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+1. I'd also guess that these companies getting together to start a joint venture is not really feasible, due to anti-monopoly laws.

Go's flag parser treats two leading minus signs the same as one.

https://golang.org/pkg/flag/#hdr-Command_line_flag_syntax

I don’t know why the protagonist being Indian is something that would be strongly remembered. I’d guess anyone whose audience has more time than money could’ve hatched a scheme like this, regardless of nationality.

Even if you're not immobile it would be great to have a cleaning robot. Hiring housekeepers is a thing. Do you actually enjoy cleaning?

Defining where things belong is a thing I want control over, so that when I go to find something, it's right where I want it.

Actually putting things in their proper place is a chore, no matter how old you are.

> while never forcing a populace to do something against its interests or will

Except for the westerners who disagree with this. They can be subjugated.

> The vast majority of student loans are guaranteed by the federal government. The banks take zero risk on these loans

Do you have a source for this? I can't confirm it. As an example, this description implies that the guarantee is for 97% of outstanding principal: https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/what-is-federally-gu...

Assuming something close to that, the bank is out 3% of the principal, plus any accumulated interest-- which I would guess is usually substantial, because payments are typically deferred while the student is in school, but the bank's been paying the fed interest during that time period.

So I don't have all the numbers, but on the face of it, it doesn't seem totally ridiculous that a secured loan like a mortgage would fetch a better rate than student loans that aren't fully guaranteed.

> Next have someone qualified on every single board of directors and have each board create an appropriate sub committee. The same way you have a qualified accountant and audit sub-comittee.

I think it makes sense to note that corporations don't adhere to GAAP voluntarily, or because it makes good business sense. They do it because they will be de-listed from stock exchanges and shut down by the government if they do not.

The stock exchanges won't do this for "tech malpractice." From a financial standpoint, tech malpractice is just another calculated risk. Versus financial malpractice, which creates an unlevel playing field on the stock exchange itself. And history has shown that the fallout from "tech malpractice" ends up costing comparatively low dollar amounts anyway.

This leaves me at: this won't improve without government regulation.

“Sorry I’m not answering any (more) questions.”

As the United States is the country of origin, an airworthiness directive issued by the FAA is valid in all ICAO member states.

> He was aware of the field of economics and didn't think it was worthy of a prize.

I doubt you have evidence of this, beyond the simple fact that he didn't personally establish a sixth prize. If such evidence existed, I think it's unlikely that the Nobel Foundation would've agreed to administer the prize in the first place.

That said, at this point, I'm not sure what the difference would be anyway. The Nobel prizes (including the memorial one) have become a globally admired celebration of human achievement, the personal beliefs and shortcomings of the 19th century arms dealer who established the prizes notwithstanding.

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The argument is that ICE doesn’t treat its detainees humanely, because the institutional culture within ICE is pervasively rotten beyond repair.

The hope is that by disbanding ICE and handing its responsibilities over to new management with a better track record, we might get a better outcome.

I don’t think the proponents of this plan would support simply rebadging current ICE employees without some kind of filtering process.

(I don’t have a strong opinion on the matter, just restating the arguments as I understand them.)

I think calling Assange a journalist is very debatable. He certainly doesn’t comply with the ethical norms of the profession.

It’s not implying that many or most people are idiots or untrustworthy. But that there are extreme outliers at the fringes.

Before the internet, they’d mostly be unable to find each other. With the internet, they can build self-reinforcing “communities” on the basis of hate, intolerance, or really anything. If they just stayed in that bubble it’d be fine, but unfortunately sometimes they bring machine guns to department stores.

FTA, it sounds like the firmware’s original behavior was to save the three most recent configurations as backups, so it seems straightforward that four resets would have the effect of actually wiping a current config.

He’s not a whistleblower, and didn’t short circuit his management chain. FTA he was an engineering student at WVU the time, not employed by VW.

I don't know where you're getting your numbers for the Swedish budget, but the OECD [1] says that their spending is $23,780 per capita, which would make for a $247+ bn budget for a country of 10.4 mn people. So more than double NYC's.

Your PPP argument doesn't hold either. Sweden's PPP is only slightly above the US average, but it would certainly well above NYC's. NYC is one of the most expensive markets in the United States.

You seem to be asserting that if NYC would just fix some inefficiencies, they'd be able to implement a Scandinavian style social welfare state with the savings. I'm sure there is waste in the system, as there is in all large bureaucracies, but to assert that there's so much that we could fund free healthcare out of it is just nonsense.

[1] https://data.oecd.org/gga/general-government-spending.htm

I don’t understand the comparison you’re trying to make. Like, not per capita and/or without purchasing power adjusted, sure. What does that prove?

Huh? If it's in the Spam folder, they do accept it.

The iPhone 4S has not received a security update in >2 years, and has >700 known security vulnerabilities, so it is not a "perfectly working device," it's a "probably compromised device."

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&for...

The S9 is literally on the same platform as every other S-Bahn train that goes from Hbf to Alexanderplatz, so you'd also have to willfully ignore the ample station signage for all the trains that pass you by.

In an X.509 certificate, the serial number is encoded as the ASN.1 integer type, which is arbitrary length. So that can't map to a native integer type on any platform.

I'd chalk this up to the author of the relevant module not really grokking the two's complement behavior in java.math.BigInteger.

Because in context, “We [legislators] have to pass the bill so that you [citizens] can find out what is in it” does not at all imply that congressmen don’t need to read the bill.

She was talking to citizens, not to congressmen.

The author probably only finds confinement-as-punishment morally unacceptable because he believes that just punishment will be meted out in the afterlife anyway. If you take away the assumption of religion, there's really no argument left.

The first amendment has nothing to say about private discrimination on the basis of religion.

I’ve had multiple broadband choices in every metro area I’ve lived in, too (now on my fourth in the US).

Of course, I’ve lived in parts of those metro areas that were densely populated. I.e., where a competitor could reasonably expect to recoup the cost of overbuilding. In less dense areas, the economics would be far worse.

> The article/directive specifically called out DNS account passwords on DNS hosting providers. If they were using support tickets and manually implemented changes by hand then there would not be an account.

I don't think it's difficult to imagine that, somewhere within the massive federal bureaucracy, there is a team that works on DNS record tickets filed by other parts of the bureaucracy, and logs into a web console with a DNS hosting provider in order to fulfill those tickets.

I would guess the failures were errors on rebuild.

This article summarizes this kind of scenario fairly well: https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-raid-6-stops-working-in-20...