 3par) replication but this is going away for cost reasons.

Given that my experience with AWS is to use the same application level cross region resilience techniques im used to on prem(i have worked with high end unix boxen most of my carear) im genuinely baffled when people start talking about cloud resilience as something magical, and nearly all our traffic happens inside of an private network(MPLS/VPN) that stretches across the different sites.

I really haven't seen any magic multi-az resiliiance in aws that dont have an onprem counter part.

None of this is in house whitebox hardware but relatively standard solutions from established vendors(VMware recently started abusing their near monopoly so everyone is looking for/at alternatives like proxmox, xen and nutanix but arent ready to move just yet).

As someone who split his time 50/50 between AWS and vmware based instances, i cant really think of anything we run in AWS that is not eventually supposed to go back on prem when we have stabilized the specification and lifecycle expectations. And who could not have gone in on prem if we had been willing to spend capex upfront(which would likely had led to lower lifecycle costs).

The last time this debate came along ms was able to sweep in with an solution that did not require cloud integration with an price/support package that was by all estimate at bellow cost, and i would be surprised if the state in question have anything in the cloud that MS did not use to offer as on-prem solutions, and im pretty sure the current wintel/mso solution is based around those on-prem implementation of AD and SharePoint that no longer exists and viable alternatives to opensource based document storage repositories.

Normal no but it's in the 2-3% range so not completely unthinkable and usually supported well enough by the core organisations that an company must interact with to be entirely feasible.

If the alternative is not getting the security certifications required to operate legally in the sectors they depend on for revenue what alternative does an organization really have to seeking/implementation solutions in sync with the mandated regulations.

And this is not an private company whose demise is insignificant to the society at large(as all companies must be in an functional capitalist economy) but the government itself instituting policies to protect itself from dependence on a single foreign company.

And being told by an court to get off the o365 cloud is not an theoretical prospect for an European governmental organization as the EU commission found out about a month ago(https://www.edps.europa.eu/press-publications/press-news/pre...).

The drive here is to reduce dependencies to locations the state itself have jurisdiction over i.e. things that can be controlled.

It's essentially to avoid having the states data taken hostage when the slowly brewing conflict between America's lack of respect for it's foreign partners data protection regulation and the EU's very popular trend towards less and less tolerance for corporate data abuse comes to an head and we see actual blocks being mandated on high-security networks against US data harvesting companies(of which MS is but one).

Probably lower then people think once the applications are identical across the two platform. and if Linux turns too complex there is always macos.

The big push is going to be getting rid of old excel and word macro's and replace sharepoint/onedrive with something else as data migrations are newer as simple in reality as they look in theory.

The germans have been tinkering with policies mandating non-cloud dependent products for a while wondering if this is a start of it actually getting implemented on a large scale or if the delay attempts will remain successful elsewhere across the region.

If this is a start of an actual migration away from cloud dependence, it's a matter of time before windows(which is as cloud dependent as office those days for enterprise management features) itself is targeted, and the entire federation of germany changing from ms office formats to odf in practice could set some interesting balls in motions.

But as we have seen this before where a product is started and then sabotaged or delayed by lobbying and inertia from people who dont want to change how theyve always done things, it could be another one-off that dont set a trend.

The blockchain might not be the best solution for most of those problems especially those that cannot be solved by traditional pgp/gpg signatures and certificates, and for those where traditional signatures work the blockchain add mostly complexity.

The obvious real world use case of using blockchain to track shipping containers across modes of transport(and companies) failed late 2022 when the tradelens project was terminated(https://www.maersk.com/news/articles/2022/11/29/maersk-and-i...) after at least 4 years of work by the shipping industry's largest players. And that's essentially the case everywhere people are trying to get real value from blockchain based solutions.

Correction it's a disaster of at least 4 languages and this is probably why English is so hard to dethrone as it have no strict ownership so everyone is kind of equal in speaking it incorrectly.

Sometimes lack of rigidity is actually an feature that allows for things to sort of work that would be politically impossible if thinks had to be specified formally before being used.

At this point i suspect excel is as dangerous as powerpoint to the quest for sharing and improving human knowledge, in that it gives the illusion of allowing people to analyze data but not the tools to make sure they get their data and model lined up correctly.

