I am in california now. Every winter we have atmospheric rivers come over and dump a bunch of rain. The news stations need something to get viewers to tune in so it is "STORM SURGE 202x" coverage every 15 minutes. Yes, it is raining, yes roads wash out, yes, some local flooding - nothing to make me think I need to take action.

I lived in Texas - tornado warning came out. Time to sit on the porch and watch it blow by... Lots of fun had by all. I hear people in Florida won't evacuate until after they determine that a Cat x hurricane is going to hit right where they are. The longer you live there the higher the x is of course.

What do we expect the government to do - force us at gunpoint to evacuate? No, we individually take responsibility to know what is going on around us and act accordingly. You live close to a river that is prone to flash floods - you watch the weather more closely than I do that lives 50 ft higher elevation.

I don't see why this would be formal labor fraud - I mean misrepresentation of history on resumes is bad - but I don't think criminal. Frankly, the IRS doesnt care how many W2s/1099s you submit. The taxes are paid and they get their pound of flesh

Yeah I would love to see an NFC standard that didnt extend the range, but instead specified where in the (*^^*&^#@ the reader was on the POS system, or at least a lit up nfc logo where you want me to tap.... Every POS I go up to has it somewhere else, and finding it is a pain

what do you call a beach with 100 lawyers buried up to their neck in sand?
A sand shortage

What do you mean sloppy - the comma does exactly what is intended.
Lawyers (almost exclusively) write laws
Very vaguely
Then companies pay lawyers a LOT of money to interpret those laws
When two companies interpret the law differently than each party hires VERY expensive lawyers to fight it out in front of a judge - that is another lawyer getting paid a lot of money.
In the end it is the lawyers creating a problem and benefiting from the problem that they create.

Ever hear the joke about a small town having 1 lawyer and the lawyer goes broke - the second the second lawyer moves into town they both get rich

My daughter applied to college in '16 to get in the fall of '17. Well, she ended up applying to 3 schools she was interested in. UC, Oregon State, and Texas A&M. As a pre-vet, those are some of the top schools for her. Each took an essay - the app deadline was Monday for Oregon State, she was early accepted on Wednesday. My comment to her was do you think they even read your essays... Same thing for Texas A&M. She was finally accepted to UC during the spring, as that was her #2 school she wasn't even waiting.

If you aren't going to read the essays as a part of the acceptance process - don't require them.

Wait Linux didn't come out until the 90s, What are you talking about

My high school history teacher was a runner-up to teachers in space (Yes, this one) he trained with the crew. He was very proud of his time with NASA - he gave many many lectures to students across the state about his NASA experience. One of his most asked questions was do you still want to go? The answer until his dying day was always YES - he would have gone on Challenger knowing what he knew after even

Don't forget to send in your bullet pointed list of the 5 things you accomplished last week to sergeybrin@gmail.com

It already has. Look up the Idaho stop that has been trending for over a decade

What is really interesting is I got to work with some very high end cpu architects back in the day. Was interesting that they had absolutely no comprehension of constructs like threads, stacks, and stack frames. Boggled my mind that they just saw the job of the CPU was to run through a continuous stream of instructions - no thoughts to what those instructions did.

This is a company that used to makes some $20 billion in annual profit. Something tells me that wasn't happening in 1971.

My edit - Intel has been losing a ton of money in recent quarters - this is no longer the case. Hense the dying stock price.

so let me take out 100 dollars a month from everyone's paycheck and let the money be spent on capital improvements to make all employees more efficient and productive instead of spending it on things like iPhones and streaming services...

I don't know of a single server configuration guide that doesn't say something about turning off power management in the bios. This one setting seems to reduce latency on the first hit, but cause a huge increase in the power needed on the system over time