If you've ever worked at a random Fortune 500 company and looked around the office at people whose pinned apps are "Outlook, Powerpoint, Excel", those are jobs that can easily be done if you're moderately smart and learn a few things on the job. You have a reasonably well-defined set of goals, projects, and meetings, and you just have to talk to other people and move numbers around in Excel, then put them into Powerpoint and set up meetings in Outlook to discuss. There are millions of these jobs, and you can get extremely senior once you just learn the business of your company (which would never be taught in college). You don't need a college degree for these. A friend of mine is a senior executive at a large insurance company and does just fine at their job with no degree. Given, they got into that job decades ago when degrees weren't required, and worked their way up, but the same could be done now if employers let people be hired based not on degree but on an apprenticeship or similar trial period.
It’s extremely damning of the state of this country that all of these short sellers have closed up shop. As Coffeezilla says, “crime is legal now”. You can’t use logic and reason to short a company when with a few million dollars that company can make some donations and their problems go away.
Same here. I always refuse facial recognition when possible, but they had no problem using it on return from international travel. The systems aren’t linked (yet).
This is a fake AI generated article from an author who claims to have invented a new algebraic system that links math, AI, and information together. The algebra system is named after himself and his “paper” (on arXiv) has two references. This is junk and shouldn’t be posted here. If you Google “solar storm chances next decade” you’ll get an AI summary citing the same 12%, this time posted on https://www.carriermanagement.com/news/2014/07/28/126748.htm with essentially the exact same story as this post.
Does anyone know of any playbook that has had success in getting these shut down? Any way of getting the city’s money back partway through a contract? Seems most cities use the excuse of “well, we already sunk the cost, so we can’t remove them now or it’s just a waste of money”. I see Sarah Hamid with EFF has commented. Maybe I’ll reach out and see if they have a “Project 2025 but for Deflocking Your Town”
Not good, thanks for sharing. Also different, however. One is a routine part of criminal investigations in which over 4 million people are swept up, while around 2000 were swept up in the linked article at the border. I’m not okay with even the 2000, but it’s a different thing.
“Among my clients, absolutely zero refuse [to give DNA], because for them, it’s an admission of guilt,” said Mr. Poitevin.
What an absolute load of garbage. America has problems but at least we still believe in the right to say “f—— off, I’m not helping you convict me” when self-incrimination is asked of the accused.
This stinks - smells I mean. The timing is just too suspect. Kenvue price tanks upon admin comments that Tylenol is bad, suddenly Kenvue gets bought at a roughly $7 a share premium ($21) vs. the now-tanked price. Mergers take a long time so this was in the works for a while, so I don’t think Kimberly Clark has anything to do with this. One wonders who got the idea to tank the Kenvue stock and then what they did (either on the Kenvue or the Kimberly Clark stock) to profit. Someone should look into this …
Yes, this is one of my primary use cases for deep research right now. It will become garbage in a few short years once OpenAI starts selling influence / ads. I think they’ve started a bit with doing this but the recommendations still seem mostly “correct”. My prior way of doing this was Googling with site:Reddit.com for real reviews and not SEO spam reviewers.
Yeah, which not only doesn’t dilute the main brand, it also doesn’t even dilute the Sprinter brand. Sprinters are called out by name in rap songs, lusted after for van life builds, etc. EV vans make a ton of sense commercially and personally.
I doubt this makes you feel better but they didn't buy guided missile warheads. That category ("guided missile warheads and explosive components") contains, among other things, "distraction devices". So things like flashbangs, smoke grenades, etc.
Damning which way, though? Are gambling taxes too high, or are corporate taxes too low? And since corporate income is surely higher than gambling income, I’m inclined to think that gambling taxes are too high AND corporate taxes are too low, creating this odd fact.
