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If a lot of money is involved, it's only a matter of time before all oversight is corrupt. Similarly, you can safely assume all data that is on an important (big money) topic is fa…

A website was taken down. This might technically violate some paperwork law, but the real problem is we don't actually prosecute war crimes/human rights violations. So what differe…

There's no moral equivalency between the US directly torturing prisoners of war/assassinating its own citizens and a website being taken down.

I don't see how anything has changed in a meaningful way. George Bush "tortured some folks" and Obama assassinated US citizens abroad. The status quo is literal evil and Trump is b…

2022 challenger srt hellcat redeye. I absolutely love it.

I recently bought a fancy muscle car with all that crap integrated into the infotainment system. I explained to the sales guy that I WANTED to keep this car for the rest of my life…

Cash for clunkers destroyed mountains of cars which increased pollution and forced a bunch of people up the food chain with regard to competition for used cars.

The infotainment system on my car can make changes to the suspension. Can change from street to track mode and even has a launch mode I can initiate for starting a timed 0-60, etc.…

The rule of thumb is if something has a cost and persists over time it must have some benefit even if we don’t understand what that is. Otherwise, creatures not paying the cost wil…

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the average man does not want to be free. he simply wants to be safe. ~H.L. Mencken The bad guys will say you only need privacy if you’re guilty and the plebs will lap it up

Most workers enjoy being emotionally manipulated by their employers. A friend of mine was gushing because their new employer sent some chocolates to everyone at Christmas time. The…

At my shop employees had to RTO but us consultants are still remote. I suspect this is exactly what it looks like.

Executives have done all manner of things which reduced productivity. Hoteling alone must have cost billions in lost focus. They’re suspicious of work from home because employees l…

The elites have put themselves in a position where the two main options are the sentiment above or Luigi Mangione. It honestly scares me a bit what's coming.

I agree the empire is in a very dangerous place because it has expanded the labor force more rapidly than it has expanded supply of jobs. This is an existential risk to the empire.…

We have flooded the STEM market with foreign workers. Sometimes we don't even give the foreign workers real jobs, we pretend they are "grad students" and pay them a pittance doing …

I would argue the purpose of public education is directionally to attempt to level the playing field between people who start with a lot and people who start with a little. And in …

I've been advised by my ChatGPT lawyer to say "No."

I have no incentive to delete bad code and replace it with good code when doing megacorp work. For things I own, it's situational.

If we started prosecuting CEOs who don't meet goals/expectations, they'd all be in prison. You have to prove Elon was intentionally lying, which I suspect many on this forum are sy…

Unless you want to get into a pure management position, the most senior (pay) technical resource is almost always a consultant. And you can give yourself the promotion to consultan…