I agree that's what it should be, but that absolutely not what it is and it hasn't been that way for many years. People treat LinkedIn like Facebook and post their opinions on things.
Most of the potentially worrisome stuff I've posted has been comments responding to other peoples' posts. I went and deleted nearly all of those, though.
Food control is easy but we don’t actually want it.
1. Prohibit large companies from using their size to negotiate prices, like how it used to be
2. Stop farm subsidies for all but the most critical areas. If you want to make food available to the poor, give them food stamp cards, but further restrict junk food. Supply side subsidies just create excess crops which lead to everyone trying to use cheap corn in some way. This cheap corn is then used to destroy local farmers in Latin America, further increasing illegal immigration and the power of cartels over a newly destitute population.
I haven’t seen this. There are more smaller companies than larger ones. At my company, as a manager, I encourage the use of AI because it appears to make developers about 10% more efficient, helps kickstart new projects, and improves job satisfaction by automating away some of the boring parts of development.
Perhaps at call centers and such you are correct, but your comment is as disingenuous as saying the compiler is about getting a stronger position over labor, or the expansion of included libraries, or faster microprocessors, or modern IDEs before AI. The march towards automation, efficiency, and automation in engineering never stops.
Every so often there is a massive leap which results in significant job losses, but that doesn’t mean it’s about labor. Was the release of AWS about labor? It destroyed many Silicon Valley companies as you could now do with $5k what previously took $200k.
When an employer demands the composition of the engineering team must match the composition of the nation in sex and race, with an exception allowed to favor anyone who is not a white or Asian male, that’s equality of outcome.
When white and Asian males are eliminated if they didn’t attend a top-20 computer science program, but the existence of a degree doesn’t matter for anyone else, that’s equality of outcome.
When the stated goal of HR during an all-hands is literally to facilitate equality of outcomes.
I agree that all of those things would be bad! But I repeat - 'citation needed'. And when I say that, I do not mean "it happened once somewhere", I mean - I need you to prove that this is a systemic thing that requires changes in legislation, because that is what a bunch of tiny scaredbois are asking for.
> because that is what a bunch of tiny scaredbois are asking for.
Why do you use slurs here? Using slurs is a sign you aren't arguing in good faith here, meaning even if people provided that evidence you probably wouldn't change your mind, you are just trying to win this argument.
I disagree. It doesn’t need some systemic proof or some other artificial - and frankly arbitrary - barrier to make changes in legislation. It’s obvious that the DEI programs of many companies are discriminatory. And also, this type of discrimination is already illegal under existing law. It nevertheless did not stop activists or the companies they infiltrated from making discrimination an official policy.
Wow. This whole comment section is full of armchair CEOs saying how the iPhone, ARM laptops. tablets, and AirPods are just inevitable outcomes.
Yet nobody else was able to do it. Microsoft, for all its power and money, couldn’t make it happen. Samsung+Google have come closest, but even then, Apple dominates the profits.
Sony is the closest company to Apple (and the original inspiration for it), but they can't do anything like it because they have no taste and no internal standards for simplicity.
AirPods in particular really are that good, and compared to them essentially every other audio product is a scam. Japanese companies instead invented something called "hi-res audio" which is just a pledge to only focus on useless features.
(The scam prevention systems like rtings' objective headphone reviews are themselves scams because they don't measure actually useful scenarios.)
Oh they do, but the democrats are so hated but a significant percentage of the population for their recent actions, people had to make a choice, and they did.
I’ve heard it described as “I know I’m being robbed, but I was already being robbed. I know this is a poor environmental choice, but the dems acted like we’re all children, thinking we have no choice but to support them. When they try to force through new social norms like they’ve been doing, it doesn’t even feel like my country anymore.”
I have to agree, they definitely encouraged the attitude of “either you agree with this new thing or you’re a Nazi”. Well, they certainly found out.
Of course this backlash is so bad it’s going to trigger another.
How is an expected tip different from a commission other than who pays?
This is rather brilliant.
* make it look like the government is stealing “gifted” money
* stop taxing it
* turn as many jobs as possible into tipped jobs supposedly for the person’s benefit
* really the employer wins since they’ll pay less and claim “tips”
When you compare apples to apples, male vs female engineering manager with similar backgrounds, the pay is the same. In the Bay Area it favors the woman.
Desire has a large part. It’s no coincidence that the countries with the most women in programming are places like India and China, where they are given little choice. If you can do the job, you do it because otherwise poverty.
Yes of course, but it doesn't fit the current narrative of women being the perpetual victims. I'm increasingly annoyed by the propaganda around women's issues because it always amounts to some bullshit.
Considering that women can offload the hard parts to men (hard work and competition) they would be stupid to not do so. Funny thing is that when they don't, they stop making kids, which means that they don't have much value as women actually and end up being just weaker men (at least in the biological strength sense but it's also true for the IQ curve so...)
If at some point in the near future we could finally agree that women and men are not actually strictly equal and that it would be incredibly stupid and useless if it was the case, I would be extremely happy.
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