This seems like such an obvious improvement that I was curious about the one commissioner who voted against it. It turns out he, Andrew Ferguson, is expected to be nominated and confirmed to be the head of the FTC under the upcoming administration. Some info about the anticipated new head of the FTC:

* UVA undergrad and law degrees
* worked for private firms defending against anti-trust enforcement
* clerked for Clarence Thomas
* worked for Republican senators on judicial confirmations
* solicitor general for Virginia
* appointed to FTC in 2023

We will see how things change under his leadership.

When there are 42 AGs listed, I wondered which states didn't sign on. Here they are:

• Alaska
• Arizona
• Iowa
• Kansas
• Louisiana
• Missouri
• Montana
• Nebraska
• Ohio
• Texas
• West Virginia

That adds up to more than 50 owing to DC and some territorial AGs.

Can't believe how many anti-worker bootlickers there are in this thread!

Non-competes need to be banned 100%, no exceptions, because of how companies use them: even **illegal** non-competes scare other companies from hiring workers covered by them, because they don't want the hassle of fighting it.

It has to be universal.

Oh darn, i wanted cheaper water that kills me.

Does anyone know why the Maine Attorney General is involved? Palo Alto is pretty fair from Maine and I didn't see any explanation in the article. Does Maine have better disclosure laws than other states? There is a filing which includes:

Total number of persons affected (including residents): 27000
Total number of Maine residents affected: 3
If the number of Maine residents exceeds 1,000, have the consumer reporting agencies been notified:
Date(s) Breach Occured: 05/12/2023
Date Breach Discovered: 09/27/2023

so who knows if anyone would know about this were it not for the involvement of the Maine residents...

People think of legacy as a binary input: is the applicant a child of parent (grandparent in some cases) who went there. It is far more graduated, and reflects the previous donations of the parent who went there. Consider three different alumni along a continuum:

1) An affluent alum who has already given generously, been active in alumni activities (fundraising, etc.), arranged internships for students, is employed in an industry (finance, law) where connections are extremely important, has been bringing their kid to reunions for years, and who may have been a legacy admit themselves many years ago.

2) An affluent alum who has not given generously yet but has some potential (admissions will have a least an estimate of amassed wealth) , is in engineering/software where connections are important but not as crucial, has some connection to the institution, comes to reunions, but does not have a track record already of generous giving.

3) An alum who is not affluent, works in education or public service, who has not had much to do with the institution since graduating, but has fond memories of the institution.

These would all three be considered "legacy" applicants but it is certain that the admissions office would regard #1 as a much better "fit" for the institution than #2, and #3 may as well be someone with no connection to the campus.

There was an excellent Linux Router Project active around 2000, which ran on commodity PCs, booting from a floppy, running in RAM, no hard drive needed. For less than $50 (an old x86 box that someone would pay you to take off their hands, and maybe one or two ethernet cards) you could set up something that outperformed commercial routers that cost far more. I happily had a machine serving as my home router (named Wheezer after its somewhat noisy fan) for years but then it became common for wireless access points and routers to have that functionality.

Things That Didn't Happen for $100.

You're right of course that lifestyle, social cues, emotions, sleep should be part of your health goals, including fat loss.

Where this research is helpful is in identifying which foods you should wean yourself off of.

"Wean" because the highly processed, sweetened/salted foods are addictive--and lifestyle, social cues, emotions, and sleep strengthen you to fight that addiction.

What do you think about AI for automated testing? It seems like the AI could be trained on both existing tests and user behavior (from logs), and look for clear errors.

The AI would have much more patience than humans to check for defects that require a combination of factors to trigger.

Developers could then focus on the main scenarios, knowing that the AI safety net will check the outliers.

Regulation--even a draconian approach like you mention, just legitimizes the scams.

The only thing that can stop the crypto virus is the crypto virus.

cool now do Sam Bankman-Fried

"Almost everyone since you could make an argument that Taiwan losses if they are no longer absolutely critical to global microprocessor manufacture."

You could also argue that Taiwan wins when TSMC is no longer the strategic prize to be captured by China. And then leveraged to force US and EU to back down from sanctions.

If that scenario is off the table, then China has to deal Russia-like sanctions.

ps. The first Mathgen paper was accepted despite being written by "Professor Marcie Rathke of the University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople", which shows the level of scrutiny some journals give to submissions, see https://thatsmathematics.com/b...

Ten years ago, Nate Eldredge wrote Mathgen, a system for generating math research papers:

https://thatsmathematics.com/m...

These were pretty early efforts by current standards but some of the results have been accepted by journals, see https://thatsmathematics.com/b... showing that somehow not all mathematics research journals give the greatest scrutiny to submissions.

With the intervening advances, it seems likely that these will become more common.