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I’m pretty sure at this point I know more about AWS and AWS internals than my account solution architect and I’ve never worked for AWS.

I’ll never forget loading the game 20-50 times in an attempt to get the bug that made the license code work. Endlessly loading. Checking the code on the paper wheel. Fail. Do it again. Kids these days will never know that pain.

Right to repair is such an issue in the farming space right now, Big Bud re-entered the markets with a fully repairable tractor. Rumors are that pre-orders are significant.

https://agupdate.com/farmandranchguide/news/state-and-region...

I would say that anybody who is interested in the system should listen to this. All of the people in this panel, called by both Republicans and Democrats, call out the need for serious reforms of the FDA inspection system. And how the FDA system specifically allows large meat corporations to cut the little guy out of cutting meat. If you think that the current system limits 'bad meat' from entering the system. You need to understand that the FDA is fully captured by the corporations that it's supposed to be governing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9xcOkwgdi0&pp=ygURcHJpbWUgY...

100% this. As a small time farmer. I cannot butcher my own animals and sell them to anybody directly. I have to sell them "on the hoof" in a minimum size of a quarter of an animal and then have a custom butcher process the animal. I can't sell any of my meat directly to a person after it's butchered, or to a restaurant. I can only sell in those cases if I go to an FDA certified meat processor, which is 400 miles one way from my property. So essentially I'm limited to selling meat to either friends and family or shipping my animals 400 miles and paying $2 a pound in processing costs.

So no the Prime act isn't a way for corporations to go around the rules, it's so small guys like myself can sell meat to people without having to truck it 800 miles.

Amazing that they completely ignore the regulatory capture of FDA meat inspection. It is the largest barrier to disrupting the "big 4" for anybody to enter the market. Given the cost and complexity of running an FDA approved meat cutting facility, it makes it nearly impossible for small farms to enter the market and provide an alternative to the big 4.

Instead small farms such as myself are forced to do stupid things like sell the meat to somebody 'on the hoof' and then have it custom cut by a butcher, because getting the meat processed and cut at a FDA inspected facility, if you can get into one, adds $1-3 a pound. This also means I can only sell you a quarter beef or larger. Which most consumers don't have the money or the freezer space to do.

Building a bomb isn’t a secret. Tom Clancy wrote a very technically detailed description of the tooling and process and building of a nuclear weapon in 1991 in The Sum of All Fears.

That call is because Health Plans are rated by CMS on if you get certain types of services, or skip them. By skipping those checkups you are reducing your health insurance plans STARS rating, which means they lose significant monies from the government. Each .1 of a start equals around 1 million US in government funding to a health plan doing MA.

If it takes 300 one time in the future to start a long term reaction that’s a price I think we would all pay. The fact that we proved the idea now makes this just an engineering problem.

And now we wait two years for another “iterative” launch. No wonder it takes NASA 20 years to do anything. And what are they doing in those two years? Certifying the flight computers. I was fearful SpaceX was falling behind but now I see that this was just a publicity stunt to make NASA look competent and effective. When they aren’t.

No. I think the CCP wants Taiwan indifferent of it being an economic powerhouse, or a broken 3rd world island. Failure to integrate Taiwan has been a stain on the CCP system, and it's not a system that can afford any stains.

All I'm pointing out is should Taiwan be invaded, TSMC stands to be in a position to receive a significant infusion of government cash to bring that fab online ASAP. And once that FAB is completed the systemic risk of China to TSMC evaporates, and at that point I believe that TSMC goes to the moon.

Engrish is my first language....

TSMC is building a huge fab here in America. It's a couple/few years out, but that would do a lot to alleviate this risk. And it could be rushed if it were prioritized as an American National Security Project.

https://topics.amcham.com.tw/2022/08/tsmc-prepares-american-...

I would propose that part of the loss of productivity is the lack of staying power in employees. Employees are getting trained working a year or two and then moving on to something else.

The efficiencies derived by working 10-20 years in the same field and even the same position are lost with the modern workforce that barely gets trained to competency before leaving let alone staying long enough to build true efficiency and thus greater productivity.

There is a tremendous market of corporate interests that have a very vested interest in farming staying the way it is. From custom GMO seeds to input(fertilizer, fungicides, pesticides) producers to implement manufacturers they all want farming to stay the same. A regenerative approach removes a massive amount of those needs and profits.

Tilapia is the tofu of fish. It tastes like nothing on its own but is a massive sponge to flavors you throw at it.

I’ve worked inside of these companies. It’s not just a money issue. It’s a competency issue. These companies are at least 10+ years behind in everything tech. They still believe in firewall moats. Flat networks. They have PHI spread across dev test and production environments. Upper management views tech as a cost center that never produces. They can’t keep talent around because they refuse to pay market rates. And most of their employees and manager have been around 20 plus years, which they applaud longevity, and anybody who attempts to come in and do something new and secure is derided as a hipster who isn’t into security.

I knew of 5 different ways I could have exfiltrated the entire PHI of every member without them having any knowledge of it and the SecOps manager just ignored it because they were “to busy”. Throw in archaic security requirements passed down from the BCBSA that do nothing to actually improve security but generally make it harder to work and you have a recipe for disaster.

The ability to lift and shift existing AWS automation tools to on-prem workloads is more the worth the money. At a lot of organizations on-prem servers are heavily controlled by teams that have no interest in automation or quick provisioning.

