Public transit in America presents a much higher chance of encountering dangerous people than a private car. Until those people are permanently, irrevocably, and definitively locked up, it would not matter off public transit were free, or even paid users to use it, it will not be a serious option. Nobody in my family is allowed to use public transit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Debrina_Kawam

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Iryna_Zarutska

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/nypd-men-pushed-subway-...

This is all FUD and extremely unlikely if not improbable to run into someone violent. If you’re that afraid of public transit and people in general, no amount of “rounding people up against their will” would change your mind.

FUD? Are you claiming these did not happen?

PY32 series - ARM core, faster, more ram, more flash, DMA, PLL, same or lower price, more package options, available from JLC or LCSC. Docs available in English, or use STM32F0 docs, but ignore the errata (Puya fixed them all)

> special treatment of rich people

which?

Tax loopholes which result in a lower effective tax rate. Lesser accountability for crimes. Ability to break any law which is penalized only with fines.

Do you really not know what rich people can get away with in the US?

I see special treatment of many non-rich people too, so I do not see the issue to be with the rich.

It's not about the special treatment, its about being equal under the law.

I agree 100%, we all should be, but in today's America, the most "specially treated" are not rich, so if you are to hate people for being special under law, it is not the rich you should be hating first.

You misunderstand, I don't hate rich people, I want them to be accountable to a democratic system of governance aka paying their owed tax.

They all pay their owed tax. If you dislike the tax law that allows them to pay as much as they do, change it.

That's the idea!

Like I said, there are representation issues because money is speech which gives the rich extra say in policy. So it's not exactly that simple, because of the anti-democratic pro-rich bias in our legislative system, but we'll get there.

Well, if “specially treated” also includes “especially poorly treated”, then sure, there’s plenty of non-rich being “specially treated”. Take your pick from the non-rich subsets of immigrants, trans, kinda-Mexican-looking, pregnant-and-crossing-state-lines...

libc is still working just fine, as is the linux kernel. Mayhaps having 2000 dependencies on 3000 packages from 4000 unvetted sources was a mistake afterall?

Pretty cool, though the assembly could be tightened in a few hot loops, eg:

    mov r3, r10
    adds r5, r5, r3
    mov r9, r5

can be made into

    mov r9, r10
    add r9, r5

since r5 and r3 are both dead, and so are the flags

This is the system working as intended. If a single actor (human or machine) can wipe out your database and backups with no recourse, then, simply put, you had no business serving customers or even existing as a business entity.

> with the 286, you could only go back to real mode by rebooting the PC

No. By resetting the processor which while slow (milliseconds) was sometimes done for this reason. Too slow for context switch but doable occasionally.

Don't forget LOADALL (which, admittedly, was undocumented outside of Intel's chosen few)

I was not chosen, so i retain my butthurt nature and refuse to acknowledge LOADALL ;)

DEAD, archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20260426040218/https://juraj.bed...

Thanks, we'll put that in the toptext too.

Archive returns 503 ATM....

Stores already uniquely identify customers with membership cards/accounts. They're also doing their damndest to link those more closely - see how Kroger is shifting from the Kroger card to digital coupons that require you to sign into an account.

They could simply offer the worst prices if you don't use your card (Kroger basically already does this), so you're effectively required to identify yourself.

> how would the register ring up the correct adjusted prices

Facial ID, "loyalty" cards, and device fingerprinting. Reading an NFC doesn't expose anything, but placing your phone next to a bluetooth beacon could, NFC+store app could, and so would your face.

the ufcw is pushing this narrative because they're continually afraid that they "threaten the jobs of grocery workers".

i guess the ufcw is stuck in an attitude that you can't train someone who was told "stick this piece of paper here on this shelf" to "stick this tag on this location on the shelf and scan a barcode".

gotta keep some stupidly low level clerk work available out there apparently.

I also think that was a little too far fetched for the real world currently, but .. I'm not 100% certain. I have no doubt at all that there are sociopathic CEOs out there who would think this is an entirely reasonable proposition in order to increase profits.

But I also think that technically if they are tracking you in the store and adjusting the labels when you near products, it would not be difficult to show you that price that at the till, where they are still tracking you.

The real problem would be ensuring that the other customers were shown appropriate prices. Perhaps that would not be a problem I don't know. If three people are near a product, then just show the max price you think one of them is willing to pay, the others can suck it up? Perhaps the others weren't going to buy that in any case? You know one of them wants to buy that particular item, they always do. And, many people don't really look at the price labels in any case. If the store tags a person who will reject items as being too expensive at the till, then just charge them less than the price that was shown which they didn't look at when they picked it up. Once you move into the "profit above all" mindset of tracking customers and cynically adjusting the prices, it doesn't seem to me that anything would be out of bounds.

Also, I have been reading comments online for >10yrs from people claiming to work in the field, who have been saying that this stuff is already happening. Remember this? https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targ...

They've been working on it for a ling time now but the costs of the set up and consumer's understanding that it's unfair have slowed them down (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41272-019-00224-3)

Stores have already been setting up and using facial recognition. Home depot and walmart have been sued over it already.

You don’t need for every item. Just low frequency high profit goods