Poisoning the data has been around for at least a decade now. I used to work for a very large pricing analytics company that would track product pricing for Fortune 500 manufacturers.
We found on several occasions that some shady retailers would find the CIDR of the manufacturers corp networks and comply with the MAP policies on pricing if traffic came from them. Then when our bot went through with obviously generic AWS / Proxy ips we would see a much lower price that broke their agreement. That one was a fun realization for the manufacturers as to the level of shadiness some retailers would go through.
However you likely wont be able to because not enough people agree with you to do so. Our constitution was made to be specifically hard to change unless a vast majority agreed. That's a feature, not a bug. If a change can't be agreed upon at the national level it should stay at the state / local level.
> It should, however, cause people who voted for this (hypothetically dead or disabled or otherwise incapacitated) politician to see themselves as the piles of shit they are.
Case in point, it protects us from reactionary changes based on vitriol like this instead of substance.
Doesn't really matter when the amendments go through the same electoral structure. I.e. if the electoral structure weren't fucked, there would be recent amendments worth discussing.
Or else everyone really does want to live in a capitalist shithole where people don't have any rights worth speaking of aside from ownership of property.
Sure the safety part of it is something that should be verified before launch. But when they are launching multiple of these things and the variables are all mostly the same you don't need to do the same analysis over and over again.
A prime example is the environmental impact stuff. They have already done that multiple times. Nothing really changed. If it succeed and doesn't blow up the impact is X, if it blows up the impact is Y. Yet these approvals take weeks and months.
There are also multiple agencies that put their foot down. Famously fish and wildlife was worried starship would crash in the water and hit a shark/whale. No seriously. https://youtu.be/kS8G5D9fg3g?t=21
Then there is the story that at Vandenburg air base, they had to strap a seal to a board and play rocket noises through headphones to see if it was distressed. Keep in mind Vandenburg has been a military rocket launch site for decades. But only now when its SpaceX do these agencies put up road blocks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SvJP5wfN4k
I think the algorithms make the difference here. You can't really make a cereal box stand out on a physical shelf in any unique way (or you can, but it'll be a cost expense. Ruining the point of undercutting). IME with online storefronts for traditional brick and mortar their own brands never seem to come on top.
Meanwhle I will almost always get an AmazonBasics if it exists as a first result.
Consumers like a lot of short term factors that turn against them in the long term. That seems to be the theme of the 21st century.
I'd rather these perverse incentives not exist and simply have a more educated consumer base learn to search "Amazon basics X" instead of maximizing conviniece to enable monopolies. We've clearly been shown that we can't handle the latter
I have no interest in becoming more educated about which seller from which factory run has what kind of quality standards. That’s why I use Costco and Target and Walmart and Amazon and Uniqlo and other brands to go out there and do that work. All I want to know is that I’ll be able to return something if it isn’t satisfactory.
And that's how you later get taken advantage of and how Amazon starts to be as bad as Comcast's customer service. But you can't leave because competition is gone.
You don't have to care per se, that's what the government is for. But taking the time and energy to argue against your long term best interests is disappointing.
I understand, but picking out random six letter brands on Amazon is not the competition most US customers are looking for.
It’s not feasible for people to go to China, inspect the manufacturing processes, and figure out what is worth what. There is a whole business there of purveying goods, which is what brands like Amazon and Kroger and Kirkland all the way up to LVMH.
With the advent of the internet, that business is no longer restricted to physical stores, so technically, anyone can make a superior product and sell direct to anyone. There were stories of Kmart and Walmart and whoever else bullying vendors because the vendors used to get nowhere without shelf space.
Laravel forge - something breaks, you are responsible to fix it
Laravel vapor - something breaks, you are responsible to fix it
Laravel Cloud - something breaks and you can prove, that it's not you code? Someone else is responsible, awesome!
Most projects that use laravel are small shops. To sell them the convenience that they don't need to bother about infrastructure and uptime, is a smart move by laravel.
Maybe this is actually a good thing. Check a few of the cves they found and if it's things like this, you're dealing with a clown. I'd feel ashamed requesting to get a cve assigned for something like that.
Unrelated to this specific plant, but it doesn't help that the government put all kinds of stipulations and pork into the CHIPS act that requires certain demographics of people hired, investments in unrelated things, etc. https://thehill.com/opinion/4517470-dei-killed-the-chips-act...
If we want to get serious about ramping up domestically produced chips for critical applications, we need to cut that crap out and focus on efficiency and quality.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but unless your criteria for efficiency and quality is bringing back slavery then we're not going to compete. The DEI requirements are a cherry on top of a pie-in-the-sky request that wouldn't meet it's goal with any demographics staffing it.
If we want to get serious about ramping up domestically produced chips, the state has to do it itself. People piss and moan about Intel but it's not like Northrop Grumman could do their job any better. The best way for the US government to realize the scale of their requests is to fix the problem internally, instead of pitching it as a bidding war for Goofus and Gallant.
I simply don’t understand how these types of diversity initiatives are legal. They are explicitly discriminatory and violate the fundamental principles underlying laws. And I agree with you that placing these social justice restrictions on a critical element of national security is incredibly irresponsible.
The downvotes are probably because of the framing of DEI as “pork”. You are surprised people disagree about what qualifies as government waste? I find that surprising :)
Not that I'm aware of and this is likely now just a cloudflare worker that returns the IP they already have. I would imagine maintenance is basically zero as its feature complete.
We found on several occasions that some shady retailers would find the CIDR of the manufacturers corp networks and comply with the MAP policies on pricing if traffic came from them. Then when our bot went through with obviously generic AWS / Proxy ips we would see a much lower price that broke their agreement. That one was a fun realization for the manufacturers as to the level of shadiness some retailers would go through.