How are we going to replace the concepts of clockwise and counter-clockwise?

They need new words, kids can't read clocks. Heck, my freaking phone and watch both want to show me analong hands despite being digital. Just stop showing a leading 0 on the time, dammit! It's 2:30pm, not 02:30.

Throw up a cursive CAPTCHA.

Thought he was going to ban wifey for a moment.

Yes, they could try to locate everyone that manages to use banned technology like this, but as commodity-level technology designed to be used by even unskilled individuals, they're not going to be able to stop people from using technology. All they'll be able to do is to punish them after finding them.

Don't misunderstand me, my wife has a bachelor's in mechanical engineering from MIT and has worked in the aerospace and defense industries for her whole career, and through her alumni club I've been friends with a bunch of other engineers and materials scientists. They have just about all done very well.

On the other hand I know two people with masters' degrees that are basically doing white-collar clerical work. I have no college degree, most of the people on my team don't have degrees, and I'm on the same team and at a roughly comparable role with those that do have college degrees. And I have a technical job too.

My point is that having a degree can be lucrative, but it can also provide nothing of additional value. If it provides nothing of additional value then it's an expense that isn't providing a return, so it's actually a detriment, not an advantage, and the degree of detriment is based on how much it's saddling the individual with debt.

I was rather impressed when someone got DOOM to run on a color printer.

And of course the frame-rate jokes were pretty damn funny even though it wasn't running by printing a frame at a time on paper, amusing as that would have been.

It has nothing to do with investment in trains or not but a tolerance for allowing people who cause trouble to use them. There are countries with far older rail infrastructure that I would use over American public transit. Those countries won't put up with some crackhead or meth addict terrorizing other patrons. The U.S. doesn't want to incarcerate these people or believes doing so is either cruel or unjust and dumps them right back out into society.

There's no point in investing anything in public transportation when the people who will destroy it remain unpunished. Meanwhile in countries like Japan you'd get rude looks for talking on the phone on a train. That alone keeps most people's behavior in check, but they will fine people who act out of line if necessary. The only way it would work in the U.S. is for a private company to run the service so that they can kick people out who don't follow the rules. The public transit systems trend towards becoming the most tragic sort of commons.

I don't care how nice the train (bus, etc.) is if I have to sit next to a strung out druggie that’s acting like a schizophrenic. Contrast this with air travel where people will be kicked off flights for being drunk and disorderly and barred from flying again if they're enough of an ass. The politicians who tax us to pay for public transit rarely use it themselves, so what do they care how miserable the experience is? They won't ban the crackhead because that crackhead might vote for someone else.

People in Europe or Japan would quit riding the rail if it were overrun with the mentally ill drug addicts that the U.S. does little to nothing about. That's why we can't have nice things and until we fix that, nothing will change.

I meant to write that the discrepancies between monthly, early reporting, and later, quarterly reporting, have been a feature for years. Maybe decades. Much of this is structural, survey reporting v statistical reporting, but it's there. An astute observer would generally discount monthly reports knowing thewy are regularly revised in the negative.

I suspect those who have a serious, fiduciary interest in using these reports do indeed rely on the later, quarterly, 'revised' reports, and spend a fair amount of time explaining to their clients the problems with monthly flash reports. It's the problems of restating several months' worth that is of more interest to me. This is an issue of trust.

Yes, fair enough.

"early estimates have been consistently too *optimistic* for many months."

Maybe for many years, in total.

Just in the nick of time.

But can it play Crysis?

You trust 'them' to operate ML systems better and more objectively than any other system?

Software isn't true, ethical, honest, or trustworthy. Those qualities are what programmers and their employees exhibit. Or don't.

I get concerned when the revisions exceed certain margins. Especially when they restate by 25-50%.

Actually, does anyone who needs accurate data believe the initial reporting for any month? Doubt it.

I didn't need more tchotchkes. Putting a CD in the microwave for a few seconds is amusing the first time, possibly even the second or third, but the novelty wears off very quickly.

It's not just that, it's a problem of too many students compared to the positions in the workplace. For some occupations there are more graduates annually than there are jobs in the whole profession. Communications and Journalism immediately springs to mind.

For a lot of college students, they go to college because due to societal pressure they're supposed to go to college. That doesn't mean that they'll end up any better off in the workforce after college though. And more insidiously it causes employers to place requirements or preferences for college graduates on jobs that are not served by that educational experience.