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I would tax the beejesus out of energy use and personal road use and invert most income tax to make something closer to a free market than the US is.
I don't agree that you should spend time configuring and suckless makes configuration hard on purpose. I think the suckless philosophy embrasses vi over the embarrassing plugin/configuration hellscape of vim.
Google was pretty much incompatible, they had no interest in workstations or paying for quality as their focus was redundant arrays on inexpensive machines.
Fujitsu was the best actual option for commercial compatibility, but everyone felt it would be a waste of time to pursue that as the USG would almost certainly block a foreign sale.
I always felt they were hostile to understanding OSes and problems/solutions they provide and thereby limiting themselves to mostly junior C devs who didn't rock the boat by making real OS features for the JVM.
That's a much bigger deal than whether you have 12 in a million or 24 in a million chance of something that has a 5% chance of being fatal.
Giving a population lead poisoning didn't kill any of them outright but cognitive problems in the lead generation is correlated to our higher homicide rates and many of the poorer outcomes in our generation and echo's of its affects in society.
I find it interesting that the wider anti-vax demographics overlap heavily with the safety/helicopter parenting that focuses on some extremely unlikely demise as a reason to limit the next generation in ways that will have much higher rates of earlier deaths and reduced lifestyles when considering their overall lifespan.
Of course the other issue is the future popularity is unknown. I think a lot of the first wave of new TLDs are not so hot today, but maybe they aren't lowering their prices if their last cash is from domain renewals of those reluctant to move on.
If I had to guess, half of the least trustworthy CAs in the one-store-fits-all keystore are also government affiliated ones and we don't even get anything to differentiate them from any regular commercial cert.
Put these certificates into the store and mark the connection EIDAS-DE, etc instead of that stupid little lock that tells us nothing about which of thousands of CA scams with opaque shell company structures it is.
If it can't handle 10 batteries and can't handle updates without backup from the grid, why did they make/sell this setup? Two controllers with ~5 batteries would make a situation where one is active/normal and the other is being the grid so the reliability would be the same as whatever they promise everyone else.. Similarly, he doesn't actually need to be off the grid, his connection just doesn't meet his peak usage so the level of chaos seems to be just to be able to say this is an off grid setup?
Meters? Space per inhabitant? Irrelevant to your next hive where water should only be .5 seconds of beeswagger dance away!
I'm a bit shocked that no-one "acquihired" twitter to make another real tech company without hitting all the barriers and filtering even an infinite blood-money funded startup will hit. They threw out the baby, but the bath water is still there, and cloudy and a bit cold.