They can unwind deals after they are complete. It's pretty rare, because it's messy and expensive for all parties involved.

Also, given the rubber-stamping of the last dozen or so media mergers, it would be difficult for the government to explain why this particular merger would be harmful, while the last dozen mega-mergers and divestitures were just fine.

I'd say keep letter delivery, but cut it to once a week. Have a smaller workforce cycle through the routes. Do bulk mail once a month.

The Kroger by us, in a fairly densely populated suburb, has over 25 positions open. The nearby Wal-Mart can't stay open 24-hours because they can't get enough people to work the night shift. Two nearby restaurants closed because they couldn't keep enough staff to stay open during lunch and dinner rushes.

I'm not even a manager and there are, at present count, 30 hours of meetings on my calendar. I go to less than half, I just let the meetings sandbag my calendar so that new meetings are difficult to schedule. Either you know me and we have a reason to meet, or fuck you.

The actual managers are much worse off. Corporate life is stupid.

My son works for his high school newspaper. He brought in a battery powered Panasonic cassette recorder to do interviews, complete with the cheesy chrome microphone it came with. It got people more interested in the interviews and he got some good copy out of them. He also brought in a portable typewriter we found on the side of the road being thrown away. He fixed it up and uses it to type notes in newspaper class. Everyone in that class loves it.

The difficulty is that when you need them, you need them.

Money through the mail, money when online services aren't available, backups when AWS goes out, or the Internet is out in the region, etc, etc.

They provide an exact amount and an alternative when other methods fail.

Because ECC adds price and, usually, is slower than regular memory. What has mainly driven PC hardware is gaming, and gamers care about speed, not long-term stability.

RAM speed doesn't matter as much as it used to for framerates, though, unless you are overclocking a ton, in which case you don't care about stability anyways.

reusable.
it is hell of a word

Yes, the details matter.

AI that can scan x-rays, analyze bloodwork, evaluate my poop for life-threatening conditions, or otherwise augment a doctor's treatment? AI models that look at millions of possible treatment plans and find the ones most likely to be successful? Wonderful.

AI systems that remove the human connections? AI that evaluates treatment not based on medical efficacy but on cost models? AI used to make healthcare cheaper but not better outcomes? Do not want!

A very real issue is the dumbing-down of doctors who rely too much on AI. There were studies that doctors using AI to help during colonoscopy were less able to do their job after getting used to the AI tools. They became worse at their job by being reliant on AI.

Use of AI in some cases and for some conditions results in far better outcomes for patients. In some cases it augments what a skilled doctor can do. In some cases it results in detrimental outcomes for patients. And in some cases, it adds no medical value with a risk of increasing problems, in addition to increasing costs, like cases of transcription errors that aren't caught, or case summaries that are wrong in critical ways.

Ages ago I worked for a company that developed car stereos. Car companies were insanely paranoid about driver distraction. There were industry standards on minutiae like how fast song titles scroll on the screen, and a complete ban on flashing or pop-up anything.

Car companies being OK with anything flashing up on the screen that isn't absolutely critical to driving is mind boggling. All it takes is one diver glancing down for a split second to look at an ad, hitting someone walking out from between parked cars, and you have a slam-dunk lawsuit that will evaporate any money made from the advertising. Lawyers salivate at this kind of thing. Standing in front of a jury with a client all bandaged up "This callous car company thought it was more important to make money while distracting this driver by selling ads than to make sure the driver was paying attention to the road..."

If you want *any* manufacturing jobs brought back to the US, they are going to be in mostly automated plants. Car companies can barely hire enough workers to cover existing shifts. People don't want to work in factories, and companies don't want to spend $100,000 a year paying workers to stick an automatic torque wrench onto a bolt.

Even completely automated factories large-scale need a few thousand employees to maintain and ship stuff.

Yup, still better than humans.

"Driver hits unleashed dog that darted into street" is just a Tuesday, but "autonomous vehicle hits unleashed dog that darted into street" is a headline because it is so rare.

You think shareholders have a direct voice in day-to-day operations of a company? What is that mechanism?
Last I heard of something like that happening was when Roy E Disney was pissed that Eisner was screwing up the Disney-Pixar deal. He had to gather a dozen other large investors, overturn a good chunk of the board, then have them vote Eisner out to fix that deal.

cheese.
space vehicles coated with cheese.
I just thought space exploration would not be like this

I'd be less concerned about the malware on windows knowing the typical home user. It's just yet another method, joining all the infected game hacks (or non-functional ones that are just malware claiming to be Roblox or Minecraft mods) , infected "useful" plug in with the same story, MS office documents that still represent about a third of all pfishing, or Microsoft letting .zip files run as executables if you just renamed the exe BINARY. The malware is something people already do, so it is not surprising. Just like all the "my Facebook got hacked, please don't click on anything from me" announcements these are background.

No, it's the people who will apply filters, crops, or other edits to their entire photo collection and have no backup. Or replace the content of every single document on the shared drive with a mistaken find-and-replace command. Or have a more subtle large change wiping out parts of documents that goes mostly unnoticed. The system logs what it did, but that's not the same as an undo buffer, nor archives for when it really fouls the files up over time.