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I find it super convenient.
Also, it doesn't have a limit. Pretty sure I bought my last car with contactless on my phone, but that was years ago.

I also carry a wallet? Cause, yknow, ID and stuff.

Phone is just way more convenient. Especially since I don't have a limit on its contactless amount. Whereas with my card, I would have to chip&pin for anything over £40

The only reason I stopped using grapheneOS was because Google contactless payment didn't work.
Loved everything else about graphene tho

I thought T568B at each end was standard practice these days

A reminder that Georgia (state) was a part of the whole 2020 election denial bullshit.

Georgia (country) has a seemingly left leaning president (wanting to join EU), but with a parliament seemingly working against them (eg overturning veto of the controversial Foreign Agent law).

This is a very very broad outsiders opinion. I'd love to hear from a variety of people living in Georgia, and what they reckon!

Follow sensible H&S rules.
Split the responsibility between the person that decided AI is able to do this task and the company that sold the AI saying it's capable of this.

For the case of the purchasing company, obviously start with the person that chose that AI, then spread that responsibility up the employment chain. So the manager that approved it, the managers manager, all the way to the executive office & company as a whole.
If investigation shows that the purchasing company ignored sales advice, then it's all on the purchasing company.

If the investigation shows that the purchasing company followed the sales advice, then the responsibility is split, unless the purchasing company can show that they did due diligence in the purchase.
For the supplier, the person that sold that tech. If the investigation shows that the engineers approved that sales pitch, then that engineers employment chain. If the sales person ignored the devs, then the sales employment chain. Up to the executive level.

No scape goats.
Whatever happens, C office, companies, and probably a lot of managers get hauled into court.
Make it rough for everyone in the chain of purchase and supply.
If the issue is a genuine mistake, then appropriate insurance will cover any damages. If the issue is actually fraud, then EVERYONE (and the company) from the level of handover upwards should be punished

Thank you

Encourage/incentivise an actual apprentice scheme.
I don't know how to validate new apprenticeships, tho.
I know there is some sort of apprenticeship program in the US. Bring that to the forefront. Subsidise it, advertised it, promote it.

Apprentices shouldn't be taxed, subsidise their health/personal/business insurances.
Apprenticeships should include some basic training in business, taxes and finances.

Have tax breaks for companies, and heavily fund self employed/sole-traders who take on an apprentice.

You have to make apprenticeship as attractive as university & industry/corporate, especially in a world where technology is so exciting.
Making apprenticeship pay decently, and not be a significant financial risk to employers (apprenters?) will make it a no-brainer to companies.
Tax breaks or geants for big companies.
And making apprenticeship extremely cheap and low risk for sole traders/self employed (IE, more of this than subsidies for companies) will stop it from being a big-company-only thing. Like subsidised special apprentice insurance, tax breaks, grants.

Promote some sort of "ethical traders" kinda website, where traders with apprentices are advertised/promoted. Have some regulation around it, some customer reviews, make it neutral.
The idea being consumers will go to the "ethical traders" website to find someone to do work because it is a regulated neutral 3rd party that only includes ethical traders with reputable customer reviews. Somewhere that companies will work to maintain reputation.

And ~~assassinations~~ suicides

The benefit of using config files is easy version management via git.
Makes it easy to rebuild from scratch and easy to rollback a change that breaks something

Clearly you use your keyboard to dry you off

Can't access that link. It's paywalled.
I think this is the same speech published on the whitehouse page?
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2024/07/24/remarks-by-president-biden-in-statement-to-the-american-people/