Sort of. Was it all air pollution where California was the only state allowed to make its own regulations.

The rest of us could only accept EPA or follow California. While only some of us did, it was most of the wealth, and it was the third world hellholes red states that did not

A more interesting question is when he learns he has a place in history as the most hated, corrupt, self-destructive President ever, is he enough of a narcissist toonly care that he has a place in history?

Unfortunately, appointed by the president so firing them may be legit. Another power grab and the foundation for a fixed election but legit

Assuming Congress was willing to use their authority, the check against this is they must be approved by the senate.

There needs to be a quorum of 4 to do anything, so they already couldn’t legally

There’s no mechanism for temporary or acting commissioners, but that has been a common Drump strategy to circumvent Congress. Just declare an acting one, then when the confirmation period expires, declare a new acting one

Well they haven’t found fraud yet, have they? They need to be replaced with people who will find “fraud”, who will get the necessary votes, and disregard votes where there were “illegal immigrants” …… you can tell because they speak Spanish

Thank you! I can’t believe I’ve been here three years already!

I believe that initially they were only able to directly connect the vaccine to fewer deaths from cervical cancer. Something like warts is not deadly so probably not considered.

Then it was recommended that boys also get the vaccine because they can be carriers

However now we know the virus causes other forms of cancer as well. Men are not just carriers but can also have cancers caused by the virus.

So they thought it would be free forever, and are surprised by the usage based pricing? I wonder what will happen when ai companies need to be profitable and increase prices accordingly

I don’t know how onto look for this but one of my requirements next time will be responsiveness with the doorbell/video. I have a small front yard so already the Ring has trouble being timely

I was hoping a locally controlled doorbell would be more responsive than a cloud doorbell

What are your requirements?

I have a Ring that has served well and I believe there are newer models with a package camera. However I’m not happy about the privacy situation.

Since it’s not immediate, I’m waiting to see what Apple comes up with.

• Apple claims to be privacy focussed
• my family is all Apple already
• end-to-end encryption
• functional out of the box, not a project like self-hosting would be
• no extra subscriptions for cloud storage
• possible synergy with smart lock

That’s a lot of nice claims

No one is going to care: it’s more long term than climate change and much harder to conceptualize

Once we’ve stopped the drivers for the current, the water has the inertia to keep moving for a century or more. This not only won’t affect us, but won’t affect our children or grandchildren. People are really bad with such long time periods

I find that theory fascinating, as well as the one where it would have to be carbon based like us because chemistry. (Silicon a distant second on supporting chemistry that a life form might need)

Then intelligent life would need to be land based because you can’t easily do things requiring heat without an oxygen atmosphere and something to burn (an octopus or porpoise might be intelligent but that’s a dead end without fire)

To be space faring, your planet couldn’t have much more gravity than earth, else chemical rockets wouldn’t work

At what point is it usefully generalizing on what any life form would need vs where are preconceptions limiting your thinking?

But there is no silver bullet that cures everything, or we can’t wait for utopia before we begin, or don’t let perfection be the enemy of better. I would also prefer cities designed around people: I live in Boston because it’s close to best you can get in the us. I am all for making most cars obsolete, but until then, we need to do better

The reality is the Netherlands still has cars and there always will be a need for at least some cars. The other reality is that we can switch to EVs in a handful of years, significantly reducing our impact on the environment. And the most unfortunate reality is redesigning cities is a continuous process over many decades: we can’t just do nothing until then

My point was mango Mussolini accidentally speeding up the global shift toward electrification and EVs, despite grasping for the opposite. However he has had no positive effect on transit or walkability, even accidentslly

Renewables and EVs!

Despite humongous efforts by us politicians and their corporate owners, adoption of renewable energy and electric vehicles is speeding up.

Even further, the basic idea that the poster child for anti-future, Trump, may be doing irreparable harm to the US in many ways but is unintentionally key to speeding up the transition in the rest of the world.

Mango Mussolini has cemented his place in history as the worst ever President, the most corrupt, the most damaging to the country’s position, the most harm to the citizens, the worst so far in running up the debt. However history will also talk about his inadvertent role in other positive changes

I feel safer already. /s

Don’t forget fires as a hazard. When you’re underground, there are fewer windows to jump out of

Or mold/air quality. When you’re underground there are fewer windows to open

Plus more people would be S.A.D. There you’re underground there are fewer windows to let sun in

Is that what mcp is? For tool integration, an mcp connection allows the LLM to ask a tool questions. Every tool vendor is integrating an mcp server.

For example if I ask an LLM about a bug report it may have no way of figuring it out. But since I configured an mcp service to our ticketing system, my LLM can ask that ticketing system about the bug and get an exact answer

For sys admin tasks LLMs already have a tendency to write a script to carry out what is asked of it. We lean into that for exactly the reasons you give

A previous company used telemetry only when there was a pattern they couldn’t figure out. In this case it was a failure in a Microsoft subsystem that users had no reason to even be aware of

Starlink (which is suffering from congestion problems already and cannot be scaled up).

Where does this come from? Yes there are congestion issues at the moment and even congestion charges, isn’t this just a matter of more satellites? They only have like 10,000 but planned for a gazillion and are continuously increasing …. The very definition scalable

Yeah and that is so unfortunate. They had so much potential to change the industry again, as a space company.

Using that space company to fund ai was a bad idea