But I don't think it's a business they really nurture. There's no way to setup automatic payments, which feels important as you have many domains. And setting glue records requires a support request, where as most other registrars provide user facing interfaces to do it without help from a support rep.

But when the wipers in my car are set to intermittent, they are off most of time and ocassionally off.

As an employee, the company sets the conditions and tools to work there.

If communication is to happen on Microsoft Teams, and you refuse to use it, your future employment with them seems difficult. Same as if you refused to show up to meetings, or kept sound isolation headphones on at all times, including when your boss wanted to speak with you. Or you would never use a telephone.

When using enterprise tools, I expect the employer to have accepted the terms of use; most employees can't bind the employer.

I certainly prefer to avoid Microsoft communications tools, but if the work is interesting enough, I guess it's fine.

I believe some institutional investors have policies allowing some purchasing of 'highest junk' as well. Depends on the fund, etc.

Good times!

From the graphs, it seems that knowledge of our non-dairy pavement is filtering through to other countries. But a longer term graph would be nice; I'd like to see how the indicator reacted over more economic cycles, but I know some visa categories that had been oversubscribed on opening day for years started staying open for most of the year when the mortgage crisis hit, and I'd love to see data from previous downturns, too.

However, if you mandated blocking Russia or China at a national level, you would cause some major issues.

a) it would become very hard to communicate with people in China. That would make commerce with China very difficult. Blocking communication with your number 3 trading partner [1] is going to be a massive disruption.

b) Doing the same for Russia would be less disruptive as there's much less trade between the US and Russia, and significantly fewer immigrants to the US from Russia than from China. However, there's still a lot of connection between the US and Russia and that would be disrupted.

Given the success of the internet and the layering of everything else over it, I suspect cutting off internet would likely cut off phone service as well. Even postal mail might be impacted, as there is likely coordination between national agencies via the internet.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_trading_pa...

The key question is what is actually in the agreement. 'The state will maintain the fence' doesn't indicate the level of maintenance or the timeliness of said maintenance, it just means the neighbor isn't allowed to do it.

> Secondly - if they did own the fence line, it'd be on the government to come and fix it when one of their trees breaks it, surely?

From discussions I've seen, generally there's no legal responsibility for tree falls, unless there's neglegence like ignoring a clearly failing tree. But leaving a forest to do whatever the forest wants doesn't feel like neglegence.

I think I'm still running r, but k and/or v were problematic for a few of my clients. Wifi band steering can potentially also be problematic.

Maybe I'll try again when I get wifi 7 APs.

Space lasers probably don't do multiple wavelengths, and aiming a lot of laser transceivers is going to be challenging.

> Alternatively, is there a wavelength of light to which water is completely transparent? Can we shoot lasers of that frequency through open water instead of through cables?

Even if you could, that's only going to work for short hops, long distance fiber includes repeaters every so often (50-100 km) to deal with loss, it would be tricky to build those under the sea ... and you need to power them, which means a cable, might as well include fiber with your power cable.

Not fixing streets is 'free' and reduces the perceived safe speed. Letting the streets crumble is a win win.

This doesn't entirely work, eventually the street gets unusable and it's often much more expensive to rebuild it than it you had done timely maintenance.

The deal for the less powerful governments is if they have a dispute with other less powerful governments, they can get it resolved by consensus of the big 5. If they have a dispute with a member of the big 5, there's an imbalance of power that the UN can't solve.

IMHO, this is better than the status quo from before the UN / League of Nations.

It might be nice to have an institution with the responsibility and ability to issue binding resolutions on all governments with regard to authorizing war/etc, but you can't really bind the big 5 (or at least the big 3) without their consent or overwhelming force.

If everything goes as planed, we'll need new equipment in a couple years, so order now. If things don't work out as planned, you might be able to sell your slot, or push it back a few months, or cancel it.

In a frothy market, you don't really know from order backlogs how many orders are based on firm plans and how many are we might want to build chips, so let's order a machine and see if we want it when it comes up. Or the middle ground of we definitely need these machines in the next ten year, and if sales are still strong, sooner is better.

Yep, it's probably not terribly hard to leave either, most of the one's I've seen aren't.

I dunno how you can make it more palletable, when they're already paying you monthly, it already does pre-cooling (or pre-heating), and you can also override it. And you might not even be home.