Wouldn't that turn out to be a candle in a hurricane situation given the level of risk involved?

I suspect it’s more the end of an avenue than the end of the road, but it sure seems like throwing more data and compute is hitting diminishing returns on existing methods.

Relatively uneventfully is doing a lot of heavy lifting there

And it was an authoritarian tyranny in any way at all how? Yes, he incited the idiotic disaster of a half baked protest/"coup" attempt (interpreting it very generously as far as that goes) on January 6th right near the end of his presidency, but aside from that, uneventful in the sense of turning into anything resembling a dictatorship does describe it. If you beg to differ, name something that differs if you like.

Also, read this article or at least part of its long winded rant. It goes to absurd, apocalyptic levels of hyperbole in anticipating the Trump presidency. Describes him as an "extinction event". Laughable. The centralization of executive power that has indeed been developing in the United States is a cumulative product of many administrations, their cabinets and, sadly, the tacit permissiveness of the other branches. Trump was nothing exceptional in its development and it will continue regardless of presidential officeholder long after he's in the ground. That's the wider point worth debating, instead of a pile of heavy handed anti-Trump hysterics.

> when it was clear they were playing us comp-wise by lowballing us to get their foot in the door & then raising the bar once the offer came. Isn’t this just the mirror of a relatively common business practise? At least among smaller companies (maybe non US)

As a candidate, if I detect that happening I also nope out as soon as possible.

True signal meaning something that invites further research I guess

I don’t wish crippling anxiety on every other species

How is anyone to say what most of the activity of these agencies are without any oversight. That’s why the leaks happened in the first place, it was the only way to say ‘hey we need more controls on this stuff’. Unless you’re suggesting that was going to happen anyway somehow?

They have enormous oversight, just not by the general public.

That's hard to believe when Clapper literally perjured himself before his oversight and faced no consequences.

This is going to be interesting for apps obeying desktop ui settings. But running any software on any platform might make up for it.

I suspect while that might be true initially people would soon get really quite good at it.

I've recently started thinking of businesses in similar terms to core game loops. Deep in the guts of every successful business there is one (or more) loops that keep the rest going. When I next try something i'll start with the loop.