Jeff Bezos got up in the morning, was feeling lousy and wanted to make his mom's best comfort food, chicken soup. So he mumbled "Alexa! buy Whole Foods Chicken Stock". That damned machine bought Whole Foods instead. Not willing to concede Alexa is horribly broken he is trying to act as if he always meant to buy the company.
Yes, there is a Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation. Companies must buy the policy for defined benefit plans. It maxes out at some 45K a year. Some airline pilots pensions are in the range of 145K.
The problem is, use the rosy projections on good years to show their pension obligations are "overfunded" and withdraw the cash, distribute it as bonus among the top executives. Then on the next year when the returns are lower, they feign ignorance, "omg, it is underfunded, so you pensioners are dragging the company down. we cant fund it. We will go bankrupt and you lose it all. So accept these lower terms". They have been raiding pension funds, built up over 40 years. From 1950 to 1990. They raided them all through the 90s. And converted all the defined benefit plans to defined contribution plans. Except government, there are very few defined benefit plans exist in usa today.
Index fund idea is based on the wisdom of crowds. The mean value of a large number of independent predictions will be more correct than most of the individual predictions. The key is "independent". But with high frequency trades and very fast analysis independent AI systems might "sense" the phase differences and slowly synch themselves over time.
At present active investors can't game index investors easily. The orders from traders for index funds get swamped out lost among the orders from actively managed fund traders. But with AI systems, it might learn to place a large buy order in a relatively thinly traded component of a large index, a few microseconds before selling a large lot of the index itself. How much to buy, how early to buy, what to buy, when to sell etc are not calculated deterministically by human traders. But AI might find the pattern and learn it.
There are many advantages of tech companies. They are used to stiff competition, fast life cycle of products, etc etc. But the biggest advantage they have is, they would not be running the race with 25 lb dead weights strapped to their ankles, so to speak. The past agreements the automakers have made with the National Association of Automobile Dealerships are extremely one sided and very onerous. NADA has the monopoly of all the autos made/imported into the USA. They have extraordinary political clout, some are exempt from the monopoly and restrictive trade practices act, and they are a strangle hold on the manufacturers.
Their clout is so high, it is not being talked about as much as the pension obligations of the big three, or the clout of labor unions over the manufacturers. If the cars made by tech alliance by passes the NADA, it would be a boon to the consumers.
What is bad is not upgrading the security of a protocol that is ON by default for 30 years.
Let us take something equally ancient on the unix side, like the Xwindows. Is it on by default in linux? Does it suck as much as SMBv1 in terms of security? What kind of security enhancements have gone into each protocol over these three decades?
I don't know which one is better, but that will give us a sense of how much blame to heap on Microsoft.
I get severe jet lag only when I fly business. They give nice food and bed and you sleep in the plane. Once you land your body takes several days to adjust. When I fly coach, if I force myself to stay awake all/most of the flight, I arrive dead tired. Somehow stay away till 6pm to 9pm local time after landing on the first day. Body will be so tired, it will sleep for 8 to 10 hours. No jet lag from the next day.
He only freed all the slaves in the confederate states. West Virginia, Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland and Missouri were slave states that did not join the confederacy. The slaves there were not covered by the emancipation proclamation. They were eventually freed after 13th amendment made slavery illegal in all of the USA.
That Graham Burke signed a "onerous" deal with Hollywood studios. But does not blame the bad deal they signed, but expect Australians to bail them out by keeping their ad revenue coming. Just suck it up buddy, when the deal comes up for renewal, make realistic projections and offer what these movies are worth.
I got quirky habits down pat. Loads of them. Quirky is actually a charitable way to describe them, that much quirky. So where do I collect my certificate for geniusity ? or is it geniusness?
Are you sending a message to the hardened criminals that if they want to target hardcore gun nuts they should catch them while they are playing baseball?
They are Rpublicans supporting gun rights! Why weren't they armed? Why they were unable to shoot back? Why did they have to take cover and wait for the police?
I dont want it to activate a trimmer and cut it. I want it to roll a wet rag on it sprayed with either a broad leaf weed killer or roundup. Dont spray. Right now it is height based, no vision sensor. So roundup is enough. Once it recognizes weeds from grass, it can use broad leaf weed killer that does not kill the grass.
Let me ignore the issue of sample bias and unscientific sampling, in this.
It is quite possible all these racists and xenophobes have always existed, and all Google has done is to install a microphone at all the water coolers, coffee machines, bars,... Recorded what had unrecorded private conversations and actions and they kind of news and stories people read.
