American companies view extroverted personality traits as "management material." They're sociable, talkative, outgoing, confident, positive, friendly, and open. Managers are extroverted. Extroversion tends to increase as you look at managers higher in an organization. Your C-level executives all tend to be the most extroverted people in the company.

Education matters when looking for a managerial position. But, hiring managers downplay education all the time. What matters most of all are things like "company fit," aka personality. Do you act like a manager? In the US, that often means: are you extroverted?

Companies would rather promote an extroverted employee with some job experience over any introverted MBA regardless of the MBA's job experience. That extroverted employee just has "management material" written all over him.

That would be an interesting law to pass: You can only publish a WARN list if the CEO is on it....

Translation, I want a $.25 bump in my stock options to pay for my wife's haircuts, so you need to lose your job.

There is no right to privacy.

There is no right to your image.

Government can TRY to make those rights, but the freedom of expression is superior to the idea that you can stop me from hand drawing your image when you're at the beach.

And because where income is high, cost of living is high, and the marginal cost of children goes from "investment in the future" to "big hole I sink money into".

This is statism, writ large.

You get paid for work you PERFORM, but not work you RECORD. Copyright is anti-individual rights and liberties.

I'll be glad when Ai truly replaces all of these artists.

Hell, it could be LLMs from different companies all using the site for training data.

One of the interesting features of mRNA technology is that new vaccines can be made on the existing production lines with minimal changes. So, the cost of ramping up a new mRNA vaccine is minimal since the existing factory can be used to produce the new vaccine, unlike with other pharmaceuticals.

Their population absolutely dwarfs Canada and the US as well, so that isn't much good, is it?

BTW, remember the secret of Ti Kwon Leap- Anger is a weapon only to one's opponent.

I still think we need, given the microamps involved, a hamster powered cell phone charger.

Yes it is. Radioactive materials are made in the planet's core, and float up in the magma. Radon Gas is a normal and natural resource from decaying uranium.

It's as renewable as sunlight and wind.

Oh come on.

We've been saying "Thanks, Biden!" for years as a joke, and you blue haired legbeards always got riled up with your "source????" and "citation needed???" cries.

(FWIW I don't support Trump and have never voted Republican).

Difficult is not equal to impossible. Heat can be used to boil working fluids, which can be used to drive turbines, which can create energy, which can in turn be used to run AI chips, which give off heat, which can then also be harvested to boil working fluids...Not really a perpetual motion machine, but the inefficiency in the system can be used to suck more heat out of the heat pumps anyway. Inefficiency in this case is a feature.

My answer to environmentalists claiming this is "You first". Stop being hypocrites, eliminate your own fossil fuel usage- including wasting fossil fuels storing articles like this in data centers.

Would this be the same China that is building coal fired plants at a rate of 95MW a year?