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It’s useful to note that even if Kotek doesn’t sign the bill, because it’s already passed through the legislature, it will become law unless she actively vetoes it.
In Oregon, bills become effective as soon as the governor signs them, or, if the governor doesn’t sign them, 30 days after the legislature approves the bill.
It also passed both chambers with a surprising majority (47 - 10 in the House, 16 - 9 in the Senate). I have a very hard time believing that should Kotek veto it, one person wouldn’t swing to “Yes” in the senate, hitting that 2/3rds majority to override.
I’m hoping that as the platform matures and we start seeing various apps and even more web-based interfaces like wefwef Voyager, the signup process will be handled by those apps themselves. Like, a bunch of instances agree to be listed or something, and the app randomly selects one to present the new user on signup as a default, which both distributes the “load” across instances, but also provides a simple default.
I know the above proposal has problems; it’s a 30-second spitball idea, not anything I’m spending more time thinking about seriously.
The first one I played was Zelda, on a gold cartridge, on the original NES.
The oldest system I played on was an Atari.
The oldest system I played games on was an Appie IIe, and it was Sticky Bear Basket Bounce. That game is like, my youth.
I’ll pile on with a “Yup!”
While I fell into a pattern where I intend to upgrade every 2 years maybe 5 or 6 years ago, I’ve noticed in that same time frame that both the cost of new devices has gone up significantly and the durability of those devices has dropped.
I’m very easy on my phones. They spend a vast majority of their time on my desk, or plugged into my car. I’m old and boring enough that “going out” involves sitting down at a table at a nice dinner with friends and then going home. That said, the battery life on my phones starts to degrade after about a year. Various flaws start to creep up in the device. I’ve already had to replace the screen on my Pixel 7 Pro once – though, to be fair, it took a tumble from the couch onto a hardwood floor, but even that, really, shouldn’t turn the screen non-functional.
It’s disappointing to see that planned obsolescence rearing its head.
NCAs are already largely unenforceable anyway. Federal and state laws prohibit them except in cases of direct competition and the employee having specialized knowledge or skills. And even then, they can’t be for long periods of time, and if they would prevent the employee from a livelihood they can’t be enforced.
Usually what happens is someone who has a NCA will be hired by a new employer. That employer will see how long the NCA is in force and just have the employee on the payroll but not working until it expires. That, or they will pay the penalty in the NCA, whichever is cheaper.
The stories aren’t why you visit men.com. But they are delightfully terrible.
In the short term, a series of collapses as we reach ever closer toward that singularity. There’s a great many constraints on our ability to grow while on Earth, and it’s proving difficult to get off the planet in any reasonable method with our current technology. I suspect we’ll need to fall down and rebuild a couple times before we can reliably spread to other planets, or even simply exist in orbit.
Once we get up there, though, and we’re no longer constrained by Earth’s resource limits, we’ll grow signficantly. I suspect we’ll move toward a machine-based society, both in automation and robotics, but also integrating technology into our bodies.
At some point, someone is going to figure out how to do that mind to machine transfer, and we’ll diverge as a species. The organic humans and the composite AI / machine-based humanity.
Knowing how stupid we are, though, we’ll probably end up becoming the Borg.
Student loans are a complex beast. The loans that anyone in the government have any real control over are only loans owned by the federal government. Private student loans, including loans that were refinanced, are rarely owned by the government and are, essentially, private party loans. There is no realistic path to forgiveness for these loans.
Of the loans owned by the US Government, the actual entity that owns the debt is the Department of Education.
The theory for forgiveness runs that the debt already assumed by the Dept. of Education. It’s already on their books, as it will. Forgiving some of the debt would be amount to a ledger change - Bob used to owe $25,000. Now Bob owes $15,000.
It’s not spending per se, any more than lowering taxes is spending.
Each year, Google sponsors a series of Pride events in San Francisco and other locations for employees and the public. This year, the closing event was a “Pride and Drag Show” featuring popular performer “Peaches Christ,” who was scheduled to perform Tuesday at LGBTQ+ bar Beaux in San Francisco to “wrap up this amazing month,” according to a now-removed internal description of the event viewed by CNBC.
So, during Pride, Google sponsors events held at various locations. And people are upset because someone with a weiner is wearing a dress and a fabulous wig while singing showtunes?
I drive a hybrid, and it was one of the most important factors in deciding which car to purchase after my last one was totaled. I ended up with a 2019 Honda Insight. It’s an absolutely fantastic vehicle for what I need a car for. The mileage is excellent, and the range exceeds even the best EV by essentially double while not suffering from the biggest EV downside – charging.
Hybrids are absolutely the middle ground, transition vehicles to EV. Most manufacturers are going all-in on hybrid drive systems. CA’s requirement that all new vehicles by 2035 be zero-emission is driving that transition. Once charging becomes ubiquitous as gas stations, we’re going to see an explosion of EV vehicles.
The only reason I don’t have an EV now is because I live in an apartment complex and don’t have a ready way to charge a car without going somewhere else.
One of the biggest concerns is when you start trying to see secure APIs and such, you quickly realize that what you did 5 years ago isn’t nearly good enough today.
And most cars stay on the road for 14-some years.
I bet I could straight brute force any consumer grade security measure from like 2009 with the phone I’m typing on right now.
How can we expect auto manufacturers to secure their systems for 15 years?
Don’t forget old people glued to FOX News telling them “Democrats are evil” 24/7.