"Deliver" isn't really the right verb. "Front" is more accurate. The small handful of big companies get the contract, but then they subcontract it to one of a larger number of medium/big companies, and that company subsubcontracts it to a small company which does all the actual delivery and gets about 10% of the original fee.

You're a month too late to hire her.

In 2014, a couple of months after he stepped down as Director of Public Prosecutions (and more than a year before he became an MP).

Cross-contamination isn't the only issue that needs to be controlled for. Some of the analyses performed don't do a good job of distinguishing microplastics from the animal fats which are naturally present in animal tissue, and some of the papers don't give any indication of realising that this is a factor that needs to be taken into account when interpreting the analyses. So although it's indeed no surprise that microplastics are in the human body, the evidence for how much there is is less strong than claimed by some studies. (Disclaimer: I read the article before it was posted to /.).

It's the link in the header, immediately after the pernicious title.

In the AI space, they're the ones selling shovels and pickaxes. .... The doomsayers already weren't going to buy shovels and pickaxes anyway, so what difference does it make?

Isn't the issue that they're not being paid up front in full for the shovels and pickaxes, so they need the bubble to last long enough for them to collect payment, and people pointing out that it's a bubble might provoke its collapse?

Per etymonline.com:

victim (n.)

mid-15c., "sacrificial animal, living creature killed and offered as a sacrifice to a deity or supernatural power, or in the performance of a religious rite;" from Latin victima "sacrificial animal; person or animal killed as a sacrifice," a word of uncertain origin.

The point is that either you accept that words can change in meaning over time or you don't, but to allow semantic drift for victim and not for survivor is inconsistent.

Victims are never survivors: they're animals or humans which have been killed in a religious sacrifice.

You need to scan a boarding pass to get into the security check area, but it's about twenty years since I was last asked for a passport at that stage. In that time I've made more than a hundred flights in western Europe.

North American English kept using words that ended up being deprecated in England.

Or popularised words which were previously only spoken in a regional dialect and which never spread beyond that region within England.

You score 0/10 for contextual awareness unless you're claiming that Canada gave George III the finger, in which case it's your history grade which is in the gutter.

Google however was the first to make a bunch of open-source fonts.

What about SIL? They released a few fonts for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic under the SIL Open Font License before Google Fonts existed - and, in fact, Google uses their licence for some fonts.

agree that NATO will not advance up to the Russian border

It's a bit late for that now: there are already four* NATO members which have a land border with Russia (not counting Poland and Lithuania, which only border Kaliningrad).

*Although I'm not sure that Norway's border is very relevant in practical terms

For the past few years, very few /. "summaries" have been summaries. They're either the whole article or the first couple of paragraphs copy-pasta'd. The reason they read like slop is because TFA is too.

The definition of artificial didn't "slowly morph" into man-made: that's the original definition. Specifically it's the output of an art-maker (Latin artifex, genitive artificis).