I've heard there's this thing called uranium that emits radiation which transforms it into this thing called radon that emits more radiation. In many homes this stuff can build up and you don't want to breathe in too much of it and get lung cancer either...

If I'm not mistaken, the Alabama was an Ohio-class submarine, not Los Angeles ;^)

I'm sure that the air quality around construction sites will be disappointing to someone...

On the other hand, people have also been imagining we be Martians...

Of course, maybe the Martians came from Europa... ;^)

Well Wallas are Beltas... Pashang fong!.

With wide spread betting, I'm guessing it will be easier for small-time point shaving rackets to operate...
It'll even be less important who will win, but the line will be closely watched. I'm sure you'll see more than more coach or ref taken for task for actions during garbage time.

As if it couldn't get any worse, right now you need to go off shore to bet on High School sports (was offered at 5dimes for a while)... I'm guessing it won't take long for that to change...

I don't know about you, but I don't get my personal mail delivered to my company's headquarter's address. The mail addressed to me delivered to my company's address is basically work stuff. Although missing the occasional letter among the junk mail might impact the company, rarely has a specific impact on me these days (other than potentially creates more paperwork and hassle for me on the job, it doesn't generally affect my personal life or finances)...

I supposed you could theoretically have something important (replacement credit card, passport/visa) delivered to you at work, but why would you use the USPS for something actually important?

More specifically in this case, if you were a UPS employee, wouldn't you just use UPS for something like that? AFAIK, UPS doesn't' have a way to submit a change of address form and they always deliver to the street address on the package/letter.

Perhaps he's actually taking a cue from Max Zorin in A view to a kill...

Of course this whole LA tunnel train is so what's old is new again... Been there, done that...

And oh, yeah, the The Pacific Electric, nicknamed the Red Cars, was (like many of that era) a privately owned mass transit system...

So what happened? The question you might want to ask is Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

Maybe Dave has HAL fooled too ;^)

Wasn't the "communist party" supposed to be the ultimate union for workers?
Oh wait, China is walking away from communism as part of it's economic modernization...

Whoops, I forgot that "communist" actually means "dictatorship" and "communist party" means "ruling-class" in modern usage... Maybe the workers should unite in solidarity...

And decided to walk rather than borrow some euros for a data center they don't need yet...

Actually, this is 100 P- DL -FLOPS (DL=deep learning meaning 8-bit with shared exponent). Although the second generation (and presumably third gen) TPU can also do 16-bit floating point (and maybe FP32) for training, the quoted (i.e., not-to-be-exceed) number is the deep learning flops for inference/recall...

In contrast, a typical supercomputer generally describes their performance for IEEE 64-bit double precision floating point (FP64)

No doubt the later generations of TPUs will support some reasonable level of performance of 16bit (and maybe 32-bit) FP, but not likely at the peak rate for 8-bits.

I also doubt they would even bother to support FP64 on a deep learning chip since FP64 is mostly used for discrete time dynamical simulations and other forms of finite element analysis where you want to limit error accumulation due to precision issues.

Of course passive solar is great for keeping the snow off the roof and the path to your door clear, but for things that require electricity, there are of course issues...

Yes that snow eventually melts, but your electric baseboard heater might need to run off batteries (or the grid), whilst you are waiting for a break in the sky...

One question will be if this feature survives a Google transition from Linux to Fuschia/Zircon...

Sadly, multi-level marketing and lead trafficking is an un-stopable business endeavor...

Even for semi-legit organizations, say if you donate money to some non-profit. Non-profits often outsource fundraising. If you decide to donate to one non-profit, the fund raising company might actually sell the fact that you donated up the food chain to another larger organization so they can attempt to solicit money from you. This information is a called a "lead" and there are whole businesses built upon selling lead information. The money they make from selling the leads can help to subsidize their business (in addition to the money they skim of the donations). However, once again, you are the product in this scenario, they are selling information about you to who knows who. If you donate to non profits, at a minimum you should look at their donor privacy policy, but realize they often sub-contract their work.

As a more industrial example, basically google adwords is a gigantic lead generating framework which companies dump big money into...

When you look at things from the perspective of business, these low-level scammers are simply generating leads for the high-level scammers...

con is of course short for confidence...

There will always people trying to gain your confidence...

Who sends a check these days or makes payments to a payee account number that isn't on their on-line payments list?

One would think there be a reasonable process for vetting new account numbers for existing payees to their on-line payment list. It used to take an act of god to add/edit a new payee account in most accounts payable departments of medium sized companies (because of people using this path to embezzle money from companies), but I suppose many companies these days don't even have accounts payable departments and have some poorly trained person to do this job on the side because they don't understand the consequences of not having "internal controls".