What we observe will always be somewhere in the middle, because if it gets to the worst case, we won't be here to observe it.

If the numbers get too small, the species becomes genetically nonviable due to insufficient genetic base. And TPTB won't want to "spend enough" (allocate a large enough percentage of total resources) to prevent that from happening because it might interfere with the overwhelming economic superiority upon which their internal self-worth is based.

Or, they stripped out disregard to get their AI to not accept instructions to disregard prior instructions, but did it in the wrong place so it removed it from the search terms.

The government's job is to address the needs of the nation, which includes those of the citizens. If it insists that people should have to work if they want to live, then they should be preserving jobs for their citizenry first.

It's just completely incorrect for cars without controls to even exist. Cars with controls are easier to manage in breakdowns. Not even being able to steer without the computer means it will be difficult to get disabled vehicles onto rollbacks in some circumstances. The correct infrastructure for vehicles without steering wheels is rail.

Obama broke his brain. Funny how it wasn't some other president doing the same shit. It's almost like there's something different about that guy to which he objects.

Treadmill? That can be optimistic.

One place I worked for, I was hired to do DB and coding. Sped their database up by a factor of 60, and resolved tickets efficiently.

Another place I worked for, I was hired to do QA. Found numerous performance issues and dangerous security holes.

Didn't last in either, because politics are more important than people, and revenue is more important than wages. Once all the factors that seriously impacted profit were removed, keeping me would merely have meant a better product, not more cash. The market is only so big, and once you've taken all the share you're going to, being better won't increase it. Companies don't think beyond the next quarter.

Two other places I worked for, the CEO was using it to scam money off investors and get cheaper healthcare. They never intended to produce a product.

If you're forced to treat employees well, these things will still happen but they'll happen less often. Because the risks are higher, the payoff is lower, and penalties for getting caught are a whole lot worse.

That's how it works in a coupled system.

Agreed. There's deliberate undercounting for the long-term unemployed, and a failure to account for the fact that firing seasoned workers with acquired skills isn't the same as hiring inexperienced yoofs who have no meaningful experience in producing robust, high quality products. Although, to be fair, corporations don't seem keen on producing those.

However, there's another factor to consider. The number of retirees is smaller than the number of people entering work for the first time. Due to Covid, a LOT smaller than usual. This means that the markets are expanding. If the markets are expanding but the numer of people being added is only keeping pace with job circulation and retirement, then the job market (as a percentage of those who can work) must be smaller relative to both the markets and the work that needs to be done.

This is the most misleading part of employment statistics. Whilst total unemployment is important (but only useful if not deliberately undercounted), you also need to know the employment:activity ratio and the employment:expected employment in a fully functional market of that size ratio.

We used to have EDDs (etc) which companies could inform of their job openings, and people could go to them and find out about opportunities that matched their backgrounds. These evolved into places to get help with resumes and searches for jobs, but not with job listings themselves. While those are clearly needed functions, having a trusted source of job listings with a legal obligation not to needlessly disclose information about you to third parties was also valuable.

At least with a government program there is a reasonable possibility of useful oversight under some administrations. With private operators it always seems to go wrong for lack of transparency, as opposed to only most of the time.

My favorite conspiracy theory is that he's getting too sick to carry on much longer, so many of the distractions are to draw attention away from the increasingly visible signs of his sickness. Fundamental problem there because the YOB loves attention, but I'm sure that some of the puppeteers pulling his strings understand how bad he looks more and more often.

Much as I like Funny, I'm not seeing any place for it around this story. Unless some of the UFO videos are funny? Or maybe a link to an Onion video about UFOs?

'Nuff said.

'Nuff said?

FFT didn't exist for another decade.

On what basis do you draw that conclusion?

On the basis that a woman from the Radiophonics Workshop innovated a technique?

Perhaps you are going to argue Einstein was a moron because Noether figured out the relationships between symmetry and conservation laws.

I know there are some idiots here, but frankly you are one of the worst.