"Most favored nation" is to the Trump addled brain like sugar water to a bee. It sounds vaguely like "Go USA" while having nothing to do with the actual problem at hand. Just wait for those 400% 500% price reductions to kick in then. The problem is the fuckup that is your domestic healthcare market, not anything to do with international trade.
It's worse, they seem to think tech debt is just a "state of mind", a "personality defect":
> The code was calcified because the developers were also. Personality types who dislike change tend not to design their code with future change in mind.
This line of thinking (we will make it with future change in mind!) is of course exactly the bullshit that is tech debt in the first place.
This is AI blog slop about someone submitting AI slop merge requests without reading any of it, instead expecting maintainers to do it. Quite the irony.
I mean in most other places people have simply realized that unless there is an immediate risk to life, the only thing high speed police chases do is create that very risk.
Nicely contrasts with all the news about the omnipresent license plate scanners - it's just pointless, don't take the risk, arrest them at your leisure.
That shouldn't matter, after all, even if the plate is legit, you can't just find a person's location from the database. They usually have some legal address or something, not live location.
So unless there's an immediate danger, there is no reason for chasing people and create dangerous situations. You can just follow them around from the severance cameras and catch them once they are no longer on the move. Even if you don't have disability for one reason or another, it still doesn't make much sense to engage in high-speed driving around people minding their own business.
I don't get this gotcha. The license plate scanner associates a plate with a location and time, it doesn't care for who drives it. In a chase, you know the plate, you don't know the location. Seems perfect?
Perfect how? The license plate scanner can only tell that a particular plate number was in a particular place at a particular time. It doesn't know if the plate was fake or stolen, or who was driving the vehicle, or if there was contraband in the vehicle. Stopping fleeing vehicles is one of the most effective ways to catch people with outstanding arrest warrants and get illegal weapons off the streets.
I think the idea is, if you know where the car is and where it is going, you don't need to chase it openly on high traffic areas with high risk of accidents. You use restraint and take them at a safer place. (surely won't work all the time)
Basically, letting them run away and then setting up a raid at their house the next morning is safer for everyone. If you can follow them from altitude well enough to do that, you reduce risk dramatically relative to either interception or chase.
> They could learn a few things from the Georgia State Patrol, the undisputed world champions of the PIT.
Why not just open up on them with antitank weaponry? PIT maneuvers are extraordinarily dangerous, especially at high speeds.
"If you are eluding the cops at 100mph you are a danger to the public, they are not going to let you go home."
I'm not sure that the cops pursuing people at those speeds is doing anything besides making the situation more dangerous. Police in the US are grossly undertrained, I wouldn't trust them to actually be competent at what is very technical and difficult driving.
One would think that basic firearm safety would be the bare minimum, since we pay them to carry a gun. However, I have had to vacate a shooting range 3 times due to police showing up and being unsafe with firearms. I have had this happen in 3 different ranges, where off-duty cops have shown up and proceeded to ignore basic safety rules like not flagging people with guns. I'm not dumb enough to try to give a cop a safety lecture, so I've always packed up my stuff and left. However, if they aren't even given enough training to not figure out to point their guns downrange instead of at the firing line, they aren't trained well enough to trust with something technical and difficult like a pit maneuver.
One of these times was at a CA range, they were socal cops. Training standards for police in the US are woefully low, most cops aren't able to hit the broad side of a barn given ideal circumstances. They agitate about how dangerous their job is, but they don't train like it is. They fire a few rounds a year and have absolutely horrendous marksmanship standards. Don't get fooled, your average cop has roughly zero idea on firearms safety or even how to use the darn things.
> If you are eluding the cops at 100mph you are a danger to the public, they are not going to let you go home.
They would not even try to reach those speed if they weren't chased. A criminal who thinks he escaped the police will try to not attract attention. They would just follow the normal flow of the traffic and you can follow their path thanks to the millions of cameras and the helicopter mentionned earlier. We are not in the 70's anymore.
You can follow them from a distance they can't spot you so you can lock the road if they turn back and dispatch police force form in various exit points of an highway without starting an high speed chase.
High speed chase is about cops endangering the public for the thrill and adrenaline really. They do that because they like it, not because they need it to arrest criminals.
It's probably reasonable to take a step back here and ask: Why is this not a universal problem? It's not as if every juristication outside the US simply lets criminals run away.
Thats because the security industry has been captured by useless middle manager types who can see that "one dependency has a critical vulnerability", but could never in their life scrounge together the clue to analyze the impact of that vulnerability correctly. All they know is the checklist fails, and the checklist can not fail.
(Literally at one place we built a SPA frontend that was embedded in the device firmware as a static bundle, served to the client and would then talk to a small API server. And because these NodeJS types liked to have libraries reused for server and frontend, we would get endless "vulnerability reports" - but all of this stuff only ever ran in the clients browser!)
If only they removed roaming. Roaming charges are an absurdity since the internet exists and that is how mobile operators run their backend. They should be outlawed fully.
Its somewhat complicated by countries that still have high pricing on international calls imposed by regulators, and by pricing differences between country.
It might be possible for a regulator to say something such as prices should not exceed a price set comparative to the operator you are using, or not more than what it coses your operator plus a percentage.
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