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> the NLRB and FTC—are "unconstitutional."

Neither of them are "core public institution". NLRB has probably destroyed more jobs that all recessions combines and might have hurt the poorest and most vulnerable population lot more. They have worked to spread the cancer of collective bargaining powers, coercive unions and other protections for their favourite people at the expense of american consumers.

> FTC

This should be considered unconstitutional. If you provide a service that is cheap you are "predatory", if you provide a service that is very expensive you are "price gauging" and if you are average your are "colluding".

FTC is an evil eye of sauron that is on every damn successful business.

I hope "trader joes" succeeds in putting a stake into hearts of these two vampires.

In the top 10 most sold vehicles in USA 8-9 are trucks if I remember correctly. Ford F150 and Chevy Silvardo are typically number 1 and 2 consistently for decades. At that scale everything is likely to be diverse.

For the soyboys drinking their vegan milk and driving their lime bike to pride parade, it might come as a surprise, but it in indeed is. (<= This is an attempt to show that how any group can be dangerously maligned)

Common sense is the first casualty when any topic has political bias to it. This comment demonstrates that.

Large vehicles are important part of American economy and mostly driven by blue collar workers doing their work. For example things like plumbing, construction site work etc. Now a days environment scientists and engineers too drive these large vehicles as they are very important for their day to day work. Not everyone can drive Tesla Model 3 everywhere.

In fact majority of those large vehicles are you see are mostly driven by such needs ( pun intended).

But the research on this topic itself is pretty shoddy. For example one has to look at other variables. Who was driving when the accident happened ? Chances are someone who was rushing to his work.

A lot of other data points out that the drivers are at fault are often poor people going to their work in their work vehicle. Another data is he victims too are poor people going to their work and disregarding basic pedestrian safety.

These are not men pretending to be rugged.

It doe not matter for Apple. If the competition is offering an equivalent car for $20K apple will simply charge $40K or $200k and there will be enough takers.

> oddly imprecise position to me

Yes. It is intended to be so. Because being pedantic is now how you define these levels.

The ultimate goal is to run a large fleet of robo taxies wherever possible and Level 5 tech can do that everywhere on globe. One can get pedantic and ask if this would work in Antartica or on Dead Horse Bay or whether driving in sand dunes of Saudi Arabia is possible. But the folks who are trying to pedantic wont be happy with any definition either here.

It does not have to go to NYC at all. If Waymo can show profitability is some city it is good enough. If it gets love in one city is is good enough for the rest of the world to put a red carpet before them.

Apple will come up with a car to signal wealth. Like a $20K camry disguised in $200K white colored unrepairable car which will demand money if you want to drive it outside your city.

No because:

1. Layoffs were a surprise. 2. When you leave Google there isn't a better option + you are easily employable elsewhere.

Only if they do their current business well others can create effective competition for Amazon. It took me 3+ hours to just get a label from their website for a special hardware I had to ship. Fun part is that after I signup and create and account and login, they want me to "Create an account", which I suppose it is their internal terminology for some kind of payment profile. Then they did not allow me to create that either demanding I call up their customer service.

There is a reason why layoffs always happen as a surprise and kept a secret. Now everyone thinks they might get laid off. The folks who are easily employable will switch. This might be the end of Pixar.

Common sense. EVs are amazing but they are not where close to being practical replacement for ICE engines. Governments should stop subdizing rich people's EVs and insteead help make more efficient and cheaper ICE engines.

"Positive discrimination" is another of the DEI mumbo jumbo that people have come up with to somehow legitimizing discrimination against white people (specifically white male). For anyone with a spine and intellectual honesty this should be as disgusting as any other discrimination.

It is because of phrases like this, that most of us (I am not white) see DEI crowd as bunch of race grifters and unworthy of any position in modern workplace. This is why people like Trump get instantly liked by average white man.

But entire DEI nonsense is based on purely shoddy scholarship and even worse logic.

1. Hispanic => These are the people of Spanish ancestry who arrived on this continent as invaders and brutalized the native populations. They did interbreed with natives but does not change the fact that these are colonizers and one of the worst in the world compared to British.

2. Black people => One of the most privileged groups on earth. They have enjoyed unparalleled and amazing life, benefits and prosperity that no other black society of comparable size on earth has enjoyed for last 100+ years.

3. Muslims => One of the most violent religions on earth which engaged in massive conquests lasting over centuries, traded the most number of slaves ans sex slaves, razed civilizations and killed off entire tribes and ethnicities. Plundered and looted a lot.

