> Aren't republicans in Texas trying to rewrite history books to ignore lynchings and burnings of Black Wall Street and claim that slaves were treated pretty well?
If the tires wear out even 10% sooner, the entire environmental case goes out the window. I had eco tires on my Volt and they never lasted as long as they were supposed to.
I don't think the US and China hold very different opinions on this question. China is very capitalist and has long ago sold off most of its older, Soviet style state enterprises. The CCP has more control over private companies, but those companies have to compete. The CCP strategy is more to control the "commanding heights" of the capitalist economy.
I looked into this recently and it seems like it is basically impossible to pre-arrange assisted suicide for alzheimer's or dementia. Even in countries which allow death with dignity.
I find it very strange because it’s so common and I’m sure many people would prefer DWD in those circumstances.
The big problem with Alzheimer or dementia is related to consent and timing. People's memory dissolves pretty slowly. You'd almost certainly not want to be euthanized when you've just started forgetting where you've put your keys more often. Many would rather be euthanized than continue being a burden when they have stopped even remembering that bathrooms exist or who their family was. Between these extremes you can have many years, maybe even a decade, of good and bad days, weeks, months.
You can do it in Canada. Canada is on a euthanasia tear, and something like 3-4% of all deaths are by euthanasia or assisted suicide, and on track to reach double digits in the coming years. But euthanasia for dementia is a fine ethical line to navigate (Canada notwithstanding) because consent is either absent or suspect when the time comes.
shouldn't finding a way to kill yourself be pretty easy, even without legal DWD? you can overdose on OTC meds, or get a knife, or (in America) pick up a gun.
None of these things guarantee death and if you fail they come with some awful complications. Overdosing on Morphine is probably the easiest, most humane way to die.
> I vehemently disagree that people working at big companies are stupid, or making themselves stupid. There are VPs and SVPs at Adobe and Salesforce that are smarter, more knowledgable, and more productive than any startup employee.
In my experience the problem can be the lower level managers and ICs. If they cannot perform to the industry standard, technical debt will begin to compound, and it will be difficult to adapt.
It’s also difficult to improve your standards when the competent people keep leaving, or don’t feel like they can make changes.
I think Chinese Consumer preferences are driving a lot of this. They want things to be as high tech as possible, and don’t seem to care about longevity.
IMO the best practice is to leave dependencies unpinned, but use a lock file, and only update the lock file a few times a year.
Upgrade enough that you don’t get stuck, but not often enough to expose yourself to supply chain attacks every time CI runs.
That just means that you have whatever % chance of catching an attack on the days you do upgrade, and then in the event you do, stay compromised for a large % of the year until your next bump though?
Constantly upgrading offers more days with that % chance of catching one, but at least means you'll see the fix or release-pull sooner too.
The industry standard for the best peace of mind is for ALL dependencies to be pinned, both the lockfile and the dependencies.
Upgrades are done manually and all characters such as "^", "*", next to the version are removed for a fixed predictable version to avoid unexpected version bumps or package hijacked in-case if they are compromised.
The dependency file is more important for a library and less for an application.
For a library, the dependency file (Cargo.toml, package.json, ...) defines the lowest version and its constraints of the library's dependencies when using the library in your project.
It allows for the engine to try to resolve versions of common dependencies.
E.g., in Rust:
You have awesome-lib, and depend on dep-1. Your version constraint is 1.0.4, which allows for >=1.0.4 all the way up to <2.
I use another-lib, which also depends on dep-1, But requires 1.4.2.
The engine will then resolve it to a minimum of 1.4.2.
If another library comes in and requires 2.8.3, then that dependency will be duplicated, and hopefully the API surface in those libraries don't expose the underlying dependency directly, because then you get funny errors like "These things have the same name but are actually different".
Then you haven’t looked at a lot of open source repos? A ton of them are using renovate/dependabot which are doing exactly that for you. And it is certainly good practice.
Yet, I know many people who've done cocaine that are in other respects law abiding citizens. Making unjust laws makes us all criminals. The government cannot protect people from themselves, no one can. The best we can do is try to educate, and we can't even seem do that. Good luck out there buddy.
If you are really into EVs, like the author clearly is, than what is happening to Tesla is just sad. Tesla is being run into the ground. It was, and could be, the great American EV success story. But now it's being destroyed by a guy who has clearly lost it.
And don't forget that taxpayers have foot the bill for Tesla to have this shot in the first place.
You are not responding to the content of the article. Did you read it? The FB feed has changed dramatically since the adoption of genAI and the experience of using it can be pretty unpleasant. Do you disagree?
The article is so far removed from personal experience it sounds like another site entirely. Maybe this is what you see if you log out for a long time and all Facebook knows about you is you are a young man, hence the content.
I remember this controversy from a while and IIRC I don't think this is accurate. For one thing, they teach that slavery was a central role. https://www.npr.org/2018/11/16/668557179/texas-students-will...
I remember looking at the actual key points in the Texas curriculum and nothing seems that unusual. Some people we IMO nitpicking.