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Does anyone here question the integrity of the US government’s jobs report two months away from a mid-term election?

Yes, but if you haven't been questioning them for the past couple of decades, you haven't been paying attention.

Not really. We'd see a lot of resignations if the numbers were being fudged. Statisticians, as a rule, take a dim view of falsifying data.

We didn’t need to see resignations because they were fired when the numbers weren’t good, in his opinion, previously.[1]

I get that the king does multiple things per day that used to be admin ending but we shouldn’t forget his machinations that are related to the topic at hand.

The data probably isn’t 100% false but it also definitely as trustworthy as it was a year and a half ago.

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/articles/trump-fired-bls-c...


> We didn’t need to see resignations because they were fired when the numbers weren’t good, in his opinion, previously.[1]

I mean no disrespect, but I have been following this story, as I am very interested in the quality of official statistics.

He did fire the BLS head, then tried to appoint a toady, but basically the big IB and investors threw a fit (along with some Senators) and it didn't happen.

So I regard most of the weirdness in these numbers since Covid as an artifact of the seasonality models breaking down, rather than some nefarious actions.


A similar thing happened in a first-year CS class at Purdue this year: https://thecheatsheet.substack.com/p/432-cheating-at-purdue-....


I was nodding along until that part:

> Turkstra said he’ll still use the AI detection tool going forward.

That's crazy! AI detection tools are notably unreliable, and even if they had only 1% false positive rate (I am sure it's actually much higher) that'd still be multiple innocent people failing the class for no reason.

Imagine enrolling in the class, and the professor says: "oh, and btw I am going to randomly pick three students and accuse them of cheating". Would you want to stay in this class

I think the future is going to be proctored exams on paper or on locked-down devices. If there will be projects, they should be accompanied by secondary evidence, like interviews about them.


Or not a Golang bug at all but rather a new Golang feature that the developer chose to use rather than trying to be backward compatible with some older Golang versions.


Congrats to the author. I plan to do Oregon -> Virginia next year but I'll take more like 80 days than the author's 51.


He probably started out wanting to make just one pipe bomb but you know how it is, you get a great discount if you buy the ingredients in bulk. So he made his pipe bomb and then he had all these leftover ingredients just taking up space in his closet. And so he went ahead and made another 149 pipe bombs.


Could be, or maybe they had a really good discount at the pipe bomb store and he'd basically be losing money if he didn't buy at least 150 pipe bombs.


“We had two barrels of fertilizer, seventy-five pellets of gunpowder, five sheets of high powered C4, a salt shaker half full of nitro, and a whole galaxy of 50 cals, buckshot, slugs, tracers... and also a quart of kerosene, a quart of diesel, a case of grenades, a kilo of raw uranium and two dozen rockets. Not that we needed all that for self defense, but once you get locked into a serious explosives collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.”

-Osama Bin Laden


Destroy it now.


"Moreover, even for those who would like to rightfully consider Airbnb results positive, there’s a huge price on culture companies managed this way have to pay. We can get a glimpse from a few Glassdoor reviews I found, all subsequent to Chesky’s new approach..."

Glassdoor reviews are a poor measure of a company's culture.


Or perhaps Elon is not personally involved in what network protocols they use on their Dojo AI supercomputer.


For you cyclists, the Great Allegheny Pass trail and the Chesapeake & Ohio towpath meet there.


Also has an Amtrak station!


How many trains a day?


CUM has a train headed for DC show up once a day at 9:30am. Takes 3½ hours, which is about an hour longer than driving.

In the other direction to Pittsburgh leaves at 7:30pm and takes 4½ hours, more than 2 hours longer than driving.


The idea of DC to NYC being roughly as far away as Maryland to DC is kinda funny to me.

I guess that's just how the panhandle panhandles.


Not even one per day as far as I can tell.

The Amtrack website also mentions:

Known as Maryland's “Queen City,” Cumberland was an early gateway to the West. Today, it is a bustling arts center and popular stopover for cyclists using the trail network between Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.


Eh... I'm always mind-blown by the amazing nature the USA has... :(


You're suggesting one of the developers went through all the trouble to create a browser, then allowed someone to add assets to the repo without the developer reviewing them first?


I'm suggesting that you don't know who wrote the content. You don't know the developers wrote it. And if a non-developer wrote it, then that person probably isn't going to commit the content to a repo.


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