Then you need to compare with the volume that was declared non-racist and altruist.
Further it possible America is less racist than Europe. We gave refuge to half of all the Jews of the world in WWII. After Hitler and Nazis were defeated, did the European saviors and the non-nazi regular Germans allow them to return? Europe decided to dump all the displaced Jews in a arid desert in a far away land grabbed from the Arabs and created a spanking new country and sowed the seeds of eternal conflict in the Middle East. This on one hand. Google searches on the other. Gimme a break.
As someone who disparages and ridicules astrology, I take pride in not knowing my zodiac sign. Now this stupid algorithm is going to declare me an identity thief of my own identity.
Worse, now that this technique has been revealed, the real thieves meanwhile will remember to note down info they enter in pieces of paper as the go along, thus they can revisit, open another google window to search for stuff etc.
I have mod points. But looks like there is no way to mark the story as flame bait/troll. The UI only lets me mark comments as troll/flame bait. But not the story. May be someone who is more familiar can clue me in how to do this.
Let us say, they have vastly overestimated the revenue potential of failure porn. When this museum fails, would it add itself as the last entry before going defunct?
Canonsburg PA is the World Capital for Finite Element Method. It is not in that list? Sad! Just this week Finite Element Method got inducted into S&P500. All those nerds mumbling "kappa mu nu Mesh nu del cross Mesh Galerkin epsilon Mesh Green's curl Mesh divergence Hermitian k-epsilon" are having a ball there. IIT to F1 to PhD to H1B to Green Card to Citizen to CEO of S&P500... He is the last one now. He won't be the last one for long.
This was the quality of H1B before Cognescent and TCS and Infosys crashed the party and brought in imbeciles from Mohammad Badsha College of Engineering, Boondocks district, Middle of Nowhere, India...
Time magazine used to print my name and address in the advertisement, print how my rep voted for a particular bill
It was black and white, dot matrix printer with some misalignment. But that was 15 years ago. Should be surprised only if commercial scale printers can't take a new image for every label.
Netadmin or Sysadmin team has no content writer, so Prakash is told to create an induction manual for new hires.
What the hell? It is not some user manual for an application sold to customers. It is an internal document of procedures. Admins routinely write such procedure documents every day of the week. Often for their own references, so that they dont miss important tasks. Many admin jobs are done one a week, once a month, once a quarter, or on triggers like off boarding, on boarding, going on leave, coming back from vacation etc. They should document what is done. Often admins will history > this_session ; emacs this_session and add notes to the commands and make that the document.
This is military terminology. The "staff" here is the General Staff, officers who form the core of administration of the armed forces. Officers who has achieved "staff" rank get to wear some special markings on their uniforms, like a red band around their caps, or red velvet under their insignia or red markings under the stars on their collar etc.
It is like the word "secretary". The secretary of the board is a senior administrative officer. These terms secretary, staff etc often refer to the low ranking as well as high ranking officers.
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Jeff Bezos got up in the morning, was feeling lousy and wanted to make his mom's best comfort food, chicken soup. So he mumbled "Alexa! buy Whole Foods Chicken Stock". That damned machine bought Whole Foods instead. Not willing to concede Alexa is horribly broken he is trying to act as if he always meant to buy the company.
The problem is, use the rosy projections on good years to show their pension obligations are "overfunded" and withdraw the cash, distribute it as bonus among the top executives. Then on the next year when the returns are lower, they feign ignorance, "omg, it is underfunded, so you pensioners are dragging the company down. we cant fund it. We will go bankrupt and you lose it all. So accept these lower terms". They have been raiding pension funds, built up over 40 years. From 1950 to 1990. They raided them all through the 90s. And converted all the defined benefit plans to defined contribution plans. Except government, there are very few defined benefit plans exist in usa today.
At present active investors can't game index investors easily. The orders from traders for index funds get swamped out lost among the orders from actively managed fund traders. But with AI systems, it might learn to place a large buy order in a relatively thinly traded component of a large index, a few microseconds before selling a large lot of the index itself. How much to buy, how early to buy, what to buy, when to sell etc are not calculated deterministically by human traders. But AI might find the pattern and learn it.
Their clout is so high, it is not being talked about as much as the pension obligations of the big three, or the clout of labor unions over the manufacturers. If the cars made by tech alliance by passes the NADA, it would be a boon to the consumers.
What is bad is not upgrading the security of a protocol that is ON by default for 30 years.
Let us take something equally ancient on the unix side, like the Xwindows. Is it on by default in linux? Does it suck as much as SMBv1 in terms of security? What kind of security enhancements have gone into each protocol over these three decades?
