What's the point of having a national military if you can't use it to pump taxpayer dollars into corporate coffers?

*scenario*

"Fox company, we'll airdrop a licensed mechanic and a licensed parts salesman onto your position around 0930, as soon as they finish repairing some stuff the enemy captured last year and make their way back to our side of the lines. Division says hold your position as best you can until then -- and remind the riflemen not to use their weapons as clubs, as that will void their warranty. It would be better for the overall war effort to let you position be overrun."

"No, Davies can't fix the autocannon even if your lives depend on it. Division says to shoot him in the arse if he so much as touches it."

There are already first-level companies that no longer require a degree for entry-level positions... Google among them. This is only going to accelerate. There will be more things like 3rd party certification programs that to some extent replace traditional degrees. Colleges can either adapt to this change, or be wiped out by it.

You get two stories a week because the current model of education we have is broken beyond repair, and to some extent, obsolete, and needs to be rebuilt from the ground up. You don't need to go away to a campus at a debt of six figures (or a cost of six figures to taxpayers) to get an education anymore. If anything, the Internet has revolutionized and democratized education to an extent undreamed of in human history. From the freely available works of the greatest minds in history to real time or recorded remote instruction, people now have everything they need for a first class education at their fingertips. It's all about personal motivation at this point. The resources are there, often at little or no cost. How hard is one willing to work to get the education? That's what it comes down to now.

The old model is going to have to either adapt to this reality, or die out and be replaced. I think some of both will happen. You already have 100+ colleges a year closing in the United States. That will only accelerate with AI now in the mix.

again with the Verge paywalled feces...

They're dragging buzzwords through the water, so see whether they get any nibbles.

Your MBA/PHB eats this shit right up.

I have a combination of prescriptions that mean that I can't use contact lenses. I see quite a lot of people wearing glasses, and Zenni, Warby Parker, and the other online companies have said they sell a decent number of frames with plano lenses (meaning no prescription), presumably for people who want the look.

Eventually, you won't be able to tell. Someone will come in wearing glasses, and the tech is going to be too small and streamlined. There are also companies working on embedding augmented reality capabilities in contact lenses fed by tiny cameras placed just out of the field of vision. You'd be able to see them only in very specific circumstances. Power feed is a primary challenge right now, but it's probably not an unsolvable problem.

Just looking at the technical side, the cost to the end-user of streaming that much data would be exorbitant. Compressed video or even once-per-second snapshots would eat up all the mobile data, and the battery life would be measured in single digit hours.

No one else is going to risk making a part that one of the big defense contractors has under copyright with an exclusivity lock even if the US government says they can. The smaller ones just can't afford the effects of a lawsuit or the risk of treble damages if they do. That's why forcing a right to repair into the contracts is so important.

The point of schooling is that people understand the subject matter and prepare themselves for employment where deadlines exist. I agree that an extra half an hour for a test is not unreasonable, but I will posit that this fails to prepare students for employment in the real world. Employers do not have to reasonably accommodate disabilities that make someone unable to do the job. I literally can't hire someone who takes 50% longer to complete tasks and therefore cannot complete them on time, because the deadlines are the deadlines.

This is not armchair psychology. This is harsh reality. Students need to learn to complete tasks and achieve goals under inflexible time constraints.

Little hint for why people get "nasty" about trump: his' motivations are clear (self dealing) and even if what he's purporting to do is something one agrees with in principal he always goes about it in an incorrect and damaging way. How is it that you haven't picked up on this? It's really, really obvious.

None of those staistics nor anecdotes address what I said in my very simple to understand post. I know it's very difficult for so many people in the medical field to accepts, that's why statistics matter. Including those for lung cancer. I'm sure you have access to JAMA - look it up some time. This is so well understood anyone can find it so there's no need to read dowen the dozens of studies over the years, because with someone who posts like the above you're just not going to believe any study because you like anecdotes not data.

And I get it. Accepting statistical outcomes that so goes agains what you truly feel and even think you know based on your miniscule individual experience surely must be correct! But at a population level it's been shown over and over and over to not be the case.

No, not "of course". Over and over again excessive testing and diagnostics have not led to better patient outcomes. They have led to much more treatment and more money going to doctors and hospitals, but not better outcomes.

LOL, your reading comprehension lacks. That's usual for kids today. If you look back what I got from SiriusXM was the NFL radio for a season. Those are all big words so I can understand your confusion. Don't stress...maybe some affirmations and an ambien would help.