That would be a more fair criticism if Apple charged the game publishers fair fees commensurate with the cost of security audits, bandwidth, availability, and the like. Instead, Apple (and other app stores) tend to demand massive profit sharing.
But the legal profession, in terms of fairness for new grads, is perhaps the worst of all professions, I'm told. Basically, if you go to a top school you make 3x the average graduate based on that alone. While there is a decent correlation between school and talent, it is by no means strong enough to justify the phenomenon. Certainly it is not like this in other developed countries.
Computer Science has unfortunately been headed in that direction but at least an A+ graduate at a state school has a chance at getting the better offers.
The proposed law bans voluntary non-competes as well as mandatory. It states that employers may not even accept such covenants. It is an absolute ban on employment restraints.
Your analysis is not likely correct. The bill appears to be aimed quite generally at restrictive covenants, outlawing any contract restraining a covered individual's employment.
This would void any agreement predicating the terms and conditions of deferred compensation on employment restraints.
It would also likely defeat any gardening schemes since contracts could no longer prohibit a covered individual from practicing their profession.
(I am not an expert on NY Law and it is possible that I am wrong and this bill isn't really intended to cover finance or tech professionals making solid money.)
In the US you have to keep certain records for EEOC purposes and if an applicant comes back within the statute of limitations with such claims, you need supporting documentation. Four weeks is definitely not customary.
If you have open employment at the CIA it is a semi-public record. All of the usual things apply like employment verification and creditors or family courts tracking down paychecks for garnishments. I have no idea what the social media policy is though.
Definitely will evolve, because we don't even know how to do self-driving cars, for example. Maybe we still won't in 20 years. Driving with heavy snow on the ground, in the dark, with pedestrians, is a hard problem
I'm just asking if some system of using digital signatures could help weed through the inevitable proliferation of bots and deepfakes and ai agents.
I'm pretty sure it's already illegal to steal someone else's signature in some jurisdictions.
There would be no legal requirement to use a signature. No change there. Just as you cam send postal mail today with a return address and no name, and you can buy items with paper cash, and so forth. The government would give out verified signature, or the phone providers, and it'd be free. I don't really have the answers.
I don't think so. Surely we will go as far as AI that self directs the 3d printing of tools and the control of drone fleets and insect or rodent size bots. This will be necessary for AI to help with things like construction, farming, and mining. Imagine rodent bots and some drones roofing a house while an operator monitors them in a remote command center. Better yet, if they can do mining in conditions too hazardous for humans. The financial incentive is immense. Nobody is going to stop any time soon.
Would univeral adoption of digital signatures issued by trusted authorities alleviate this problem to any degree?
For example, my phone would automatically sign this post with my signature. If I programmed a bot, I could sign as myself or as a bot, but not as another registered human. So you'd know the post came from me or a bot I've authorized. Theft or fraud with digital signatures would be criminalized, it isn't already.
This was interesting in 1995. By 2005-2010, SoCs included sophisticated cache architecture, memory controller, internal and external bus controller, transceivers, and maybe iGPU. All of which play a role in performance per watt. ISA was no longer preeminent. Plus, if you emulate multicore x86-64 with superscalar vliw scheduling you're still constrained by the memory model, too. There is only so much you can do.
I think a lot of legacy 1980s style systems already had an 8 bit external data bus (think z80, 80xx, 68xx), so if you wanted to upgrade with more I/O, uart, seven segment displays and the like, the atmega is a flexible choice that could be tacked onto the bus. That's my understanding.
Yeah that's how I read it. He gave [possibly ill-gotten] money to his parents. If tax was involved, then the treasury might need to give that fraction back to the bankruptcy trustee. If not, great, then it's just the family that needs to disclose to the trustee.
Agreed. Can't overstate the cost effectiveness. In the late 80s or early 90s you could put hundreds of dumb terminals on one network with just hubs for signal integrity. Plenty of collisions but it all worked itself out somehow if the throughput was light, such as text applications, text email, and a small amount of printing or sharing. This meant every university could have some kind of network scheme, making it a universal for the next gen.
Businesses don't have freedom of association. For example, in California, the "ban the box" law means that FANG must hire convicted domestic abusers even if it is bad for morale. This of course pertains only to past actions of the applicant though.
Seems like whistelblowing by teachers prevents tens of thousands of cases of child abuse--otherwise how will little Billy's twelve consecutive black eyes get reported? And yeah, a lot of times little Billy just face plants into his toys and sometimes child services does too much or too little but it is better than nothing.
