I could see an argument being made with Saddam, considering the treatment of the Kurds. But Libya post Gaddafi has had more extrajudicial killings than even under the bloodiest parts of his reign. In part by collapse of the new government allowing terrorists to run rampant, but also in part because the new government before the collapse was partially staffed by the bloodthirsty lunatics he was repressing.
One of the first actions of the new Libyan government was to instate the death penalty for blasphemy. Which was then used on anyone from political opposition to women daring to seek education. The government collapsed before any sentences could be carried out, but that's intent to apply repression on a vastly broader scale than Gaddafi cared to.
Government manufacturing consumer goods is by definition Communism. Communism has been tried before in many places, and it never worked out well.
This manufacturing plan may bring some short-term results, but long-term cheap tax-payer funded insulin will destroy competition and ultimately make insulin more expensive. There might also start a black market smuggling cheap CA-produced insulin outside CA.
I don't know why the CA politicians could not decide to investigate what trends caused insulin to get so expensive, and to introduce programs to make it easier for existing manufacturers to produce cheaper and for new manufacturers to enter the market.
Your comment does not specify which part of my previous comment is "delusional". The notion that Communism never worked out well is a historical fact.
Looking at the mess that the healthcare sector has become presents yet another example that Communist-style policies do not work well.
Regarding the corrupt and inefficient healthcare system, the solution I would have preferred would be if the government had an unlimited low-interest credit line for each citizen specifically for medical expenses. This would allow anybody to get medical treatment regardless of their financial situation, but still keep the prices low by encouraging bargain-shopping as the credit line would still have to be repaid. Payments could be deducted from paychecks depending on income just like regular taxes.
The most expensive medical treatments don't allow you the luxury of shopping around. And how is the average American going to pay back a millions of dollars loan?
That is a far stretch when a few items are produced by the state to call the society/state a communistic construct. Especially when California hosts so many very capitalistic companies.
They intervened in a disfunctional market and take care of their citizens. That is what a state has to do for their citizens.
In this article they are careful to explain that they did not meaningfully edit the AI's responses, but they leave out the fact that they deleted responses where the AI would "go on a tangent."
I bet in a little bit they'll do yet another press release regarding how "excited" they are to sell themselves to Microsoft or Oracle or something similar to "transform" "enhance" "integrate" and "optimize" "enterprise cloud services" with "new AI capabilities" or similar.
Did the private roads require plan submission and building permits? The plans likely got stored in some government map database, which in turn got sucked in by Google.
>> "...supply constraints have prevented us from flexing up to meet this demand..."
Wish they would have elaborated more on what kind of supply constraints they are facing. Is there a limit to how many microchips that they can order that they can't manufacture themselves? Seems to me regardless of the supply constraints, if they raise the price by $20 to $50 and pass that money on to the suppliers that would positively motivate them to increase the supply.
>> Where units do appear, bots often attempt to scalp stock which is then resold at higher prices elsewhere. Many Approved Resellers have implemented single-unit limits to combat this, with Adafruit and others going further and enforcing two-factor authentication – we’re encouraging other Approved Resellers to consider this route.
For as long as the price is artificially constrained, what is there to prevent secret mafia deals between reseller insiders and the bot farm operators, or what is there to prevent the bot farm operators from infiltrating the resellers, and quickly gobbling up the supply as soon as it is available, to sell at market prices for the easy profit??
I've had this happen to me when the SD card would snap in 2 inside the SD card holder on the PI. Happened twice with the CanaKit PIs, once for PI3 and another time for PI4, with the SD cards that came in the CanaKit. I just put Raspbian on some fresh SD cards that I bought separately, plugged them in, and everything was back to normal. I think the overheating was from the short circuits inside the snapped SD cards.
Can be done with RP4 8 GB. Make sure to use the 64-bit Raspbian https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspios_arm64/images/ for much better efficiency, a USB3 SSD, and that the power supply is supplying sufficient amps, or the CPU will down-throttle.
