They're trying to hire people that they think they can make money based on their work.

The Manhattan folks were still doing experimental stuff that might not have actually worked in the end. You might compare them to the folks working on the mini-reactor projects today.

The AI folks are getting salaries not all that far off from NFL players... and yeah, it doesn't require abusing your body, but there's still the possibility of burnout when you realize what your AI is being used for and it conflicts with your morals.

Hopefully the people who take the money invest it well, and can then spin up their own companies to do actual good things with their knowledge after they leave. (like the folks trying to do landmine detection using multi spectral imaging from drones)

Ah, it's all about how you normalize your data.

Yes, children are more likely to be abused by teachers ... but there are a lot more teachers in the world. A pastor is still more likely to be a molester than a teacher.

There's also questions about how much more likely other children (or their parents) are willing to come forward when the molestation has happened to a teacher vs a pastor/clergy. (my grandfather was abused by a Catholic priest, and his mom treated him as a liar and refused to believe a priest could ever do something like that)

I recommend that everyone read Huff's "How to Lie with Statistics"

?? digital price tags?

Aldi uses those, but how would you make sure the person next to you didn't see the same price, and then you got that price when checking out?

You're probably thinking about the reports that they were pricing some items online higher depending on where you lived and your OS: https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/look...

That's okay... Delta tried fucking me because of housecats.

I was transporting my mom's cats from Germany, and was told that each leg of the flight, I would get stickers to prove that the cats were on the flight. So when they came around to check on us, I asked for the tickets, and never got an answer.

So they came back again, telling people to buckle their seat belts and make sure their seats are fully up, and I asked again. And I was blown off (said I didn't really need them), and so I took off my seat belt. I didn't get up, I just took it off so anyone else who came by would have to talk to me.

I was told that counted as threatening the stewardess, and that I could be ejected from the flight. WTF?

I don't think I've flown Delta since.

(I've also been boycotting United, and I remember there was once an emergency flight that I had to take, and I used one of them... we took off, then went back t the airport because of some plane issue... then sat around for 3+ hours while they kept saying that we'd be leaving soon, then finally started boarding at a time that meant that I was going to miss the funeral. If they had at least been honest about the delays (like claiming that the plane they were bringing around had already gone through pre-flight checks), I might have had an opportunity to take another flight that would get me there on time.... so I *might* have flown Delta since then... but they didn't get my to my destination)

... but only if they made sure that they were charging the rude passengers an extra penalty, helping to subsidize everyone who can actually behave themselves when flying. ... but we know they won't do this. They'll probably charge you more because you brought your own snacks instead of paying $10 for a sad, partially frozen sandwich, and you know how to live out of a suitcase so didn't have $50 in checked bag fees.

There are non-mRNA covid shots.

Johnson and Johnson was one, the current one on the market in the US is Novavax

It's possible that they've gotten other brands of the vaccine, too.

And as they're currently recommending 6 month boosters for people at high risk (might have been 3 months early on?), if you got the initial 2, then the at risk people would only have about 10-12 so far.

I've personally been trying to collect them all. I didn't get the J&J, but I've gotten the other three, plus the moderna updated one.

Start going after the desktop market , or at least some of it, with Steam OS 3 public release?

As in, these multi $billion companies have only themselves to blame. All the penny-pinching to placate shareholders does no good when the company dries up because all the customers gave them the middle finger.

This is just some normal (non-dark) matter that we expected to be out there but was previously unobserved. It has nothing to do with dark matter or dark matter theories. We infer vast amounts of (otherwise unobservable) dark matter from its effect on gravity, and that has not changed from this.

BNSF Railway laid off a couple hundred mechanical folks on Monday. They dumped about 450 mechanical folks a year and a half ago too.

It's not just white collar.

I mean, like the shareholders. Are all Boeing's shareholders OK? Obviously the passengers/crew and some people on the ground are dead, but won't someone think of the shareholders?!?

Flat for 15 years? Are they sure that wasn't 12 years?

14 years ago was when Congress put a poison pill in an increase to the debt limit, that required them to pass a budget that dealt with the deficit, or most (all?) federal agencies took a "sequestration" budget cut.

The cuts went into effect in March 2013.

OpenSSH is the best known OpenBSD project, but they also makes pf (used in pfSense, OPNSense, etc.), OpenBGP, OpenNTPD, OpenSMTPD, OpenIKED, LibreSSL, etc.

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