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Because, often, that's how they became the richest, most powerful humans. If your goal is to have money and power, and you have more today than yesterday, the world for you didn't …

Adversarial advocacy is core to most (western?) societies. Weird to call out the NGO here while ignoring the opposing industry groups on the other side. It's exhausting that _every…

The previous agreement ended with the US killing the Ayatollah and other senior leaders, promoting regime change, and demanding unconditional surrender. Venezuela capitulated to th…

That's not even enough though. Ask the Canadians who signed the USMCA ( https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/pr... ). There's zero foundation for trust to upho…

Future (and current) presidents seem unlikely to be encumbered by laws. They can spend or not spend the budget. They can fire and effectively disable lawful commissions. They are i…

Is it common in other states that you only need a test for a license. Where I live (in the US) if you are a new driver (under 18) you need 30 hours of classroom instruction, 18 hou…

I admittedly did not RTFM to learn "how to replace the windshield fluid." Lesson learned. Lol.

Owned a BMW. Had the audacity to use non-BMW windshield washer fluid. The fluid sensor broke; because in a BMW it’s a fancy sensor that is only compatible with specific washing flu…

If the parent comment is true, it seems the problematic aspect is the leverage created by the P/E ratio more than the percentage of ownership. What a weird situation.

The problem described isn't companies buying goods and services. It's buying from an entity they partially own and then profiting as that entity becomes more valuable because of th…

I doubt VCs have different distribution of personal character from other professional groups. In my experience, a more interesting friction is that VCs are pursuing a diversificati…

This situation is changing in the US but isn't well reported, in my opinion. We haven't regained traditional apprenticeship roles (perhaps because we so weakened unions?) but 30 (o…

If you care to read about this, google/search/internet for "torts section 344". Here's an example: https://www.mbm-law.net/insights/premises-liability-for-thir... Here's a more nua…

I didn't mean to imply there's a single all-encompassing metric or silver bullet, but re-reading, I did kinda write it that way. When you find someone whose code persists a long ti…

The administration has attacked, as they promised when running for election, all of the perceived power centers of its opposition: the arts, individuals, educational institutions, …

In the case of Meta, X, et. al., the conversation is an integral part of the product. It isn't incidental "around their premises". You're also wrong though - a corporation is absol…

I prefer an alternate measure - great developers write code with a long half life relative to the rest of the product. (An idea I learned from a hiring reference check ... of all p…

Counterpoint - Businesses are generally liable in the physical world for harms caused on their premises by a foreseeable hazard. Whether as simple as a pothole in a parking lot tha…

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/us/trump-administra...

This assumes that the legislators and regulators who approve projects like this are motivated by economic benefit and not by campaign donations and other favors.

Same. Having aging eyes has increased my empathy. When I can't read restaurant menus, or dosage information on a bottle, or see which direction the battery is supposed to go, or th…

I recently learned about a related data structure designed for scrabble style word searches: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GADDAG .

Electricity might be a good analogy - but for the other side of this argument. In the US, (nearly) full electrification wasn't achieved until the late 1940's/early 1950's - a proce…

Am I math-ing right that this creates a 1:4 employee to intern ratio? (5000 x 20% layoffs = 1000 redundancies; 4000 employees and 1000 interns?)