That does not absolve them from abiding to applicable law.
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If it looks like duck...
Failing that, hardware designs, and the software - along with all necessary instructions - at least have to be put in escrow in the event that the company goes under. That would not immediately help, but at least there would be a fighting chance... As in this case to still be able to have someone fix/use the software to calibrate the implant.
This should be standard regulation for approving such implants.
And this can and should be paired with the other suggestions here such as mandatory insurance, etc.
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We'll follow the scientific method; and that is how we learn and continue to explore and learn more.
Do really not a see a difference between that and convenient political alternate facts?
And the grey sky? Seriously? You're looking at clouds, not the sky. Whatever, why am I even responding...
I do not sense any specific bias. As usual, "freedom of speech" does not imply a right to be listened to.
Also, I do not buy this dystopia claim. In 99.99% of all topics we know exactly what is true and what is not. The sky is blue, clouds are condensed water, the earth is a sphere, there is racism, there is poverty, wealth is unevenly distributed over the planet, hygiene helps prevent sickness, vaccinations have prevented a lot of suffering, social security is expensive, etc, etc.
The facts are easy. We used to argue about consequences stemming from these facts and what do to about it. These days we tend to confuse our disagreements with "alternate facts".
It's really not that hard to stay informed.
Somehow, some folks are now saying this is bad.
Seriously, people should just work whatever hours they want now (or don't want), look for other jobs, until they get caught.
It's always the same with the bean counters, you can measure cost, salaries, etc, but you can't really measure happiness and motivation (well perhaps with surveys). In the end you are perhaps left with lower cost, fewer people, but these people are not motivated to to anything or do anything well.
I wanted to believe that Elon had a plan. I now believe he has not the faintest idea about how to run a software company.
And maybe that's a US problem... I see the same with construction and service workers, nobody has pride in their work left, just doing the minimum, hoping to get away with it... because their leaders are telling them that cost is all that matters.
Install TLP, uninstall thermald, and make sure turbo mode is off (it's on by default in Linux - probably applies to Intel only).
Under light load the system is using 6-8w (about 9-10h of usage on the 80WH battery), under 4w when completely idle. This is latest Fedora on a ThinkPad X1 Extreme with KDE. I want to see that with Windows.
You have to invest a bit more time with Linux (for example the fingerprint reader on my Laptop prevented the CPU from going into lower power modes), and that part is unfortunate.
On the other hand I never experience things randomly not working like it was with Windows.
Your mileage may vary.
Every hoop is taken to make them like real books whether it makes sense or not, except for the time when you actually want to lend or give them to someone else. Then it gets complicated, depends on the vendor, or is simply impossible.
I have no need for that.
Imagine 200 years in the future, all license servers are disabled and we cannot read our own (digital) books anymore.
Step 2: Claim company is not profitable (partially due to the interest payments you yourself loaded onto it)
Step 3: Lay off 1/2 the staff.
Step 4: Try to get some of these people back, because you need some projects done (that actually happened)
Step 5: Enforce unpopular and useless work rules.
Step 6: Profit... Maybe?
I want to believe that he knows what he is doing, but it certainly does not look that way!
I still find/follow things I like - just not on Twitter (or Facebook and whatnot).
Aside:
Social media that trigger our reward response (followers, likes, etc) will inherently never really work. People will post things that get the most followers or likes, not what matters. The more radical, the more likes or followers, the better. Not everybody of course, but enough to make these system in total a detriment to society.
1. Take over. 2. Layoffs. 3. Profits go up short term. 4. Then you notice all of the folks missing. Productivity drops. 5. Revenue drops, followed by dropping profits. 6. Folks move on to the next take over.
Difference, crucially, here is that Musk actually owns the shop, so we'll see if it is different with Twitter.
It is important to realize that even as we disagreed, we still used to agree on basic facts and then fought over what best to do next.
That is what is different now! We now live in a culture where any discussion can simply be ended with "Your facts are wrong", or "I have alternative facts". A reasonable discourse is not possible this way.
It takes just one "side" to take such a stance for society to fall into camps. I think that is what we see happening.
Even laying off 25% of the workers would be hard to justify at this point. I'm certainly curious where this all is going.
There was a world and a life before Twitter, and there is one without Twitter as well.
I deleted my Twitter account about a year ago and have not missed anything. People and topics I am interested in I can updated on by many different means.
Wikipedia does not absolve you from checking references or the credibility of the text, but it does a damn good job collecting and pre-checking a lot of the content. You still need to be able to recognize hot-button topics and take those with a grain of salt. And as I said usually those pages cannot be edited by everyone.
The school does not seem to understand how Wikipedia works. At all.
Running Linux on laptops since the late 90's. In the beginning I had to tinker a lot, compile custom kernels, etc.
Now - for the past 10 years or so - it (especially Redhat's Fedora) just works without doing anything, even with the newest laptops.
Wayland is not quite there, yet (IMHO), so I'm still running X11 (thankfully Fedora let's me do that).
At the same time, not being part of the Apple ecosystem, should I be worried about the closed nature of this. I have been using Linux for over two decades now, and Intel seems to be falling behind.
(I do realize Linux runs on the M1. But it's a mostly hobby projects, the GPU is not well supported, and the M1/M2 will never(?) be available with open H/W.)
Don't get me wrong, Heroku is (was?) great, but in the end at some point you have to stop losing money.
Just this reduces frivolous lawsuits. If you have a good case, sure, go ahead. If your case is weak, you run a real risk paying not only for your lawyers but the other side as well.
(Note that there are disadvantages to loser-pays as well. Image you legitimately want to sue corporation X because they did something atrocious. Big corporation X can now run up lawyer cost that you have to pay if you lose.)
Edit: Sorry I was wrong about England (which leaves the US only). Edit 2: In the US you can file for your lawyer fees to be returned, but that in itself is risk (I have some lawyer friends)
Compression time CPU is lower for equivalent ratios. Maximum compression is better. Decompression CPU is much lower (i.e. faster), and that is independent of the level used at compression time.
Image a future when all one can find are digital artifacts and all license servers have been disabled. No e-books, movies, etc, will aid our future selves to decipher what was going on.
(Well, maybe they'll find some TikTok clips.)
As I always say: One of the richest parts of the richest state of the richest nation on this planet and we have ... BART. How is this possible?
In the beginning I liked the easy way it afforded me to keep in contact with friends and acquaintances. Then it included more and more "other" stuff, and I just lost interest in it. Shame really. In the beginning it was so useful and I honestly did not mind being shown some ads in exchange for that.
But now my data would be used not only to selects ads but also the other content, blurring the difference between what is an ad and what is "content". Facebook lost its way, and it looks like they're not looking for a path back.
I used to read https://thedailywtf.com/ and it was full of stories of consultancy project that failed in the most horrible and insane ways.
There are perhaps good reason, but on the face of it, this looks weird.