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Interesting. Mind is often divided into two halves: the lower concrete mind that constructs specific thoughts with shapes and the upper abstract mind that sees ideas. From your sto…

Reorgs are like fire: they are often used to erase evidence of incompetence.

From the gov's point of view, citizens and companies are shareholders in the "US corporation". Right now, the poor citizens own a 10% stake in the corporation. UBI is about giving …

Police is the HR of the state: they protect the state from the citizens.

When there's nothing newsworthy, the news agencies use the future tense.

Tech leadership really means the middle management, i.e. folks hired to manage the line workers. Wait until they find out about the race of most capital owners!

In the corporate setting, if a large org is deemed incompetent, a common solution would be to mark that org as second class and create another similar org with the first class stat…

It's not like these companies are dumb. They'll factor the diversity coordinate into their equation.

Perhaps the location is only a side effect, while the true reason is the low supply of qualified coders. Why do corp lawyers command $400-600/hour? Why not to just hire a lawyer in…

I'm sure Zuck doesn't know the concept of fairness and would laugh if someone would explain it to him. Words that Zuck understands are "efficient", "justifiable", "profitable".

Someone who's paid 400k can afford to buy a bunch of phones and laptops, install whatever survelliance software on them and leave them at a rented trailer.

Reminded me of one conversation long time ago: - We're offering you whopping 3.5%. How cool is that? - Do I hear it right that you want my contribution to your company be 3.5%? - B…

Some non-compete agreements with binding-arbitrage by a employer-chosen arbiter. Employers will try to limit options for labor. Whether it's enforceable is another story.

What stops one from paying the difference at the tax returns filing?

The morale of the story: don't sign incomplete forms. As for the GC case, I believe he can still make it work if he makes enough noise to get noticed by governor-level politicians.…