Yes, all of the most advanced chip making factories are in Taiwan. It's the biggest reason that the US passed the CHIPS act and also why there is so much geopolitical tension around Taiwan.
Why did you think there was so much focus on Taiwan? Boba is great and all, but surely it doesn't merit the protection of the US Navy. π
Just make the retirement age enforced for elected officials too. If the average American is expected to retire at 67, shouldn't our representatives be younger than that?
It sounds like someone got ahold of a 6 year old copy of Google's risk register. Based on my reading of the article it sounds like Google has a robust process for identifying, prioritizing, and resolving risks that are identified internally. This is not only necessary for an organization their size, but is also indicative of a risk culture that incentivizes self reporting risks.
In contrast, I'd point to an organization like Boeing, which has recently been shown to have provided incentives to the opposite effect - prioritizing throughput over safety.
If the author had found a number of issues that were identified 6+ years ago and were still shown to be persistent within the environment, that might be some cause for alarm. But, per the reporting, it seems that when a bug, misconfiguration, or other type of risk is identified internally, Google takes steps to resolve the issue, and does so at a pace commensurate with the level of risk that the issue creates for the business.
Bottom line, while I have no doubt that the author of this article was well-intentioned, their lack of experience in information security / risk management seems obvious, and ultimately this article poses a number of questions that are shown to have innocuous answers.
I'm not an expert, but I have family that operates within this industry, unaffiliated with the ugly homes organization.
Tl;dr The idea is that these companies buy homes that have fallen into a state of disrepair, fix them up so that they comply with modern building safety regulations, slap on a new coat of paint, then sell the property for a profit.
Since they don't fully investigate the issues that the home has before making an offer, they make offers that are wildly lower than most valuations would indicate, which leads to the reputation of being scammy. Sometimes there are structural issues that are extremely expensive to resolve and the project is barely profitable, but in other instances there is little repair work required, and they make a big profit. Lowballing every offer ensures that they can't lose, but also means that this is rarely a good option unless you are in serious financial straits.
In this thread: "Biden did not have a 1-on-1 conversation with my manager that resulted in a massive raise, so I declare these statistics invalid!"
This seems to happen a lot on Lemmy, makes me miss the Economics subreddit.
I know that not everyone has had the opportunity to take classes in economics, but the amount of people who are unable to see past their own nose is incredible.
How would we prefer our leaders to make policy decisions? Should they pick a random 10 people and ask what they think, or would it be better to gather a wide range of data on the topic to build an understanding of the economic impacts for 300M+ people? I'd argue that it would be irresponsible for policymakers to ignore the aggregate statistics, but commenters in this thread seem dead set on asserting that because their personal circumstances don't follow the narrative, the statistics must be a lie.
Since we're telling people to Google things, try "anecdotal fallacy" and let us know if it helps you to understand the source of the downvotes.
The OP is about survey data that directly contradicts your position. It's fantastic that you've found a position where you have work/life balance that works so well for you, but it simply doesn't match the experience of many commenting in this thread or those who were surveyed.
Be as obstinate as you like, it won't change the lived experiences of others in the industry.
Based on the article, it sounds like dying of exhaustion is par for the course when it comes to elections in Indonesia; does anyone have any insight into why that happens? If the current process is so treacherous, are there calls to make it safer?
Russia isn't producing less because of some domestic calamity that is preventing them from pumping more oil, they're doing it because if you keep supply low and the demand remains fixed, prices increase.
Likewise - I'm consistently rated a high performer, but my lack of awareness around compensation consistently has me questioning whether it's worth my time to put those extra hours in - most of the time I decide it isn't.
We recently had a situation where my employer changed compensation criteria mid-cycle and the reaction from my coworkers is summed up by π€·ββοΈ
To paraphrase the corporate God himself:
When you're a Fortune 500 company, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab 'em by the pussy.
Area 15 /Omegamart would be incredible stoned.
Lost Spirits is in the same complex and is closing soon, if you're going to Las Vegas in the next few weeks it would be hard to recommend it more highly.
This is spot on. Source: 10+ years at F500 companies.
Senior management and/or board members read one article in Forbes, or some other "business" publication, and think that they know everything they need to know about an emerging technology. Risk management is either a β exercise or extremely limited in scope, usually only including threats that have already been observed and addressed in the past.