I don't think it's that people fear that AI will make everyone live in luxury while the machines do all of the hard work, it's that people realize that LLM's and ML models have enough limitation and caveats to be of limited value outside of a few niche's where they are treated as statistical models and not "The AI Revolution".

The last 2 decades have seen a stagnation at the front end of technology and while this have led to a commodification it's also demonstrated that web 2.0 and crypto was mostly grifts by companies and organizations that don't really have an usefull vision. so as the web 2.0 revolution that originally inspired people at conferences like SXSW turned into an dystopia in the hands of companies like Twitter, Facebook and google, new grifts are going to get a whole lot more scrutiny going forwards.

McDonald's don't your bank does know you authorized an transaction using pin/card/app.

The payment terminal is essentially not actually talking directly to the POS except to tell it that transaction id "xyz"(which only your bank/"card issuer" know is you) was approved, everything else is encrypted between terminal and payment processor and not supposed to be visible to the retailer.

It's stored by your bank but your credit card or account id is never transferred to the retailer by the payment processors instead what happens is that McDonalds get an unique transaction ID that only your card provider knows was generated by your card.

unless you realize how much logistics happens to keep ingredients arriving on an Just in time basis and keep track of every little QA data-points so crucial to the fast food chain employee experience.

Cutting that $1,- off the average meal bill that allows McDonald's to sell their francises deals as more profitable then being independent depends on both the reality and perception of it being an integrated system, so there is every incentive to make the IT system as global and pervasive as possible.

So this is essentially on the FCC for approving an quality assurance scheme that leaves them with no clue to figure out if this event would have been prevented if Boeing had followed it's own processes.

The problem for this investigation is that it's not a single door but an entire line of planes designed, made and inspected using processes and policies that the FCC should probably never have approved in the first place creating an situation where half the us aviation industry would collapse if a halt operations until everything have been reinspected under a more correct regulatory framework.

So there is a huge pressure on the NTSB for finding something fixable wrong as the alternative is to start the certification process for both the MAX 8/9 designs and the Boeing manufacturing lines in question from scratch.

We all know that the Boeing mess will end up with everyone involved in creating the mess walking away richer as the state goes in an cover whatever bill to keep boeing from collapsing as the alternative will be for non-american companies to take over the entire commercial airoplane manufacturing sector.

The problem with the just more competition argument is that it never actually works once a market reach a broken state it never self correct as too many people is going to be affected for that to be allowed to happen, which is exactly how mercantilism keeps creeping back, as the nation state behind it falls into the trap that protecting whats working is preferable to allowing the chaos of creative destruction to take down an entire sector of the nations economy.

But doesn't that either disprove capitalism as an realistic working system or make an argument that the state have an obligation to protect the market by destroying large corporations before they become dominant.

A lot of the traditional critiques of capitalism have been that it will inevitable degrade back into mercantilism if the capitalist are not challenged by an democratic state and functional trade unions, but alowed to merge into large powerfull entities like google, Boeing, microsoft and Facebook.

It's probably worth remembering that there is a tremendous amount of political pressure on the coroner and prosecutors dealing with this to not leave behind an unsolved murder finding that could sully the reputation of the entire system for giving congress a chance of hearing testimony from whistleblowers.

So anything short off enough evidence to secure an quick conviction of some disposable culprit will we bend into whatever shape is needed to support an "suicide" or "accidental death" finding by the prosecutor/coroner in charge regardless of what the investigating detective think is the most likely explanation.

The revolving door problem is mostly people coming back from a stint at a regulator to private employment at an salary that sometimes affect how beneficial their stint as a regulator was to the company hiring them post public service.

If that system was made one way so that people retiring from industry to government were forced to burn all "financial" bridges to the industry they were regulating by forcing them to accept a clause that they can newer go back especially not as a consultant a lot of those issues goes away.

It's of cause worth noting in comparing cars to bicycles that cars are the number one cause of bicyclist and pedestrian fatalities, so fewer cars will lead to fever cyclist dying.

Railways and busses are a lot closer to airplanes in statistics then cars https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/home-and-community/safety-topics... so going car less is probably the single biggest improvement we can make to transportation safety.