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This is where PE came from originally, but then scaled to commercial bank / pension fund levels of investment. At least VC and Founders are aligned and honest about their goals (to…

This post struck me as overly simplistic; not sure if that was intentional for illustrative purposes, or the classic "I read 50 pages of this management book last night and now wil…

>> The countermeasures >> The first and most obvious one was a filter of inappropriate words and expressions. Wouldn't the first and most obvious one be "drop real-time chat" from …

same with Taco Bell executives - but customers should only be getting the regular, normal amount of explosive diarrhea from their food.

>> "produce probable cause" (if that makes any sense), get stopped without any harm, ... This is a very dangerous game, especially if you're not white.

worse than that, federal agencies - which can't access it directly - do so via their "law enforcement partners". So now you've got DHS and ICE using it for their own pseudo-law act…

Woman with SUV filled with minors pulled out by cops and handcuffed on the ground in Colorado based on flock ID'ing the license plate of stolen... motorcycle with same number (but …

In Canada we have a grocery chain called Superstore that posts many products as "Always $x.xx" but the prices have continually been increased over the years. I wouldn't call it a l…

The tight coupling between employment and health insurance is a huge issue for the US, and has been for as long as I can remember. It's a pretty big ask of someone to "become an en…

IMO it's not a outrage/apologist thing anymore, just played out and irrelevant. There are so many current problems that we don't need to dig up things about Jobs - or defend him. L…

I'm not a huge fan of my old company, but they had great fitted & soft T-shirts. I wish I had more...

Did you mean puzzling look? Why is he wearing 2 shirts? In the 90's we would wear a long sleeve Tee under a band t-shirt, but we didn't wear multiple t-shirts...

Ironically (and perversely) it's much easier to do this with exotic cap tables that keep voting rights and ownership effectively split. You needed a very valuable company to make t…

Maybe a court won't, but there are lots of examples where activist investors have forced the CEO or board members out with a campaign focused on short(er) term results. And Wallstr…

It was mass-collusion between big companies to prevent people from exercising labour mobility. Poaching is illegal, i.e. theft from an individual or the crown; we shouldn't encoura…

maybe weather events that disrupt travel, but impact things like visibility, lane definition, etc? That's still super-common in Chicago and a lot of the US.

People who live and create on LinkedIn? absolutely. For a huge group of people LI was just the most popular job board, though.

>> "you can’t stop talking about yourself, but from an earnest yearning to share authentically" Kinda sounds like a rationalizing egomaniac asshole.

What about getting tired, both physically and sleepy? Also if everyone around you is on drugs and you are not it's either really annoying or boring AF.

What about: >> In an era obsessed with both hedonism and productivity... This sounds like the exhausting root problem, and I don't want to participate in maxing either.

overall I had a very similar experience, but did make a few very good, long-term friends out of it that have survived our kids growin up and apart.

not only do they exist, they are by far the more common variant. Whenever you hear about a massive unfunded pension liability it's a defined benefit plan.

same - I was like "headline reads like PR but I guess it's good..." reminder to self: there was an Amazon before the bald bookseller

>> I took the pay and bought the computer This was such a common experience for devs in these days! Even very experienced devs like Andy Hertzfeld talk about building software in e…

not when by your own rules it's legally ruled "not theft".