If your name never changes then all of your achievements are indexed together. If your CV has to say, "I worked at XYZ between these dates, but under a different name" then that makes it a little bit harder to get a reference that's verifiably about you. You also potentially miss out on people seeing your CV on the pile and saying, "I worked with her before, she's worth calling in for interview". Little bits of friction can make a big difference.

Also, as an aside, talking about "modern audiences" reflects a cultural bias. There are cultures in which the wife always kept her surname. There's nothing inherently antiquated or modern in naming customs: it's "what I'm used to", "what my grandparents were used to", and "what that particular group of foreigners do".

Many professors didn't care for Einstein due to his inability to stay focused in school. He graduated in 1900 and spent the next several years working only part-time so that he could focus on writing his brilliant theories. Didn't even land a full-time job until 9 years after he graduated.

Sources? I can find unsourced claims that he was employed full-time at the patent office but finished his work in half the time and so was able to spend the other half doing physics. Certainly the "graduated" of your claim is his first degree; he submitted his doctoral thesis in 1905 and his habilitation in 1907. I see further unsourced claims that having obtained the habilitation he was only able to teach before 08:00 and after 18:00 because of his work at the patent office. 1909 seems to be not when he landed his first full-time job but when he landed his first academic job.

Companies currently pay for health insurance for their employees. If you tax employers then most people won't notice the change. That's effectively how it works in Europe: technically part of the social security payment may be paid by the employer and part by the employee, but it's deducted at source. Since the point of the single payer system is that a monopoly has a strong bargaining position, the expectation is that it would be cheaper than the current system.

It's a lot more work to break the aromatic ring in multiple places than to substitute the groups which are attached to it.

It's actually quite easy for a DSL: just don't give it unbounded loops.

"hostility toward the citizens, culture, government, institutions, or founding principles of the United States" and "other threats to US national security" probably won't include supporting Trump, but they both clearly ought to.

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I doubt that. It was already possible to play "guess the reviewer" by looking at their stylistic choices, suggested references, etc. and software has made it much easier. The interesting question is to what extent this will dissuade people from (a) submitting to; (b) reviewing for the journal.

Very new cameras from Nikon, Canon and Sony can sign photos. They announced a joint digital watermarking scheme about 18 months ago. As you observe, the extent to which it's possible to trust that the private keys haven't leaked is another matter.

Put a maximum cabin-stay duration of 60 days after which you have to change cabins. That's to prevent hoarding. Also maximum outdoor surveillance.

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I had to check to be sure that both posts were written by the same person, because the second one doesn't seem to be written by someone who remembers reading the first one, much less writing it.

Calling an entire generation "boomers" might not be "for nothing", but AIUI the "something" is pretty specific to the USA. In some countries the baby boom post WWII lasted one or two years.

I read somewhere you need 3-4 working people per retired person to have a situation where everyone can get food and shit.

Depends how many children those working people are also supporting. In pre-industrial agricultural societies an adult's labour could support about 1.5 adults, so 2 childless working people could support one retiree (although in those societies only the seriously ill would be truly retired). In theory industrialisation should allow an adult to support more than 1.5 adults.

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This is the bit I don't understand about LLMs killing news websites. How do people know what to ask the LLM about? Or are they just asking "What happened in the last 24 hours that I would be interested in?"?

That's a very culturally blinkered perspective. In London (UK) the large piece of paper was the point: not so much the experience of holding it per se as its value in cutting you off from the other people around you. (See: Watching the English by Kate Fox). The British broadsheets which adopted a tabloid format failed to consider the results of anthropological study.

No, it's your tendency to focus on the immediately perceived object rather than its cause. The intelligent authors of many books have taught you things using the books as an instrument. Observe the difference with LLMs: unless they're really mechanical Turks (and examples of that kind of "fake it until you make it" have been observed and will probably continue to be observed), they're producing carefully tuned noise rather than conveying intentionally considered ideas.

The UK is behind Spain on this one. Spain's normally twenty years behind, but their smartphone app ID card is already live.