It will be tough for Russian pride to see their nation sink to the level of North Korea as a dependent of China. Given the brilliance of the USSR's scientific developments, it's a long way down.
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I was surprised that the airlines were repeatedly trying to get people to remove their masks one time I flew on the tail end of the epidemic. Will they bring me chicken soup if I get sick?
While SS# is thoroughly unsuitable and personal info is even more so, that pragmatism and illusion of security serves as the foundation of government and commerce. What are we going to use instead?
The likelihood of a truly national cryptographically verifiable smart ID card is seemingly nil given the patchwork quilt of laws in the US.
The best experience always comes from desktops and Linux-friendly laptops. Framework officially supports several distributions.
But at the same time, our own humanity is found in taking care of those that cannot take care of themselves.
Hiding behind an algorithm seems unlikely to work now that there's blood in the water from the recent Realtor lawsuits.
I am mystified as to why Microsoft is so disinterested in taking our money.
Linux has gotten pretty friendly, even on a distro less focused on home users and features. I don't foresee installing Windows for myself again.
I was sixteen when I got them in the mail. Such a shameless geek.
I understand the desire to keep years of magazines, but I'd worry that it becomes a personality trait at that point. And of course they take up way too much room. My newly-adopted Win98 PC is bad enough.
But Gmail swallowed up email, and that is so much tougher to forgive.
Using a freedom of information argument for Americans is a stronger position, but that isn't guaranteed by the Bill of Rights.
This is going further than I want to go from a civil rights perspective, but there is at least some precedent. Corporate sanctions and bans have been used very effectively, as Huawei experienced not so long ago.
She is deeply mentally ill, and I cannot separate her from her illness. I suffered the conspiracies and delusions of grandeur for fifteen years, and I’m done now.
I consider this healthy mental self-defense, though I don’t judge my sister for enduring a quarterly visit to her. Everyone must decide their own limits.
It's great having a printer that'll use up a fuser in its life, and it's even better that you can replace said fuser in twenty minutes.
Distortion and confabulation must be expected, but how can we train the public to properly interpret the responses?
A careful plan for a product would be less hamfisted and include more flexibility to deal with the backlash.
Adobe seems to be the only one with an empowered product team that's consistently finding sensible and profitable uses for machine learning.
Now that isn't necessarily true for Windows running in the cloud. Drivers don't matter as much there.