There's a difference:
- In the case of a remote test, those who fail are not out the cost of travel and accommodation.
- In the case of an in-person test, those who fail are out the cost of travel and accommodation.

You're the one claiming it's well-known, but you are unable to provide a single link.

Figures.

Worth it for what? If the answer is a different financial motivation, then it's just a different form of corruption.

NONE of them have done this, not in 250 years. Not until Trump. Presidents make a lot of money after they leave office, yes, especially in recent decades. They command incredible speaking fees (Obama famously got $400k for one speech), they write books that make millions, etc. There are lots of people who are willing to give them money to get close to them, get their advice, etc.

But until Trump, none of them has used the office of the president to make money. No one else has sold pardons. No one else has set up a public stock and a memecoin to facilitate billions of dollars in bribes. No one else has brazenly sold insider secrets to stock traders.

Trump's corruption isn't just new in scale, it's a completely new thing that the United States of America has never before seen. We've seen plenty of corruption elsewhere in government, at all levels, but never in the oval office.

You just have to wait the correct number of milliseconds until it becomes public information, then execute your trade. I'll bet someone has figured out the delay to allow enough time for some model or another to run. All nice and legal, just like how the two term restriction only applies to consecutive terms.

Something like that might deter high frequency traders who are basically exploiting noise. This is different. It's advance insider access to announcements that cause real changes. Well, that and the usual Trump noise, but even that usually takes well over 24 hours before it's obvious TACO.

Even if open, it just wasn't going to happen.

Problem was that it was awkwardly slower than DRAM and more expensive than NAND. Was it cheaper per GB than DRAM? Sure. Was it faster than NAND? Sure. Problem is there wasn't really space in the market for a tier between NAND and DRAM. Embarrassingly obvious as Intel ran around doing things like trying to force a whole different paradigm for application developers to do things awkwardly special to try to take advantage of this tier.

Now we have a scenario where one would think Optane could shine, an industry obsessed with feeding AI models as fast as possible. Except the answer is simply "more NAND in parallel" rather than fundamentally distinct technology.

Right, lots of institutions send PDFs specifically because you can lock the text, provide specific form entry boxes, and get a reasonably secure signature. All of which are features of PDF, which is an open standard.

They don't send you a Word document which is arguably not an open standard because Word doesn't actually conform to it's own standard.

AI companies want quantity. If they wanted old, rare books they'd download the public domain copies provided by everyone from the Internet Archive to Google.

Fans don't like big camera drones flying around in front of the action they paid ridiculous prices to sort of see. Stadiums are also both big and loud.

One small book seller said that in April,

It's right there. The last story on Slashdot about this was an ad from a company trying to sell books to AI companies. It makes a good story. Ad in some credulous people who suppy their own adjectives like "exponential" and there you go.

Probably a few (as in count-on-one-hand) companies are buying bulk books, one copy of each.

Because nobody was every "first" on any land.

Are we talking Wheel of Time, Battlestar Galactica or some version of Hindu or Buddhist infinite cyclic time?

Hawaii is in the middle of nowhere. Finding it is a very long shot that seems to have happened only twice. By the best evidence we have, Hawaii was first settled by Polynesians around a thousand years ago and stayed pretty isolated up until James Cook stumbled upon it in 1778. The queen of Hawaii was overthrown in 1893 by US marines and US fruit growers, and annexed by the US in 1898.

It didn't start with Trump. The US has a lot of enemies and sometimes has difficulty distinguishing between a dispute with a competing nation and individual scientists from that nation. Trump definitely made it worse though.

Right, the land rightfully belongs to whoever owned it second-to-last! Not to the people the second-to-last owners forcibly ejected from it, of course, and not to the people who own it now, only to the second-to-last.

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I think we should have more respect than we do for the indigenous peoples, but pretending that there was no war and no forcible land grabs before the Europeans arrived is not just ahistorical but ignorant of human nature. Polynesian history, which includes the Hawaiians, is incredibly bloody. The Europeans dominated when they arrived not because they were more violent -- there's a good case to be made that they were less, though it's a question of degrees, not kind -- but because the Enlightenment gave them much better tools. And, of course, because centuries of city living had bred up a bunch of diseases, but that's part of the same story.

Did European arms and power make it "right" that the natives were conquered? No. But it wasn't "right" that the natives conquered each other, either. Humanity -- also as a result of the Enlightenment and the long, slow development of humanism -- has become more moral and less violent, and we now have more respect for other cultures and other peoples. And that's a good thing! But it doesn't make sense to project our own moral views back in time, and it definitely doesn't make sense to do so selectively, demonizing the winners and lionizing the losers.

The only thing that really makes sense is to apply our improved (though still very imperfect) morality to the situation we have now, messy, complicated and conflicted as it is. It's nice to give the native Hawaiian culture some respect, but it's wrong to give it more respect than that of Hawaii today.

Not even denied for inability to afford last-minute travel to a city where the exam is held?