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.

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.

Of course, Ewok Adventures qualifies as part of "the TV stuff"

I was going to say handle it like the various food certification groups.

They come up with some sort of mark, copyright it (so you can't use it without their permission), then do whatever checks are required for their certification.

There's multiple Kosher and Halal certification groups, rainforest alliance, etc.

Handling it like certs means that they could be checked and revokable, so that might be the better option... but having easy to identify marks would be useful, too.

"with Hegseth noting the money would better serve "healthcare for our warfighters and their families, instead of $500 an hour business process consultant.""

And yet they're cutting how many people who provide those services?

or is just the VA? So they can promise people they'll get medical for life if the serve our country, then renege in that promise?

The Library of Congress used to back up Twitter, but decided that it was either too much or not worth it back in 2017:

https://www.npr.org/sections/t...

Their last scraping of /. was 2023: https://www.loc.gov/item/lcwaN...

They have no such right. That's a right given to people, not companies.

If companies had such rights, there could be no Truth in Advertising laws. You'd have to just believe whatever a company claimed their product did, or if the product was even in the box they sold you.

Did we say it was vegan and gluten free? Free speech! Never mind the people that die because of anaphylaxis from shellfish allergies or celiacs having GI issues for days.

I'm not sure if this came out as a defense for the oil companies to tell lies about climate change, or tobacco companies who didn't want to put labels warning their products kill, but it seems like the claim that companies have free speach has been intensifying the last 20-30 years or so.

Tomorrow is a day of protests:

http://handsoff2025.com/

There are over 1k events scheduled, so it's possible that no single event will look that impressive, but it will be interesting to see how many people push for congress to do its job instead of ceding power to the president

I have a 'smart tv', I just don't have it connected to the internet

I tried putting it on an air-gapped network so I could do screen casting, but it seems that even if your phone is on the same wifi, there's some handshaking with the outside world that has to happen to use it... so I have to resort to a cable for that.

I don't know if I'd get better guide info if it were connected... and I have to go in and fix the clock drift every few months (and for DST)