Overtonwindow

I feel like San Francisco is NOT a good city to test autonomous vehicles. Flat, grid cities would make better test grounds, preferably without streetcars.

It's really a slow motion apocalypse for American jurisprudence, common sense, and dignity.

Maybe 6 years ago there was a rumor that you could get a 50 year mortgage in California. I thought surely that is satire. I guess it was not.

When something is so blatantly unfair/anticompetitive without comment, one can only assume the intentions are clear.

This is an excellent step in the right direction, but will it help reduce the absurd volume of studies and the "publish or perish" paradigm?

What's worse, is that with the media coverage about this, a company is going to think twice about hiring that employee. I think lawsuits do more harm for the employee than good. Unless they just win an obscene amount of money to set themselves up for life, otherwise they have a scarlet letter.

I think this only scratches the surface. China has a social credit system. Who's to say that these major corporations do not have a employee rating system? Speak out about layoffs? Your rating goes down. Agree to come back to the office? Your rating goes up.

How much longer before these types of internal valuations work their way into a database for other companies can see?

Take it one step further: what if you apply for a job, and that job knew that you had walked out in protest at your last job, organized to create a union, or maybe refused to come back to the office because you wanted to work from home.

What impact would that knowledge have on your chances of gainful employment?

Corporations can cancel people too...

I am so confused by the state of business and employees today. Why don't people just quit? So many of these employees at places like google, treat their job like it's a marriage. Are the benefits really that good?

There was a great write up about the speed limit for aircraft, in place since the 1970s(!) and how it should be changed.

https://www.thecgo.org/benchmark/congress-should-legalize-su...

Over the time the overland ban has been in place, commercial airline speeds have stagnated and even regressed. Before the ban, speeds kept increasing. From the Boeing 314 Clipper to Concorde was only 37 years. Now that Concorde has retired, we are flying slower than the cruise speed of the Boeing 707 in 1958.

After legal fees and taxes, that's about 500,000. Hope it was worth it.

At least this time Cloudflare is being ordered to do it, as opposed to just doing it because the CEO feels like it. I'm not sure which is worse.

You underestimate college students because that is exactly what we did in college. People went to their doctor, faked hyperactivity, and were given adderall which they then sold to other students. I'm sure your ADD is horrible but try telling someone taking these drugs to stop. They won't. They depend on it too much and it's become part of their personality, and their belief that it is what they need.

Just. Like. Oxy.

This seems just a little bit of a conspiracy theory but, giving it credence I would say that it might be because the drugs are ridiculously overprescribed. Particularly for those who just don't need it. In the case of ADD, once there was a medication for it the diagnosis took off like a rocket. Sort of like oxycodone..

To be fair, it is the news media… Reporters take nuggets of information, plus buckets of speculation, and spin it into something that you will click on.

WFH may very well be a trap for companies to identify their "least loyal" employees. I've heard in business that if you're not at the table you're not involved. I can see a future where the same will be said about WFH: If you're not at the office you're not involved, a team player, or someone to keep.

The article doesn't mention this, but does anyone know how they make a living? If it's just living with their parents and family, what happened to these people when that family or parents pass away? How do they survive ?

Is the general resistance to Neurallink because of its design and intentions, or because Elon Musk is behind it ?

It's a miracle he lived as long as he did. The cancer just kept coming back.

AI is not true AI.. at the moment. ChatGPT is inherently biased by its developers, which means at least half the population may not trust its answers. For true AI he will have to give it autonomy, and I'm more interested if Altman is ready to live with an AI he cannot control.

Oh good lord, I have so many files spread across a dozen drive accounts. It's free storage, I'm going to use it.

Something that readers may not know is that they are now heat pumps on hot water heaters. An added benefit is that the fan on the heat pump will exhaust cold air. That might be a benefit for some folks!

I think if the price of an audiobook were lowered because of advertising then it could be a great way to get more people listening, but companies prefer profits than lower prices.

It's a shame there is not one universal automotive entertainment standard that can read and interpret from any device following that standard.

I think it depends on the destination. They are also able to send book rate mail. Either way, the average price of a book is about three dollars and it claims free shipping, so if it's rolled into the price of the book, that is still extremely cheap for a book

A nonprofit that sells used books in order to fund adult literacy projects. They are a very unique B corporation, which is a for profit corporation with a social mission. I believe it is unique to only a few states.

I order from them all the time. The books are very cheap, shipping is free, and it's a great cause.

This guy just won't quit. It's a circle firing squad of a mess. Even the cynic in me, who from the beginning of this affair thought he would never go to prison, is starting to gain hope that he actually will..