The starting cost for a drone show is around $20k USD, so it wouldn't be hard to fake what they are doing. It's hard to say if this a functioning system that can take down drone swarms, or someone is testing the market for a system that can.
After working with declarative systems for some time now (terraform, kubernetes), I've concluded that things will generally be declarative, but you're bound to run into edge cases where the imperative nature of the underlying system bleeds through and shows up as a gotcha for some reason or other. For kubernetes, I've found that people tend to have to name YAML files in the order in which they should be applied for things to work properly. A more devious case involves kubernetes ConfigMaps getting updated in place via apply while the deployment fails to recognize that the environment variables for the pod have now changed and need to be restated. I suppose this could be chalked up to the idea that all declarative systems need to be functional and each resource should be immutable, however, that's never how it evolves in practice. In short, it's all been quite a disillusioning journey through the general promise of not needing to worry about ordering that eventually results in ordering being the hardest problem that the system faces.
You sure there isn't someone there doing A/B experiments for motivating the pickers and having to choose whether or not to try motivating them with the message "how would you feel if you have to tell your children they don't get to eat because you didn't pick enough items."
From what I recall about compression, the artifacts are at the high frequencies which also tend to get muted with age / sound exposure. Rather than play the game of determining if you can hear the difference, are there any diagnostics that can work backwards and determine the max bit-rate one could benefit from when listening?
Did everyone stop using the internet and stick strictly to cash? If not, is it possible that someone made a purchase or search that may have related to what people who need nappies might buy or search for, but didn't realize it?
I'd like to see a study on the percentage of people who's heart, lungs, or brain got filled with micro clots and now have permanent damage. The serious effects of COVID need to be taken into consideration as well if we are talking about risks involved with getting it.
tl; dr - It's not legal to hang stuff from the rearview mirror, so it's a technicality that officers will use this infraction to pull people over then interrogate them.
This is an insane amount of money. The article doesn't even mention if it's going to be available on prime, or offered as a premium for purchase title. In any case, I wonder what their strategy is for breaking even.
Taxing the unrealized gains doesn't seem like a good idea, however, taxing stock used as collateral for loans would be appealing since that seems a loophole to access the gains without realizing them for tax purposes.
I'm always a bit conflicted about the idea of carbon capture. The whole idea seems predicated on the notion that the carbon is going to be sequestered forever and ignores organic matter getting broken down into methane which is much worse than the captured carbon dioxide. It really feels like the approach is creating climate debt for the future rather than coming up with a long term solution. I have to wonder if human kind will need to find some way to convert CO2 to pure carbon for storage as a climate control measure.
Short summary: Fitting teams to a stack ranked performance quota system causes perverse incentives for management to hold on to poor performers, team members to sabotage each other, and high performers to avoid working on the same team.