> As a person who believes in democracy, I'm pretty on board with it.
As others have stated. This war will not bring democracy. Bombing Iranians have united them with the regime.
Also, US and Israel do not want a democracy in Iran. Israel would prefer a non-functioning place like Palestine or a mostly non-functional place like Lebanon that they can easily control.
> Terraform
I am not and do not intend in becoming a Kubernetes expert, many companies run Kubernetes and they don't know why they do it, some hypes make things so much harder.
But I do have a single cluster at home which allowed me to learn both Kubernetes and Terraform, I also hate Docker so much that I prefer to convert a Dockerfile into a Terraform template and voila, I do not use it to run my stuff.
I enjoy Terraform very much with Terragrunt. Terraform alone is too messy, Terragrunt makes the house cleaner.
> One of the goals of the Heritage Foundation is a weak dollar. They believe they can bring manufacturing back to the US this way.
Only cheap labor can bring manufacturing back to the US. Are Americans willing to work in factories for the same wages as the Chinese and Indians? I don't see it happening.
> Only cheap labor can bring manufacturing back to the US. Are Americans willing to work in factories for the same wages as the Chinese and Indians? I don't see it happening.
Under conditions of free trade with low-wage countries.
Free trade with low-wage countries is a policy choice, but a lot of people confuse it for a natural law.
That is the point of cheapening the dollar, BTW. The local wages can stay 'high' dollar denominated, but the euro-denominated value of those wages drops. It was for some time the strategy of the Chinese central bank; you can keep export good costs low by controlling your currency to weaker. The trick is to do that while everyone is paying you for your stuff.
Cheap labor wouldn't necessarily bring manufacturing back to the USA. Over time much of the labor can potentially be automated. But environmental and zoning rules effectively ban entire industries such as metal casting. If we want those industries back then we'll need a major realignment of public policy that goes beyond just labor.
Of course, but even if Americans were willing to do that kind of work for those wages it wouldn't have much impact. The kind of manufacturing that makes serious money doesn't and usually can't use cheap labour, not in the long run at least. And in those parts of the economy where cheap labour is effective, agriculture for instance, the availability of cheap immigrant labour is simply holding back innovation.
But the US is a major manufacturing nation anyway. US manufacturing output is more than half of that of China while having only a quarter of the population.
When groups like the far right say bring back manufacturing they are just posturing to those voters who have been disadvantaged by changes in the commercial landscape that reduces the number of unskilled and semi-skilled jobs. If they really cared about those people they would support massive improvements to education and training so that at least the next generation had a chance rather than idiotic schemes to 'bring back' the kinds of work that no one needs.
You have a baseline of prosperity and life in your head.
The Heritage guys have a weird perspective where they idolize the early Federalist US and the Reagan Era. Prosperity for the common man wasn’t a highlight of either era, to put it mildly.
In 1790s New York, for example, “local control” meant that many of the people of upstate New York were a sort of serf-like tenant living on the estates of the great men, Dutch patroons who played ball with the colonial and State political infrastructure. They had the freedom to pay rent until their landlord was willing to let them go. That existed into the 1840s, when the country started getting woke.
So we can address housing issues with creative solutions. Why do poor people need their own apartments? Stuff them into a tenement. You can easily fit 15 people in a two bedroom apartment so they can build drones or whatever.
Saudis want to get rid of Iran, for Shia-Sunni reasons.
Israel wants to get rid of Iran because of the 3 Hs.
Enemy of my enemy is my friend and all that; that's why KSA and Israel mended fences (for now).
Now Saudis cannot take on Iran at all; heck, they can't even take on the Houthis. So ... they found the 800lb gorilla (USA) and convinced it that those mean Iranians had made stupid faces at him.
Iran, meanwhile, showed colossal stupidity and arrogance by supporting these 3 Hs. Houthis, I can understand; they are going after Saudis mainly. But Iran had no dog in the Israel-Palestine fight!
> is that better than Israel and its relationships with its neighbors?
Yes. Tel Aviv retains solid security relationships with Jordan and Egypt. And it trades with its region [1]. On a ranking of hegemonic pests, Iran is way ahead.
I don't think anyone is making the argument that solar panels can completely replace fossil fuels in the short term. However, more electrification is better all around.
I had a position open for more than 6 months. Nobody qualified was applying. But plenty of extremely unqualified people were. We eventually did find a qualified engineer to fill that position. But it was a struggle. Until that happened, that position fit all definitions of ghost positions people complain about.
I think the earlier comment was asking about transparency about your product. What is it and exactly what does it do? And also what exactly did the rogue employee do?
Some of these detail might allow the community to decide if Apple is being unfair or there is actual cause for concern. We have so far seen a very one-sided story.
For the longest time I wanted to automated things with ansible. But it was a massive paint to plan/create new playbooks to manage servers and services. But now with Claude Code and other AI agents the ground has shifted. I have created a git repo that contains all my infra information minus credentials. Claude uses it to manage my infra using tools like terraform/tofu and Ansible. I also review the changes before they are pushed. And it is exceptionally good at debugging issues. If something breaks or starts acting weird I asked Claude to take a look and it can get to the bottom of it far quicker than me pocking around. Particularly when I get a call when I was sleeping.
I’m on a similar trajectory. Claude is excellent at writing Dockerfiles, compose files, and operating docker. “Add a daily backup container to this compose file which writes to a new volume”, and it’s done.
I also experimented with skill-creator to generate a skill for “operating” my chezmoi in a read only way, and now when I use Claude in a certain directory it tells me what needs to be updated and which commands to issue. I can see why people are worried about human skill decline!
Personally, I almost always forgive, however, I never allow that person to take advantage of me again. Trust has to be the gold standard. To err in human, thus forgive. To be taken advantage again by the same person is foolish.
As others have stated. This war will not bring democracy. Bombing Iranians have united them with the regime.
Also, US and Israel do not want a democracy in Iran. Israel would prefer a non-functioning place like Palestine or a mostly non-functional place like Lebanon that they can easily control.
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