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> “No other state in American history has ever experienced a surplus as large as this,” Mr. Newsom said, outlining revisions to spending he first proposed in January for the 12 months starting in July.

As if that has something to do with how incompetently the state is run, rather than the inflation caused by the Fed and enormous federal overspending.

> Once again, as California heads into a gubernatorial election, the massive surplus allows Mr. Newsom to sprinkle cash across the state.

Once again, rare gains will be spent on vote buying, and next year when record budget deficit hits California, they'll whine how they have no choice but borrow more and increase debt and taxes.

Nonsense. They can get hacked or introduce a bug into their stack and go bust in under an hour. That's extremely unlikely, but not impossible.

> It's rather bold for the CNCF to describe themselves in this way, after the controversy around last-minute dropping their mask mandates for their conference, thereby putting any immune-compromised members of their community, and those with other underlying conditions, at risk (or stuck with non-refundable travel plans)

What a sense of entitlement...

What are those CNCF members who are immune-compromised or have underlying conditions doing at such conferences without Hazamat suits?

They're entitled to stay at home and seek ways to protect themselves, not to demand anything from others.

> then accusing community members of Code of Conduct violations for speaking passionately about the change.

That's what making unreasonable demands on others is - a violation of CoC.

How much should they be paid?

It's not like you need a PhD to confirm if a search result sucks. Results are supposed to be good enough for the average user, so you need common sense and some on-job training to do a good job.

And having 10 common-sense guys churning through user feedback @$11/h is better than 2 geniuses @$55/h.

As one comment says, it probably beats fliping burgers.

What a bunch of sore losers!!!

https://rumble.com/v12k266-twitter-insider-leaks-audio-recor...

Great week for liberty, though.

> something that gradually became impossible in the developed countries as social democracy was abandoned in favour of neo liberalism

wut???

what made it impossible was creeping socialism everywhere: eternally growing warfare and welfare state manged by the Uniparty.

> Billionaires dismantled our society, not some shadowy cabal of "liberal" professors.

socialist professors are one of the groups that robs people of their future. for some reason people still like to pay to become damaged, which indicates that robbery begins at an early age - in state schools and at home.

How can they make someone from 18th century whole by practicing racism against a candidate from the 21st?

That's definitively the goal.

Fiat currency is fiat because the government forces you to use it.

No sane person would use FedCoin if they could choose, so expect the same lousy inflating currency but with more coercion, tracking, social credit and various other fascist features that socialists and Wall Street will come up with.

What's strange about that? It's no different from losing support entitlement if you screw around with a phone SDK and brick your phone.

But another camera if you don't like it.

The geniuses at the Guardian can't seem to crack this puzzle....

Would anyone here take a wild guess at why cooking costs in the EU and by extension Ireland might make potatoes too expensive to cook?

Hint: it's not Putin.

You fundamentally agree with the person who opened the issue on the issue of license, that's the only thing that matters here.

He is right, the changed license is discriminatory.

Older commits can be used freely, so not a big deal for a while at least and by then someone can fork the code.

Excellent and very reassuring for us, the customers.

I was wondering about CF's attitude as I've been increasing my use of CF services.

The dark pattern is that the government can order people what to put on their Web site.

Who cares.

It's a good and revealing article for those who choose to do the opposite of what fake free software does.

If you claim you care about freedom if you can choose then minimize obligations and maximize rights of users.

    HN (2024): Google cancels Blockchain services

What value can they possibly add?

I can't think of any blockchain (apart from government blockchains) that I'd avoid as much as Google's.

Then pay for it to become something else, instead of trying to use the government to steal it for you.

> You are at more risk unvaccinated in your 40s than boosted in your 80s.

At more risk from Covid19 during first eight weeks after the booster, yes.

But you're at more risk from other shit. And maybe even from Covid19 after eight weeks.

And then another one by end of September...

I wonder if we'll get to the point where they require a booster shot every month or every week and how many people would still comply at that point.

I don't need to check any official sources to be pretty sure the number of able-bodied working age Americans who died from Covid is (statistically, not in humanitarian terms) negligible.

Once word: socialism, for the rich and poor alike, promoted by the US government and the Fed.

It's the same in the EU, the only difference is it's worse and it started before Covid-19.

Funny but completely expected thing about it is gubmint stats refer to some of those non-working as "discouraged" whereas many are in fact encouraged to be unemployed. It's hard to be discouraged if you're hungry.

The UK demonstrated that EU membership is worse than worthless.

Many members are hooked on ECB bailouts and EU budget handouts. As soon as either of those stops, the EU goes down in two quarters. It's going to be fun!

1) Did the NHS get less money? Probably not.

2) Did the country get less poor? Yes.

3) Do you mean migrants? Of course there aren't fewer of them, the EU is sending them to the UK as fast as they can. You need a better government, not membership in the EU.

Amazon is a dictator-friendly business.

Unrelated.

Building designs are man-made and in any case this is about taking photographs and not replicating man-made designs.

Why? I can encrypt the file before sending it

What crisis?

It's a big feature for users who value freedom of speech.

It's laughable that a guy from the EU doesn't get it - their freedom of speech is shit.

> “It is ironic that the very same carbon emissions responsible for harmful changes to climate are also fertilizing plant growth,”

It's not "ironic" at all. It's only sad (maybe not for most of HN readership) that taxpayers are coerced into funding various government-led bullshit "research" - from climate to Covid-19 and more.

"Skeptic" circles mentioned this effect of CO2 1-2 decades ago, but it was ignored so that globalist-climatist agenda can continue.

Hunder Biden would have been a better choice.

No doubt that would have set them back more than $500K. But the optics of it... Who knows, maybe they did buy some of his paintings?

> That’s pretty easy, right? I’m positive that your business has to deal with much more onerous contracts than the AGPL.

You're missing the point. They aren't choosing between the AGPL and Oracle's EULA. They're choosing between the AGPL and other open source software licenses.

First, every time some AGPL code has to change, a business has to review the amount of work that will go to it (patch or rewrite and replace), review the patch including legal review, etc.

Secondy, this requirement resticts my freedom. If the same code is licensed under a permissive license, I wouldn't have to do anything. Once it's approved for internal use, the overhead of dealing with OSS is almost gone.

Regardless of Google's falsehoods, it's undeniable that a permissive license doesn't restrict my freedom. And that's it - I don't need more anti-AGPL propaganda to avoid its use. If I can use the MIT or Apache or BSD licensed code, I will. Even if it's slightly worse, I'll pick it over AGPL-licensed code because in the mid and long term it won't cost me as much.

> Google wants to be able to incorporate FOSS software into their products and sell it to users without the obligation to release their derivative works.

Who doesn't? Why should anyone bother furthering your AGPL agenda over own interests and the freedom offered by permissive open source licenses?

I can't believe this crap topic comes up every so often.

Yes.

Also - who cares about Twitter's bias and who gives a damn whether it's an AI algotrithm or something simple like if/else.

It's (or should be) assumed they make decisions for their own benefit. Fix: easy - don't use Twitter.

Why would anyone want to read about that and especially at the statist Guardian were journos never see a problem for which there should be no government (or globalist)-enforced solution?