There are a decent number of jobs in Pittsburgh. Aside from Duolingo, there is a NetApp office, a Google office, a (new) Microsoft development office, Uber's self-driving car lab, Argo's (Ford's) self-driving lab, Aurora's (yet another self-driving car company), CERT, the Software Engineering Institute, the Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center, many jobs at Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh, an Apple machine learning office, and a small Amazon development office. There are a bunch of startups, as well.

That's off the top of my head. Don't get me wrong, even the relatively large offices are less than 1000 employees each; we're not talking about something like Amazon or Microsoft's *home* office, with 10s of thousands of employees. But there are a decent number of interesting jobs in Pittsburgh, and the place has more character than a random Silicon Valley town. And housing is definitely affordable; you can get a 4 BR house in the city for about $400-500K, and probably a bit less in a suburb with a good school system.

Must love snow :-)

They sacrificed the rats at 105 weeks in the table I was looking at, when looking for tumors.

But the majority of the examples I saw showed fewer rats with tumors at 6W of exposure than at 0W. The numbers were all pretty small, and the total number of male rats (the one study I looked at) was something like ~100.

In virtually no tumor example did the # of tumors go up with the radiation exposure.

This was the plot of an episode of the short-lived TV show "Journeyman". Just sayin'

If you want to end exploitation of H1B visa holders, it seems like the easiest step would be to let visa holders change employers without restarting the H1B process. This would reduce the exploitation factor, since employees could walk away from bad jobs. It wouldn't require guessing what a reasonable salary bound would be, but would let the market decide that, instead.

Trump's immigration ban is even worse than GoDaddy's CEO points out. Right now, people from 7 countries are seeing the US back out of its promise that they could come here and finish their degrees, or work here. These people invested years of their lives on their education and/or careers, only to fall afoul of an illogical whim of the current Pr*sident. If this type of crap continues, international students from all over the world will stop trusting that they can make a good life here. We'll stop getting the sharpest people immigrating, and those people will go elsewhere, and establish companies elsewhere. * -- popular vote loser

Actually, my bad, I didn't realize that a Thunderbolt 3 port can operate as a USB C port, so a USB A to USB C adapter is all you need to insert a USB drive. However, on a dual Thunderbolt system, can you get power *and* a USB port on the same Thunderbolt port?

But what about USB ports? I often have a USB drive or two plugged in, or my iPhone plugged in, and now I can't do that.

Even worse, Apple doesn't even have a good way to attach a couple of USB 3 drives to a Thunderbolt port. What's *wrong* with these people?

I've been looking to replace my 15" late 2011 MacBook Pro. The specs I'm looking for are 16 GB of memory and a 512 GB SSD drive.

I can't really see why I'd prefer the newer ones. It's not that they're just poor in comparison to the older systems, they're much worse. No USB ports, no MagSafe cord, the price is $400 more, and while I'd rather have a 4 lb computer instead of a 4.5 lb computer, I just don't care enough to abandon USB ports and the MagSafe adapter. There isn't even a good dongle for attaching a couple of USB 3 drives to the machine, which is bona fide insane.

It seems like my decision is made. What I *don't* understand is why Apple came up with these deliberately crippled machines. They're close to unusable.

There's no comparison between this behavior and what MSFT did with Window 10. The system preferences for the App Store lets you specify whether you want automatic downloading done, automatic installation of downloaded apps, and/or automatic installation of OS/X updates (and I'm not even sure a new version of OS/X counts as an OS/X update). And by default, IIRC, it doesn't install anything. Apple leaves you in full control of when or whether the update occurs. Windows, on the other hand, did its very best to nag you to death to install Windows 10, including ignoring your attempts to say "no."

I thought the postpaid $50 plan is 2 GB + 480p video and free music. I'm on the family plan, which now is 4 phones at 6 GB of data and roll over (and all the usual 480p video, international roaming, etc), for $120. Except when we signed up, we got 10GB/month/phone. But only one of us ever makes it to 6 GB. The nice thing about Simple Choice is that you get to tether the data, which is great when traveling. That's why the new Tmobile 1 plans look so poor: you pay more, and get more data than you need, and lose tethering at any decent speed.

In today's SimpleChoice plans, you can use any of your bandwidth for tethered access. But in the new Tmobile One plans, tethering is capped at 2G speeds, i.e. 128KB/s, which is just too slow.

That's a show-stopper for me on with this plan. It's a pity, really, because otherwise the plan looks pretty good.

AFAICT, the only tethering that comes with this plan limits you to edge speeds, which are pretty close to useless, since you can't watch *any* video at that speed.

It is almost too slow to use for any real web browsing.

Actually, I'm not moving from my current plan. Right now, I have 3 phones with 10GB/month (with rollover, too), and one at 20GB/month, all for $130/month+taxes. Each phone can tether its full amount, and we use this a *lot*. Meanwhile, 10GB/month is essentially infinite; no one's come close to using it during any month, except for one kid, who has the 20GB/month plan.

With the new plan, we'd pay $160/month, and lose *all* tethering!! A terrible proposition.

Really, I'm very disappointed; this is the first t-mobile "new product" release that's clearly inferior to the plans they'd like to replace. And the lack of tethering is hidden in the fine print, too.

I'm using a relatively old late 2011 Macbook Pro. I'd probably update to a lighter machine with good specs (USB 3 especially, and a retina display), if one were available. But I'm *not* going to buy that joke of a Macbook, with the yucky keyboard and the single USB C port, and a 12" screen. I'm amazed Apple is leaving this much money on the table. Do they not have any business sense? In any event, they should be putting denser memory in their current lineup. 8 GB is really a minimum for today's OS/X versions. This is basic stuff. Have they caught the Republican party's disease, and lost the ability to execute their basic functions?

Exactly -- the article is nonsense. If the plane leaves Russian airspace, that's a pretty clear warning that they want to attack. It's pretty much the same thing as seeing an ICBM launch. And submarine-based missiles are already able to hit by surprise any city in much less than two hours.