Not enough people understand the limitations of this kind of tech, and contextualize it in the same frame as outsourcing because as long as the output mostly looks correct, the decision makers can push the blame for any issues down to the middle managers and below.
Gonna be a wild time!
Couldn't agree more. IMO, the perfect talent is the kind you grow yourself.
No number of interviews or tests will lead you to a magical perfect candidate 100% of the time, but those with less experience are great because they're eager to accept a lower salary and will attack just about any problem you throw at them enthusiastically because every challenge is a new chance to prove their mettle.
Obviously it takes time to build a program where mentorship is valued and more senior folks help to develop newer teammates, but if you want the highest quality talent, it's hard to beat homegrown.
Nah, everyone who says, "don't vote third party" simply paid attention in their civics class and understands how our electoral system works.
Independents have won federal offices before, not the presidency, but we have evidence showing that third parties can win elections. However, if two candidates are clear frontrunners, voting for a third party doesn't positively contribute to the outcome of the election.
In fact, the data shows that a vote for a minority candidate makes it more likely that the winner of the election will hold views that are actually farther from one's preferences than if one voted for a majority candidate. This is a big part of the push for states to move to ranked choice voting, so that voters don't need to make this kind of electoral compromise.
If you're in Maine, Alaska, or Hawaii, you may be in luck! Otherwise, you can put your hands over your eyes and yell about the injustice of it all, but it doesn't change the facts; which is why grownups having political discussions dismiss minority candidates as being irrelevant to the discussion.
At this point it's more about motivating voters to show up than swaying voters from one side to the other.
Consider the uncommitted voter movement in Michigan - those folks aren't likely to ever vote for Trump, he's even farther from their position on the issue. The risk that they primarily represent is not submitting a ballot at all.
Expect ads in Michigan, and to a lesser extent nationwide, advertising how Biden's support of Israel has evolved in recent weeks, including the recent (failed - China/Russia vetoed) UN vote to call for a ceasefire in GAZA, which the US supported.
This is really just stereotypical Tesla driver behavior. They are far and above the most entitled drivers.
FTFY
Yes, we should invest in trains, but this is not a short or even medium term solution. It's also horrifyingly expensive in many parts of the US, and broad public support simply isn't there. So in the mean time we need to adapt using the infrastructure that already exists.
You could argue that, but I wouldn't recommend it.
Microsoft has a massive amount of resources to throw at securing their environment, whereas most businesses simply don't have the ability to field a dedicated security team. The solution many reach is to offload risk to your software vendor, in this case Microsoft. Then, if there is data lost, it's Microsoft's fault, and it's their problem to fix, too. It's not ideal, but it's the world we're living in.
Based on context, I'd assume that the loss of efficiency of the batteries in the cold led the vehicle to over-estimate the range of the vehicle. If the car says it has 50 miles of range and the next DC charger is 40 miles away, I could imagine a situation where I'd get 30 miles down the road before the range estimate shows that there's actually only 35 miles of range because you wanted cabin heat.
EVs are weird in lots of ways when compared to ICE, and we're still figuring out lots of the problems that need solving.
It doesn't take a military strategist to know that this wasn't the right response. Terrorism is an ideological threat, it cannot be defeated or "rooted out" by conventional weapons until you kill every last person who finds it worthwhile to fight for the ideology. Out of all of the diverse peoples of the world, you might expect that the Jews would understand the gruesome impracticality of that goal.
It feels like lots of people holding their breath until "prices go back down", passing out from a lack of oxygen, waking up, asking why the prices are still so damn high, then holding their breath again when they're told, "this is just the price now, deal with it".
I mean don't get me wrong, it would be neat if we could go back to 1990 prices, but that just isn't how this works, nor should it be our goal.
I suspect that the goal with this program is to advantage first time home buyers over their competitors, such as REITs and hedge funds that have been indiscriminately buying up housing across the country. Obviously the devil is in the details but there's a way to implement this that makes sense and isn't insane, but we'll have to wait until the bill passes to see if that's the path we take.
Okay now imagine a future where we're able to beam power down from space, which is .
