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According to the paper, Meltdown can recover memory at about 500 kb/s

Negative income taxes generally mean high marginal net tax rates for low-income earners. In your example, there's a 20% marginal tax rate for people earning less than 60K.

I suspect that would only make things more difficult for the players as they game the AI to get it to do exactly what they want.

Expected utility is great, expected money is silly.

Dodgy pharmaceutical ads are some of the most profitable dodgy ads, so SEO spam sites are likely to have content related to marketing dodgy pharmaceuticals. Dodgy pharmaceutical sites are also more likely to be based in Russia, due to lax law enforcement.

Dictionary.com says that "share" is from German, and "slave" is from Latin. No common origin.

I think that in areas where bigotry is a serious problem, not being bigoted might be more likely to drive off customers than being bigoted.

I think it's the heating element in a thermos; "fraguccino" uses the same technique.

"Designed by Apple in California" struck me as really weird when I saw it on a bus stop here in Australia.

If he serves the full 28 years, he's not likely to survive the sentence.

Governments usually try to work around that, including the staple food exception you mentioned, but that makes the whole system a mess of exceptions and exceptions-to-exceptions.

Well, I'd assume "Executive Assistant to the Deputy Director" is the secretary for the no. 2 at the MTC, which doesn't seem all that unreasonable. The "Program Assistant to the Director" is probably a project manager. The "Director of Cluster Development" is probably in charge of whoever is developing clusters, whatever those are. The titles are slightly overblown, but little more than I'd expect at any government department or large corporation.

The article never stated that they would do so.

Most of the computers in a defence facility are unclassified or restricted. The rules are different for secret/top secret.