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Same (an outage) happened to the US military commissary system https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2026-09-01/army-cid-inve...

But the water. What about the water necessary to "restore the soil". The soil in question of course, was non-productive desert 50 years ago. We are doing input intensive farming in areas where the complex supply chain necessary to support is causing what some people call "externalities". Others, the tragedy of the commons. Well run societies try to use regulation to keep this from happening.

The tech companies train their employees to say this in their social media guidance and training.

Agreed. What happens when every company lays off 10, 20, 40% of their staff? AI Agents don't pay taxes and dont participate in a meaningful amount of the consumer economy.

The Iranian guards, along with most of the armies in the second and third tier powers don't have elite anything. Please see Desert Storm, etc. Most of them ran. The ones that didn't were destroyed.

Apparently I can use deadly force most days in the trader joes parking lot - I've had people come that close to hitting me on a weekly basis in Seattle. She made a bad decision that cost her her life. The ICE Agent made an incompetent unprofessional one that took a life. They are not the same.

Appraisals are generally done to ensure that the loan guarantor will be able to recover their investment if the party taking the loan defaults. Therefore, cash offers don't perform appraisals. Cash offers lower risk for the seller and provide fastest time to close the transaction.

As someone who has worked in hypercloud data center expansion and planning - I can confidently say this analysis is um, incomplete. W/out violating NDAs...I'd refer everone to multiple public articles talking about the situation in Ireland, where the hyperclouds are consuming well north of 22% of total energy production.

I’ve been a paid synergy user for 10? years. Works great for multiple computers + OS scenarios. It does flake out very occasionally. I’ll have check deskflow out for some embedded and pi projects I have coming up.

Even more evidence we have no idea what is going on: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10509198/#:~:te.... My silly anecdotal theory is that the vagal nerve and the gut are very involved in these various disfunctions for some populations....also see use of SSRIs as off-label solutions for GERD, IBS etc.

Pretty sure these are definitively non-profit organizations.

+1 Stross is decidedly the opposite of the stereotypical US west coast sci-fi author.

I'm experiencing 4090 pricing violence.

Quantity has a quality of its own. Dude named Piketty wrote almost 2k pages about wrt capital accumulation. The opposite of what you propose is what actually happens. For another example, please see Amazon.

Always view the negging of non-orthodox approaches to anything by the WSJ as anything but surprising. Furthermore, cui bono with respect to potential outcomes? I think it's the pharma industry.

Did 15? seconds of fact checking the blog post since, as a home owner, it seemed wrong based on my little experience researching, purchasing and installing kitchen appliances in my own home. Midea controls 90% of the countertop microwave market. Even then, Panasonic, GE and others still manufacture their own. GE, whirlpool and Samsung control the Lionshare of the US market ~ 55% AND there is some evidence that the market for microwaves is growing at ~5% per year. I think there are better examples of total monopolies out there that the author could have chosen.

The author is in the process of writing a book on demonic possession...I may be a bit of a cynic here, but this may just be.....marketing?

MSFT has a partnership agreement with OpenAI. We didn't acquire them. Microsoft employee. Thoughts are my own.

I sold my MazdaSpeed 3 due to a parasitic drain - it was at the dealership for 4 months at one point - with no resolution.

Marketing PMs need work too :).

No...that's the marketplace.

I agree. Furthermore, imagine if the police were measured by the number of crimes they actually prevented versus the number they documented. Yes, I realize that these are orders of magnitude of difficulty in difference. The important thing being that one is what they are expected to do, the other what they actually do.

In Bellevue WA - they raised my price by $20.

Agreed....the part where it states that "Fructose produced in the brain could possibly lead to inflammation..." made me eye-roll...really hard.

Microsoft showed the opposite. (Microsoft employee here). We were more productive by every common software dev measure when working from home. That's why Satya has been calling other CEOs out on their rather misguided need to "get the employees back in the office". It's a management problem (bad management) - not an employee problem. Focus on outcomes and create an environment that enables teams to achieve them...including ones with new hires and junior folks. It's possible. It just takes some (gasp) work. By managers.

As a people manager in MSFT, I would welcome this - it's another great lever to get top performers to come work for you when done effectively. Steal the best employees from the worst managers - the ones who impose draconian leave policies on employees because they simply can, or, due to incompetence, can't enable their folks to take a reasonable (and I' say > than the previous explicit allocation) amount of leave.

Leave is a liability for the corporation. The larger the liability, the more closely it is managed.

The level of "required" varies by jurisdiction in the US.

As a current employee (thoughts are my own, blah blah) in my experience this has been the defacto operating posture across many MSFT engineering teams for some time. They are paying out carried over leave - which is nice.

Hey.com is new (1.5-2 years?) - has an opinionated view of email clients and workflows. I'll leave it to the reader/public to decide if it fits the "amazing" qualitative measure.