I know it's probably not viable for a million reasons but how cool would it be if this tech truly is viable and the air force is able to develop it to a point where they can start offering it to the public, to support infrastructure, such as in-transit charging, or even just to support rural applications like farming? Would probably help with climate change at least.
Well to be fair the OP has the date shown in the image as Apr 23, and Google has been frantically changing the way the tool works on a regular basis for months, so there's a chance they resolved this insanity in the interim. The post itself is just ragebait.
*not to say that Google isn't doing a bunch of dumb shit lately, I just don't see this particular post from over a month ago as being as rage inducing as some others in the community.
Nah I don't think so.
Based on your post history, you'll just delete your comment within a few hours anyway, but have you considered that if adoption was such a perfect solution then more people would adopt?
Instead of simply imagining simple solutions to complex problems, maybe try having a bit of empathy and see where that takes you?
Good luck.
While your analysis of the way that the courts have been implementing conservative policy is spot on, I have to disagree with your conclusions about how it will play out in practice.
Social security? Medicare? The FCC? The EPA? NASA? All history.
Surely this would be a wet dream for the most diehard conservatives, but the reality is that there exists simply too much popular support for many of these programs. Constitutional or not, take away people's social security checks and there would be a popular backlash unlike anything we've seen in ages.
Having said that, if Trump gets elected, who's to say that he wouldn't try to take a swipe at some of the more controversial programs, like the EPA? That certainly seems plausible, but the idea of fully dismantling the federal bureaucracy seems far-fetched.
I have one of these, and while the switch tech is certainly neat, I haven't really come up with many good ways to use it.
Their implementation doesn't seem to support changing resistance or being sensitive to multiple levels of pressure on the key, but one way I do use it is by changing the activation distance for certain keys that I tend to press by mistake when gaming, like caps lock, so that you really need to bottom out the key to activate it. This seems to help a bit but I suspect that if I wanted to get the most out of it, I would probably need to be a much more intense gamer.
So if you lose access to all of your devices, you're completely locked out of everything until you're able to get a new working phone activated on a trusted phone number? The trade-off of inconvenience for security here just doesn't seem worth it to me.
Bluesky is supposed to be Twitter 2.0 - Jack Dorsey, who co-founded Twitter, is on the board for Bluesky and was supposedly very involved in building the platform. So in theory it could be a lot of things that Twitter wished it could, or it could just be bad like most other socials.
Either way if you have an interest in the tech world it's probably worth keeping an eye on.
Your donut example is describing a boycott, not a strike. If it were a strike, who exactly is making the donuts and coffee? Boycotts are fun too, but the dream of a strike would go slightly differently.
If we stick with the donuts example, you'd show up at your donut shop at 4am again, where you normally have, say, 10 employees. Since they're on strike, they don't come in to help out. By 6am you have roughly a quarter of the day's donuts made, and customers are starting to stream in.
Since you're alone, you have to stop making donuts to help customers, which means that while you're already running behind, now you start to slip even further behind schedule to accommodate the morning rush. By 7 am, you've sold almost all of the donuts you've already prepared, but you can't make more because you're busy making coffee and helping customers.
At 7:30 you run out of donuts entirely - right before the morning rush. Customers keep coming in and asking to buy donuts, but you have to let them know that because you're stubborn and don't want to compensate your workers fairly, they're on strike today. This brings grumbles from your customers as they realize that they'll need to disrupt their morning routine to find an alternative.
By 8am you've given up on the day and hang up the "closed" sign, further driving loyal customers into the arms of your competitors. Maybe some of those people will be back first thing tomorrow, but maybe some of them decide that another option is just as good, and certainly more reliable.
You lose out on most of a day of business and potentially take a hit to your reputation as a business. The short term impact is measurable and notable, but it's the threat of the long term impact that looms over you as you reconsider negotiations.
Otherwise I agree with you completely - negotiate with all stakeholders in good faith and be willing to make sacrifices. Everyone wants to make money here, and everyone deserves enough money to live off of.
Not OP but familiar enough with open source diffusion image generators to be able to chime in.
