In this case, team size is an outcome variable. Mixed native-immigrant startups both form larger teams and are more likely to receive funding. They may be more likely to get funding because they have a larger team, but they (presumably) have a larger team because they're mixed native-immigrant.

Their other outcome variables seem strange: "larger employment three years after founding"; "more likely to exit through an IPO". The paper seems to be intended specifically for venture capitalists, who would care about the exit strategy. I'm not sure why larger employment is necessarily better for the company.

That's a valid point: everybody dies from something eventually; if people don't die from cancer, they'll die from something else. Ideally, they'll die from something else later. (And not from sheer neglect.)

This is a quibble I have with the stated goal of the Biden Adminstration's Cancer Moonshot: "to cut the cancer death rate by at least half by 2047". There's a very simple way to do that: just kill everybody before they get cancer. That's what Logan's Run was about, wasn't it? Obviously that wasn't what they meant.

I would have preferred something like "extending quality-adjusted life-years", but I'm sure that's kind of what they intended.

Technically, the plural of "egg" is eyren. (At least, on the Kent side of the Thames in 1490.)

I also noticed that ambiguity, but if thought does nothing, then reforestation would still do more. Which means "thought" could be replaced by any number of other ineffective nouns or verbs.

Here's a description of the trucker case.
And an opposing view: comma doesn't matter; the intent of the law matters.
The usage in all these cases is called the "Oxford comma" or "serial comma".

You know who to blame for that:

I like ostriches.

Pull! Bang! Whooosh! Finding the lede while totally missing the joke.

This is interesting ... the LLM may not be learning from You Tube comments, but it seems like the Slashdot readers have learned, from their training material, that "any thinking thing exposed to the equivalent of a billion years of reading YT comments tautologically means it’s brain is gone. Goo." is a comment to be taken seriously and criticized on that basis.

Or maybe it was intended seriously, and I'm wrong, in which case I'll add this to my rule set.

Come back when you're 50 years old and have poor eyesight from doing nothing but close-up work all day, arthritis in all your fingers, and constant back pain from hunching over a desk. Then you'll get fired because you can't do the work any more, and you'll find out how much drugs and health care cost without insurance.

Interesting way to prevent back pain: "Photo shows French knife grinders who worked on their stomachs in order to save their backs from being hunched all day. They were also encouraged to bring their dogs to work to keep them company and also act as mini heaters by having them rest on their owners’ legs." There's your employer-sponsored health care.

Good point. The whole popular uprising and NATO bombing in Libya makes more sense under that assumption.

Very interesting point. I would guess that most US citizens aren't familiar with the full text of the Declaration of Independence, but it includes a list of grievances against King George: "they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

It goes on, but it all begins to seem depressingly familiar.

How do you know they aren't? We know that at least three US citizens, including Anwar al-Awlaki, were killed by a drone strike under the direct authority of President Obama on September 30, 2011, violating their rights under the Fifth Amendment (and maybe the Sixth). al-Awlaki's 16-year-old son Abdulrahman was killed by another drone strike on October 14, in, officially, an "accident". Have they stopped?

How about Iran under the Shah Reza Pahlavi? The US did that: helped the UK to overthrow the parliamentary government in 1953 and the supported the Shah for 25 years, until he was overthrown. And then supported Saddam Hussein while he was using poison gas against Iran, until suddenly someone decided he was Totally Evil and Had to Go and started a war that resulted in some unknown number of deaths, at least 500,000, plus over 2 million refugees. The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan -- and so did the US, so I guess we're even on that score. Before that, the US invaded Viet Nam, resulting in how many deaths? One million? Four million? Estimates differ. We can also give Nixon and Kissinger credit for the Cambodian genocide, since Pol Pot wouldn't have been able to take power without their unauthorized secret bombing of the country. For a few more oppressive regimes, there were Rios Montt in Guatemala, Pinochet in Chile, the military dictatorship in Brazil, the "dirty war" in Argentina, the mass murder of "at least 500,000 to 1 million" (Wikipedia) suspected communists in Indonesia in 1965-1966, all supported or instigated by the US. I'm sure there were more.

The US has been trying to overthrow the government of Venezuela since 2003 for some reason. I seem to recall there was a recent candidate for the US presidency who claimed the election was "stolen"; it takes a lot of arrogance for the US to try to lecture another country on their electoral processes and try to tell them who their president should be.

I haven't added up all the scores, but it's my impression that the US overthrew more governments in the 20th century than anybody else. There's definitely a pronounced history of supporting right-wing regimes.

Belyayev's foxes. I have a book about that: How to Tame a Fox (And Build a Dog), by Lee Alan Dugatkin and Lyudmila Trut. Belyayev was interested in Darwinian natural selection but had to work in secret, because Lysenkoism was the official policy of Stalin. (Obviously, everybody now knows that governments can't dictate biology ... right? Right?)

Coincidentally, Belyayev worked at the Institute of Cytology and Genetics in Novosibirsk, recently identified as the home of the "ringleaders of the DanaBot conspiracy".

Reportedly some of these domesticated foxes are being sold to help pay the costs of the research station, at somewhere around $10,000 each, plus import duties, specialized veterinary care, etc.

That was human-assisted artificial selection. There are also examples of rapid evolution due to natural selection, like the Blue Moon butterflies on a South Pacific island ("Evolution Occurs in the Blink of an Eye", July 12, 2007): "The proportion of male Blue Moon butterflies dropped to a precarious 1 percent as the parasite targeted males. ... Then, within the span of a mere 10 generations, the males evolved an immunity that allowed their population share to soar to nearly 40 percent—all in less than a year."

And natural selection selected Burmese pythons resistant to cold. This is my favorite part: "the frozen iguanas that dropped out of trees".

It will get really scary when the extraterrestrials become clever enough to start disguising their spaceships as ... airplanes. Or birds ("birds aren't real", you know, and a very large bird far away looks a lot like a smaller bird closer).

Or Peter Bach (except he's the "Alien Tracker", not "Hunter").

Lidar on iPhones: "Run this sample code on a device that provides a LiDAR camera, such as: iPhone 12 Pro or later ...." Used by the Measure app, but not required: "These devices use the LiDAR Scanner to help you measure objects more quickly and accurately with the Measure app: iPhone 12 Pro and later; iPhone 12 Pro Max and later ...."

But not used for facial recognition.

Some cameras also use lidar for focusing, like this one: "This camera, that I spent an hour with at the show, is equipped with LiDAR technology that enables precise focusing from 70cm up to infinity."