2. Those who don't give a damn about ethics at all and make no bones about it.
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People who don't give a damn aren't really a problem either, since in a world populated by mostly good people, they'll ultimately be shamed and marginalized or end up in jail.

Or, they get elected president, twice ... destroy the economy, country's reputation, and start a war they can't end.

China is headed that way with their renewables. Ireland is planning for renewable hydrogen production as well.

I think it will probably only end up with relatively niche uses, but it's a useful option.

Cryogenic has bee used for the ground tests, so presumably it was here too.

You have the burden of proof backwards. Mr. AC made an assertion that the Associated Press "went full on Activist Group long ago". It's up to you, AC, to show evidence for that assertion, which takes more than another assertion that "there's a LOT of black-and-white undeniable shit."

OK, if there's "a lot" of undeniable shit-- show it. I'll help; here the AP website.

The people who are afraid of journalists actually doing real journalism, uncovering and reporting truths that the people in power would rather were not made public, have waged a long war to discredit journalism, as well as funding a plethora of fake news sites. It seems to be working.

The numbers here are almost useless, since what you need to earn to be upper middle class differs by location.

133 K /yr is going to be the bottom of middle class or even upper working class in San Jose, but a decent living in Indianapolis or Tuscaloosa.

Income of $2M a year, however, is upper class no matter where you live. Even in Boston, the median home is only a million dollars. You could argue that it is toward the bottom of upper class in the super-expensive cities in the US.

Totally agree with you ...

But it is not only libraries, there are other factors at play, me thinks ...

Developers don't have a culture of being economical with resources.
It is not taught, nor do first jobs they get care about those aspects.
For example, don't get me started on the infinity scroll which eats up RAM like crazy, rather than a pager of Next/Previous page.

There are also the layers involved, specially with web development.
It used to be HTML only, then CSS was added, then Javascript was added for certain smarts.
Then whole frameworks were invented and used for JS.

Anyway, there is no easy way out of this.
Maybe RAM shortage will compel developers to use RAM sparingly?
Nah, that is a pipe dream ... unfortunately.

AI slop articles that get summarized into yet more AI slop. I doubt many humans read this stuff.

It doesn't affect text so ctrl F still works. The rest can be mitigated by supplying element sizes in the HTML.

Amazon will replace workers with robots the second it is feasible. This won't do anything to change that.

Is there any risk of being caught in the lie? Here it's possible that your employer will get at least a sense of your previous salary because they need to handle income taxes for that year.

I do it anyway and it's never backfired, but I suppose in theory...

The source was The New Yorker, not the New York Times.

Different things, even if they both have "New York" as part of their name.

Looks interesting, I'll take a look when I get back in to work.

Bombing people doesn't really help them.

I see Israel has started its usual tactics of destroying all the civilian infrastructure in Lebanon, in preparation for annexing part of it.

Months? They have been converting some motorway here for *years*. I think we are about 4 years in now, I lost track. It's taken so long that they started out making it a "smart motorway", realized that those things are deathtraps, and now I'm not sure what it's going to end up as.

We have had average speed cameras in kilometre after kilometre of 50 MPH stretches for many years too. Some of them seem to have been forgotten about because there hasn't been any work or cones there for years, and most people speed through at 70.