Can confirm these teams are still around. There is now an additional "SME review group" that must comb through any and all AI-related issues that were flagged, sends it back down for edits and must give final approval for before docs are sent over to provider for response. Turnaround has gotten much slower (relatively)
Seems like there is a multi-industry push to move into Texas; came across a video the other day of Matthew McConaughey & Woody Harrelson (and other big name actors) reprising their True Detective role calling for the Texas legislature to increase incentives that bring Hollywood productions over to Texas.
One aspect that intrigues me is it's well positioned to take advantage of solar power. I think solar capacity is growing faster than any state and it's behind only California now?
I live in Chicago and just got finished with a 10F degree week, and I was sitting there feeling bad about how much natural gas my house was burning to stay warm. There are plenty of weeks here, where I have to raise the temperature in the house 60F degrees, whereas the worst in Texas is probably only a difference of a few dozen, tops. On top of which, cooling like that is vastly more efficient than warming. Heat pumps are getting to be useable at these low temperatures, and somewhat more efficient than just burning the fuel, but not nearly as efficient at cooling from, say, 100 to 80.
But the biggest difference is that when climate control needs are the highest here, we have the least sun: in the winter, at night. Whereas in Texas when the climate needs are the highest (in the summer, in the daytime), they have the most sun. There's something sort of pleasing about that to me.
> Texas heat
In other words, as someone who's a solar power optimist, dealing with Chicago cold, I feel like that's not such a drawback.
Of course, somewhere sunny and comfortable like California might be best, but who can afford that.
They don't. They're currently incorporated in Delaware, but HQ is (and will remain, so far) in California.
> The paperwork change would not relocate its corporate headquarters. A Meta spokesperson said that it does not plan on shifting its corporate headquarters out of Menlo Park, California, but declined to comment on reincorporation when contacted by Reuters.
Engineers don’t seem to be taking the bait, and people are very reluctant to move away from basically the most perfect weather in the entire world almost year round.
When industries move away, taxes do as well. When the taxes go down, services and property values go down. Engineers may not want to give up perfect weather, but they still want to be employed, have their properties not depreciate and want good schools.
Industries aren't really moving though. The state a company is incorporated is generally orthogonal to where that company puts their HQ or hires most of their workers.
Eh, people will still move to California to start a business. When it gets threatened enough, it'll cave and play ball with other states to get back into the game. Having an insane upper hand with the climate based desirability will help them to get back on track, in my opinion. Now, I don't live in CA, and wouldn't want to move for some other reasons, but I genuinely don't think there is a better climate than SF, LA, SD metro areas. Maybe Cape Town, but then again, different problems.
Various pundits have been really pushing this "People are leaving California in droves!" narrative, desperately hoping that it one day becomes true. They need it to be true in order to repudiate all the various political Californisms that they disagree with. The reality is that California's population declined less than 1% in one year out of the last 125 and stood approximately steady in one year. It increased the remaining 123 years.
You’re really underestimating how much people value the ability of just going outside at any point of the year without and physical annoyances. It’s hard to live anywhere else once you experience the life in that climate, and people won’t move out easy. Ok, I’m definitely overstating, and very biased, but still.
There are a lot of people in Texas and the biggest cities are quite close together. In fact, you can start in Dallas, drive down to Waco, drive down to Austin, drive down to San Antonio, and you've only driven four hours to do so. If ever there was untapped access to a huge workforce, it's in Texas.
Even better, Houston actually has the lowest homelessness rate of any major US city[0] and access to water. People are really sleeping on Houston's future right now.
It's very libertarian. No taxes, few regulations. Some people die here and there from the lack of safety, but that's a sacrifice the government is willing to make.
This is a massive oversimplification. The taxes and regulations are simply handled at a lower level of government. If you've ever lived in a large Texas metro, you would know it's not the wild west it gets portrayed as. Lots of places that give off serious California NIMBY vibes and that are relatively expensive. The difference is that taxation and government services are typically handled via property tax and delivered locally instead of at the state level.
California and Texas have a lot more in common than people who've only lived in one or the other think. Texas just happens to be growing very quickly and is in some ways more geopolitically important at the moment (energy and exports and semiconductors and finance), which (besides less business regulation) is a big reason for the outflow from Cali and other states to Texas.
