I'll admit I haven't looked into QR codes very much, but I imagine they're not robust in the face of defacement. For a standard bardcode, if part of the barcode is torn, smudged, covered, or otherwise occluded, there's still a chance that the scanner can read enough the barcode above or below the damage it only needs to read a "line" across the 2D plane that is the barcode. With a QR code, I imagine that it's so data dense that a small amount of damage will render it unreadable.

Hmm, just did some reading; apparently they can handle 30% loss of surface area. Compare that to UPC being able to lose 99.99% of surface area (at the proper angle). I always see UPC barcodes torn, crumpled, inked-over, because they're usually on the bottom of a box or bag. They'll need to splat these QR codes on multiple sides of the packaging to be safe.

It's not even the rich getting fleeced.
Stocks are owned largely by middle class folk as part of their retirement packages. The truly rich own things which are unique and have absolute utility like land or livestock.

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Simple as, eh?

This reads as worse to me; over the course of two days, their backup system had write access to the source filesystems, and the backup system not only wiped itself of the previous backups, but also the source filesystems. So they weren't keeping anything offsite or offline, and the backup system didn't have restrictive read-only access to the source filesystems. I don't get how a design gets to that point when you're dealing with double digit TB of data.

You draft second place, then push them across the line.

The upgrade churn makes that a moot point.

But if you're using the mining program at home on your gaming rig during cold winter days while you're at work or sleeping, you're getting some use out of your GPU during off-hours

I stopped reading after the thirtieth book, when I realized that he never planned to stop writing the series.

Maybe they should have chosen a name with a better flight history.

But does this practice actually produce the best results overall, or does it create a constant churn of lower skill employees as the original bottom 6% might have been acceptable doing their jobs, but have long since been replaced by people who will possibly also be replaced? Does this stress of being in the bottom 20% force other adequate workers to find employment elsewhere, causing those lower on the rungs to move up, in a perverse peter-principle parallel? To say nothing of training a new crop of 6% of office workers every year. Sure, (electronic) paper pushing isn't nuclear physics, but it's not warehouse work either.

My bet is that upper management was sold this idea by HR, and HR thinks it's a good idea because it means HR must remain a larger percentage of the company.

This is actually a good use for the technology; doing away with the imprecise Mel Blanc and Jim Henson voice impersonators. If WB and Disney are so intent on making new content with old characters, they can use the original voices.

Same. I was here from the beginning but lurked for so many years that my UID is high.

Sweetened with heavy water!

Compare that with the percentage of non-autistic people who are classified as "low-functioning" (and no, the apocryphal 50% below/above isn't real)
Autism has bad effects. To deny this is folly.

Was this the article that describes a well funded and organized "cabal" (the word from the article) of elite democrats from disparate fields to "fortify" the election to achieve "the proper result" since, at the time, Trump was holding steady in the polls?