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I think it is more the environment for some people.

Working from home, really does IMO require a Home Office, a space dedicated for work.

I know many people that are more productive at home, all of them have a home office. I know many people that are not productive at home, none of them have a home office, instead are using some Shared Space, like a corner of the living room, the kitchen table, etc.

If you do not have a dedicated home office then likely your home will be filled with distractions,

Living situations impacts this as well, if you lived a alone with no pets vs having a house full of roommates, children, spouses, pets, etc.

So from a Management perspective do they fire all the people that cant work from home, or require everyone to return to office? Or do they have different policies for different people then open themselves up to Workplace legal liability from either discrimination or hostile work place charges

>>It matters if you have money, time, and willpower to go to court.

This is why we need some version of Loser Pays law... Especially when there is a huge resource imbalance like a FB suing a lone dev.

in this context what makes a difference if it is a Chinese companies abandoning the product vs a British company.

Is china the only nations making "trash"....

Further your video shows off several replacements with 1 having some kind of incompatibility with some carrier boards... Personally I have never been a fan of the Compute Module form factor anyway.. I prefer the full SBC boards. I think the Compute Module form factor lends itself to more complexity and issues.

The SBC Market is huge now, and sure you can point to market failures, companies that dont survive, products that get abandoned every market will have those, and I see that as a GOOD THING. not a bad thing.

That is capitalism, which I love, at work.

That is the story of just about every technology.... or even community

Sad but it remains true, Thing is created > Small but devoted group discovers and popularized thing > Thing raises to mass popularity > The masses what to change the thing to be what they think it "should be" diverging from what the small but devoted group desired or signed on for > Thing becomes unrecognizable to the original group > New thing is created > Small but devoted group.... and the cycle continues

So the question is what will replace the Pi for the hacker community, I personally stopped buying Pi's for my personal projects a long time ago, rPI3 was the last one for me. Soo many other manufactures of SBC's out there making better, cheaper boards.

I think Twitter is 10000000000000000000x better under Musk...

While many companies did try to get a PR bump from it, most companies pulled out due to government imposed economic sanctions on Russia, not because they had an ethical or moral drive to punish Russia for their actions

That depends, in order to answer that we need to know the Demographics and immutable characteristics of the author(s)

>> I guess, but I haven't heard of any right-libertarians that want to do that

Well this is conversation is about libertarians, not "right-libertarians", I am more of Geo-Libertarian

>>Something's got to compel landowners to give unfettered access to their property to run wires and pipes to other properties

Yes it is called a voluntary agreement built into the title of the property (aka convents) normally when a subdivision of land is created, where by utility paths laid out by the developer. Subsequent purchasers of the land must agree to these convents, including utility easements, when they buy the property.

government is not required for that.

this is 100% False in the US anyway, you are barred by law from laying new Pipes or Electric lines, etc. There are complex regulations and laws governing access to easements, internet is the one thing that has been allowed to have competitive access to these utility easements and I have access to multiple physical communications lines to my property.

The idea that no company would consider running additional electric lines if granted the opportunity is non-sense.

>>Once an entity like Apple becomes Apple, it can't really be competed with in the traditional sense

That is odd be cause I have never used, and never will use an Apple product and I have access to all the same things that an Apple user does?

Apple is in no way a monopoly

All of that requires government.

Show me a "natural" monopoly that was not instituted by government regulation. The most common examples today are utilities which are all 100% government created monopolies.

Other examples are Standard Oil, or Bell Telephone, both where also highly protected by government regulations and other laws that prevented competition in those markets

Well the libertarian position is the "Bad" or Exploitive Monopolies, (True Monopolies not "monopolies" like when people say Apple or Amazon are monopolies) only really happen when government protects them, or "regulates" the market to where no competition is possible.

"It takes a bonkers 1,611 US gallons (6,098 litres) to produce 1 litre of almond milk,” says the Sustainable Restaurant Association’s Pete Hemingway." [1]

So that would be 6,000 gallons of water to make 1 Gallon of Almond Milk... that seems to be more than your 800 Gallon figure for cow milk....

Also you will take my Steak and Hamburger over my dead body... America will never, not in may life time, give up Beef, it is after all what is for dinner.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/food/2018/sep/05/ditch-the-almon...

now do almonds..... Which alot of people want to use as a replacement for things like Milk, or Flour....

Unlikely, it more a deference to authority. you can not honestly believe that 99.9% all cases in Japan are decided justly and fairly and there are statically zero false conviction in the system.

Well in this context it would be the poor, and people that lack education. People that lack the resources to fight back.

still not something we should be proud of

so there are 2 conclusions to draw from this

1. the federal law enforcement, and prosecutors are prefect humans that only ever go after the guilty

2. The system is sooo skewed in favor of the government that fighting them is pointless, likely due to immense corruption in the system it self

Since no humans are perfect, I think the stronger case is for #2 to be reality

We need a rule to prevent plea deals that cross the 3 major punishment classifications (felony, misdemeanor, infraction) .

i.e a prosecutor should not be allowed to plead out a felony to a misdemeanor, that should be by default viewed as unethically coercive

Dollar for Dollar funding of Public Defenders office would be a huge first step.

