Critical_Thinker

because tons and tons of potential solutions exist. At the core of this class of product is a very simple computer that costs next to nothing. FOSS software exists to accomplish the same goal and for minimal cost someone can compete with them.

Synology doesn't really control anything. In the enterprise segment they tend to be tiny little offerings that are on the small end of SMB. Their bigger bulkier enterprise stuff is easily overshadowed by any real enterprise offering from a larger hardware company, though i've seen some exist even in larger orgs but it's not because something else couldn't have done the job.

Anyone starting fresh has to do some work to catch up but it really depends on the use case. Basic NAS/DAS functions are so trivial.

I'm not ok with shipping anyone to foreign prison camps. There's zero reason why we should ever do that, with exception of a valid extradition request from another country.

shipping people to a concentration camp in el salvador without any due process sounds like a violation of many laws to me.

3300/6600 here. 6000/12000 out of pocket maximum though.

I'm basically dinged for 3300 whenever I need health services other than a yearly physical or an eye exam.

Every january we drop 3300 on meds for my wife and she gets eaten alive with copays for all her specialist visits.

The $1000 deductible plan my employer offers costs $1062/month for family and you still pay $40 per visit as a copay, and the employer is still dropping that $1500/month - so you're effectively paying $30,744 to insure a family of 3 and that's not all-in on expenses. Plus since $1000 is a "low" deductible you don't get to keep basically anything you put into your FSA, unless you know you're gonna use it all. Why medical expenses are ever subject to taxes is beyond me. The whole thing should be single payer... we could probably operate on a third of the budget we have today without giving any worker providing care to patients any kind of pay cut. The middle men (insurance) do very well.

They can only make profits off of something like 20-25% of overall revenue, the rest must be spent on "providing and improving" patient care. Hiring bean counters to make sure you maximize your revenue and reject as many costly applicants as possible is part of the "providing and improving" part, so they spend substantially less than 75% of their revenue on actual treatment.

Yes, but it takes time for people here to realize the effects of that.

Less travel to the US? Well we'll start seeing layoffs in holiday destinations... but probably not that hard, yet. As things continue to decline and prices increase it will get worse, and worse, and worse.

Most of this stuff takes time to ramp up is my point. We still haven't seen the effects of deporting hundreds of thousands to millions of immigrants in legal status before being arbitrarily revoked, and that will absolutely cause some major issues in all kinds of places. They were paying tens of billions of dollars in taxes per year based on 2022 data and getting no benefits from it. Even the immigration process is not free, you pay for all the workers who touch your case with all the fees involved. I know, my wife is living that. We're not talking about our lawyer either, literally the filing fees paid to the US.

That's cute that you think $450 a month gets you an insurance plan. At that price it's subsidized by somebody.

My employer sponsored plan costs me $300 a month and they pay $1200 a month. It's still high deductible. It still covers next to nothing. My wife's necessary life saving meds still hit the deductible each year, costing me several thousand dollars additionally.

tariffs can and will be the death knell if he comes back to those original rates.

No real effects from tariffs have happened yet across the board so the impact isn't truely felt. Even chinese imports don't have the tariffs yet because it's only goods that were on boats after it took effect.

We won't see the downstream impact of even 10% tariffs for months. It won't be until sales slump that people start getting fired and then sales will get even worse...

There is zero chance that tariffs will go away by trump's own actions in the short term. He's committed to using them as the method of paying billionaires off with their tax cuts that have us very underwater right now.

The trade deficit is just some smoke and mirrors that they are using to say "look how unfair they are!" and to decline any rational negotiations for free trade.

he might make short term pauses especially if he will get something from it for his buddies, but he's not looking to use any other revenue strategy. He's there to cut anything going to people who don't vote for him or pay him (don't forget that the billionaires all just kissed the ring with 1M for his inauguration party.) He's just going to keep the trump sales tax strategy as his method of enriching the wealthy. Life is cheap when you make vast in excess of the taxed bare necessities with interest or dividends alone.

Pichai kissed the ring. He's colluding with the person who tried to overturn the elections and install himself as a ruler.

All of the billionaires that were at the inauguration are in the same boat. I'm at a point where I believe the crimes of any of them should be tried and convicted with the punishments being doled out collectively to all colluders, but that's me.

I'd be going for the death penalty from the prosecution side, since it seems like that is what we do now to people who cause one or more people to die, no matter how unethical the victim(s) were.

So do you expect self driving tech to override human action? or do you expect human action to override self driving tech?

I expect the human to override the system, not the other way around. Nobody claims to have a system that requires no human input, aside from limited and experimental implementations that are not road legal nationwide. I kind of expect human input to override the robot given the fear of robots making mistakes despite the humans behind them getting into them drunk and holding down the throttle until they turn motorcyclists into red mist. But that's my assumption.

With the boca one specifically, the guy got in his car inebriated. That was the first mistake that caused the problem that should never have happened. If the car was truly self driving automated and had no user input, this wouldn't have happened. It wouldn't have gone nearly 2.5x the speed limit. It would have braked long in advance before hitting someone in the road.

I have a ninja 650. We all know the danger comes from things we cannot control, such as others. I'd trust an actually automated car over a human driver always, even with limited modern tech. The second the user gets an input though? zero trust.

FTFA:

Certain Tesla self-driving technologies are speed capped, but others are not. Simply pressing the accelerator will raise your speed in certain modes, and as we saw in the police filings from the Washington State case, pressing the accelerator also cancels emergency braking.

That’s how you would strike a motorcyclist at such extreme speed, simply press the accelerator and all other inputs are apparently overridden.

If the guy smashes the gas, just like in cruise control I would not expect the vehicle to stop itself.

The guy admitted to being intoxicted and held the gas down... what's the self driving contribution to that?

Did I ask a terrible question, or do you just not like anything being objective about the issue? I'm so far over on the left side ideologically that you'd be hard pressed finding an issue that i'm conservative on. I don't fit the dem mold though, i'm more of a bernie.... though I am very critical in general. I don't just take things at face value. Anywho...

Saying that the statistics aren't great just lends credence to the fact that we can't objectively determine how safe or unsafe anything is without good data.