False dilemma. No regulations, and stupid regulations are not the only two alternatives. A third alternative would be to have sensible regulations, that require a licensed driver be ready to take over in an emergency, but don't require that driver to pretend to be driving.

Indeed. My personal favorite form was the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980 compliance form. It was a form that you filled out and stapled to every other form to indicate that the attached form conformed to the requirements of the paperwork reduction act. I was in the military at the time, and we used PWRA compliance forms by the truckload.

Can you please post your employer's stock symbol, so I can short their stock?

Companies patent stuff all the time, often as a defensive measure. Outrage should be reserved for what companies actually do. There is no indication that Apple is implementing this idea.

Also, the actual patent, does not mention your "bank account", only your available credit.

This article is comparing graduation rates today with a labor pool hired over the last 30 years. The fair comparison would be to look at only new hires directly from universities. But the author is likely more interested in pushing an agenda than in presenting the facts.

Only dysfunctional organizations allow HR people to make hiring decisions. HR's job is to do the paperwork, not decide who to hire. Hiring smart people with a track record of accomplishments is a core competency of any successful company. If you have some HR admin drone reading engineer resumes, you are going to fail.

When I hire someone, I go to HR to get the position and salary range approved. Then I write the ad, I read the resumes, I do the interviews, I make the offer, I negotiate the salary, and at the end of that process, I go to HR and tell them "I just hired this engineer, so put her info into payroll." If your company does it significantly different, you have a problem.

The wider campaign for "social justice" is not a fad and is not going away, mainly because there really is a lack of social justice in the world. But the particular fad of "gender discrimination in tech" is dying. When the issue first came up, there was intelligent debate, and reasonable people argued on both sides of the issue. No more. It has become clear that the tech companies have little control over the composition of the tech labor pool, or the tech education pipeline. Many of the SJWs' pet projects, like steering more young girls into tech, have failed. There is now a strong backlash, and articles like this one are mostly subjected to contemptuous ridicule, with only a few trolls pretending to agree with the SJWs.

Yes it is a "bad thing". It is also an "illegal thing". Institutionalized racism and sexism are outlawed for good reasons.

It depends what you are mining. If you are mining a lithophile mineral like uranium or thorium, that readily oxidizes, you are better off digging into the earth's crust. But if you are looking for a siderphile mineral like gold, platinum, or iridium, you are better off looking in the asteroid belt. Gold readily dissolves in molten iron, and nearly all terrestrial gold sunk into the core eons ago.

To decide where to mine, look at the Goldschmidt classification for the element you need.

In space, all metals are precious. It costs $5k to put a kg of steel into LEO. Even more for GSO or deep space. The trick is to keep the mined materials in space. They are worth far, far less on earth's surface.

Bingo. The correct HW depends entirely on the SW. Depending on the SW, the GPU likely matters more than the CPU.

You should also consider just renting the HW on demand from AWS. Unless you are going to run your rig 24/7 (you won't), it is likely that AWS will be cheaper, and you won't be stuck with outdated HW in a few years. If you need results quickly, just spin up additional instances.

Also, receiving a monthly royalty check from the gas company increases your disposable income, and means you can spend more on things like health care.

It is illegal to pay men and women differently for doing the same job. The "gender gap" is mostly the result of men and women doing different jobs. A male engineer and a female engineer, equally capable, and equally experienced, should be paid the same, and any systematic discrimination is illegal. There is no requirement to pay a male engineer the same as a female childcare worker.

Because gender discrimination in pay is illegal.

No. Coal is mostly being replaced with natural gas, which is cheaper than coal, and generates half the CO2. Gas moves in pipelines, which are cheaper and safer than the trains that carry coal. Gas turbines are more efficient than the steam turbines that coal plants use. Gas burns clean, and doesn't require the expensive pollution abatement equipment required by coal.

It no longer makes economic sense to build coal plants in America. Most new projects have been cancelled or suspended. Gas is cheaper and cleaner.