I've friends who work as instrument technicians/engineers on embedded systems in manufacturing and have worked in Europe, UK and Australia in food manufacturing, mechanical, water collection and water processing.

The one constant I've heard is that all of their hardware is almost or is out of support, when it breaks, they expect band aid fixes and ironically none or very little of them can accept any downtime. There's no hardware redundancy for their production lines and when anything breaks, it's all hands on deck. Yet there's no funding going back into the production lines to pro-actively repair or minimise their risks. Manufacturing it seems to me is 100% a reactive industry.

The industries above work on incredibly small margins of profit and the sheer expense to outfit and refit these aging, decrepit (but still working!) production lines are quite honestly, massive.

These manufacturers won't invest in these engineering faults (whether it's security or production focused) until they've been fucked.

NB: This might be with the exception of Lego, my cousin who got employed by Lego after finishing his masters in Industrial Design & CS, and after reading and watching some articles on Lego. I'm convinced Lego's margins are a lot larger than most. They might be the closest thing to a FAANG company when it comes to investment in phu7sical engineering and manufacturing.

As a community we're wanting to increase and change what the common persons expectation and perception of privacy is for our societies benefit.

On the other side of the spectrum we have parents who are using their children as a profit centre through advertising.

Jobs was excellent in many ways, certainly has some (some) achievements I'm envious of. But that's where it stops.

But would I ever want to be anything like him? Would I want to aspire to his standards? Would I have wanted to work with him? Would I want to adopt his recruitment style. Hell no.

Interesting you mention Woz. I'm going to contradict myself here and say, I've yet to find anything about him that I don't admire. But I'm prepared to be wrong. I got it wrong with Rolf Harris. :-/

My handle is significant to me, and AFAIK there's no way to change your handle on HN. Though being honest, even if I were given the chance, I probably wouldn't change it.

I'm unsure if there's a mechanic to block some one on HN but if it does, I'd recommend you use it in this instance. Apologies that I can't be of any further help.

This article is about mindless violence towards the media that's displayed and documented at Trumps rallys. It's not about antifa.

I don't know what media outlet is to Antifa, that is Fox News to the Right. But I'd welcome a discussion on what we can do to encourage a more fair and balanced media and what we do to hold drunken louts like the gentleman in the article for abhorrent violence.

Can the voting US public really make a difference to foreign policy with the UAE\Saudi Arabia?

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There's a grey area that's worthy of discussion, but we the voting public and as voters for democratically elected governments have cracked the shits with governments and international businesses for much less than what Saudi Arabia have done as a hostile, extremist sovereign third party has achieved. The only difference with Saudia Arabia is the ridiculous amount of financial influence they hold and this blurs borders on the cost/value of morality.

Most companies are beholden to their share holders to make a profit, but at which point do write a line in the sand and say, we no longer allow money to grey the lines on what we consider morale and immoral?

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Also consider the US voting public are losing their shit about a wall at time of writing. That's a fairly black and white concern when you consider the implications and rather obvious cost benefit (slim to none). The border wall is potentially the biggest white elephant that's gone to US policy in recent times. It's not going to work. And it's going to be incredibly expensive if it is built. Yet... a strong portion of the public still want it built. And it will be at the expense of schools, public health, infrastructure, disaster relief.

Now consider.... you think the US voting public have the collective nous to make an international impact on US foreign policy with an extremist, wealthy 'ally' like UAE\Saudi Arabia? Sincerely?

I don't have the same faith in the public hive mind as you. But... I don't have another option that can help besides publicly discussing the point as we are. For all the benefits of how much better life is for those living right now vs prior generations. We do an exceptional job at shitting in our own beds over and over again.

Edit: structure and a few words.

Personally though I've not seen it recommended by others, I categories the full expense to the category. And then when I get income from my housemate or who ever, I categories that income against the same expense category which leaves me the net and true out of pocket expense that I incurred.

Edit, found the previous HN article (this is the same article but on a different site, the NY Times article is no longer accessible):

https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/citizen-lab-toronto-under...

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19006477

address at domain dot com :)

PS: Sent you an email. :)

And within the post they reply with: "...else you're little better than a spammer"

Hilarious.

The blogs are fantastic. It's an electronic equivalent of making envelopes and putting cash into them

It's important that you work out roughly how much you're expecting for the month and you budget every dollar that you're expecting. 'Every dollar has a job'.

I budget all my yearly expenses. Place money aside every month for those, think license renewals, car registration, car insurance, rainy day funds. These are almost always direct debits. Car serving. Home maintenance and the like. Now it's important to state here that it's ok to not budget the exact value you're expecting for car serving, house maintenance and the like. But it's important to have cash put aside every month to contribute to those expenses if they're a lot greater than expected if you have a water leak or a break down in your as an example.

I then budget my monthly expenses which are groceries, new clothes, Netflix & Spotify subscriptions. Eating out\going out for drinks. Debt payments too.

I put 10-20% of my money away as savings. Anything left over goes into a seperate savings account for emergencies/rainy days.