INRE: "no problem with well-tested software" - might want to review how long it takes and the reliability of aeronautical flight control software - the military has been investing billions in R&D for seven decades, so there is a considerable track record in the civil and defense sectors. It isn't well established. There are several survey reports on the DTIC server which go into extensive detail on the performance of larger UAVs ( for both attack and logistics ) in actual theater use. Unlike Moores Law in software, real objects in the world are exactly the opposite, forces and consequences scale exponentially. I've challenged some of these companies to provide Computational Fluid Dynamic simulations of their vehicles within the urban wind field with street canyon effects, and the answer is 'We will eventually get to that'. There is no way to 'test' against the infinite variability of the atmosphere - I think Lorenze proved that mathematically back in the 1960s.

Did the California Job Destruction Act get a thank you note from the state governments of Texas, Arizona, and Idaho? Hell, for that, I'd go all out and send a fruit basket.500 employees sounds like a lot, but if your, say, a contractor servicing 10 cities, with a couple of job sites in each city, covering two shifts, plus having slack for people out for vacation, illness, etc. it's not. It makes it incredibly motivating to lay people off if at times you approach the limit if there isn't a full pipeline of work coming in. 500 is some sort of 'magic number' made up by bureaucrats.

"All the windmills in Lake Wobegon are above average."

Rank order is the weakest possible comparison statistic. In this case looks like it was caused by a general seasonal downturn in NG demand. A the sampling period of a single day is meaningless, especially in terms of variability.

Local fire crews, utility workers, and other EMS crews are regulatory dispatched across the country to help with overwhelmed local resources during wildfires, hurricanes, floods, and other wide spread disasters - especially when those same local resources were taken out by the event. https://patch.com/washington/a...

Commercial drivers are in the minority, there are plenty of vocations and professions that entail daily long distance driving. And although it might be a 'bad idea' it frequently involves an even worse idea of people going without power in the winter, a pipeline leak, or other piece of wonky infrastructure.

Must have previously worked at WHO at the start of the pandemic. What could possibly go wrong?

There is absolutely nothing that would give any even slightly tech-savvy person the impression Discord is a secure environment - quite the opposite. Anybody can launch any number of servers, those servers are then managed by one or any number of other people they give permissions to, a wide range of media types can be linked to and from using embedded links, even users can invite other individuals, and there aren't really any built in tools to manage that fur ball of user access control. And all of that increases exponentially as the number of users grows on any given server. And that's not to mention plug-ins and templates. The whole design intent is to make it super easy to access. Somebody made a choice to use Discord as their platform, and that person was responsible for reading at least the TOS ( https://discord.com/terms ).

"The trend in total chemical production as a control variable may, at first glance, seem to have low relevance because links between chemical production and effect variables are not obvious and can be tenuous and difficult to assess: knowledge is lacking of the potential for adverse effects caused by the high number of chemicals, with limited data on chemical mixtures as found in the environment, produced intentionally and unintentionally."

from https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.10...

Classic create a problem, generate hysteria, then collect research grant money to work on it.

Check your Full / abbreviated / Hidden filter sliders at the top of the post list on the right hand side.

Excellent points, although historically, probably since the first hunters and berry pickers were leaving the caves, employers have been playing whack-a-mole with each other circumventing whatever arrangement is in place. Right now the U.S. is a festering Petri dish of dodge ball as 'activists'/unions, corporates, and governments at all scale trade blows ( ever see that 'CO residents need not apply' on a job posting for a remote position?). Back the good old days it was simpler - the union organizers would infiltrate the mine, union would strike, Pinkertons would be called, and a stick of dynamite would be tossed into the company office, union officials promoted into company supervision, some concessions would be made, and new equilibrium would obtain. :-)

For a bit there seemed to be a trend to make everybody 'management' and you'd see things like the temporary 3rd assistant vice manager. And coops / employee owned entities try like hell to avoid having management and end up with it anyways because a clique gains control somehow. By now you'd expect we'd have figured out a way not to treat people like cattle yet still have an efficient way of delegating responsibility and authority.

Was referring to the recent anti-monopoly push against Big Big tech ( https://judiciary.house.gov/ne... ) ... and being sarcastic.

Really, fairly simple solution. Corporate can just take, the org chart, run a random name generator ( Alphabet can surely do that ) then spin off 1500 employee-owned subsidiaries, Then let the unions organize away. There's all this legislative effort to break them up anyways.

Thank you for that reference!

Do you mean World Peas, since they want everybody to go vegetarian?

You have to buy it? Ask around, some growers are giving it away to their friends, fools and family - an excellent example of the need for stupidity offsets, they could now just claim CO2 sequestration ... https://www.siliconvalley.com/...