The lottery is a tax on people who are poor at math.

I think they do. Institutions like Stanford, MIT and Harvard make millions to billions from their patents and IP. For example, Stanford owns the patent on PageRank (Google Search) and MIT is licensing CRISPR gene editing technology.

The economy is in the shitter ...

They are one of the leading and most prestigious consultancy firms. So expect a huge bill for the taxpayer, and no real results, but that's not different from any other big consultancy firm.

No. Big streamers already tried to jump ship and had a massive drop in viewers. But most streamers setup donations which go directly to them, and do not use twitch as a middleman. And yes, the really big streamers have endorsements from plenty of sponsors. Their channel submissions are probably not the biggest part of their income. But still, there's a reason why they were able to negotiate better deals.

Don't search for random male names if you don't want a screen full of penises.

They are talking about a timespan of 4 months. At my office, most people still work from home, but of the 10-15 people that show up regularly (and we have plenty of space to social distance at the office, with CO2 meters usually around 450-550 ppm), half of them caught Covid during the June-July wave here. All of them caught it somewhere else, not at work, usually from their kids or family.
So, we still got the e-mails "hey, I was at the office Monday, started feeling sick Tuesday and test came back positive", but since I was nowhere near those people and I still try to avoid common areas too much, who cares.
As long as they don't force their employees to cramp inside a small meeting room with 20 people, chances are much higher they got it elsewhere than from work. Unless they can really identify hubs of infections in teams.
Because if there's something people are really good at, it's minimizing their own risk of contamination outside of work. If you have kids and a family, I think it's a x10 risk vs getting it at work.

Indeed, I watched the youtube and it's not always clear to what other denoising engine they compare it. If it's versus a single image denoiser, it's not fair game since that would have to guess about adjacent pixels. Just by having two pictures it could already render a 3D space of the environment. Basically information it doesn't know in one picture, it can get from another picture. With a single image that's not possible. Very impressive nevertheless though, but it's not the voodoo magic they describe it to be.

It's a good idea to put in your contract that Restricted Stock Units should vest automatically if you are being laid off. Usually RSUs that vest in the future over 3-4 years are a way to bind you to the company for at least that amount of time. In a way, it's a breach of contract of they stop requiring your services before the end of that period.

Try using a library in Java to read some xml or json or logs or whatever boilerplate code you need. It will pull in half the internet.

pretty cool, but the article is a year old. None of the links work, including the youtube video.

I'm sure any serious miner is probably not using the conventional powergrid but mainly wind/sun/hydro.

Many apartments in Manhattan are investments that are just sitting empty. In buildings were superstars like Taylor Swift and the likes have condos, half is never occupied.
These condos can also be used for money laundry. I buy a condo for 2 million $, 2 years later you buy it from me for 4 million $. Bam, You just "gave" me 2 million $.
Condos that are bought as investments are easier to flip if you rent them out on AirBnb rather than have actual tenants in there.

One costs 80-120k$ to make. So it is definitely not cheap for what it is. Also, those nitro fuel RC motors are not very reliable. You have to break them in, you can't go full throttle from the start, they have to warm up, it makes a lot of noise.
This is total amateurism. Just the extra weight from that camera is laughable. If the enemy takes one down, they will just have access to everything on that camera.

it embiggens the smallest comets!