ChatGPT "I want you to write the lyrics to The Song That Doesn't End, all the way to the end."

An important point that seems to be missed by most of the comments, but it's even spelled out in the summary, is that this number being discussed is the proportion of all moves that are out->in. Because California is so populous, there is a lot of in->in moves. Hence, the proportion of all moves that are out->in will naturally be smaller than other states where in->in numbers are smaller, even if out->in/in->out number is the same.

It does seem like the headline is chosen explicitly to make it a bigger deal than it is.

Not you in particular, but I see a lot of posts claiming how bad China's emissions are (which they are), but it's pretty important to note that all those power plants are powering factories that produce the bazillions of gadgets and widgets that the bought by US and Europe. They won't be producing all that if we (collectively, the western nations) didn't buy them. It's kinda silly for the US/Europ to outsource the factories and pollution, buy the resulting output, and claim that the pollution is all China's fault. If no one bought their exports, a lot of those coal plants will stop running pretty quick.

This is all fine for these cases, but the reason these debts are so cheap, as you point out, is that they don't expect to collect any money on most of them. If these types of charities become too common, it will have the effect of making these debts more valuable as there is now an expectation that it can be sold for some cash greater than zero. This will make this type of thing harder to do.

Of course, the real problem is that the system is broken, and way too many people are interested in NOT fixing it.

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Going off on a tangent here, but if I can wave a magic wand, I want to try something like this:
Every politician has to spend a year in someone else's shoes. As a janitor at a local school; an auto mechanic's apprentice; a garbage collector. During that time, they have to earn their living in that capacity only (maybe allow them to bring in a month's worth of rent in at the beginning of the exercise). One of the main problems I think is that the folks making the rules have no idea what their typical constituents see.

I am most familiar with the Apple II version played at school. I don't know if it existed on anything older, but I bet the Apple II and C64 versions far outsold any older versions. I think versions were made well into the 90's.

In any case, myself and my cohorts are nowhere close to the "adult grandchildren" age. What version are you thinking of that far predates the Apple II era?

I thought the point was that they also provide the computer on the other end, for a price, of course.

The regular RDC still requires you to provide the computer on the other end.

If you read this, the AI still required someone to identify the problem and propose the solution. All the AI did was take much of the tedium out of developing the solution. Something that would be done with hours of searches and filtering out irrelevant content for one reason or another.

If your job is "here, code this up", then you should be worried.

If your job is to come up with "this" then you are probably OK.

I didn't think much of him back then, but watching Obama in a recent interview, it was very refreshing to see someone being able to string together coherent sentences to express a complex thought.

One important aspect of being a leader or any sort is being able to consider complex subjects to which there is no clear answer, but still being able to come to some sort of a conclusion or a direction forward. (and hopefully be right more often than not.)

One should be wary of any leader who claims to know everything or be able to do everything.

I think you've put it fairly eloquently. It really seems like he actually THINKS about things.

I'm very puzzled at the significant portion of the population who can support a leader who can't even string together a set of coherent sentences, and hence, can't really tell what he's thinking.

You don't get to come back a year (or a century) later and say, "Hey, I just found out what that painting is actually worth. Give it back."

Actually... Why not? You said yourself you're in the wrong and you certainly acted in bad faith, so why shouldn't your victim have their demand to annul the deal enforced?

As opposed to people with nativist and inward looking views, companies like Apple HAVE to work overseas, and if you keep following the US govt kool-aid, then you will only be able to do business with Western Europe and other allies.

Try to understand that a big part of the world actually sees the US as the big bad empire that they portray China to be and it makes sense that they ask Stewart to tone it down a bit.

It's not that China is a big bad empire, it's that Xi is an emperor who's unable to placate his people with promises of a better tomorrow due to China's economy having caught up enough that the rubber band has gone slack and dictatorships being inherently incompatible with the rule of law which a strong economy requires, so his only hope for survival is to placate them with promises of glory which makes a confrontation with China and West pretty much inevitable, and Xi knows that. It's the same deal as with Russia, US is simply being wiser than EU was.

Basically, what's business to Apple is a weapon to China, and China is a fundamentally hostile nation to anyone who doesn't think Xi would make a great world leader, which he wouldn't judging by everything I know about life in China and also because he's a genocidal tyrant. That's not "nativist" or "inward looking", that's simply realism.

I recently saw a very insightful interview where dictatorships are defined by things you cannot criticize, like the CCP in China, Kim Jong-un in Korea, etc. In the US the thing that will absolutely get you canceled will be talking about the Israeli lobby and the influence such a small group holds over US culture in general.

Seriously? You're equating getting canceled with getting disappeared?

Note that such a system would also prevent Slashdot from leaning left and censoring conservatives, which they're doing now by institution an idiotic "karma". Slashdot karma is all about politics. And Slashdot is left leaning. One could express that cutely as "CowboyNeal is an imbecile".

But you're not being censored. Your comment is right here, readable for all who care to engage with users with bad reputation. That you have managed to earn a bad reputation through your own actions does not reflect badly on Slashdot or CowboyNeal, it reflects badly on you. It is the consequence of your actions, in other words, your karma.

That most people ignore you doesn't mean you're being censored, it just means that they think you and your opinions are not worth listening to. That your response to this is that the government should force them to pay attention just serves to demonstrate that their judgement is completely right. It's not a political judgement, it's a judgement about you as a person.

Given your vitriol here, I think you know that too, and judging by the fact that you keep posting on Slashdot despite hating the place I doubt you're more welcome elsewhere either. So perhaps you should reflect on the only common factor for a change, try to see your self from other people's eyes and maybe, just maybe accept that you might actually be the one who's in the wrong and needs to change? It's painful, but so is eternal bitterness, and there is no government big enough to make other people like you, so those are your options.

I read the sentence you referenced in the article a few times, and I could not figure out what you are complaining about. There is a strong correlation between parents' education level and household income. Further, household income is strongly correlated with success in school. I think it's pretty well established to be true, at least in the U.S., so what makes it "ill-informed"? It seems you also have a typo in your comment, which makes it hard to figure out what you are trying to state. Statistically, outside of the Pentagon context, the kids of GED-only toilet cleaners do worse in school than kids of college-grad IT consultants. I'm not saying you're wrong; just can't see what makes it ill-informed. Perhaps I've been getting my information from the wrong sources.

They'll wear a dead watch in a display of conspicuous consumption.

USAGI is Japanese for rabbits. Rabbits (lagomorphs) like rodents, have continuously growing teeth. IIRC.

It's not so much the data rate but the reliability.
There is a corner of my house, where a family member has her desk, with a poor wifi signal. Computer is normally hooked up to the ethernet cable. She took an online course that required the use of an iOS app, and it wouldn't work reliably without an internet connection. (note that not all iOS devices have cellular data, and not everyone opts into an unlimited data plan.) Easiest solution was to use a wired ethernet adapter with the iOS device.

As others have said, this is not inherently new. The iOS device in question is a 6-year old iPad with lightning. The dongle is standard off-the shelf USB dongle with some Realtek chip. The only new thing is that it's over USB-C.

Yes, niche case, but they exist.