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It is well past the point where writing off bad behaviour as probably a joke is a reasonable thing to do with Trump as he as consistently not been joking about many things people h…

AI makes certain types of people, like those who need to be trained, obsolete.

Eh, we might be all better off if a lack of curiosity was more regularly financially excruciating.

That’s the value of tailwind. You can just skip learning CSS and still get a good result. The benefit to learning it is marginal.

BigTech is far more competent than a Telco though.

Most breaches are not in the interests of management, but they happen anyway as management wants to save money or doesn't understand how it could happen.

> And obviously, a simple email to the data governance and privacy office would be taken extremely seriously. What is this based on? I used to work for a data governance and privac…

Cops are too dumb to comprehend that. They would proclaim it impossible and order more donuts. Most simple criminals get away with their crimes. Anyone with any level of sophistica…

Anecdotally, I am consulting for a few of these and they are nowhere near that, haha. Everything still requires 5 approvals, so the challenge now is scrambling for attention.

The UAE is a bunch of absolute monarchies. You are applying the processes of a democracy to hereditary absolute monarchies.

Distribution is a whole other animal.

And we would be stupid to give them as access to cheese afterward. They had that chance and blew it. There is unlikely to be any thaw within our lifetimes.

Trump is also often anti capitalist, between tariffs and government shares in business. There is what fascists say and what they do, and industrialists were often very good Nazis.

They are pretty much openly that way.

A friend and I have a contract with a local university here in Canada. They paid for custom on prem software and in over a year, they have not fully provided both access and infras…

Depends? Are those more narrow one’s better and people have a better idea of what ideal looks like? I’m kind of horrified at people saying they had/have to work at their best frien…

I think we should want to disincentivize any person from having too much power and wealth is power.

Expensive places are where people care the most about that though.

In politics, power is everything. You do not matter without power.

Fiscal conservatism only exists as an ideology when paired with hurting brown people. It does not exist as a meaningful political camp otherwise. There is a reason that fiscal cons…

Eh, if you see the reaction to Flock Safety, people object to that one as well.

Look at what social media considers to be safe countries. You are absolutely bombarded with messaging about how Dubai and Chinese cities are the safest places in the world. I have …

Efficiency, metrics, and willingness to look stupid works when nobody has much future power over you. If you can just refresh to a new pool, that is fine but if it is the same pool…

We burn 80% of the oil we take out of the ground. Oil production could drop 80% and we would not have to change anything other than demand for burning it.

About 80% of oil is burned in some way for fuel.