I don't know which one is better, but that will give us a sense of how much blame to heap on Microsoft.
I get severe jet lag only when I fly business. They give nice food and bed and you sleep in the plane. Once you land your body takes several days to adjust. When I fly coach, if I force myself to stay awake all/most of the flight, I arrive dead tired. Somehow stay away till 6pm to 9pm local time after landing on the first day. Body will be so tired, it will sleep for 8 to 10 hours. No jet lag from the next day.
Pumping water uphill? That would technically be a flow battery right?
President Lincoln freed all of ours.
He only freed all the slaves in the confederate states. West Virginia, Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland and Missouri were slave states that did not join the confederacy. The slaves there were not covered by the emancipation proclamation. They were eventually freed after 13th amendment made slavery illegal in all of the USA.
That Graham Burke signed a "onerous" deal with Hollywood studios. But does not blame the bad deal they signed, but expect Australians to bail them out by keeping their ad revenue coming. Just suck it up buddy, when the deal comes up for renewal, make realistic projections and offer what these movies are worth.
For example the Superstar Rajnikanth was born in Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
As a great philosopher once said, "Only shooting stars break the mold."
Stop saying stuff like that. Some second amendment nut case might go postal on some movie stars.
I got quirky habits down pat. Loads of them. Quirky is actually a charitable way to describe them, that much quirky. So where do I collect my certificate for geniusity ? or is it geniusness?
Are you sending a message to the hardened criminals that if they want to target hardcore gun nuts they should catch them while they are playing baseball?
They are Rpublicans supporting gun rights! Why weren't they armed? Why they were unable to shoot back? Why did they have to take cover and wait for the police?
I dont want it to activate a trimmer and cut it. I want it to roll a wet rag on it sprayed with either a broad leaf weed killer or roundup. Dont spray. Right now it is height based, no vision sensor. So roundup is enough. Once it recognizes weeds from grass, it can use broad leaf weed killer that does not kill the grass.
It is quite possible all these racists and xenophobes have always existed, and all Google has done is to install a microphone at all the water coolers, coffee machines, bars, ... Recorded what had unrecorded private conversations and actions and they kind of news and stories people read.
Then you need to compare with the volume that was declared non-racist and altruist.
Further it possible America is less racist than Europe. We gave refuge to half of all the Jews of the world in WWII. After Hitler and Nazis were defeated, did the European saviors and the non-nazi regular Germans allow them to return? Europe decided to dump all the displaced Jews in a arid desert in a far away land grabbed from the Arabs and created a spanking new country and sowed the seeds of eternal conflict in the Middle East. This on one hand. Google searches on the other. Gimme a break.
Does not talk about attack vector, what user action is needed to get infected with the malware.
Worse, now that this technique has been revealed, the real thieves meanwhile will remember to note down info they enter in pieces of paper as the go along, thus they can revisit, open another google window to search for stuff etc.
The good country of Pakistan. Failure of the first order.
I have mod points. But looks like there is no way to mark the story as flame bait/troll. The UI only lets me mark comments as troll/flame bait. But not the story. May be someone who is more familiar can clue me in how to do this.
Let us say, they have vastly overestimated the revenue potential of failure porn. When this museum fails, would it add itself as the last entry before going defunct?
This was the quality of H1B before Cognescent and TCS and Infosys crashed the party and brought in imbeciles from Mohammad Badsha College of Engineering, Boondocks district, Middle of Nowhere, India...
It was black and white, dot matrix printer with some misalignment. But that was 15 years ago. Should be surprised only if commercial scale printers can't take a new image for every label.
Netadmin or Sysadmin team has no content writer, so Prakash is told to create an induction manual for new hires.
What the hell? It is not some user manual for an application sold to customers. It is an internal document of procedures. Admins routinely write such procedure documents every day of the week. Often for their own references, so that they dont miss important tasks. Many admin jobs are done one a week, once a month, once a quarter, or on triggers like off boarding, on boarding, going on leave, coming back from vacation etc. They should document what is done. Often admins will history > this_session ; emacs this_session and add notes to the commands and make that the document.
First, "CXX" level is not "staff"
This is military terminology. The "staff" here is the General Staff, officers who form the core of administration of the armed forces. Officers who has achieved "staff" rank get to wear some special markings on their uniforms, like a red band around their caps, or red velvet under their insignia or red markings under the stars on their collar etc.
It is like the word "secretary". The secretary of the board is a senior administrative officer. These terms secretary, staff etc often refer to the low ranking as well as high ranking officers.