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Actually, its only $18,000 a year (18,000,000 * 0.001).

The would have to charge a lot more than that to pay anyone anything.

Interesting that it could be done at all - but having a hard time coming up with any real world use cases for this. Are there any?

I am more or less in favor of this - but how do you solve for the problem that not everyone in the car is actually driving and may not want to be prevented from using their phone when riding as a passenger? If we can solve that one, it sounds like a no-brainer to me.

many more - plus hundreds of thousands of USA soldiers as well fighting a battle they didn't need to.

I use brave exclusively for years - zero problems - seems faster to me than other options. Also use it with Spotify and can't remember ever having an issue (brave on mac if it makes a difference).

Yes it has Tor built-in, but you don't ever need to use it - it's just there in case you do (I have never needed it myself).

publicly funded meaning that they will only report news that is favorable to whoever happens to be in power at the time and controls the purse strings?

no thanks. The USA does not need state sponsored media.

I've seen it done for consultants before - in fact was working for mega financial services company in the years heading up to the 2008 crash. When it hit, they told all the consultants from the big consulting firms (i.e. Anderson etc) they needed to take a 50% cut if they wanted to stay on - almost all accepted the new rate.

Months later, when things continue to go really bad in the economy, they told them same firms, they needed to take another 50% cut (so now down 75%), most took that as well, but not all. Those that didn't take it largely found themselves unemployed for a very long time.

Just goes to show you how bloated those rates were to begin with.

that is more like it.

Or we fired 1/2 the scrum masters, so now each project only gets 50% of one instead of a FT one, and BTW, all of a sudden developer meetings get cut in half as a side benefit.

Every large company I have ever worked for could have easily fired 1/3 the staff and ran just fine indefinitely - but only if they fired the right third.

the movement was well underway before covid hit - you are trying to rewrite history.

because the post s/he is responding too specially mentions the middle class getting squeezed.

>>I, too, am curious why schools changed their admissions policies before studying the matter closely.

Probably for the same reason Oregon decided to decriminalize most drugs thinking it would reduce usage and harm (it didn't).

It didn't start with the pandemic, it just continued during it.

This article from the Washington Post, in October 2019 (before the pandemic started) reported that as of then, 40% of accredited schools had already dropped this requirement.

>>> Nearly 50 accredited colleges and universities that award bachelor’s degrees announced from September 2018 to September 2019 that they were dropping the admissions requirement for an SAT or ACT score, FairTest said. That brings the number of accredited schools to have done so to 1,050 — about 40 percent of the total, the nonprofit said.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/10/18/record-n...

What is your solution? Let the government run all internet infrastructure?

Maybe we should let the federal government run it, like it does the Social Security Administration - which btw, shuts down its website for 4 hours every weekday night and even longer on the weekends.

** They shut down a freaking website for almost 40 hours a week ** because they don't have the technology or skills to keep it running 24/7...in 2024.

No thanks, the reason that this is even in the news is because widespread outages are so rare.

3 times as much in fact - but nobody wants to talk about that one, then again - both of these events are only a tiny, tiny fraction (like 1/3 of 1%) of the methane released in a typical year.

that the correct way to fight racism is with more racism?

so we should solve racism by being even more racist?

exactly - if I asked it to generate an image of a historical figure, and the color was not accurate - that can (possibly) be explained by a bug or training error that might improve over time - but if I ask it to generate a picture of a 'typical white family' and it flat out refuses to, that is not an accident.

Its worse than that - it would flat out refuse to generate a white person, even if you asked it to - i.e. 'generate a picture of a white' family and it would refuse, 'generate a picture of a black family' and it would work.

Was not an accident - it was deliberate.

Why they thought this would not be noticed is beyond me.

We own a second fridge, a GE (family of 6 so we need the extra storage). It is now ~65 years old and has never needed service and has not failed to maintain the correct temperature.

Not sure you can buy one like anymore.

How much faster would the network need to get, in order to meet (or at least approach) the speed of a local SSD? are we talking about needing to 2x or 3x the speed, or by factors of hundreds or thousands?

its not a way of not doing anything, its a way of showing the absurdity of telling little old ladies they can't get a new gas stove - or the struggling landscaper that he has to buy more expensive battery operated mowers, but Bill gates can fly around the planet on one of his many private jets - either it is a climate 'emergency' or it isn't.

When the elites get real about making a personal sacrifice (not greenwashing one) - then maybe, just maybe the everyday Joe will get the message.

...and buying carbo credits doesn't count - that is no different than beating the heck out of your wife, and donating money afterwards to a battered women's shelter to absolve your sins.

but to me, its not about the actual emissions (which you are correct about in absolute terms) - its about selling the message to the average Joe who is being asked to make a sacrifice that the people who are pushing the message, are not being asked to do.

Side story: during Covid, teachers at a local school wanted mandates for all the students (the people least at risk of actually getting very sick), but they pushed very hard not to have to get it themselves - i.e. they wanted all the benefits of having a vaccinated population around them, but they were unwilling to take the risk on themselves (they lost this battle btw)

Not to conflate the issues, but its the same principle - don't make me(the public) do something that you (the ones in charge) are not willing to do yourself.

The math doesn't matter - tell the poor and middle class they can no longer buy a gas lawnmower or gas stove, but the rich can own 5 mansions, multiple private jets and 400' yachts (all of which damage the environment way more than the average poor or middle class person does), then people will push back - and rightly so.

Its hard to sell a 'climate emergency' when the people pushing it the hardest (i.e. Gates) are the worst polluters. If there really is a climate emergency, then everything should be on the table - you know, shared sacrifice and all - otherwise it just stinks of the rich faking a climate emergency so they can get richer.

See the '$50 trillion dollar opportunity' that has the Davo's elite salivating on how to make themselves even richer:

https://www.dw.com/en/davos-green-transition-is-50-trillion-...

and btw, these Davo's elites pushing for this '$50 trillion opportunity', by scaring the public about the 'climate emergency', by and large all flew to Davos in their private jets.

yes, on ICE cars instead.

so in other words, liberals were all in favor of saving the planet, until they found out that someone they don't like is making money doing it?

what is california's excuse for not solving the problem? non-republicans control everything and have for decades - and yet the problem remains.

I guess it is much easier to just blame 'someone else', rather than solve the problem?

It is almost comical how you want to blame those evil 'conservatives' for this - I guess that makes it easy for democrats to have excuses about why they haven't solved the problem in places where they 100% control the statehouse and legislature and the purse strings.

If liberals/democrats were truly in favor of public housing, then places like California would have a surplus of housing options available for everyone - or are you somehow suggesting that even though conservatives that cannot even come close to winning an election in CA, that they still somehow control all the levers of public policy?

Your other option is to get a steady part-time job that at least covers your basic living expenses, and work full-time on your own business.

exactly -if I ran a big company, no way I would send out a notice to people still working there every time someone was let go to say who got fired or laid off.

People who need to know find out who is gone, it just takes a little longer.

So in other words, incomplete information - or worse, conflicting information - or are you somehow claiming that 100% of the information that MacArthur had available to him at the time clearly and unequivocally pointed in one direction, and he did the opposite?

Should we also, today with the benefit of hindsight, try to crucify Halsey for making the decision to not move out of the way of the incoming typhoon (Cobra) that ended up costing almost 800 US sailors/men their lives and lost several Navy ships? - certainly he had people telling him to move the fleet out of the way, but he made the difficult call to stay.

Really got to love the arm-chair generals second guessing decisions made 80 years ago, by people who had no choice but to do the best they could with the information they had at the time.

I am not willing to criticize either one of them, I wasn't there.