The PNW has an incredible beauty that is hard to describe. I grew up a few miles from Yosemite, so I've had a lot of exposure to wild, natural landscapes, but these old growth rainforests are something else entirely.
That said, I do feel conflicted about this type of forest management. It may work on the Olympic Peninsula where risk of fire is minimal. It does not work in the large forests of California which are tinder-dry and experience very hot summers.
Which hardware are you using that has more longevity than a typical Mac laptop?
I've become increasingly annoyed by the software deterioration, with my laptop losing gobs of power while "sleeping". The only thing stopping me from changing back to windows for my next laptop is (my perception of) the terrible hardware choices on that side.
My mental model for typical windows laptops is that they are worse brand-new (e.g. screen, trackpad, battery life) and have wildly worse longevity.
It's about a specific issue known in the 2016+ laptops, I just don't want to carry the risk of this known issue bricking my laptop out of warranty. And still exists in the current ones.
I have a 2012 i7 Thinkpad T530, that is still useful. My whole life desktop machines are usually useful for about a decade. Cheap laptops don't seem to last more than 4-5 years at most, but the top end laptops built really well can last a long time. It's nice to hand useful technology down to family members also.
Low power sleep states seem to have been broken for many years in most laptops. Apple machines do not have this issue it appears.
there isn’t an “issue” beyond the TPM being a potential point of failure, and all x86 laptops nowadays have a similar TPM and similar point of failure.
What do you think happens if your AMD cpu dies? That cpu has a pluton security module inside and if it dies, bye bye bitlocker keys.
you’re getting downvoted because you’re spreading decade-old FUD from the days before the tech community had wrapped their head around TPM. Any secure system is going to be equally dead if your TPM dies and this very much includes every windows laptop etc.
none of those have anything particular to do with the T2 chip and if the TPM in your windows laptop got clobbered you'd still lose all your data anyway. The physical shape of the SSD is irrelevant in that scenario since you lost the key to decrypt it regardless.
again, yes, I know rossman doesn't like apple laptops but this has nothing to do with the T2 chip being some hidden landmine or defect. People just aren't used to the idea of the TPM being a thing that controls their data integrity.
Old ThinkPads wear like iron. Even some of the newer Lenovo ones with the crappy keyboards. I have one such from 2014, it was some guy's DJ machine before I bought it and it still works great.
For the GP: part of (any) gov's power is what you refer to as "autistically" pursuing a case. A large org will never be nimble or fast enough to catch criminals in the act or immediately afterwards. It balances that slowness by inexorably pursuing criminals, sometimes at greater expense than the cost of the original crime.
Would be criminals should believe that they might execute a heist successfully, but that they will need to always keep running because the gov is doggedly pursuing.
None of what I am saying is specific to Kim Dotcom, just trying to highlight to GP how governments execute business.
>Those that do understand that automated data processing means you need to be stricter in what you do in the sheet you are exporting tend to understand how to export proper CSV's from Excel as well
As someone who has excel open all-day every-day: I don't think excel-employees are "producing" data. We are ingesting CSVs/XLSXs, performing modeling/analysis, and then saving as an XLSX.
I don't know anyone who is saving a CSV unless it is the final model output and another system (e.g. TM1) can only ingest the CSV.
If I accidentally save a spreadsheet as a CSV it is a bad day since I probably lost all my formatting, formulas, and additional tabs.
I love the idea of household devices. Not "smart home" devices, but devices which can be used by the everyone in the home, preferably as a group, but even by just an individual in a public space.
Phones/tablets are so insulating, in a way that a household-device is not. Consider the difference between watching YouTube on your phone vs watching a show with the family. Or playing a video game alone vs a multiplayer Nintendo Switch game with your kids.
My middle-school daughter's 2012 iMac recently needed replacement and I was considering a MacBook Air or iPad with keyboard case, but finally decided to replace it with a new M3 iMac instead. My reasoning was that if she's doing hours of homework every day I can at least have her around in a shared space rather than out of sight. It also makes me feel better about allowing her on the internet (which I heavily restrict), knowing that she is in a high-traffic area of the house while she is scrolling.
All that to say: this device sounds awesome and I would seriously consider buying one
Google is a special case where most of the shares sold to the public have no voting rights.
The founders and early investors got the shares with voting rights, plus non voting shares they could sell to cash in, while retaining their control of the company.
> A Summary of Alphabet's Class Structures
Class A: Held by a regular investor with regular voting rights (GOOGL)
Class B: Held by the founders, with 10 times the voting power of Class A shares
Class C: No voting rights, typically held by employees and some Class A stockholders (GOOG)
>If someone comes along and says "I'll pay 50% of the current lease", the owner could go to the current leaseholder and say "I'll let you out of your obligation if you pay 60% of the remaining rent" (discounting for present value).
This is a fun idea. The amount above 100% current lease value is likely 1) the risk of the new tenant vs the old tenant and 2) the optionality of the old tenant wanting this space in the future.
>you've also just lowered your property's value on paper.
Not really. you've increased the value since you're getting 110%. Plus it's not like leases are public knowledge.
>make such long-term leases unenforceable
if this were in place, all leases would be priced higher to account for the lower enforceable term.
> SOMEONE to make a bit more money by putting the space to use
That someone needs to be the landlord + the tenant since those two parties would both need to agree to change the status-quo (the lease).
>It could be that...
I agree that your examples are both likely culprits. Anything can be changed, though, it just needs to benefit both parties (landlord and tenant) more than the status quo
That said, I do feel conflicted about this type of forest management. It may work on the Olympic Peninsula where risk of fire is minimal. It does not work in the large forests of California which are tinder-dry and experience very hot summers.