I think that executives requiring estimates of time from product owners (PMs, Engineering Managers) is an instrument for putting them into de-facto 'debt' servitude, and provides a constant stream of justification for dismissal with cause. As others have commented, if the ability to time perfectly was there, it would no longer have been an innovative product. Same with requiring sales forecasts from salespeople. There's no way for the salesperson to know, so they are constantly on the chopping block for falling short of forecasts they are forced to generate.
I imagine above is more or less tacitly acknowledged in tip-sharing conversations between & among execs & their investors.
Does the Internet Archive provide any instruction to uploaders and users about how to go about uploading and downloading copyright-expired public domain works legally, given the geographical differences from region to region on copyright expiration? For example, does the Internet Archive host its servers in USA, and would that make the US copyright expiry law operative? Or does it have servers in Europe or Asia (more lenient copyright expiration laws) that can be intentionally uploaded to, and leaving it to users to download from their respective regional locations on their own cognizances (i.e. at their own risk)?
Yup, me too. What’s funny is that your slashdot account can make friends (or enemies!) with other accounts, and there’s a limit of 200. Sometimes I spot comments of friends I made like 20 years ago.
"Section 1. Purpose. From the founding of our Republic, scientific discovery and technological innovation have driven American progress and prosperity. Today, America is in a race for global technology dominance in the development of artificial intelligence (AI), an important frontier of scientific discovery and economic growth. To that end, my Administration has taken a number of actions to win that race, including issuing multiple Executive Orders and implementing America’s AI Action Plan, which recognizes the need to invest in AI-enabled science to accelerate scientific advancement. In this pivotal moment, the challenges we face require a historic national effort, comparable in urgency and ambition to the Manhattan Project that was instrumental to our victory in World War II and was a critical basis for the foundation of the Department of Energy (DOE) and its national laboratories.
This order launches the “Genesis Mission” as a dedicated, coordinated national effort to unleash a new age of AI‑accelerated innovation and discovery that can solve the most challenging problems of this century. The Genesis Mission will build an integrated AI platform to harness Federal scientific datasets — the world’s largest collection of such datasets, developed over decades of Federal investments — to train scientific foundation models and create AI agents to test new hypotheses, automate research workflows, and accelerate scientific breakthroughs. The Genesis Mission will bring together our Nation’s research and development resources — combining the efforts of brilliant American scientists, including those at our national laboratories, with pioneering American businesses; world-renowned universities; and existing research infrastructure, data repositories, production plants, and national security sites — to achieve dramatic acceleration in AI development and utilization. "
More graphic content needed to get folks to click through: This is excerpted from the result of G-translating the Parisien link:
"This 27-year-old alleged trafficker is suspected of having run this drug telephone platform which, between 2023 and 2024 in Paris, collected a turnover of two million euros and is said to have caused three overdose deaths during chemsex parties."
NYT is featuring dueling narratives about the film released today Age of Disclosure. The first, by Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal, could be anticipated as these authors wrote the seminal 2017 NYT article (post's link) that kicked off the modern-day awareness movement toward UAP transparency. Kean has regularly engaged with the individuals appearing in the film through podcasts and articles over the intervening years.
The 2nd is by reviewer Ben Kenigsberg, is the more typical "I'm a normie, you'll look dumb if you watch this film' take that politically inconvenient citizen investigation movements (think covid origins before 2021, Epstein prior to this year, and UAP) have come to expect from mass media.
When I accessed archive.ph (ordinary everyday content) during a visit to Italy last week, a legal notice loaded instead from Italy’s cyber authority saying they had blocked access domain-wide over CSAM. I suspected the same M.O. as parent comment describes was operative. I took a screenshot of the notice in case anyone’s interested. Edit: uploaded & available here
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WdSlZK6q1EjdRWzWeKANbjOZV03...
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