In his new role his main job will be dealing with government leaders around the world, including Trump (assuming he hasn't aspirated a Big Mac and fries by then).

I can't wait to get my refund from the companies that charged me for the tariffs, he said sarcastically.

So basically, it is like the airport where your bag gets flung ten feet regardless. In this case, it will be popcorn time when some drone drops a package on someone's dog.

Small correction... the renaming happened in 2024, not 2025.

Yes, it's related. Worldcoin was renamed to World last October.

What does physics have to do with deciding to use them?

That works, but how efficient is it? Could it really be scaled? This isn't accusatory; I am asking the question in earnest.

That's the major problem. Nobody has any stockpiles anymore. In previous times, villages had granaries to store food to hedge them through a tough period. Today, the financial equivalent is futures contracts, but that doesn't help when the physical delivery can't happen. Your average neighborhood grocery store has maybe a couple or three days of supply; they don't have canned foods and such in the back now. That's inefficient, particularly for taxes where you have to pay tax t the end of the year on inventory.

Our system is horribly broken. Our supply lines are shot. Remember, "an army marches on its stomach."

Turn the German-made air conditioner to "glacier mode" or, as Al Bundy referred to it, "blitzkrieg."

Yes. Remember that these are the same kind of people who push shit like Starfleet Academy (aka Kurtzman Trek) and wonder why it bombs.

When you fold the iPhone Sixty Nine it 69s itself.

They could be posting about something interesting in coding, or new security vulnerabilities, or some articles about amateur radio, or bio hacking, or any number of things. Instead we get old and recycled stuff, and we get endless articles on AI slop. Sometimes we get AI slop included in the TFS. Slashdot has become so great over the years...

I know I do.

Chips are tested after manufacture. A large number of them have tiny flaws in one or more areas, but work perfectly otherwise. The ones that are flawless go in the highest-end models, the others have the flawed area disabled and go in the lower-end models. Some are just rejected outright.

That's a great question. What typically happens, I think, is that most people answer something along what they made for their last contract. (Yeah, I'm talking 1099s here.) That means that they work themselves out of a raise and lose due to cost of living and inflation. On the other hand, prop yourself too far up and you'll never get an offer regardless of how qualified you are.

So a question to the Slashdot community to make this thread useful: How do you go about that in negotiation? How do you determine your opening offer? Of course, this assumes that you are a good candidate to begin with.