> We can be glad we have cars, trucks and roads that are a bit more resistant to attacks.
Cars/trucks/roads are so much more dangerous than train travel that it actually seems worth the tradeoff to me even if these sorts of attacks were a regular occurrence. Putin (or whoever did this) sucks but they have not killed 1,105 Americans in a single year. That's just the number of cyclists killed by cars in 2022. Deaths of pedestrians and drivers/passengers are significantly higher.
Even if colleges are more censorious these days (which I’m skeptical of), I struggle to think of any institution in American life more open minded than colleges.
Mainstream media acts as a hive mind. Businesses do not host speakers critical of their operations. Silicon Valley VCs are among the most fragile minds out there.
Heavily armed psychos have been charging into schools to slaughter innocents regularly, for decades now, and those in power have done nothing to stop it.
This data does not indicate a “shift”, since it’s a point in time and we’d need historical data to claim there’s a shift. If the argument is about a “generational shift” then you’d need data going back decades at least.
So, we have someone who has never suffered a harm from the law, was under no risk of prosecution, and who had never even had the opportunity to violate the law. If this person has standing, then standing is meaningless.
The fact that there's a blurb about it in a decision is irrelevant, does the court have a consistent philosophy on standing, or are they just winging it? It seems really obvious they're winging it.
The fact that they analyzed standing is very relevant from a legal and precedential standpoint. I’d like to see your legal analysis to see if you could do better.
My anecdotal experience regarding pay has been the opposite, at least here in Seattle. The employers who require people to come in a few days a week are all big corps who pay quite well.
I wonder if the relative pay depends on the cost of living. If you're in a small town with limited local opportunities then you can get a higher salary by searching for remote work. But if you're in a high cost of living city then the employers who require you to be there have to pay enough to make it worthwhile.
Having just battled the job market, many offers for remote work take your CoL into account; they aren’t paying Seattle salaries to people who live in MN.
I went from a fully remote role to a hybrid role when I switched. I was successfully able to negotiate upwards because if they are going to require me to commute, then I will need more cash to cover that expense. It was the easiest negotiation I have ever done.
(So now I commute into a mostly empty office to join the same webexes, but if that’s how they want to spend their money, that’s their business. My workday still ends at the same time)
There's also the smaller companies that maybe can't afford to pay what a big corp can, but they can offer WFH or other schedule flexiblity to stay competitive.
How does the "compensation for atmospheric turbulence" work? It honestly sounds impossible, like those tv shows where the detective "enhances" a blurry photo.
The replies already posted are quite good. Let me explain it a different way:
When light passes through the atmosphere, it undergoes a convolution known as a point spread function (think of it as convolving the signal with a 2D gaussian that spreads the intensity out to neighboring pixels). If we know that PSF specific details, we can deconvolve the image, either computationally, or by modifying the mirror in real time.
From my understanding, you can project a laser into the atmosphere, where it gets affected by the PSF. When you look at that laser projection, you can find the PSF (because you know the input shape of the laser, and what it looks like after being affected by the PSF), and therefore use that in real time to deconvolve the astronomic images you are collecting.
This process can be done so quickly it can adapt to immediate changes in the atmosphere (turbulence). "Enhance" is definitely a thing- it's widely used in both telescopes and microscopes (and if you had the right priors for a blurry photo, you could do it there too).
Sorry I'm not a big expert in the field of optics, but I am aware of our cameras being used to perform adaptive optics and lucky imaging.
Adaptive optics in particular requires very fast framerates and low latency to make rapid adjustments to the mirror's shape to compensate for the constantly changing atmosphere. It's really amazing that it's possible at all! I believe this is the method used here, though I can't say with certainty.
Lucky imaging is more akin to a brute force method, where you acquire lots and lots of images quickly and process the best ones when the atmosphere was being particularly cooperative at the time and not distorting the image very much.
Again, there are lots of experts out there on the topic, this is just my simple view into it.
It's a technological tour-de-force involving deformable mirrors that change shape every millisecond, cameras able to count every incoming photon, and special computers designed to calculate the next correction within microseconds. As usual wikipedia has an introduction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_optics
They tax people, especially high earners, at a higher rate than Americans. It’s not complicated. The US is the wealthiest country in the history of the planet. We could afford to fund social security if we wanted to but some people are opposed to it.
if you don't mind me asking why? won't everyone just get the money they put in from their salaries? in my head it's like a way to save pre-tax am I simplifying it too much
I suspect for many of the employees this was an intentional way of leaving. Personally I could never work for a company that profits from war like Lockheed or Raytheon. Few people think of Google in that light, so bringing attention to it on your way out seems reasonable. That's not how I'd handle it, but it seems understandable to me.
Cars/trucks/roads are so much more dangerous than train travel that it actually seems worth the tradeoff to me even if these sorts of attacks were a regular occurrence. Putin (or whoever did this) sucks but they have not killed 1,105 Americans in a single year. That's just the number of cyclists killed by cars in 2022. Deaths of pedestrians and drivers/passengers are significantly higher.
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