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Having lived overseas, the US isn't a "veritable wonderland of consumer choice". There are 5 grocery store chains, for the great majority of the country there is one way to travel:…

They are not executive employees, they are Musk employees, not the same thing.

Simple answer: No.

Nah! I think the CEOs should be the first ones sent into the combat front line zones.

I agree completely! My favorite weed killer is my own two hands and a weeder. Having said that, I live in Arizona and the dominant landscape design here is trees and bushes planted…

Don't trust the "Cloud" for your backups.

My impression on both is that they are US/European centric. Not very true to their "scouring the world for newspapers" line. So, they only show events that impact or are reported o…

Very True! It is about choice of transit. The US has NO Choice of Transit. It is either Car or nothing. How very free that is to be limited to 1 choice!

I worked at BEI Electronics and one key position there was the Industrial Automation role who defined how things got built. Another one to look at is Process Control.

Remember: Bigger is Better Economies of Scale They both benefit the few and sacrifice the many but are sold as ways to "reduce" costs and hence prices for the masses.

Oh but remember: "Bigger is better!" and "Economies of scale"/s

I do so wish we could stop using the term "backdoor". When it comes to computer systems, there is really no "front" or "back" and so any access granted is just another door. This t…

A post like this pops up every few months arguing one way or the other. I have lived in absolute nightmare monolith systems with so much cyclic dependency that you couldn't move wi…

What!?!?!?!

What explains the "communist" countries behaviour is "Animal Farm". The "communist" countries are just a variant of Monarchies. They have replaced some of the birth-rite of monarch…

You need to visit Taiwan. Tea drinking and tea buying is still practiced in many stores. They have even made the bags of tea leaves traceable to where the tea was grown. It may be …

The infamous "fungible resource".

Here's my question: Through completely legal means, gerrymandering and redistricting, to redraw the district boundaries on a state by state basis to achieve the following goals: 1.…

This is exactly "Fahrenheit 451".

I received a settlement from the case because I worked at Intuit, also a party to the cartel.

You're not alone in this feeling. I left the industry because of the "trendiness" or "shiny object syndrome". Then put on top of that the change from serving people to spying on pe…

I would love to look at Mullvad. Every time I try to connect to their website using Firefox 101 it fails with Error code: SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG. Is anyone else experiencing …

Excellent advice! I wish more programmers paid attention to this than just the 2-3 rules. The 2-3 rule tends to create unintentional tight coupling between things that becomes an i…

Give Krita a try, it is done in a similar manner to blender.

Can anyone else who is using Firefox read their main page? All I get is a white screen even after refreshing.