"Only the United States, China and Germany have larger economies than California, which outpaced all three countries with growth of 6% last year, according to the release."
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Baron_of_Arizona
Back when state boundaries were still in flux. (Maybe we should think of this as the "Aaron Burr" era...)
I tried explaining this to a friend once...
Reversing the digits means that the last digit becomes 100-times-the-last-digit -- so when you subtract, you end up with 99 times the last digit. And it's the same for the digits on the other end, except it ends up being negative-99-times that digit. The middle digit always stays the same, so subtracting it from itself always adds 0 to the total, and you always end up with something that could be expressed as 99x - 99y -- which is 99 * (x-y). All that's really important is you end up with a multiple of 99, since all multiples of 99 have a pattern. The middle digit is always a nine, while since you're always one short of a hundred, the first digit goes up by a hundred each time you add 99 -- while the last digit goes down by one. So your first and last digit will just always add up to nine. Meaning that adding any of these numbers to its reversed-digits counterpart always gives you 900 plus 90 + 90, plus 9 -- or 1089.
You can also totally screw this up for the magician if you use the same number for the first and last digit. (Because then the result of the first subtraction is.... zero.) It's still a multiple of 99 -- but it's zero times 99.
In general "Hacker Houses" for aspiring entrepreneurs have always seemed like a good idea to me. (There was even talk of having "theme" hacker houses to attract/encourage certain demographics - which if nothing else shows how highly that experience is valued...)
https://thenewstack.io/when-prompt-injections-attack-bing-an...
In 2020, 2021 and 2022, the Bay Area added 74,700 tech jobs, Beacon’s compilation shows.
But in 2023 and 2024, employers slashed a net total of 80,200 tech jobs in the region.
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/world/2025/04/17/russ...
But I think you have to think of whales as high-bankrolled foreign tourists who want the opportunity to see big international superstars. (Celine Dion "gained international recognition by winning the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest," Wikipedia points out, and has sung "in several other languages including Japanese, Italian, German, Mandarin, Spanish, and Neapolitan...")
The point of the story was that casinos like to make their money from big spenders losing big chunks of money. So much so that it affects decisions they make about which acts to book.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/11/customs-reports-glitch-in-sy...
Keppler friendly; Galileo charismatic and popular with "wicked" sense of sarcasm; Newton unpopular as lecturer at Cambridge and possessive of his discoveries (end of his life trying to convict Liebniz of plagiarism)... Newton spent more of his life doing numerological bible investigations than the law of gravity (which he finished at age 23).
So... MyPillow?
I also learned that they have a whole bureaucracy already in place for appealing of payments. (People whose job it is to field all the rejected and then appealed claims, and write multi-page letters explaining their reasoning...) So I took my complaint to my state's consumer complaints department. Let the two bureaucrats explain things to each other.
And in the end, the insurance company paid me.
“This suggests what you eat in midlife can play a big role in how well you age,” said Anne-Julie Tessier, an assistant professor of nutrition at the University of Montreal and the lead author of the observational study, which was published in Nature Medicine.
Trump's "emergency powers" to declare tariffs are already being challenged in court. And there's also growing support in the Senate and House to change tariff policy too. (So if the stock market keeps dropping, I just don't see Congress refusing to act.)
Plus, I just assumed the whole "liberation day" was Trump's way of striking an aggressive pose as a starting point, hoping subsequent negotiations would then end up someplace more advantageous. (Maybe the "tell" there is the way the White House keeps saying "There will be no negotiations." Because their current position is so wildly untenable -- it has to be a pose.)
It actually gets them to enjoy reading -- while thinking about society (and technology), and stoking their ambition.
Since its positive impact on society is limited, this would be a way to channel some of that mind-warping wealth into actual civic improvement...
An interesting alternative to the front page is the second-chance pool...
Basically you'd try to find a note that wasn't being sung in their two-part harmony -- and complete the chord. You'd get these wonderful overtones... and right on the beat.
"Tech leaders fear losing their livelihoods or else being publicly harassed by one of the most powerful men in their industry, spurned by his allies, and attacked by his entire online army. 'The terror is real,' said Christoff, who now consults with tech leaders through her crisis communications and political strategy firm, Christoff & Co."
Maybe I'm saying that I reject the assumption that off-screen cheating is as effective as people think it is. (I really don't have any statistics for this, though -- does anyone? I'm just making my own assumption that it's not having a hugely noticeable impact on the overall pool of hired coders.)
Either way, I can totally see why you'd be mad cheating exists. But maybe take some heart from the fact that employers don't like it either, and will be on the look-out for it? I mean, if you preemptively remove yourself from interviewing because "What's the point if there's cheaters out there" - it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/joker-matrix-producer-files-b...
I guess I'd put it this way. I think we can agree that it is sensationalistic to report something that won't happen.
I'm not a Trump booster - but I do think these two HN comments are giving him too much power.
Presidents have no power to remove judges. (And everybody knows it - especially judges.) Wishing that his friends in Congress would help him out by launching impeachment hearings won't make it happen -- mainly because it would need something like 7 Democratic votes in the Senate to actually succeed. (So "threatening" a judge... does nothing. You might as well stand in a field and say "Ooh, I wish you weren't a judge any more!")
It's also convoluted to say there's some credible threat in the fact that Trump nominates judges. (What are you saying -- that during the vetting process for future judges he'll ask each candidate, "What's your stance on sending future parking lot protesters to foreign prisons for 20-year sentences?")
It's mildly newsworthy that he's talking out loud about such an outrageous hypothetical. But it's clearly just posing as powerful and in control for his base. A president does not have this power - and I honestly don't think he even cares. He just wants to act like he does for a few moments on Truth Social.
The only really newsworthy thing here is the protests upset him enough that he had to specifically address it with some made-up hypothetical to make himself and his base feel like he's not losing popular support.
And even that's a little sensationalistic. (Trump says a lot of things. And this is an off-hand comment he made on Truth Social...) But even there he only went as far as to say the vandals had "a very good chance" of going to jail for "up to" 20 years, and that "perhaps" they'd go to El Salvador.
Also, we all know judges issues sentences, right? I mean, a president can say what he hopes will happen... But ABC7.com shouldn't be this credulous.
The usual consequence of such a customs violation is forfeiture of the identified item, a fine of up to $500 or both, said [attorney Gregory Romanovsky]. "Instead, they decided to punish her through this expedited removal process," he added, noting that the officers had "no legal basis" for revoking her J1 visa over this violation.
And when they talked to the chief for that crucial negotiation, they'd realized he was related to Sacagawea...
"Reduced in size" isn't "shut down"...