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3 generations of wealth poured into the most expensive military in recorded history - the reason that we don't have health care, clean energy, decent social safety nets and so many…

It's gone the instant the CEO takes your options by laying you off a week before they vest. ^ that has happened to me. Along with a million other slights: health care reduced, vaca…

The police? Like you would call fir any crime. The union boss is also elected, so you don't vote for people that would do that. You have a lot more power/leverage in that situation…

Yes. It's called a "union". They were discovered around the turn of the 20th century, caused the greatest increase in prosperity and wealth for the greatest number of people of any…

It's so hard to do that but it's really the only way. I had this idea that tech companies should organize _each others_ unions. Like Google employees should organize Meta's union a…

At least this would give you the leverage of seeing that the role is or is not still posted. It would give you a job to do as a candidate in enforcing honesty and seeing that the c…

I've been thinking more lately about how to get "Basic Web" - just like normal HTML and maybe a little bit of CSS (No Service Workers, Background Sync, DRM, etc.) and make it work …

This looks awesome but I've read in the past that there are a lot of PFAS chemicals on these thermal printer papers. Is there like "safe" paper they have now that you can use for t…

Right - this is the natural extension of the dichotomy "There are those the law protects but does not bind and those the law binds but does not protect". The law doesn't bind Musk …

You might also really enjoy the work of Rory Sutherland - listen to one of his shorts on tiktok/YouTube.

Not exactly on the "casino" nose, but "100 things every designer should know about humans" by Weinschenk has a lot of these principles outlined (backed up with academic references)…

You're describing the deal from three years ago: pay premium for premium talent that's willing to go above and beyond. I'm telling you about the new deal they have: premium prices …

Like any market, they will not be the only ones in it. People remember how you treat them - especially in times like these. They will be paying premium prices for a demoralized wor…

You're confusing _evil_ with _cruel_. Palantir is the former, but from what I have heard they treat their employees well. They are attracting exactly the kind of people they want.

Certainly, everyone has "a number" they're willing to suffer for - but telegraphing the suffering ensures that number will be maxed out and morale/motivation will be rock bottom. S…

Imagine trying to hire engineers in 2 years with all of these stories lingering. There was maybe a brief window where "everyone understood" there had to be a correction to the post…

AI polls lower than "congress". People hate it - they hate it so much. They probably _wanted_ to call it that but someone who knows anything put their foot down.

TBH if I see "late Meta" or "post-Musk Twitter/X" on a resume it gets filed as "low morals / low trust".

This is fascinating: Carthage will always be somewhat of an enigma, I suspect. I've heard some classicists posit that they were essentially the first "modern" society that appeared…

The tricky thing about that is it depends "what period of time" you choose to look at. When the Serbs had the upper hand in the 90s, yes - a lot of the aggression was due to their …

Fitting - as this is likely emblematic of the way America is failing more broadly: we can't fix real problems with pipes, roads and other infrastructure because we created a genera…

Why would I need this tool if I can just say "Claude, make me a CAD drawing of XYZ"? Not trying to be rude, just generating some empathy for the OP's situation, which I think was m…

50 years ago, the U.S. was a nation that _made things_ whereas today it's primarily people conference calling and making slide decks for each other (perhaps not for long, given the…