Because it costs $1000/mo and insurance wants to make it as hard as possible to get that covered because they cannot afford to pay $1000/mo * 45% of Americans without doing things to their rates that are forbidden by the ACA and, for that matter, any approximation of good sense. If people cannot afford an additional $450/mo each on average for their health care, how do you cover a critical long-term $1000/mo drug that 45% of the population needs?
Gating it behind mandatory expensive, difficult-to-schedule appointments with a specialist who is in abruptly short supply where the insurance company is doing their damndest to kick as many of them off their network as they can without getting caught to keep the shortage going is certainly part of that strategy. And the result is “people do not stay on the drug”, which is their goal, and if they don’t meet that goal they have an even bigger problem and can’t continue to exist as a functioning company.
Cancer colonies self-sustain and self-replicate, causing local success, then kill the host without escaping it, causing colony failure and do not successfully become a new species of independent pathogen. Local optimization causes disaster at a larger scale, causing the system to collapse.
Nothing intelligent is happening. Zero-foresight self-amplifying systems that will inevitably crash out will simply amplify themselves to that point, then cease. Applications to areas outside of oncology are an exercise for the reader.
The article suggests that Microsoft is attempting to defend against a lawsuit by Sony attempting to block an acquisition here, in which Sony is suggesting it would be anticompetitive because it would make a popular franchise platform-exclusive. This doesn't look to me like Microsoft is "crying foul" at all - instead, they're "crying fair", arguing that they should be allowed to do it because Sony is doing something similar.
This isn’t converting duplicate files to shortcuts - your workflow won’t change.
Google Drive allows files/folders to be in multiple locations at once. That’s not multiple copies of the file, that’s not shortcuts to a file with one real location, that is one file that is contained in two or more potentially-unrelated paths. Think of it as some kind of spatial anomaly.
A single file reachable by multiple non-shortcut paths is equally in all of those places. A shortcut to a file has one place for the “real” file and a bunch of references to that file. This change will pick a single spot for any files or folders you have that can be reached along multiple distinct file system paths, and put a shortcut to the new (single) path in all the places that used to refer to that file, but were not selected as its “real path”.
So, this has nothing to do with duplicates, and is unlikely to affect your use patterns.
I initially thought this was for duplicate files as well. After some research, I found that Google is replacing a file that has two parents with a shortcut. I wrote more details about my findings on my blog. https://cleandrive.app/google-drive-shortcuts-automatically-...
Because there is an obligation to stop the war by any means available. Since Putin will not stop voluntarily, he must be rendered unable to continue. Every possible tool to drain the resources and undermine the tenuous stability of Russia is necessary and appropriate.
War sucks for civilians. It sucks less for the civilians who get some files deleted than for the civilians who get their houses shelled by Russian and Belarusian artillery.
Does the NPM project have a general duty of good stewardship? Of course. Does the NPM project have a duty to interfere with a developer who chooses to increase the misery and pressure applied to a nation that has been committed to a path of an unjust war of aggression, which is deliberately bombing civilians? Fuck no.
I don't agree with the premise that every tool is appropriate and I struggle to believe you do either. If your boss told you that you need to work unpaid until further notice because they're donating everyone's salary to Ukraine, you wouldn't object to that? You wouldn't have concerns if you came home one day to find your stuff on the curb because your landlord wanted to make room for refugees? A lot of tools are appropriate that wouldn't be appropriate for most international disputes, but when you're fortunate enough to not be in the warzone, you can't go crazy and start smashing random people's root directories.
"Since Putin will not stop voluntarily, he must be rendered unable to continue."
Regardless of one's positions on the Ukraine war, I don't see how manipulating node packages could, for example, stop a Russian hypersonic missile or fortify Ukrainian barracks.
By the way, if you look at the damage to Ukraine's infrastructure and human capital, it has already lost the war. Also evident by repeated calls from Zelensky to resume negotiations. He badly miscalculated from the start...
Gating it behind mandatory expensive, difficult-to-schedule appointments with a specialist who is in abruptly short supply where the insurance company is doing their damndest to kick as many of them off their network as they can without getting caught to keep the shortage going is certainly part of that strategy. And the result is “people do not stay on the drug”, which is their goal, and if they don’t meet that goal they have an even bigger problem and can’t continue to exist as a functioning company.