For ever Dollar a government gives to the prosecutors office, a dollar should be budgeted for public defense.

currently in most states is like 10%, if that

I dont know if you can say that about traditional OEMs BEV's which seem to be following the Telsa model of complete interconnectivty of all systems

traditional OEMs do not make a EV that is just a ICE with Electric Motor and battery, the traditional OEMs BEV platforms are completely redesigned to put in "features" that no one wants, and no one asked for to enable OEM control over every part of the car, enable them to turn features on and off in software and OTA (you know so they can make your pay monthly for your heated seats)

Largely because work force participation is at an historic low.

Retirements, "gig" economy, etc are not reflective in the current government unemployment stats, so they do not paint a good picture IMO.

We still have not returned to pre-pandimic levels for Work Force Participation, or Employment-Population Ratio, which where already in a slump since the 2008-2010 Recession.

The employment picture is not as rosey as people citing unemployment numbers likes to believe, but it supports their narrative that the "economy is good" and it also supports government debt spending which right now what is driving inflation more than consumer demand.

We are in very unusual and troubling times economically, and the people at the switch are not looking at the correct numbers to make good decisions

>>How in the world do you think that the FBI wouldn't bag and tag stuff if they planned on using it in court at a later date? Any fresh out of school lawyer could get that tossed in a heart beat.

Well it make sense when you understand that the FBI is not about seeking "justice", it is about enforcement and punishment.

The process is their goal, to make peoples lives miserable and to do "street justice" not to win in the court system and get a conviction

Further in this case, was also "Policing for Profit" which is what the entire civil asset forfeiture scheme is about.

This naive view that the FBI, or law enforcement in general, today is about "protecting the public" and "getting justice for victims" is laughably absurd

>>The initial taking was legal, it's how the property was handled after the fact that ran afowl the law.

That is not the ruling at all

The FBI lied to the court system, and was never authorized to take the boxes at all, they were only authorized to secure them and identify the owners of the property to enable returning to those owners

That was all the original warrant authorized

Then after they executed that warrant, they then initiated (illegally) "inventory" procedures far beyond what was authorized by the court (warrant) and once inventoried further initiated (illegally) forfeiture proceedings of the property.

The original warrant only authorized the FBI to "take" aka seize property belonging to the company itself for the purposes of their criminal case everything beyond that was actually specifically barred in the actual warrant, which the FBI ignored and did what ever the hell they wanted anyway. It was further reveled that was their plan all along and they deceived the court from day 1.

First off, I reject outright everything coming from Robert Reich but I digress...

There are some big problems here, first and foremost the idea that because Airbus is owned by governments that makes it some how better. Also they seem to not understand that "Boeing’s four largest shareholders" being Vanguard, and State Street means most likely Boeing largest Shareholders are peoples 40K's and IRA's. Meaning everyday middle class American's

Nothing in this standard Reich diatribe against capitalism, in favor of socialist utopia of Workers Unions would solve all problems accurately identifies the actual problems at Boeing I was talking about in my parent comment.

Boeing being owned by Vanguard is a problem, but not because Vangaurd seeks to maximize profits, infact in recent years so called "Stakeholder Capitalism" which I believe Reich is also a proponent of has taken over Vangaurd and even more so Black Rock which puts a whole host of things over profits, and IMO this "Stakeholder Capitalism" is the root cause of the problem. It is a cancer in Business.

Does it have Android Auto...

Because if it does that is all I need. Something GM is taking away

Many Toyota vehicles are more "Made in America" than then many Ford and GM vehicles which are mostly made is Mexico these days save Ford Trucks.

If you looking for a Made in US Car, Toyota is the brand you seek

>>Or no Boeing planes at all?

That will never happen, the federal government would never allow it, and they have many avenues to ensure it

1. All Future bailouts of Airlines could be contingent on them buying Boeing Aircraft

2. Direct Bail out of Boeing to make them the most inexpensive plane to buy

3. Regulation to prevent advertisement of aircraft type

4. Increase import tariffs or other protectionism to make Airbus and other manufacturers more expensive

Boeing is a national defense contractor and it too important to our national interests to be allowed to fail, if the 4 things I listed above do not happen something else will will prevent Boeing from Going under, or even losing market share.

>>when you're dying because Boeing wanted to make an extra dollar.

I think it is naive and dangerous to simply blame profit motive for the problems at Boeing, Profit has always been goal at Boeing, and I assume is also a goal of Airbus and every other manufacturer.

So if something has changed recently maybe one should look at other corporate priorities that have in reality supplanted profit as the number one goal for many corporations.

In fact Maybe a return to profit motive is what we need to resolve the problems

Democracy requires The Experts to tell people what, how and when to think, and who to vote for.

People can not be trusted with their own thoughts, opinions, and ideas for they make think wrongly

It is very said that people are celebrating digital drivers licenses of all things, how far we have fallen in the battle for privacy and freedom from government intrusion in our lives that we are now celebrating massive authoritarian policies and control as "wins" because they have made our lives more convenient...

The devils deal of convenience over freedom...