It's funny to see political ads by people running against data centers in this election cycle.

Refrigeration systems have heaters on the evaporator coils to defrost them periodically. Telling the control system to turn on that heater and leave it on will easily accomplish that.

"As technology and job responsibilities evolve, accommodations may be reviewed to ensure they remain reasonable and workable."

Translation: We'll grand the accommodation for now while our lawyers figure out a way around it.

Man I loved Trade Wars 2002. I played the heck out of that, with {COMMO} macros and a series of BBSes I'd call into every day to manage my empires. It now amuses me that it was set 24 years ago.

So have haircuts. Is that because of credit cards, or might it be due to labor-intensive services being unable to capture the labor productivity gains of the rest of the economy.

Having been able to attend college due to the existence of federal student loans, I know the answer. What's your excuse for not knowing?

I expected to wake up to this some day, but I did not expect to wake up to it TODAY. This is very sad news but I can say boldly that Patrick Stewart led a full and meaningful life and had a profound positive impact on the world around him.

Good night, Sir Stewart.

I missed the part that said it involved leftists, fats, or lesbians.

Yeah, let's ressurect a 30-year-old flame war!

It's absolutely spot-on true. None of that information is public, apart from reported beneficial ownership. Even were that data disclosed, what do you really learn when the transfer agent says brokerage X holds Y shares? Or when they say they issued a certificate in name Z but have no idea whether it has been endorsed for sale or inherited or whatever? There are more examples.

I think there could be more to this than just "distributed transaction log" versus "traditional ledger." The current traditional ledger is a leaky black sieve inside a black box unless you're after potentially-outdated data on beneficial owners. Only a *nonpublic* distributed transaction log could possibly hope to offer as little information about ownership as the current system.

So far as I know, the problem has not yet been detected on other planets or spaceships.

I'm guessing that Martians don't run Windows on their computing machines.

They'll probably postpone is US share prices start dropping.

While this is true, being the subject of an experiment to see what happens when you do that is not something most people would choose for themselves. It's not *irrational* to be concerned. Absence of evidence on a largely unexplored question like microplastic infiltration in human bodies is not the moral equivalent of absence of evidence in an extensively studied question like a vaccine-autism link.

No browser is going to bring back the good old days.

While it's true every issue has its own dimension, even if those dimensions are linearly independent, they're not necessarily orthogonal. Independent basis vectors can still have a non-zero dot product—in other words, issues which are distinct from each other can align to some degree.