Why is taxing private jets considered to be "ideological" when we know private jets emit multiples more carbon dioxide per passenger than commercial flights and that their use is growing at an alarming rate.
The policy is based on hard evidence and should be in every party's policy if they are serious about tackling climate change.
https://phys.org/news/2024-11-private-jet-carbon-emissions-soar.html
Marc Andreessen: “And another thing! We would’ve solved climate change in the 70s if the pesky environmentalists hadn’t killed nuclear power!”
Also Marc Andreessen: “I’m proud to announce we’re working with one of the most brutal, repressive, corrupt regimes in history to help them launder their oil money on a computer that uses ⅛ of the global electric supply to generate ransom notes.”
Yet more instances of lawyers citing hallucinated case citations in court
For all the discussion of how generative AI will impact the legal profession, maybe one answer is that it will weed out the lazy and incompetent lawyers. By now, in the wake of several cases in which...
one of Motherboard's last articles warns of what's coming
whoever's left in U.S. journalism please turn out the lights and put the dishes in the sink before you go to bed
Remember how part of killing the #Reddit API was also to curb 'theft' of their data by AI harvesters?
Hahahahahahaa.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/17/24075670/reddit-ai-training-license-deal-user-content
~100 more Starlink v1 satellites will be burning up in the upper atmosphere in the next 6 months, bringing up the total number of de-orbited Starlink satellites to ~500 out of 6000 launched
https://api.starlink.com/public-files/Commitment%20to%20Space%20Sustainability.pdf
De-orbiting satellites by burning them up did work when the volume of satellites was small, but already 10% of aerosol particules in the stratosphere contain aluminum/other metals.
The problem is only going to get worse with the launch of megaconstellations https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2313374120
So this is worse than when I and others found a lot of sensitive documents on Microsoft Documents back in 2017 (see this article for more info: https://www.csoonline.com/article/560819/microsoft-axed-docs-com-search-option-after-private-files-were-shared-publicly.html )
Scribd is leaking a lot of things.
And, just like Microsoft Documents, the issue is the User Experience. Both Scribd and Microsoft Documents is meant to help users upload their documents and share them with others. These services storing sensitive documents is not the issue.
The issue is its apparent default behavior for users to inadvertently share these documents PUBLICLY and SEARCHABLE.
Study finds women more likely to apply to job ads with precise qualifications. For one vague ad, 6% of qualified women applied vs 22% of men. With more precise lang, 29% of women applied. In another, 42% of women applied vs 56% of men; precise ad=62% of women.
This gives some empirical support to the oft-quoted stat that men apply for a job when they meet 60% of the qualifications, but women apply only if they meet 100% of them.
https://womensagenda.com.au/business/vague-language-in-job-ads-can-push-women-away-new-research-shows-how-employers-can-attract-more-female-applicants/
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