I'd like to ask how you found yourself practicing in this area of the law and any advice you may have for those who will be entering law school in a few months.
I will be heading into my first year of law school in a few months with some general ideas of what I'd like to do after graduation (compliance, regulatory, M&A, contracts) with no concrete ideas either way.
- Would you have any specific advice on what you would have liked to have done in law school that would have helped you later on in your career that you'd recommend students to tackle early on?
- Are there any "wasted time/effort traps" that you might caution students to look out for as they navigate their program?
I think immigration is a great area of the law because as a lawyer you deal with amazing people and companies, get to know some really smart and interesting people, and can make a difference (help founders, employees, families realize their dream of living and working in the U.S.). It's one of the things that that makes America great (at least that's what I think) and it's great to be a part of that journey.
Oh neat! Hope this is okay to share here re: the context; but I uploaded a cache of files to spin up a Windows 95 VM in virtualbox to Archive a bit ago. Was messing around with it for a few weeks to try and get an old game my boyfriend wanted to play working that ultimately couldn't be achieved.
It wasn't so much an issue with the system but the actual game itself. The director (.dxr) files are all corrupted sadly. Tried some 'hacks' to maybe even get a peak/convert the files with very old installs of Macromedia and some extra software but came up short. The game would load - but when you're taken to the startup screen, the assets kick back an error of '..file is not director file...' and crashes :(
It's on a todo, hopefully one day I can get it going haha :')
Seems like it; I have a personal subreddit the same as my username that I flip between private and restricted to post music videos I grab with an iOS shortcut (can't post video on private subs) and the same landed in that accounts inbox (2) days ago.
My other private subreddit for Wikipedia/github links has never flipped/flopped and it didn't get the same message.
On my Windows laptop, I was able to set up a passkey with Windows Hello [a fingerprint swipe] to get into a secondary Google account that really only exists to store [pages of] coloring books (PDFs)
I'm admittedly ignorant in this domain; but I thought it was interesting that my built-in Chrome passwords were, and still are, locked behind the Windows Hello pop-up and now I could theoretically use that same mechanism to sign in to a google account all together.
The answer is probably in this article but I just don't understand; I'd love to know why Windows Hello can now be used to sign-in to the account. Probably won't use it in favor of an authenticator app.
Suppose I should do a test to see how passkey behaves for the account on a Windows laptop and how that will then work on a Chromebook...
I was just browsing your site a few days ago; did you just push a UI update? It looks a lot better and is a lot more relaxing on the eyes (eye strain) that it was before. Looks great.
> tomorrow's weather was going to be partly Moony with a chance of rain
It may have been Tumblr rotting my brain all throughout high school and college; but this reads as so incredibly poetic and I'm extremely happy to have made a decision to stumble in this thread to read it.
It's so nice to make a silly little app and have it surprise you in the best ways.
> TikTok could become really important, really fast. We shouldn’t let things get to that point.
Twitter was and is still very, very popularly used to get immediate news in the event of domestic and international emergencies and it still is at this point considering it is used as a platform which agencies can use to convey information quickly and have it retweeted.
Anyone who has been on Twitter recognizes this. You can still find first-person POV from users in some really interesting situations that would otherwise not be shown on mass-media networks due to regulatory controls on what can and can't be shown.
Does that validate the use-case in Twitter being banned? Let's say the new owner doesn't want to show reporting from what is happening in Eastern Europe - does that further solidify an argument that it should be banned because it has been 'weaponized'?
The author at no point references Twitter in their article and just continues on a narrow lens on the subject matter.
What is the value in banning an app in a shroud of hypotheticals?
I think that is something which has been in the background over there for awhile now considering their plan has always been to replicate the success in e-commerce in the Asian market [1] by expanding it to include the US/EU market [2]; to that end they also began to build fulfillment centers in anticipation [3] but I don't think it's had much success as of right now.
I imagine they are still very eager to shift into that type of model since the format does present some real potential in generating conversions. If you've done the ads where the user can 'swipe' into the e-commerce shop those seem to work really well for makeup brands from what I've seen.
Sources, if anyone is interested in checking out what I mean