Victims:

1. Jews => One of the most persecuted groups in the world, frequently hated by other major religions and targeted for their faith.

2. Indian Hindus => Another massively persecuted group by Islamic colonization and later british. We can further break it down into castes and put some castes as bigger victims than others.

3. White males => Frequently sent to die in distant wars, millions of them died in Europe, Middle East and elsewhere defending freedom and liberty. White males working and being exploited by corporations have built the modern america.

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In reality the "victims" are the people "we should feel sorry for" or the losers. A drug dealing black guy is a victim. A neuro surgeon black guy is a guy who shares white privilege.

I do not care if I get downvoted by the era of DEI is over.

> That's only as secure as the weakest CA in their trust store though, right?

You are absolutely right. Not only the weakest CA but now you needlessly involve a lot of third (or at least one third party).

It is not something I like but some of our partners demand it.

Where I work we often have to exchange keys with partners. Key fingerprint is often used as a mechanism to make sure the partner really has OUR public key. We email the key first and then another known employee is expected to verify the fingerprint on phone.

Another approach is to host the keys on a HTTPS endpoint on our official domain name and their servers can fetch it programmatically and rely on TLS to verify that it is indeed our endpoint.

Saw the leaked IBM video and it is clearly deeply racist against white people. Glad someone is sueing them.

Santa Cruz is an ultra left town, no matter the policies it will be run over by cultural enrichers stealing from stores, pooping on street and carjacking.

There is another track in X files which they never officially released by I absolutely love it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxMB5NBRJEc

There is little to no inertia inside google to build and invent stuff. But there is a massive bloat to ship stuff.

Well, stupid laws will get stupid compliance.

The idea that asking companies to fire their existing employer just to hire some "citizen" employee is dumb beyong measure. H1B visas should not exist in first place. Just give green card and let the person be citizen.

The problem is compounded by the racial quota for Indians in greencards. Indians are extremely good at hacking systems and longer they stay in that queue, they would totally destroy this sort of idiotic system. (This is a complement to Indians).

1. It is not the price of the pill. It is the price of the entire 14 day course. 2. There are only 500K or mothers who suffer from PPD each year in USA. May be 200K or so of them would actually be willing to take medicines. And if the course costs say $100 then it would be $20M in revenue. Do you really think it is possible to run it profitably while employing 100s of people making and testing and distributing these pills ? Especially given that infants are involved ?

Using highly inflammable gases like hydrogen and gases that aid combustion like oxygen together and putting it in your body in the form of water should be very dangerous. It is also a fire retardant chemical used by fire engines.

FDA is a joke.

In Advaita vedanta there are 4 states of existence of self.

First is the outer world where there is a concept ok others and physical world. This is the world is beyond our control. There is suffering in this world.

Next is the dream state where we can control everything. This is illuminated by our own mind. Even then there is limits of what we can do. Continuous lucid dreaming gives us fatigue for those experiences.

Third is dreamless state where there is nothing but pure consciousness. This is one of the best states as there is only self and nothing else. You can experience this during general anesthesia etc.

Fourth which Advaita vedanta calls the ultimate realization is where you realize that you are the self and there is only self. That the pure consciousness is singular and same for all. In fact there is no all. There is just consciousness.

I think we are approaching the same line of thinking but via biology.

I switched from Lenovo X1 Carbon and totally gave up on Windows and bought an Mac again. Windows has become some kind of shitty garbage of an OS. Reminds me of the toolbar creep in IE that use to happen 10 years ago. Now the entire OS is fucking like that.

It is a storm in a teacup. Budweiser's execs will soon course correct, fire the gender studies majors they hired for their creative team and move on.

Budweiser is not the first nor the last for overdoing the Woke Inc. drama. (Note that Woke itself is a fleeting bottoms up term). Large businesses course correct pretty well.

I think a lot of people simply ignore the basic fact that vaccines aren't safe by nature, they have to be proven to be safe through very very rigorous processes. Anti-vaxxers might come across as a lunatic but their extreme behaviour does not make opposite is true by default.

restridistribution of mobility advantage.

You have clearly mastered the art.

I am no entirely use if that moral implications of their actions or the legal distinction of different crimes is easily conveyed when the disadvantaged person has fentanyl pumping through their blood stream.

Term "snowflake" is also something that is will stick around forever now which can be used to describe people who downvote my comment. So is "Cancel Culture". Bottoms up worlds will live on.