Readit Newsor worse, the government runs Intel into the ground while constantly taking more taxes to prop it back up.
Incompetent private companies eventually dissolve. Uncle Sam can siphon your paycheck in perpetuity.
edit: it doesn't seem so. You just have use some weasel language:
>The final rule also bars a business from misrepresenting that the reviews on a review portion of its website represent all or most of the reviews submitted when reviews have been suppressed based upon their ratings or negative sentiment.
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/08/...
https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/federal-register-no...
Further down the notice cites the scenario: "[...] more than 4,500 merchants that were automatically publishing only 4- or 5-star consumer reviews"
Its not safe to cycle for practical purposes in my city.
The city make gestures like painting a few road shoulders green and nature trails for exercise. This does not get me to work, daycare, the dentist, etc.
Generally in America, bikes are more of a novelty than transportation.
It is often more the case that limited supply is an unintended outcome. People just don’t think ahead.
I have been to many city council meetings. Stymieing population growth is an explicit goal. The speakers tend to perceive harms from more people as opposed to pure misanthropes.
e.g. "More people creates more traffic so we should prevent housing to prevent people"
Although, I cannot see their true intents. It is possible the speakers do dislike people, which is not politically popular. Expressing their desire requires making up other tangential causes. Hidden agendas creates engineering confusion. If the goal was truly to manage traffic, an engineer would suggest better bus routes.
My main desktop is 1.7 seconds ahead at the moment. Probably haven't updated the clock in a few weeks: which isn't that much. Other systems shall drift much more.
As to "why" it's not setting the time using NTP automatically: maybe I like to see how quickly it drifts, maybe I want as little services running as possible, maybe I've got an ethernet switch right in front of me which better not blink too much, maybe I like to be reminded of what "breaks" once the clocks drifts too much, maybe I want to actually reflect at the marvel of atomic drift when I "manually" update it, etc. Basically the "why" is answered by: "because I want it that way".
Anyway: many computer's internal clock/crystal/whatever-thinggamagic are not precise at all.
After a week, 20 ppm would drift 12 * 10^-6 * 7 * 24 * 60 *60 = 12 seconds.
Your motherboard probably has a cr2032 keeping it powered when unplugged.
Crystals: https://www.digikey.com/en/products/filter/crystals/171?s=N4...
This oxygen feeds the fire and make it hard to fight.
Lithium iron phosphate do not show this kind of reaction.
Similar to Hydrogen and Sodium, elements in the first column of the periodic table are highly reactive (flammable) because they readily give away their single electron in the outermost orbital.
Some Lithium battery variants might have marginally safer properties, but they are fundamentally volatile at full charge.
From what I can gather, the $145K cost was the cost of medical care over the months (years? the article never says) at the end of the grandmother's life -- not the cost of "dying at home".
The bulk of the cost seems to come from:
> the total monthly cost was $16,200: $13,000 a month for the 24-hour care, plus $3,200 to rent the apartment
It seems silly to include rent, and then of course round-the-clock private care is going to be $$$.
As far as I can tell, the grandmother needed hospital-level care, but the family didn't want to keep her in a hospital. It's not surprising that hospital-level care at home costs a small fortune.
>Medicare should restructure hospice reimbursement to cover more of the hands-on caregiving, thus decreasing the financial burden of dying at home.
The main pitch is somewhat hidden in the middle of the article. Its a tough point to open with, but I think leading with the thesis statement is proper.
The good thing about Financial Times: It is a UK publisher, not US-based, so the reporting on the US is more skeptical and nuanced. Less screechy. To be fair, I avoid almost all of the opinion pieces except for Martin Wolf, because he is basically writing an economics column. The rest is rather inflammatory (much lower editorial standards!) and can can readily be skipped.
Also consider the free FT AlphaVille which is a blog attached to FT. Much more casual reporting style, but they have cracked some big cases, including Dan Mccrum's year-long (later explosive) investigation into Wirecard.
Than what? The Economist is UK based too.
The Economist tends to favor the US because the Economist supports liberal democracy and free trade worldwide. The Unites States is the only country who can and does defend those values. Europe cannot arm Ukraine against Putin. Japan cannot dispute China's claims rights to Taiwan or the ocean.
There's nuance to consulting costs. The government GS pay scale poorly accounts for specialized labor. It the government cannot pay to attract talent in a competitive fields, it must instead pay consultants.
Another words, you have to spend hundreds of dollars chasing someone down, by the time you add that on to how easy it is to jam up the ticket in court by demanding an actual human being accuse you, it's not the easy win some may think. You're basically looking at $500+ to try and prosecute someone for a $300 ticket.
"The registered owner of the motor vehicle involved in the violation is responsible and liable for paying the uniform traffic citation issued for a violation"
http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Displ...