Now I'd argue that being an artist comes down to being able to envision something in your mind's eye and then reproduce it in the real world using some medium, whether it's a graphite pencil, oil paint, a block of marble, Wacom tablet on a pc, or even through a negotiation with an AI model. Your definition might be different, but for the sake of conversation this is how I'm thinking about it.
The work flow for an AI generated image can have a few steps before feeling like it sufficiently aligns with your vision. Prompting for specific details can be tricky, so usually step 1 is to generate the basic outline of the image you're after. Depending on your GPU or cloud service, this could take several minutes or hours before you get a basis that you can work with. Once you have the basic image, you can then use inpainting tools to mask specific areas of the image and change specific details, colors, etc. This again can take many many generations before you land on something that sufficiently matches your vision.
This is all also after you go through the process of reviewing and selecting one of the hundreds of models that have been trained specifically for different types of output. Want to generate anime-style art? There's a model for that, want something great at landscapes? There's a different one for that. Surely you can use an all-purpose model for everything, but some models simply don't have the training to align to your vision, so you either choose to live with 'close enough' or you start downloading new options, comparing them with your existing work flow, etc.
There's certainly skill associated with the current state of image generation. Perhaps not the same level of practice you need to perfectly represent a transparent veil in graphite, but as with other formats I have a hard time suggesting that when someone represents their vision in the real world that it's automatically "not art".
The longer russia wages war with Ukraine, the less of a threat they will be in the future.
Agree 100%. IMO this is the biggest reason that NATO has thrown so much support behind Ukraine - they're weakening Russia, which strengthens NATO. Further, it provides a peek into the capabilities of Russian armaments vs those that NATO chooses to share with Ukraine, further validating the claim that NATO firmly holds the upper hand in a theoretical conflict.
Ah yes, I believe you've encountered people in the wild who support leopards eating their face. This is a documented phenomenon and I, for one, don't have a clue what can be done about it.
Is there any chance you're at a kbbq or hotpot restaurant? Because then you get to cook the meal yourself, which is arguably chef-like.
Jokes aside, I see the comparison you're making and it's not a bad one. I'd counter by giving the example of a menu - when you get to a restaurant you're given a menu with text descriptions of the food you can receive from the kitchen. Since this is an analogy and not an exact comparison, let's say that a meal on the menu is like the starting point of the workflow I described.
Based on that you have an idea of what the output will be when you order - but let's say you don't like mushrooms and you prefer your sauce on the side. When you make your order you provide those modifications - this is like inpainting.
Certainly you're not a 'chef', but if the dish you design is both bespoke and previously unimaginable, I'd argue that at the very least you contributed to the creative process and participated in creating something new that matches your internal vision.
Not exactly the same but I don't think it's entirely different.
It feels like you're suggesting that adoption is a panacea, but for a majority of couples, it simply isn't. I agree it could be considered selfish, but selfishness is a virtue in our society so I am asserting that it should be expected and accounted for, rather than simply waving your hand at its inherent issues and pretending they'll go away.
Adoption has been proposed and has failed as a satisfactory solution to this problem for millenia, what has changed about it to make it relevant now?
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Your article is two years old and provides a mountain of speculation about economics that didn't pan out in reality. Seriously, check it out, inflation in the US peaked lower than the UK or EU, and has trended below them consistently through today.
Go ahead and argue about the relative stability of more insular economies like Japan and China, but the Fed did exactly what they set out to do, and they did it more effectively than other comparable central banks.
You know only a tiny little slice went to working class Americans right?
Like, everyone got the $1400, even Bill Gates. But a lot went to people, companies, and states that just didn't need it.
Objectively, verifiably false. Single taxpayers under $75k, couples under $150k. Bill Gates didn't benefit. Maybe you're thinking of the stimulus that Trump signed that blindly handed out thousands of dollars to businesses with little to no accountability?
The website makes it sound like all of the code being bespoke and "based on standards" is some kind of huge advantage but all I see is a Herculean undertaking with too few engineers and too many standards.
W3C lists 1138 separate standards currently, so if each of their three engineers implements one discrete standard every day, with no breaks/weekends/holidays, then having an alpha available that adheres to all 2024 web standards should be possible by 2026?
This is obviously also without testing but these guys are serious, senior engineers, so their code will be perfect on the first try, right?
Love the passion though, can't wait to see how this project plays out.