The median is slightly more meaningful, as you are assured there is at least one sample in your set having that exact value,

They spent around $24.5M on tickets (assuming they were able to keep the 5% sales commission), took home $57.8M (the lump-sum payout of the $95M pool).

If one other person had won each winner would take home $28.9M, still a small net profit.

In college we explored replication the GPS algorithm, your final calculation would always give you two position fixes -- one in space, the other within the earth's atmosphere. Your algorithm would discard the orbital result and return the second answer.

Scratch that, reverse it, and you've got your answer for a lunar fix /s

The reason your self-constructed strawman suggests is just your personal biases showing, not the NRA's. Rather Castile's case and Biden's had one thing in common -- the person at the center of the case was a drug user. Also the NRA rarely has much to say about law enforcement shootings, regardless of the ethnicity of the victim

OTOH, " the 2A crowd" (which is a lot larger than the NRA) did actually have quite a bit to say about Castile and about Hunter, yet were mostly ignored by the major media.

The "free" coffee at my former Fortune-500's office kept declining in quality, at one point our jump server had "ping" aliased to set a payload of 4BAD0FF1CEC0FFEE.

It was almost a relief when they stopped providing free coffee on each floor, instead of taking a 1 minute detour to pour a cup, the whole team would troop down to buy some actually good coffee across the street at Intelligentsia, where sometimes we'd get to chatting with the competition...

For something emergent want to fix right now, like the monthly screeching EAS tones on the radio or closing off the 3-days-dead skunk smell coming in from the "fresh" air vents, I vastly prefer a physical button.

Nothing stops the automaker from also offering voice control as an option, but there are some controls which it just makes sense to have direct hotbutton access.

How much of this animosity towards Carplay is because drivers might actually prefer Rivians user experience, and how much of it is because Rivian is missing out on all that additional monthly Connect+ subscription revenue?

Some things, you really do want a button for. If I'm looking to turn down the radio or turn off the mixing of outside air, I don't want to have a conversation with my car to accomplish those basic tasks.

Ward was a classy and innovative man, and will be missed.

Randy Suess was also a man.

There are a couple of such cases in the news, the key factor in each being that, at the moment she killed him, she was not in fact in immediate danger of death of grievous bodily harm. Sometimes the woman is acquitted by a sympathetic jury, other times convicted. In one example of the former, Marcia Thompson, a 44-year-old U.S. Customs agent, shot her husband in the back while he lay unarmed on the living room couch, then walked free.

Stealing from apartment-style "cluster mailboxes" is much more lucrative as you only need to get past one lock (or steal a master "arrow" key) and you have access to all the mail and packages in the cluster.

The PO Boxes inside a post office are each keyed uniquely and do not have a master key. It is much more difficult & risky to gain access to the backside to loot the boxes en masse, as that is within the "secure" side of the post office. You'd pretty much have to be a USPS employee to successfully and repeatedly steal mail and packages from within a post office. I strongly doubt anybody is getting away with raking open multiple boxes inside a post office, assuming those locks are even that easy to open

When you dig into that "66%" Bankrate survey, the original quote is "Only 44% of U.S. adults would pay an emergency expense of $1,000 or more from their savings", which doesn't mean the same thing as "couldn't cover a month of living expenses".

Depending on how the survey cast the "emergency savings" question, I'd answer differently, as it becomes a question not of assets, but liquidity.

Bard/Gemini has been demonstrated to edit user prompts to include "diversity" language in the prompt before the AI engine receives the prompt.

For example, wrote a prompt for "draw a picture of a fantasy medieval festival with people dancing and celebrating", the response was "Sure, here's a picture of a fantasy medieval festival with people of various genders and ethnicities dancing and celebrating."

There are other examples of Bard rewriting prompts to inject specific races and genders. That isn't training data, that's Google intentionally adding a pre-parser and rewrite engine to steer the results away from the customer's prompt.

Perhaps -- but you would not face charges for the specific crime of "aiding and abetting".

For the example of leaving your car unlocked, you'd only have legal trouble if you proceeded to file a fraudulent insurance claim, and in many states would not incur any tort liability

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The crime of "aiding and abetting", in any sane nation (and in the USA) has a mandatory component of mens rea.

The mandatory reporting in federal law applies to FFLs (registered commercial dealers) only.

Individuals are not held criminally liable for the actions of thief, regardless of what was stolen -- a car, a knife, a gun or a porn stash. With firearms specifically, federal law protects owners in the event of a stolen weapon.

California and the handful of other states with a "gun theft reporting law" generally do not explicitly impose civil liability for the actions of the thief, though California is moving in that direction. There are proposals, like LA's SB216 to make owners liable even if they do report in a timely manner, but these are long shots at best and unlikely to survive a court challenge.