I think the professor is being far more pragmatic. No one in the administration of his university or on the panels that review his grants gives a fraction of a damn whether he feels excitement about what he's doing. They want to see novel results. It's unfortunate, but it's like most other professions in modern times. Do you care if the guy mowing your yard, changing your oil, or for that matter setting your broken arm is truly fulfilled in his job and loves his work, or do you just want competence?

or is it one company with thousands of employees? If it's really 1000 independent contractors, I would expect that to work as well as hiring 45 different pilots to land your damaged airplane.

I might agree if the rewards to me were tens/hundreds of millions of dollars. Might be willing to live stream a body cam.

Typed a lot of big words with one hand. Now get back down to the basement.

"aware of incidents in France affecting a limited number of refrigeration management systems."

That's reassuring. I was afraid for a minute that an infinite number of refrigerators had been hacked.

I was going to mention the incredible size of the grain of salt necessary to accept the Flock CEO's numbers for crimes solved, as well as the definition of "crime". Before doing that, though, the company should probably settle on a number. 1,000,000 per year =/= 1,000 per day (365,000 per year) =/= 2800 per week (about 145,000 per year). Almost an order of magnitude range for those numbers. How many were murders or kidnappings vs how many were driving with expired tags? I'd also like to see how many actual humans were convicted based on Flock's data. One guy running from the police could account for several crimes. You kind of need to know what you're getting before you agree to surrender any more privacy.

This is the first justification for this I've seen that makes sense. The "free power all the time" is such utter bullshit when the cost will probably be at least 10x what it would cost to build a solar array on Earth that can produce 10x the needed power and push it to batteries so it can run 24/7.

"Chegg, an education and learning platform, claimed in its lawsuit that Google illegally scraped its educational content." Did they have any educational content besides students posting their professors' notes/labs/tests?

I think you may be replying to that Senator from Missouri.

Not that it makes things great, but your document about Y-12 said 2.4 million *pounds*, not tons, were missing, later revised to 2.0 million pounds, and that 700,000 pounds definitely went into the environment, the rest unknown.

The "just design a better reactor" is about 500x more reasonable than the other two. That said, perhaps there's a reason why no one has done it.Kinda like "Step 1: Design a gas engine that gets 800 mpg while making 400 horsepower."

I'm sure that really stings when delivered by a gutless fuckknuckle such as yourself.

And yet again, Anonymous Coward is an overly optimistic estimation of your value to the discussion.

It's the same reason he's such a tough guy with his military threats and actions. He would give 0 shits about invading Iran, nuking it, or whatever else since the deaths of non-Trumps don't bother him at all, and he's not spending his own money dropping bombs over there.

I hope to live long enough to see every toady in a prison uniform.