Being able to stick one of these into a data center and get full access to a significant number of AWS services while being able to tell security and others that certain data isn’t in the cloud is priceless. People overlook the cost savings of being able to turn your Devs and DevOps teams loose on-prem and no longer be blocked by system admins who have no desire to help you increase your development velocity.

In this case it’s 1tb free every year. They didn’t put the 12 months stipulation on it.

I found this recipe a few years ago and it’s my go to. The brine is the key. Also not cooking a turkey to 180. Everybody I feed it to is shocked by how moist the turkey is. Also the gravy in this recipe is the best hands down I’ve ever had. I actually make turkey a few times year because of this recipe.

https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/anne-burrell/brined-herb...

Also good to note that most streamers have a side donation system that more then likely isn’t included in these numbers. Donations seem to be generally run through a non twitch third party site. And is probably a substantial increase if not a doubling of their income.

My addon question to this, is what alternatives do we have?

What service that gives us 2 day or less shipping. Has significant enough stock that I don't have drive all over town to 10 different stores to get 3 of the same thing. If there was a resource that had these features I would drop Amazon in a second.

Yes, but in firefighting, a lot of the time we are up on the roof, cutting holes in the attic to let heat out of the building. The invertor will shutdown power to the inside of the building, but the line from the solar panel to the invertor is still hot. That line can be cut through as in a lot of installs it can be run through the attic. This line is never discharged but is always hot. As well as all of the lines between the panels. These can ground out in the building and cause electrical charge in objects that would be 'off' if it was a traditional power hookup that all power to the building can be shutoff from cutting the power grid building service. If one of those lines is cut, and a firefighter sticks a pike pole into the attic and touches that wire it could electrocute him just as readily as if the building was still energized by the power grid.

You can turn a generator off, and power in lines ends. Solar is different in that there is no way to safe a panel. If it’s receiving sunlight it’s generating power. That’s a pretty different paradigm then any other electrical system currently used on buildings.

Some departments are trained in shutting down the power to a building via cutting the service line to the building. LAFD does this as response times for power companies are long.

This incident involved high voltage lines which are a different problem. Taking these down requires a bucket truck and specialized tools and training. Firefighters have a lot of training but most of us stay away from electricity. Not to mention they would essentially have to have a specially trained crew that is trained and educated regularly for what are once in a decade type incidents.

Scenes like this are an extremely rare situation, more then likely why it was highlighted in this group. Firefighters enjoy looking at cases like this and thinking about how they would deal with it in their jurisdiction.

My point never was that eco-terrorism is leading to more fires. It was that a state that can and has harbored extreme environmental organizations is more likely to have environmental groups sue the federal government to stop logging that the groups openly discuss as being distasteful and negative. I'm not claiming that eco-terror groups are going out and starting fires, but that a state that regularly spawns eco terror groups has a large environmental undercurrent in it's politics that lead to more organizations that will sue to prevent practices such as logging from happening.

I'm not going to spend hours researching proof for a topic that I've lived and experienced for more then 20 years of my life in that state. My lived experiences in Oregon are one of extreme environmentalism being a regular occurrence, including camping in trees to prevent logging, lighting privately held businesses on fire, justifying wolves killing farmers livestock, and actively working to take away access rights of public lands in the name of environmentalism. I'm not going to spend a day sourcing all of these claims as they are easily discoverable via simple google searches.

A single google search[1] turned this up. As I hypothizied Oregon's forest, like most western states are majority owned by the Federal Government. Which makes them susceptible to the issues I brought up. As for eco-terrorists. This is from 2002[2] but it highlights that eco-terrorism in Oregon has been a long standing issue.

[1] https://catalog.extension.oregonstate.edu/em9228/html

[2] https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-107hhrg77615/html/C...

I would highlight that given current fire behavior being seen today. A 1/2 mile break might be an okay fire break. But we are regularly seeing crown fires(where the fire runs through the tops of the trees at 30+ mph) that are wind driven with spot fires that are being started 1-5 miles in front of the edge of the fire. These are extreme conditions can only be prevented by keeping the fire down on the ground, with minimal fuel so that the fire doesn’t build up the ground heat that causes the fire to be able to burn through the tops of the trees. Or prevent the fire completely.

This type of fire behavior is nothing new. I’ve been around wildland firefighting since the early 2000s and we were seeing wind driven crown fires during those times every summer. We just called them big fire days and sat back and watched cause there is nothing humans can do to stop a fire with that type of behavior. Other then work nights and hope you can keep it out of the tops of the trees the next day.

Oregon has a significant amount of private forest land in the southwest. I would be interested to see the amount of fires that are on private forest land vs public forest land as the private land it clear cut and then planted, grown, thinned and then clear cut again. I would guess that based on growing up in that state and it’s extreme environmental political undercurrent(Oregon has spawned a few eco-terror groups in its time) that most public land doesn’t get properly logged in Oregon.

I was being hyperbolic to make a point, but you have at best proven that some suits do seem get overturned and some logging does happen. I will say that I think more logging, under regulation, should be allowed as the current 2.5b BF doesn’t seem to be enough considering the vast acreages that the federal government controls in the west. And given fire load of dead and down trees that I’ve seen over the years in our National Forests. To quote the article I posted.

“Frivolous lawsuits over the past 20-30 years have nearly eliminated logging from forest management, and our forests have suffered and much of the current wildfires around us are the results. What once were healthy, diverse ecosystems with early successional and mature forests are now too often monocultures of insect and disease-ridden dead and dying trees primed for catastrophic wildfire.”