Free: look to ADP, Indeed, LinkedIn and similar sources. Wall Street gets data out of the largest employers regularly because they have special relationships.

Everyone who makes actual economic decisions based on this kind of data have long-ago abandoned confidence in government reporting. It's politicized and it's been systematically sweetened to preserve the illusion of low inflation and higher employment for decades. The fact that people don't want to answer questions may have as much to do with distrust of government as anything else. Why waste your time?

Consider the counterfactual. If it was the Swedish government from the 1990s asking you to answer questions, you'd probably take it seriously because it would credibly inform responsive policy.

BLS stats are mostly just headline generators for the propaganda machine.

The cult of Carbon has spoken. You are unworthy. If you own an Apple watch, you must plant a Bonesai tree in your ass to atone for your greenhouse sins.

* Since the beginning of 2024, not "for".

Since Q3 2020, regulatory credits totaled 22.7% of Tesla's cumulative profits. $9.6B of $52.4B.

For 2024, the credits were 43.3% of profits. ~ $3.8B of $8.7B.

Has anyone here done serious investigation into the reliability of the models and research indicating that human activity is causing climate change? I keep hearing that anyone who publishes research contrary to the dominant narrative becomes effectively unemployable. Is there evidence that the research is unbiased?

RIP VMware.

Reddit has had 3 major stages:

1: Hidden gem, imperfect, mostly unprofitable, driven by people who care
2: Liberal rabbit-hole, still unprofitable, but much better at censorship
3: Corporate, liberal rabbit-hole. Most interesting people left long ago.

1. MEMS clocks with microsecond-per-day accuracy are commercially available and they're getting better.
2. 1 ns drift = 30 cm position accuracy.
3. You still need signals from known positions to triangulate your location.

So while jamming GPS is trivial, the alternative is using other sat networks or building terrestrial radio beacons. Variations on the same problem. Just having accurate, portable clocks does not help.

This article boils down to: UK is working on portable atomic clocks, just like everyone else.

CA dept of insurance regulates this. It sets prices, practices and coverage requirements. It's not really a free market, so the limitations make it impossible to offer insurances that would otherwise be available.

The first approximation of a fix should be to abolish the department, but a better solution might be to create something like a set of standards for coverage verbiage to make it possible to commoditize offerings and make products comparable. All other limitations should probably be removed. A free market gives people the chance to actually discover the cost of insurance and find innovative ways to keep themselves safe. Unfortunately, in the name of protecting people, we severely limit the options that are available and add a lot of overhead costs in regulation. Companies pulling out and state-backed insurances are telltales of broken markets and wasted resources.

Same story in Florida.

Hopefully this will officially expose the big lie and land a blow against the climate cult. Even if climate change were dire, this would be the least practical course of action.

This place has become a ghetto.

RTX/Raytheon are feckless leeches.

SpaceX could probably design, build, launch and go live on a new GPS system in less time than it would take these buffoons to synchronize their wrist watches. Wouldn't be surprised if they did it for 10% of the cost.

If you track a large number of people long enough and get a lot of data, you can find the signal in the noise. "Proving" it is nice to have but unneccesary. Most likely Google and/or Apple could do this already using shopping and purchase data for people who wear smart watches and use fitness tracking apps.

So, the toughest, meanest action hero humanity can muster to save itself is J Lo?

Pass.

She's great, but if humanity's ass was really on the line, I'm looking for Jack Reacher or Iron Man to save us, not The Wedding Planner.