There's a pretty meaningful difference between "engage in terrible business practices" and "molest girls." No molestation of children is required to become a billionaire, I'm pretty sure. (Also, let's be honest: The odds of Peter Thiel molesting a small girl are extremely low)

Good point, and I'm not here to argue with you -- the problem when we talk about Costco is the Wing drone's max capacity of 5lbs. That's not a Costco trip -- that's barely a trip to a Costco food court :).

5lbs feels like not enough to really replace most trips to actually stock your groceries, unless you break up your shopping trip into multiple delivery flights. It's much better for impromptu consumption (though that said, I feel like most of my trips to the local hardware store are "oh crap, I need this one thing ... " which would be under 5lbs)

Go fuck yourself, asshole.

(You're welcome)

Dude, relax. It was a joke.

Not to mention that "Judy's" also conflicts with the contraction of "Judy is" ...

Reasonable stance, though I'd argue "some quarters are special" are a particularly good reason to stick with quarterly reporting -- because you don't get the smoothing effect of, say, bundling in your best quarter with your worst quarter. Most companies will have the same 'best' or 'worst' quarter YoY, so it's less about comparing, say, Q4 of this year with Q3 of this year, and more comparing Q4 of this year with Q4 of last year.

I'm a Pokemon Go player; been playing it pretty intensely for the last 16 months or so, level 74 (of a max of 80).

Firstly, this is not in any way surprising or upsetting. Niantic's been pretty clear for a long time now that they were making location-based games for the purpose of training systems.

Secondly, I should note that POGO does not actually require you to take pictures of anything. It's an option, one way to do what Pokemon Go calls "Field Research Tasks" (FRTs), but "take a scan of that place" FRTs are a small subset of the FRTs you might choose to do (and when I was attempting to get as many as possible on my way to level 74 I ignored all the scanning ones).

Also, "helped FBI" is true but also misleading. Proton Mail does business in Switzerland, and is subject to Switzerland's laws. The Swiss authorities made a lawful data request of Proton Mail, which Proton Mail had to oblige, and then the Swiss authorities shared that data with the FBI.

Trump operates based on who bribes him. ChatGPT would never get banned because they pay the bribes.

You comment implies you care about the morals or quality of tech. Trump only cares about bribes.

Really minor note: You mentioned Biden using his power to help his sons. Biden has three adult children (He had a daughter who died in the same car accident his wife died in, in the 70s, when the daughter was about one year old; I'm not counting her). Of these three children, there are daughter Ashley (who has led a relatively boring life, other than having her diary at some point stolen by some people), and two sons, Beau and Hunter. These are the sons you'd have referred to.

Now, Hunter is a scumbag, and Biden did way too much to help him (including that pardon, though by Trump standards that was pretty mild). Beau, on the other hand, was a pretty respectable politician with nary a scandal attached to him, who sadly died way too young at 46 in 2015 (way before Biden became President, obviously).

So it's more how Biden helped his son (singular) than sons (plural).

Feels like you may be having a bad day. I'm sorry about that. I think this news is interesting and relevant to this website. We continue to see a strong interest and engagement with news stories about workspace cultures; pretty much everyone out there who works today is having to contend with how AI will be used in their workspace; and this story is right in that sweet spot of internal conflicts springing up in a whole lot of companies (including my own) around the use of AI (though in my company's case it's less "use our internal AI tool, not the actually good one," and more Leaders: "Use more AI!" followed by Security going: "Don't use any AI!").

Poorly, presumably.

When you refer to "my cash register," you mean The Internet Archive? Is that right?

This is the US. And exempt people are by definition not contracted for a certain number of hours.

It's worth being mindful that in a lot of cases community college may simply be an entry way into upper education -- IOW, "more people are choosing to start their post-high school education with community college" is not the same as "more people are choosing community college instead of universities."

As an example (and I'm aware it's one point, but I'm not making a data argument, just an example to clarify what I mean), my sister was kind of a fuckup in high school. She ended up going to community college ... for two years, and the to university for two years, and then to law school until she got her JD.