IMDB also had a ratings inflation of about 0.5 points about the same time (anecdata), where movies over 5.5 were watchable back then. Now a 6.0+ demarcates a watchable movie. Or my threshold changed in the past 10 years or so...
It's not baffling. They know what they are getting billed for, that's transparent. They don't understand WHY they are getting billed 6x of what they expected. The problem here isn't with AWS, the problem is they don't understand why their usage is at 6x.
What I realized when I bought a house was for an owner occupier buying a house is the only way to 'invest' the money you'd otherwise spend on rent. You'd never make such a low return illiquid investment otherwise.
That's an interesting point of view. If that is actually the goal of Israel right now, what if the Hamas executed all hostages on the spot, right now? Would Israel say "we have no more military objective, time to go home" or would they leash out in retaliation?
I think we know what the answer would be. Because we know that, how can what you say possibly be true?
That's like suing knife manufacturers because some people stab other people.
We have no realistic short-term plan to switch away from oil. Everyone can't just switch to EVs. Most products have plastics or oil derivatives in them.
I don't think it's quite that simple. We would likely be in a much better position, up to potentially having a plan, if oil companies hadn't covered things up for so long and lobbied against regulations.
> any backdoor must necessarily be on the client side
True, but it might be a part of an update that only hits a white-list of users, so you won't find the actual code that steals your private keys if you're on that list.
This is not allowed as far as I know, at least on iOS.
iOS apps aren't allowed to run arbitrary code that hasn't been signed by Apple. What goes in the AppStore is what runs on your device, and apps are physically incapable of writing data to executable memory. Safari / the built-in Javascript interpreter (and I guess third-party browsers in the EU) are notable exceptions here, as they need JIT.
Sure, Apple could develop special infrastructure to push fake updates to a predesignated list of targets, but at that point, you don't even need collaboration from Meta, and open source apps like Signal are just as vulnerable.
If Apple was willing to go that way, they wouldn't even need to bother with app updates. Ultimately, your messaging history has to be stored on your device in a way that your device can decrypt, and Apple could just steal that info.
I can't speak to what the situation is like on Android, but I presume similar mechanisms exist.
Decriminalization in Portugal and in Oregon ended up in disasters. Resulted in more drug addicts, more violent crime, more crazy behaviors, more people laying or crawling in the streets.
That article is concluding that decriminalisation in Portugal didn't work, by comparing drug users in 2022 with the year of decriminalisation in 2001, and comparing overdose rates between 2018 and 2022. I don't find that very honest.
Consumption is rising worldwide, and nobody knows what these metrics would show had Portugal not decriminalised consumption of hard drugs.
Also, the reason for decriminalisation wasn't simply to lower addiction rates, it was mostly to stop getting people in jail for consuming, which was making the issue worse.
I agree that decriminalization in Oregon didn't go well, but it's more complicated that "decriminalization doesn't work". I lived in Portland at the time (and yes, I voted for decriminalization). What I observed:
- The rehab programs were never properly available
- The general culture in Portland made it very difficult for the city to form any coherent response to homelessness. Most people in Portland really want to be "compassionate" to the homeless/drug addicted/mentally ill, so there was strong pushback on any effort to clear homeless encampments (literally to the point that people were advocating for changes in building code that would force commercial buildings to *enable* homeless people to sleep in front of them by building sleeping platforms.)
- This time period overlaps the BLM protests (which were absolutely massive in Portland), with all the "Defund the Police" / "ACAB". Indeed, the majority of Portland has been very anti-police since the late '90s. The police, obviously, didn't like this. From anec-data, it seemed to me that the street cops just stopped even bothering arresting people. (Here's an anecdote - a friend of mine was riding mass transit, with homeless men both behind him and in front of him, who got in to a conflict that resulted in one man brandishing a knife. The police were called and showed up at the next stop, no arrests were made.)
To make the point abundantly clear, the brandishing of knives in public was never decriminalized, but the police absolutely stopped enforcing *any* laws on the homeless.
- Oregon is generally terrible at implementing anything, even well-supported, popular programs fail to achieve even basic milestones of success. There's also a general lack of funding for most everything.
- COVID
- Fenatnyl use rose massively, nationwide, in spite of local drug policy. The negative effects have definitely been more pronounced in far-left cities, but it's disingenuous to assume that decriminalization increased usage.
Don't get me wrong, things got bad. They still are - it's why my wife and I moved after living there for decades. But let's not declare decriminalization as a universally bad policy; the drug war has also been extremely bad too, and it's had a lot more time to work. IMO, the very existince of fentanyl and carafentanyl are direct results of the drug war.
Things got so bad, that you had to move, as a result of all the policies that you support. Consider that your policies are not good, and your defense of them doesn't look like defense at all.
And some of your reasons make no sense. COVID/fentanyl didn't just hit Portland.
> stopped even bothering arresting people
Oh, look, the direct consequence of your actions and your policies. You declare that ALL cops are bad, and then complain when they stop doing what they do. And your DA releases nearly all arrested people without a charge because "compassion", so cops have no reason to arrest anyone.
Again, consider that your policies and ideas are horrible.
