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Or they wanted it to happen again. Worst case outcome, the US Congress spontaneously grow backbones, spite their sponsors and unite in a bipartisan effort for effective regulation …

In day-to-day work life or a meet-and-greet, yeah. But this was an executives-only retreat where they were apparently encouraged to drink and made a big deal out of getting everyon…

The world war helped via wealth destruction and redistribution. Polybius' theory also has Arabic (Khaldun) and Chinese analogues. In China it looks like a 300-ish year cycle driven…

> Laughs in unlimited money -Also Sergey and Larry, probably

The man is a polymath.

Playing a lost 2000 year old game is awesome.

> The majority common law rule among the 50 states is that the owner of a stolen vehicle will not be held liable for damages when the vehicle is stolen and then involved in an acci…

An allegory here would be someone stealing an easily stealable car (e.g. doing the Kia Challenge) and causing damage or injury. The thief would be liable, not the owner

We know from email leaks that billionaires' spelling ability is worse than Roblox players. Don't see why their chef would need to have perfect spelling

> Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s CEO, told employees that “AI models learn from watching really smart people do things,” and the “average intelligence of the people who are at this compan…

Now you're just straw manning, and misrepresenting history, Kent State led to a huge increase in protests and troop mutinies which forced the US to leave Vietnam. If the US was fas…

Steam is also a child gambling company that sells loot boxes to kids but it could be a lot worse. From the perspective of someone getting ripped off it doesn't matter whether it wa…

Eh, Steam is kind of like the liberal democratic US empire. It may be evil in a lot of ways but it could actually be a LOT worse. We may actually historically be very lucky to have…

We have to normalize being on silent all the time and making people wait hours for a response. Return to the primordial monkey of 1800s-era high-latency comms. At first, some peopl…

Someone has been trying to hack into my MSFT account for years. I constantly get the notifications. I can not see where they are trying from (unlike some other services that give y…

USSR tried to digitize economy (OGAS) under Khrushchev but project was killed by pen and paper bureaucrats scared for their jobs. They barely would have had the resources to set it…

Hyperreality is a bogus concept altogether, inasmuch as it's supposed to be something new in human history that only happens because of computers. Prehistoric/ancient humans also h…

How is the Trump or Obama article not neutral? You can literally correct them yourself if there is anything untrue or biased.

Some racists built a village and it's doing well, therefore centuries of colonialism across continents was good? Is that sound logic? So if Scientologists or some other cult built …

>9 men hunt and 1 man eats free, so the 9 men are carrying the weight of the 1. You just described every non -union tech company I've worked at but maybe ratio reversed. Full of la…

There were many tech companies I've worked at where lifers got paid top dollar to sit around and do nothing. And had to be convinced to do any work or help you. I remember non unio…

This. 100%. The absolute irony of techies getting paid big bucks while doing zero work, just posting on their phone on HN during the "workday", complaining about ... union fat cats…

So they can hire workers. Without whom more capital can't be produced

"I will cripple you" must have referred to the bosses, not the entire country including his people. Idk why it matters that he had a gold chain. Are people without tech jobs not al…

this is awesome. godspeed. or should i say friendspeed