Author: EconLearner
The road aheadgetty As 2024 begins to unfold, layoffs continue, including at major tech giants like Google and Amazon, according to The Economic Times. These job cuts come as companies strengthen their fiscal discipline by streamlining operations and prioritizing key business areas. They also coincide with companies like Google exploring the many untapped benefits artificial intelligence has to offer, according to Wall Street Journal. This ongoing restructuring we see that things are far from stable. It is likely that this volatility will continue to impact HR teams in particular for some time to come, which will create demand for the…
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Caracas seen from the top of Mount El Avila and the Humboldt Hotel (El Avila National Park, … [+] Venezuela)Photo by Saleem H. Ali The headlines of recent years have clearly shown Venezuela as the tragic one archetype of how natural resource wealth can incentivize inefficiencies in economic outcomes and kleptocratic rule. However, despite the despondency the country has suffered in the recent past, there is enormous “potential palm” available to the country, given a range of underlying human and natural capital capabilities. I had a rare opportunity to visit Venezuela in early January this year and was pleasantly surprised…
Destiny 2Bungie I’ve written about loot, looting, crafting and some combination of them a hundred times during my decade with Destiny and Destiny 2. Today is still not a rant about crafting (more time for those later!) but something I haven’t understood Destiny’s loot philosophy in many, many years. Why does Destiny 2, a loot box, almost exclusively have no real, meaningful loot in the wild? Almost always? What I mean is that when you kill an enemy and an engram drops, you pick it up and it’s a piece of loot with perks and stats. How many times does…
True Detective: Night CountryCredit: HBO As a reviewer, I expect a host of the usual suspects when it comes to angry fans passionately disagreeing with my opinion. These include, but are not limited to: If you don’t like it, watch something else (sure, but I’m a professional TV critic…) You’re just a hater! (I’m being generous with the spelling). You just don’t get it. (It can!) Your opinion is biased. (Mmmm) You shouldn’t go out much. All says this show/movie/game is great! (Reviewing is not a popularity contest, thank goodness!) I’m sure I’ll come across some of them after writing…
Samsung’s Galaxy S24 Ultra promises some innovative AI camera advantages over the Galaxy S23 … [+] Ultra (pictured)NurPhoto via Getty Images The highly anticipated launch of Samsung’s Galaxy S24 series is just days away. However, last-minute leaks continue to emerge, and a new report reveals strong behind-the-scenes upgrades to the Galaxy S24 Ultra that explain expected changes to Samsung’s camera hardware. Update January 14 below: article originally published January 13. According to an unverified but authentic appearance retail training document shared by X user Harshit JoshiSamsung’s upcoming flagship camera will eclipse the current Galaxy S23 Ultra when taking zoom photos,…
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This artist’s concept depicts a possible appearance of the planet Kepler-452b, the first … [+] A near-Earth-sized world located in the habitable zone of a star similar to our sun.NASA Ames/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle We like to think that our Sun is an ordinary yellow dwarf star, just one of billions of solar-type stars in our Galaxy. But only in the last few decades have astronomers been able to do comparative asteroseismology of stars like ours. Astroseismology, the study of seismic stellar oscillations, is an essential key to understanding our Sun and potentially billions of other solar systems within the galaxy. Later…
Close-up of a scale model of a Tesla Semi, an electric pickup truck from Tesla Motors, on Santana Row … [+] in Silicon Valley, San Jose, California, January 3, 2020. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)Gado via Getty Images The long-delayed Tesla Semi is on the road in small numbers. The Semi began its first deliveries to consumers in 2022. The vehicles have been delivered to only one customer – PepsiCo. Since then, the PepsiCo’s Tesla Semi fleet has grown to nearly 100 vehicles. The Tesla Semi is a Class 8 battery electric semi truck manufactured by Tesla. Unlike Tesla’s electric…