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Two things: 1) This is war. It's not pretty and it's never not messy. 2) This is precisely why every human, and every leader of humans, should avoid war at all costs. The image of …

> original project (a bus) This is actually insane to me. Like bonkers, even. The MBA types are surely the source of that idea. From a brand perspective, the only car that ever tru…

> And yet it's the best system we've devised so far This is the truth, and it's the saddest part of all...

> It was neither particularly violent Wow. I know perhaps this makes sense from a non-American perspective, but as an American, January 6 was incredibly violent. I think some peopl…

What are some examples of these crucial incidents?

I'd say it's the opposite, actually. If Amazon embraced WFH, the Seattle commercial real estate market (and the city itself) would suffer major damage. So the mayor and many CRE gr…

Look, I agree with your fundamental sentiment. But I think you're being incredibly naive too. > I don't see how the world can function if everyone were to think and act like that M…

> They are applying to different companies? Do you believe these employees made a decision to work for one of these companies for life and will now never again get another job? Wha…

On the surface, yes, there are many employers. How's that going for the folks that have been recently laid off from checks notes ... Amazon, Facebook/Meta, Twitter, Google, Microso…

This is a simplified version of the argument, but basically: right now, I am dependent on an employer for my survival. Keeping a roof over my head depends on my being competent at …

You and I both know that as messed up as this was, nothing will be done to reign in the power of these VC's. I always vaguely knew that the billionaire class has the government ove…

My experience working in a small startup, a largish tech company and a FAANG, is that management (especially at the top) follows a highly unbalanced bimodal distribution - that is,…

Can someone explain the differences between Google and the C++ standards committee? I understand it has to do with breaking ABI, but what exactly does this imply? As someone much m…

> How can he immediately turn from "people shouldn't post publicly available information that can be abusable" to posting someone's abusable public information? Hypocrisy

> about to learn yet another lesson Bold of you to assume they're capable of learning at this point.

It's literally initialed TRAP. This is Looney Tunes levels of villainy. C'mon, corporate America, at least put in the effort to make the dystopia believable.

Oh dear God, here we go...

Are you planning on bidding on the Puerto Rico generation privatization contract? Because you fit right in with the clowns at Luma Energy.

See, the problem is you used logic here, unlike senior management.

> How unreliable is your power grid? If you live in Puerto Rico, extremely unreliable [0, 1] > It's a lot easier having someone else manage the entire infrastructure Indeed it is, …

> This seems to be a sticking point among high achievers, but you really need to dial back any societal expectations you may have. You’re here for a short time, and you’re given th…

Who captures most of the profit from these better devices?

> You're opening the floodgates to massive governmental and corporate control. The irony of this statement in a discussion about taking a public company private

Isn't it interesting that many otherwise intelligent people don't seem to understand this? I don't know _how_ we solve this problem, but the sheer amount of people who refuse to se…

> for example, in a "free" twitter, i could post some racist tirade, and expect it to gain no traction/retweets from my followers & some random others. people might see it, but it …