"Merchants that accept one kind of Visa credit card wouldn't have to accept all Visa credit cards"

And if a vendor decides to starts picking and choosing cards that they'll accept, then rationally they're gonna pick the card that's the best deal for them. Which, by simple thermodynamics, is going to be the card that's the worst deal for the customer (or the card company, in theory, but they'll swiftly make sure THAT doesn't happen).

Pretty soon everything but a bog-standard Visa is going to be the same as a Discover card in the 1990s. Accepted next to nowhere.

Bad actors... trying to cheat... at a casino?!!!????

Personally, I'm more concerned about things that happen.

I agree with both of you, in that either nationalization or trust-busting would solve this recurring problem. Guess which one's going to happen?

You guessed it: nothing!

What a relatable story. I certainly wish everyone involved in this well.

"Shrinking for Growth", again. At this point, IBM's only product is the momentum they built up in the 20th century. Lucky for management that's a hell of a lot of momentum.

"Made it public"? I mean, they published it. You can play Pac-Man, if you have a quarter. You can watch _Spirited Away_, if you bought the DVD or are willing to pay for a streaming service that carries it.

But you've never been allowed to then publish your own works featuring Pac-Man or Spirited Away Monster just because you paid a quarter. How is this different?

The four-month program began with seminars on Western civilization, U.S. history, and leaders including Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill [...] hiring university students now means hiring people engaged in "platitudes."

"Jack, just say 'libruls', this is taking forever."

JavaScript doesn't have type checking. This means that when you program your fancy robot surgeon "medbed" in JavaScript, and it asks you to put a scalpel in one gripper and a needle-and-thread in the other, but you decide to put a chainsaw in both instead, it doesn't check to see if it has a scalpel or a needle, it just goes ahead and uses the chainsaws.

TypeScript is JavaScript with type checking to prevent that sort of thing.

The point of daylight savings is that everybody's clock changes at once, so we can all follow the sun during business hours without changing the "hours" sign in the shop window. If we stop switching the clock, it doesn't matter for your sleep schedule WHAT hour of the day we (accurately or not) claim it is. You could adjust your schedule so that the sun rises, on average, at 00:00, if you wanted.

So if you're not changing, there's no advantage of daylight saving time over standard time, or frickin' Tulsa time or Hammer Time for that matter. However, standard time has the advantage that it's not wronger than it has to be on purpose.

Going to permanent daylight saving time because you hate changing the clocks is like being sick of all the picture frames in your house being askew and solving the problem by gluing them to the wall--at a fifteen-degree angle.

"A" doesn't mean anything. Because you haven't assigned a meaning to it! Except maybe, "This guy got got 90% of the test questions right." Who cares? You're a professional educator. I wanted you to teach him 100% of the subject matter, and you didn't.

That he got one more percentage point than the next guy down doesn't exactly move me. Because I don't care about ranking people! Your shouldn't either; it's dumb. Teach everybody everything.

If one of these neo-Confederate turd-tossers actually builds an AI Wikipedia without training it on Wikipedia itself, I'll eat a hat in any style you care to name.

"The company faces chip shortages..."

I think I found the problem. See, Intel, you guys are supposed to SELL chips, not buy them.

It was an honest mistake, but it's good we caught it. I will take my consulting fee in cash, check, or credit.

Okay, yes, fine: a lot of us are going to die of the black plague. But! Have you SEEN how big these antibiotic-fed chickens are?