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Comment Big Changes Coming (Score 5, Insightful) 56

Companies hire consultants like McKinsey when they want to make big controversial changes. Things like selling off assets, closing subsidiaries, or major layoffs. Full time executives don't want to take the blame for such major changes, so they outsource the decision to a consultant to take the blame. The consultant then moves on with a fat check.

Comment Re:I heard pregnant women are (Score 2) 29

I have no documented empirical evidence, but my wife did have a significant health issue that 'magically' disappeared after our first child was born. Given that there's no other known natural repair process for what she had, I certainly attribute it to fetus-supplied stem cells.

I've been told this is common. My wife had medical issues only when pregnant as well. I have a sister-in-law that only needed glasses when she was pregnant. Pregnancy does some wild stuff to the body.

Comment Re:Always amazes me... (Score 1) 194

Personally, I am glad that Oregon tried it rather than my home state, so everybody else could learn from the failure. There was a lot of debate going back decades as to if something like that would work or not.

Unfortunately, this will not settle the debate. Portugal has had a great deal of success with similar policies. Why was it a success in Portugal, and a failure in Oregon?

Submission + - Voyager 1 Sends Memory Dump (scientificamerican.com)

Thelasko writes: ...in early March, something changed. In response to a command, instead of beaming back absolute gibberish, the spacecraft sent a string of numbers that looked more familiar. It proved to be a Rosetta stone moment. Soon an unnamed engineer at NASAâ(TM)s Deep Space Networkâ"the globe-girdling array of radio dishes that relays information from Earth to spacecraftâ"had learned how to speak Voyager 1â(TM)s jumbled language.

After translating that vaguely familiar portion of the spacecraftâ(TM)s transmission, the team could see that it contained a readout of the flight data systemâ(TM)s memory.

Comment Re:Perspective (Score 1) 132

This isn't a whole lot different than the mad rush of Tesla fire stories we saw a couple years ago - every single one had to be reported nationally all of a sudden, even though there are orders of magnitude more car fires every single year from ICE cars.

Exactly. There has been so much talk over the past decade about misleading information on the internet. Traditional media has been misleading people for decades by hacking the human brain's availability heuristic. It's almost impossible to find trustworthy information!

Submission + - Oklahoma man hacked government site to buy cars at auction for $1 (nbcnews.com)

Thelasko writes: Evan James Coker bought vehicles and jewelry in 2019 through web auctions held by the General Service Administration, officials said. The sales are intended to help get rid of surplus materials or items seized by authorities.

His bids were not unusual amounts, in the thousands of dollars, but when it came time to pay, Coker “breached the pay.gov website and falsified the true auction price to $1,” the U.S. attorney’s office said.

Coker was indicted on three counts of wire fraud in March 2023 and pleaded guilty to one count Wednesday, according to court records.

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