Edit: and I know it sounds weird to say that gambling taxes are too high, when one could argue that high taxes are meant to disincentivize a thing - but if that thing is highly addictive, and if no other state action is taken to disincentivize that thing, then it’s actually a really sticky income source for the government who now doesn’t want to get rid of their cash cow. Tobacco ads are outlawed, which did more than taxing tobacco. Gambling ads are absurdly common.
I think your numbers are off by at least 10x, if not more. Ask a random American nowadays (not a tech worker) and I’d be shocked if more than 1/30 have even heard his name, let alone seen his face. 10 years ago I’d be shocked if it wasn’t 1/100. Again, average Americans, not entrepreneur / tech people / politically active person. Most Americans don’t even know who their senators are, and less than 60% can name one of the rights the first amendment protects. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/11/07/what-amer...
Is the issue that all vibe-coded sites look the same, or that everyone uses the same Bootstrap or Material components? This site does indeed look like every other vibe-coded site, but so does any site using the same component libraries.
Former shareholders, whoever currently holds the assets of the company as Nikola is in bankruptcy. Unless those people buy influence, they’re worthless to the current admin.
Each of the above guys did the smart thing of buying influence (Milton retained the attorney general’s brother as his lawyer, for example). In the past you’d have to hide that better, but now it’s out in the open.
One of the guys mentioned in the article is now cleared to work on his new crypto venture. Of course.
Edit: not to “both sides” this, but it is interesting and mentioned in that NYT article that Biden pardoned a guy involved in a multi-billion dollar ponzi after serving 10 years (with 10 to go). Found an article from 2008 showing that the Bidens were linked with the firm. Not as direct of a quid pro quo but more the standard back scratching …
True. I’d probably prefer to see the money go to a better performing company, but since there are like, 2 companies in the US that actually make semiconductors, there isn’t much other than starting a whole new company. Which, for $10B isn’t possible in this industry. So if the money is going to go to Intel, I at least want a cut of it, is my point.
Yeah, I haven’t dug into the numbers to know. Which option makes more money for the government (and therefore the taxpayer, sort of) - a profit sharing agreement, or a share of the company (which, as with all publicly traded companies, is a profit sharing agreement that sometimes happens through dividends, and sometimes happens through stock sales).
If you’re going to give taxpayer money to a for-profit company, taxpayers should receive a share of the company in return. I generally don’t like 90% of the policies we’ve got going on right now, but I actually feel okay about this one.
What curious timing! Glad you're using your rights to punish this company. A coworker at a prior company used Otter.ai once or twice, and from then on we all called it the Otter Infection until IT was able to purge it from our systems somehow. It kept getting into meetings it had no business getting into.
That’s an interesting observation. I’ve wondered how he can be so “creative” if you can call it that, but I guess if you have lots of assistants who can read all of the “well, technically you can do XYZ” sections buried deep in odd legal texts, and you enjoy doing stuff just to get more limelight, these actions are inherently attention grabbing because they are so novel.
It’s much cheaper than making suboptimal decisions slowly. Free solvers are fine for small problems (GLPK, for example), but lots of business problems are pretty much impossible to solve in the timeframe required unless you fork over cash for a premium solver (Gurobi being the best).
Have you tried 3D printing? It’s a pretty cheap and forgiving way to get into manufacturing. You’ll get a lot of practice with CAD. Autodesk Fusion 360 is free for hobby use and very good.
For machining, I’d start with wood (wood lathe or router, cheaper than a real metal lathe or mill). Very similar concepts as real machining (feeds and speeds, toolpaths, CAM). Up to you if you want to start manual or CNC. The Shapeoko routers are very nice and relatively affordable (in this domain). You can also find used manual machines locally, but it’s hard to know if they’re in good condition if you don’t know anything.
If you want to read, the Machinery’s Handbook, aka the Bible in any shop, is enormous and contains pretty much anything you’d want to know.
Oh, and get a set of Mitutoyo digital calipers. Expensive but the only way to go, in my opinion. Measuring is fundamental to manufacturing.