One potential hurdle for implementation is the lack of new funding in the bill for local governments and election offices, which would be responsible for enforcing its provisions.

American politics loves unfunded mandates. The result will be the lack of ease of voting for as many people as possible.

Incompetence of HR staff plays a huge role in this. Hiring teams have zero understanding of what they’re hiring for. They subscribe to services that design a candidate profile for them, which then filters candidates based on that candidate profile. There’s a lot of keyword matching, education grading, even resume format analysis, and of course some subtle forms of discrimination (inferring age, for example). They want someone who is likely expecting the lower end of the salary band, as well, which is calculated. There’s also a personality scoring system based on language and public profile analysis. All of this happens before a single person sees your resume. If the score isn’t 9/10, the resume is discarded.

BCIS degree and the tool filters for “Computer Science”? Instant-reject.

And then there are ghost jobs. Companies have learned that the markets infer their health based on job openings, so they put up plausible openings with no intent to fill them. They might even promise internal teams that they will fill them, but they won’t.

My employer has had a position open for 9 months, I’ve referred 2 people to it who were really good fits, and both were rejected within 4 hours. It’s a ghost job.

The only reliable path to having a human make any intelligent judgment on your candidacy is with a referral from an existing employee.

Nobody has a textbook career history, but that’s all recruiting teams know to look for. Most internal recruiters are failed sales people, and sales people are already pretty clueless most of the time. They outsource all of the thinking to external services.

His loyal paramilitary goon squad

MIT license. Meaning someone else will commercialize it

Gotta protect those pharma profits

This really upsets me. My preferred format has always been the mass market paperback. I can often fit them in a back pocket or cargo pocket, they fit better in my backpack, and they’re easier to hold in positions with one hand. They’re simply the superior format. I know they probably don’t look cool on coffee tables or whatever, but they also use less surface area on coffee tables. I hate floppy coffee table sized paperback books.

It’s fine, though, because most of what I read is old shit. I can keep buying my used mass market paperbacks. By the time the last ones disappear, I’ll probably be dead.

South China Morning Post: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3263878/chinese-scientists-report-world-first-they-cure-patients-diabetes-cell-therapy

Trump cancelled the federal grant for this program, so it might falter in upcoming years.

This is absurd. The contemporaneous accounts don’t support this. We’re making up fake history based on feels.

Meanwhile, real black African history is basically never taught due to the shadow of colonialism.

Instead of reaching for some false valour, can we teach the full pre-colonial history of Africa?

Fork it. Keep it open source. Enshitification is coming.

And if their percentage was unreasonably high, their competitors would sell at lower prices. Strangely, they don’t. Which tells us that Tim’s complaints are nothing but bullshit.

The cookie banners are the result of shitty web companies aggressively violating our privacy. It’s not the regulation’s fault that every company is evil.

The easy solution to eliminate the banners is for companies to stop being evil.

Now they start taking away privileges from citizens for disagreeing with government policy. Next they jail them.

Contrary to fact hypothesizing.

All of the AI tools know how to make CP somehow - probably because their creators fed it to them.

The term prediction markets is a way to brand away from the stigma and the social harms of gambling.

But it’s the same.

Even if the shutdown commences, the Democrats will cave when some small inconvenience occurs for wealthy people. Again.

Tuvix’s death makes the entire series A+. If Janeway had a choice between keeping Tuvix alive and getting home immediately, or killing Tuvix and having to slog through the entire Delta quadrant, then clearly the latter is the superior choice.

By the time they unfreeze it, Trump will give them reason to freeze it again. Make a deal with a bad faith party, expect them to demand more every time.

I struggle to consider it scientific because it bakes in so many fundamental assumptions without questioning them. At least mainstream economics.