A close read of the statement suggests that this is more of a feel-good thing and not much to worry about. If those tribes get actual sovereignty over those waters, they’ll soon find them full of Chinese fishing trawlers.
The statement notes that the waters are “also claimed” by the California state government, which “supports the concept” of tribal stewardship. This whole thing seems pretty insubstantial.
This is an excellent description of the trajectory of Digg, the first platform I witnessed going through this lifecycle. In this case, the competitor that drained users from Digg was Reddit.
Another feature of Digg’s decline was a disastrous redesign that, overnight, soured most of the users on the site. It was basically a speed run of step 5 here.
After the Better Help fiasco, I’d imagine people would be very hesitant to use something like this without some kind of third-party auditing and certification that their data aren’t being used to sell them stuff.
I don’t think so, the transmitter was under the power limit for amateur FM, and it didn’t overlap any local stations. That was my interpretation of the law as I read it before I built the station, doesn’t make it accurate or authoritative though.
During pandemic I set up a little automated FM radio station for my block and the surrounding ones. It had a voice-synthesized DJ and a big randomized playlist of great music. The whole thing ran on an RPi with a little USB FM transmitter. My neighbors - the ones who still owned radios - loved it.
Indeed, the deregulation that led to the 2008 financial crisis was a thoroughly bipartisan effort, one that began in the Clinton Administration. This is why Brooksley Born is a hero for our times, and Larry Summers, a villain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooksley_Born
I use the AWS Toolkit for PyCharm; it automates most of the process, including pulling an image (built by Amazon, I believe) that emulates the Lambda environment. All I have to do is write the Lambda function with the correct method signature, designate it as such, start a debug session, and PyCharm + Docker do the rest. It's insane that PyCharm Professional only costs $100 or so, it saves me that much in development time in a single day.
Edit: all of the above will work with the free version of PyCharm, I believe, but without the in-IDE control panel for Docker (which you don't absolutely need).
Quite the contrary, I’ve found Docker to be absolutely indispensable for local dev, particularly when I’m debugging various cloud-targeted components, e.g. AWS Lambdas and Step functions. A container can nicely simulate most of the running environment of those things, and mock everything else. Docker + JetBrains IDE is a must-have for that reason
Freedom isn't free, apparently.