Also, I believe those stats are about claims of retaliation to whisteblowers, which when adjudicated did not succeed on the merits. The information supplied by these whisteblowers may have been founded.
Whistleblower legislation is not about anonymity per se--it is supposed to encourage whistleblowers to engage with officials and inspector generals rather than make anonymous leaks to the press, collude, be abused, or do nothing. Imperfect for certain but better than nothing.
If the accused uses "G" universally as his version of "dude" or "bro," then that isn't bias, just maybe a lack of tactfulness. If he uses "G" for guys who wear nice clothes, "dude" for surfer-looking guys, and "bro" for guys with muscles, it is also not racial or ethnic bias. It would seem that a [legitimate] investigator would need at least some kind of information on that before having cause to investigate.
Perhaps the reporter didn't give us all the info from Mr. Sanchez, and there is more evidence of bias then we were informed of.
Mostly true. Though certain property crimes or conduct violations such as vandalism, ripping down flags, graffiti, and the like might just have the institution itself as the complainant.
Stanford takes lots of federal money so HR is bound to Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, plus Title IX and Section 504. If the bias investigations result in a discriminatory disparate impact or some kind of double standard they will eventually get steamrolled.
Correct. It's mostly social and not based on 'looks,' per se. Let's give an example. I'm white as a ghost. But from pre-school age I went over to my Indian neighbor's house to play. I'm fond of the cooking and the accent of Indian-born English speakers is totally normal for me, probably more normal than a Southern accent.
Now if I go to India to do some work I will seek out some other Americans to befriend while there, perhaps naturally looking for people like me. But by this I mean other Americans whether Indian-American or otherwise -- I don't mean whites who literally look like me. Get it?
You are only confirming that nominally, ethnicity and race are not important.
For example, a white American of Slavic descent is more comfortable in a room of non-white Americans who also smell of Budweiser than they would be in a room of Russians in Russia speaking Russian and smelling of vodka. Get it?
Woz is embellishing for dramatic effect. Decades ago, picture ID meant anything. You could get on a plane sometimes with a school ID. Before holograms and bar codes on driver's licenses, all IDs were presumed to be garbage and just a way to get the spelling of a person's name if in fact the ID was real.
Woz was not in custody and is therefore exaggerating about being Mirandized. He played a prank by giving his clown employee ID. It was in Casinoland where people had goofy job titles and this wouldn't have been so crazy. Nothing to see here.
That said, if he had been in actual trouble or has been committing forgery, the clown ID would have been a bad move.
Yep, for example, lots of cases with coerced confessions or just confessions obtained from individuals with developmental disabilities. The investigator would be the one who overdid it, not the prosecutor, who is often obliged to pursue the case if someone says they did the crime. Whether the confession is any good is up to the justice system. This applies to many semisciences or pseudoscience or expert witnesses or shoddy statistics. The prosecutor should look at the case in good faith [not tunnel vision] and rely on the courts to be fair arbiters. Then you have technical boondoggles like Bill Cosby where the prosecutors view the matters of law one way and eventually the appeals courts view it differently--whether he committed some crimes wasn't really the first order matter.
Yes, if the 128 of the 6537 is mapped starting at 0x100, then one would use ldx, txs, pha, pla, etc., for any possible optimization. S register is a precious resource! Anything to squeeze between those hsyncs.
I think he was already quite prolific before that started.
IMO, it is a bit of a myth that Adderall will make an already productive person more productive.
However, stimulants do motivate compulsive behaviors and rigid thinking.
That's where it would have helped Erdos. To just do math everyday and never be much interested in other pursuits takes something extra. Even into old age he didn't have anything else on the bucket list.
Xerox did not 'allow' their monopoly on copiers to expire. They regularly filed large numbers of patents and engaged in monopolistic commercial practices in an attempt to lock up one or more elements of the supply chain. The FTC then forced them into a consent decree in the 1970s that required them to license the patent portfolio at a reasonable royalty fee. This allowed the Japanese market entrants to compete and therefore innovate for the benefit of the consumer.
Edit: arguably, because Xerox did not have to compete with the Japanese until legal actions were taken, they were NOT actually on their toes and lost ground rapidly once the market was opened. Had they been forced to compete by the late 1960s instead of mid 1970s, they may have been in a better position to sustain themselves against foreign competitors.
Nxp sells a PCF2131 with an internal TCXO that runs on 64 nanoamps when not doing anything else. So with a modern CMOS process, the TCXO itself is not a big deal. A clock pin at 32768 cyc/s looks to be way more power hungry, which tells us that an ideal low-power solution is an all-in-one SoC.