Unsurprising. I'm not sure much has changed since this recording of Bruce Bugbee's talk "Why Vertical Farming Won't Save the Planet". There's nothing surprising there but he does give hard numbers to do the math that shows that vertical farming is not as good as its proponents have made it out to be. Solar energy input dwarfs all other energy inputs to agriculture, and the cost to replace one acre of solar energy with electricity comes out to $400,000 per acre (per some unit of days per a growing season). I don't think the economics have tended favorably since. The space needs for solar panels doesn't favor vertical farming either. He also shows the efficiency of modern agriculture, and why vertical farming has a pretty tall order ahead of it to beat the economics of outdoor farming. It's quite unlikely factors have changed enough since to alter his conclusion: only high-value, high-water-content specialty crops might be economically viable.
As far as I'm aware, the anti-BDS laws only pertain to performance under governmental contracts or similar, or are merely statements of position without legal effect.
Is there a law that prohibits individuals who are not operating under such a contract from boycotting?
All anti-BDS that I am aware of operate through government employment and contracting.
I would however clarify your statement in that the scope often extends not just to the work under contract, but personal and professional behavior outside the scope of contract.
Yes, but it's still under the authority of the contract. That means that expressing support of a boycott is not illegal, it's just grounds for termination of that employment.
This is an absurd false dichotomy. You can pick fruits from the wilderness and not get mauled by bears. Using apps not in walled gardens has nothing to do with attempts to feel morally superior.
If you need AI to understand and answer interview questions, you are probably among the weaker candidates. Why would the company give you money? Why not hire someone who is smart and skilled enough to think by himself, and then if he uses AI to increase his productivity that's great! AI is not a replacement for your brain, otherwise why would we hire people at all?
Good point! AI is a great tool at work, but the issue is real-time AI assistance feeding answers during interviews. Lyra doesn’t aim to block AI entirely—just ensures candidates can explain concepts independently. Our AI asks verbal questions and diverse scenarios to estimate a candidate's potential.
I agree 100%. Virtual threads have drawn a lot of skepticism but even Rust once had a version with them. They enable the strong structuted concurrency patterns. Async/await works nicely as long as your use case is "do this work on another thread, free this one up, resume here when the async task is done", but I've found that to be most common in UI work, and still not all that common (like if you want to track its progress, you still got some async state management coding to do). And even then you end up with a function coloring problem. People can try to downplay that, bit it is a giant wart resulting from that approach. I'll take Java's virtual threads combined with their structured concurrency efforts over async/await almost every time.
[0] = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISAKc9gpGjw