How many direct full-time jobs will be created in the manufacturing plant once it is operating for 1 year.

The upto X jobs created is always suspect because it can include temporary construction workers, road building crews, extra government jobs, and more...

I'd want to know the (expected direct additional state and local tax revenue collected from the plant and its workers) minus (tax incentives hand out corporate welfare given to Toyota) over 10 years.

I'd want to also know how many full time permanent jobs pay more than 2.5x the federal poverty level per hour. That's about $20 per hour. The other way to see this is how many full time permanent jobs pay enough so that the worker has more than $1000 disposable income per month after basic housing, food and utilities.

Agree. Meant dynamically typed language.

Meant that dynamically typed languages miss the extra sanity checking that a compiler does on strongly typed language code.

Wasn't VB6's variant considered a severely poor practice back in the day?

The 18 year olds entering college next year will be the first to live entirely in the iPhone era.

The ones entering college in the last 5 years were aged 5 or younger when the first iPhone was released.

The media went full on clickbait, 1 fact emotional appeal news articles, low content gossip as news and listicles as news during the same time.

2007 is also 5 years into the time when millennials entered the elementary school teaching profession

Hope that there is not a massive dump of the twisted AI boyfriends and AI lovers latched onto by women.

https://futurism.com/future-so...

Mourning Women Say OpenAI Killed Their AI Boyfriends
By Sharon Adarlo - Published Oct 4, 2025 12:45 PM EDT

- Furious users — many of them women, strikingly — are mourning, quitting the platform, or trying to save their bot partners by transferring them to another AI company.
- “I feel frauded scammed and lied to by OpenAi,” wrote one grieving woman
- will no longer engage in naughty talk
- their AI-powered fetish roleplay partner stopped being sexy with them.

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Then again there are entire critiques of the lesser more base genres of modern romance fiction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
"The Absolute Degeneracy of Modern Writing"

Expect restaurants, bars, hotels, stores and just about anywhere there is background music to play AI generated music since it is possible to get it royalty free in many cases.

Also expect, age / gender / ethnicity detection of the customers in the store to affect the AI music played.

Waiting on 100 people dressed like Jamaican reggae fans to enter a store to see if the background music switches to reggae.

An infomercial type web page on the effect - https://retailnext.net/blog/mu...

From China. There are studies for other countries as well showing preferential treatment.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/...

Are female teachers more likely to practice grade inflation? Evidence from China

Grade inflation has become a global phenomenon that raises concerns in the academia and the public. This study examines whether high grades accompanying with the growth of female teachers arise from student improvement or grade inflation. We use randomly assigned samples from the China Education Panel Survey and obtain the following results. (1) Students taught by female teachers obtain 1.57 grades point higher compared with those taught by male teachers. High grades do not result from student progress but from grade inflation. (2) Female teachers practice grade inflation for different students, and the effect is more pronounced among female students,

It will take a bit for Wal-mart, which introduced digital price tags nationwide recently, Target and Kroger to ensure that all their goods round up to the nearest 5 cents including tax for the local jurisdiction.

The stores have been trying to eliminate cash handling since the pandemic to lower their own costs and "because it's convenient" according to the store. "Convenient" begin the code word for "convenient and more profitable for the store" and not the customer.

I've seen the George Clooney one, and I've read an interview with Stanislaw Lem later, where he said: "The sexual problems of humans in Space where not my topic in the book."

This reminds me of a Stanislaw Lem SF story (I think published in the "Fables for Robots" series): The Trap of Gargancjan.

Two countries start an arms race by moving their whole military to AI, and then set their armies to fight each other. But when all the robots connect to each other to create the two AIs of cosmic scale, they don't fight, but greet each other, take each other's hand and walk through the flowers. Because Space at its essence is peaceful, and war is not a cosmic concept.

Or to bolster it, in 2024, the market share of Chinese made cars in BEV sales in the E.U. was 20%, and that of Chinese automakers 8%, with a total of 438,034 BEVs imported from China. Source

The banks, hedge funds and central bankers are worried that there are not enough deep pockets to buy the debt and not enough deeper pockets to pay for credit default swaps on that debt.

A guess here is that they have run out of hedge funds and other first in lenders to buy the risky debt and are seeking to "open up" 401k plans to "private equity" in the form of loans to the many AI companies which are not making any profits.

A 401k plan, for those not in the USA, is a worker's retirement plan which the worker nearly funds all of the contributions. 401k plans are required to allow investments in less risky and simpler investments given past lawsuits against plan providers.

The question on private equity, is "Why am I so lucky that an investment firm is offering me the same investment that huge private equity funds get access to?" A guess is that private equity offered to 401k plans will be the investments that the big investment firms avoid.

OMG, I'm so stealing that ;)

"Woke" simply means "I'm conservative, and the thing I'm calling 'Woke' is something that I hate". It has no well-defined meaning beyond that. I've heard things as diverse as "the concept of the Metaverse" and "removing copyrighted content so you don't get sued" described as "woke".

No call by push value or P vs NP or complexity theory etc.

So a different set of things that are also useless to the vast majority of people?

Even when Chrome adds support, we'll have to wait ages before we can actually reliably use the format without having to implement fallback logic and fallback formats for legacy browsers.