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Your ad hominem arguments will never negate the arguments made against you and ultimately you know this at a deep level. Good day.

A true libertarian wouldn't support corporations at all. They are as bad as tyrannical governments. Proprietorships and partnerships would limit exposure to tyranny of the corporation. They focus the responsibility of the business on the owner and not some protected class of employee.

This answers the question, How can I define corporate level malicious protectionism?

Prometheus is an open source monitoring software. It stores time series for metrics, where each metric is defined by a name and a unique set of arbitrary key-value pairs called labels. The only thing that changes for a given time series throughout the course of time is its value—a numeric value of a given type.

Prometheus is collecting those metrics by pulling on HTTP endpoints that expose a plaintext page containing a list of metrics (each with name and labels) together with their current value.

Red Hat Blog post on future of AI/ML, Automation, Security, RISC-V, Platform software

Xorg is unmaintainable and this is acknowledged by the experienced maintainers that don't want to maintain it any longer.

Full Title:"Quantitative evaluation of whether the Nobel-Prize-winning COVID-19 vaccine actually saved millions of lives"

Article and video presentation by study author. https://brownstone.org/articles/not-14m-lives-saved-but-over...

Carbon emissions of richest 1 percent surged to 16 percent of world’s total CO2 emissions in 2019. Their carbon emissions are enough to cause 1.3 million excess deaths due to heat. Unequal countries suffer seven times more flood fatalities than more equal countries. Fairly taxing the super-rich would help curb both climate change and inequality

Yes, and after everyone was vaccinated...

Theme: "Anyone who wants to return just to normal life is now disgusting FAR-RIGHT. You have to support World War III, high taxes, end of lifestyle for climate change, and if you do not tell your son in 1st grade that maybe he is really a girl then you are guilty of child abuse, and your children should be taken from you by force."

Full study [PDF] https://www.texaspolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/2023-...

Full Title:"9 Problems with Generative AI, in One Chart"

Data compiled by Actuaries for the Society of Actuaries for the purpose of assessing risk. Of note on page 23 the time frame of excess deaths and compare them to other events in the world.

"What accounted for this miraculous end to the plague of all plagues?

Not vaccines.

They were given in early 2021, a year before the tide rolled out, and even their backers concede they don’t work well against Omicron.

No, what happened was Omicron itself. It swept through the United States in the winter of 2022, the vaccinated and unvaccinated alike. Its mortality rates were overall much lower than the earlier variants - probably in the range of 0.05-0.1% - though its transmissibility meant that the winter of 2022 still saw a lot of deaths (particularly in older people, no matter that they were jabbed).

Ever since, various not-very-lethal Omicron strains have bounced around a population that has real (aka natural) immunity"

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The numbers don't lie. Take a look at them for yourself. The chart on page 23 is what Insurance companies will base their policy rates on in the future. https://www.soa.org/49b504/globalassets/assets/files/resourc...

It depends upon the size of the individual email. In the early 2000's email attachments were less common and on average smaller in size. Today, 20 years later, it is common in my line of work to see email attachments in the 5-10MB range. Pass them back and forth a couple of dozen times for changes and approvals and it doesn't take long for it to balloon. Yesterday, I worked on an outlook email issue on a PST file that contained 40,000 emails and was over 10 GB in size. His PST was new less than two years ago.

It really depends upon how it is used, misused or abused.

TLDR; Copilot in everything.

Incidentally, think it should be renamed to Clippy Copilot for nostalgia and harmonization with other product lines.

"The chipmaker added there is now “no legal impediment” to closing the deal under US merger regulations."

I don't have a warm fuzzy feeling about this outcome in light of strained US-China relations.

Release Notes: https://docs.rockylinux.org/release_notes/9_3/

Some reasons why Microsoft is so bent out of shape about the OpenAI fiasco.

45GB of data could be like a dozen employees' or less Outlook PST files. For this to be astounding we would need to know the quality of the data. Otherwise it is a bunch of hype and hoopla.

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    ExxonMobil reported $9.1 billion GAAP earnings with an 11.9% net margin, while Google reported $19.7 billion with a 22.5% net margin.

    ExxonMobil's income tax was $20.2 billion in 2022, higher than Google's $11.4 billion, despite Google earning more.

    Public perception is more critical of ExxonMobil's profits compared to Google's, despite lower profit margins and higher tax rates.

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I can appreciate your opinion and I would point out that the scientist that examined the data stated the fact there is no proof masks are effective. A belief that they are effective would need to be thoroughly tested with a double-blind study to provide proof of such a belief. Until then it is a belief, much like a religious belief.

Just because I say you are wrong doesn't mean you are wrong and vice versa. This also applies to the interview and the claims from the original article.

What are surgeons trying to prevent by wearing masks? Bacterial infections, which are a significant risk when surgeries are taking place because the skin is being compromised. Masks stop bacteria because they are significantly larger (10 times to 100 times larger) by comparison. Surgeons also wash their hands and wear gloves for the same reason. I don't think they should stop doing that either, but then I don't think the average person should be required to wear gloves either.

I think the scientist makes the factual point pretty clear. There is no evidence masks work.

"JEFFERSON: There is just no evidence that they make any difference. Full stop. My job, our job as a review team, was to look at the evidence, we have done that. Not just for masks. We looked at hand washing, sterilisation, goggles, etcetera…

DEMASI: What’s the best evidence for avoiding infection?

JEFFERSON: I think your best shot is sanitation/sterilisation with antiseptic products. We’ve known for about 40 to 50 years that the inside of toilets, handles, seats for example, you recover a very high concentration of replication competent virus, it doesn’t matter what viruses they are. This argues for a contact/fomite mode of transmission.

Also, hand washing shows some benefit, especially in small children. The problem with that is, unless you make the population completely psychotic, they will not comply.

DEMASI: May I just ask a finer point on masks… it’s not that masks don’t work, it’s just that there is no evidence they do work…is that right?

JEFFERSON: There’s no evidence that they do work, that’s right. It’s possible they could work in some settings….we’d know if we’d done trials. All you needed was for Tedros [from WHO] to declare it’s a pandemic and they could have randomised half of the United Kingdom, or half of Italy, to masks and the other half to no masks. But they didn’t. Instead, they ran around like headless chickens."

Counter point from the author of the Cochrane study. https://brownstone.org/articles/on-the-mask-study-an-intervi...

It sounded good until I read the part about the images being checked by liars, I mean "fact checkers"

Full Title:"Know the Protocol! - How to Prevent Undetected Vote Manipulation on the Verified Swiss Post E-Voting System"

"Ford CEO Jim Farley also had a disappointing experience in his publicity tour to promote EVs. He acknowledged that "charging has been pretty challenging," and that he only could get the EV batteries charged to 40% in 40 minutes. He described it as a good reality check for what customers go through. For Ford shareholders, one would think the company would have done the reality check before going to market, not after it already had invested billions.

The harshest reality check may come in the form of expensive inventory build-up of unsold EVs that Ford thought customers would buy but is now finding out that customers do not want. Market realities, despite the massive government intervention in the marketplace, may be why Ford and GM are scaling back their ambitious EV production plans for the future, and why Ford has temporarily paused the planned construction of a battery plant in Marshall, Michigan and another in Glendale, Kentucky.

Another red flag for EVs is the lack of profitability for Ford and GM's models. Ford lost $32,000 on every EV it sold in 2023 and expects its EV business to lose $4.5 billion on the year. GM saw its quarterly profits cut by $1.5 billion due to EV losses. Meanwhile, EV market leader Tesla reported shrinking margins and higher costs in the third quarter of 2023, with profits down 22% on the year."

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