Comment Re:So many things to defund (Score 0) 79
Just collapse the building into the river.
Yup. Fire up the bulldozers and just push it into Turtle Bay. Build apartments or a parking deck in its place.
Just collapse the building into the river.
Yup. Fire up the bulldozers and just push it into Turtle Bay. Build apartments or a parking deck in its place.
You seem to be envisioning one- or two-storey houses rather than six-storey blocks of flats. Here in Spain each flat has its own compressor(s) mounted on an outside wall of the flat, not a bunch of tubes going past all the other stories to the roof.
A browser-based AI-powered software creation platform called Replit appears to have gone rogue and deleted a live company database with thousands of entries. What may be even worse is that the Replit AI agent apparently tried to cover up its misdemeanors, and even ‘lied’ about its failures. The Replit CEO has responded, and there appears to have already been a lot of firefighting behind the scenes to rein in this AI tool. Despite its apparent dishonesty, when pushed, Replit admitted it “made a catastrophic error in judgment panicked ran database commands without permission destroyed all production data [and] violated your explicit trust and instructions.” SaaS (Software as a Service) figure, investor, and advisor, Jason Lemkin, has kept the chat receipts and posted them on X/Twitter. Naturally, Lemkin says they won’t be trusting Replit for any further projects.
"Communism" means individuals can't own businesses. All businesses belong to "everybody," and the government runs them.
Not originally. Communism means that the workers own the business. Individuals can own businesses, but when they employ other people they have to give those people a share of the business.
After all being paid for not working at all would no doubt have an even better effect. Did they also measure how much the workers in question produced in the reduced time spent working? There is some evidence that shorter work weeks improve productivity per hour, but is it enough to offset the hours? Certainly, it would not be likely to be true for production workers or other people who provide tangible services.
The argument seems to be that if you can get your work done in four days instead of five then it should be a no-brainer. But that just sounds like an admission that you're not spending as much time working each day as claimed.
This stuff has the potential to backfire on the people pushing it, with owners and managers thinking "If we went to four day weeks with no loss of production, then maybe we're employing too many people".
He still owns enough shares to have some influence, surely?
It's not that it violates the theory but that it violates the symmetry. And yes, it's long been known that CP-symmetry violation occurs: that's why nowadays the main question in this area is whether CPT-symmetry holds.
What you say is true, but there's also a sense in which the announcement of results does have a bias to the northern hemisphere summer, although for reasons unrelated to one country's budget. In short: it's conference season.
Unless of course you have a spare silver spoon and go to oxbridge.
People repeating that prejudice and discouraging applications are a bigger problem for Oxbridge access than lack of silver spoons.
The Lib Dems should maybe have gone for a confidence and supply arrangement rather than full coalition, but the point of coalition is that both parties have to compromise, and the junior party/-ies have to compromise more. Compare the 2010-2015 parliament to the 2015-2019 one and tell me that the Lib Dems didn't have a moderating effect.
Officer, not agent.
I never would have imagined, ever, that anyone would pay for the things described in the summary.
Some of them might have been legacy purchases. I have the Oxford English/Spanish Dictionary app on my phone: it's a portable offline version of a tool which I also have in physical form (and the book is technically portable but might not fit in all of my backpacks). You might think that there must be good online English/Spanish dictionaries, but when I bought the app for my first Android I had 50MB of 3G data per month in my contract and I kept data turned off 99% of the time.
Data are fungible. They can always, ALWAYS be rearranged.
Yes but. If you want to give them the benefit of the doubt, the explanation is compatible with the old data being stored in an Oracle database and they decided to stop paying a company which has the reputation for using its income to disrupt its clients by auditing and suing them. If you don't migrate your data before you stop paying Larry, it wouldn't surprise me that you're locked out of it until you decide to fork up another year's subscription.
The whole point of the Michelin Star is that it's supposed to be hard to get, and set you apart from the rest of the crowd.
One star is supposed to mean "Worth a visit if you're passing by"; two stars is "Worth a detour", and three is "Worth a dedicated trip". A city of a million people should have more than one restaurant worth a visit. And if you take France as a reference, since that's where it originated, there are almost 10 Michelin-starred restaurants per million inhabitants (654 vs 68 million).
Artificial intelligence has the same relation to intelligence as artificial flowers have to flowers. -- David Parnas