Agree with this — the economics have completely changed. Along these lines, we all need to re-scope our personal cybersecurity.
For example, developers should no longer run dev environments on the same machine where they access passwords, messages, and emails — no external package installation on that box at all.
SaaS Password Managers — assume your vault will be stolen from whichever provider is hosting it.
Ubikeys will be more important than ever to airgap root auth credentials.
I wasn’t clear, but yes I meant in a car. During morning commute there are whole hours where certain roads are gridlocked leaving no space to cross. Beverly is one example of this.
There is no way to cross unless someone yields to let you through
The problem we will encounter with self driving cars is that while they will make less mistakes than humans, they will make different mistakes.
Humans will continue to have a hard time accepting this tradeoff.
I live in LA where Waymos are now on every street. My experience is that they don’t respect human courtesy, so for example if I need to cross a lane of busy traffic, a human may brake as a courtesy to let me through. Waymos have fucked me over where a human probably would have shown some level of community and empathy.
There is tons of public information online about it. This is a strange approach to claim that the only way to know about a topic is to become an investigative journalist making phone calls to research groups.
Most of the usable water supply annually in CA comes from the snow pack in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
This is also where the largest cloud seeding operations are.
People who claim cloud seeding ops only make a small impact on the usable water supply don’t understand that a small percentage shift in snowpack makes a difference between a drought and not a drought.
What I’m saying is that estimations of total cloud seeding water impact do align with the numbers needed to take the state out of a drought.
As I linked elsewhere there have been lawsuits in the past over cloud seeding causing floods.
Here’s a research report relating to weather modification. It references even a prior California case where a flood happened in an area utilizing cloud seeding.
This information is often buried in budgets under applied research grants. I suspect they obscure this information because it could create liabilities, for example, if gov funded rain seeding creates flooding and human death are they partially responsible for this?
Yes — similarly I work in cryptocurrency and constantly try to tell people that credit cards are unbeatable for payments because of the consumer protections. Chargebacks are an insanely consumer friendly feature. Nobody ever wants to engage in that conversation.
Agencies use a lot of contractors. This sounds like a part time contractor kind of gig not full time based on the details.
Not that this makes everything OK, but that would explain the weeks of silence followed by termination over whatsapp. It’s possible there were no further formal requirements to sever the relationship besides ceasing communication.