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Consultants were involved for the merger, current splitting, and the streaming branding debacle. Of course, all decisions and later actions lay with the Board and executives.

At least you have something that can be improved.

I keep hearing this but what does it mean to be 'behind'? Behind what? What actual innovation are we seeing from Silicon Valley that is improving life for humans? The EU has its faults but at least it's willing to take on big corporations. What does Google 'create' these days - other than vast swathes of ad data to sell people? How is AirBnB even a tech company or Uber? There's too much rent-seeking, gamifying, and destructive real world effects of lack of regulation that even some can help people. We've been through this before with industrialization in the modern world - some benefits, many of which go to a small percentage of people; many detriments, which harm all (such as pollution).

Also, 'tech investment' is such BS these days. Infinite venture capital (or at least in ZIRP days) that has led to little real 'innovation', just more BS gamified adtech. And now the US is ripping down any realistic science R&D. It's Europe's moment to take the reins or lose the opportunity. You don't Softbank or some blood-stained oil money from UAE to do that.

Not a surprise given how everything in Japan is wrapped in plastic. Loved everything about visiting the place that was far ahead of the US except for this.

Very cool and hopefully they keep the tradition alive.

In Historical European Martial Arts, we have messer fighting

Casual sparring: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY-y_Y7IUfY

More cinematic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwHNzL9-zpg

They started issuing them with chips a couple years ago. Most should have been replaced by now.

But yes, this was a slight issue when traveling in previous times. Glad the US finally caught up.

Many were asking the question when the news came out prior to the fires. In terms of actual management, I'd rather leave that to the city's experts. As long as the city didn't pay for it (which was the assumption), then I'm ok with it. Otherwise, I'd rather she spend her time here trying to fix domestic issues.

I think it's one of those issues where both sides of the aisle could agree except for the right-wing side turned it into this weird DEI stuff.

Sponsored content. Have come across my company doing the same. There are no to few rules about labeling as such.

Ah, I had interpreted your statements as an issue of manufacture and availability, not financing.

As to finance, it does suck that we throw billions at economically, socially, and/or globally destructive, unprofitable startups and yet something that is a net good for society and environment can't get that funding. I guess that's where government steps in or private/public partnerships.

Good luck though!

Curious about the issues you're having with rolling stock. Given Germany's industrial prowess, I would've thought that that wouldn't be an issue to manufacture, either for domestic use or export.

>I wouldn't be surprised if New York passes new gun control laws because of this shooting; I wouldn't be surprised if there's a congresscritter or White House Staffer or judge who's assassinated in the next several years causing some kind of martial law situation. It's scary times we live in right now.

This is most likely going to happen with an incoming authoritarian gov't anyway.

Do recall that one Congress critter, that is very pro-gun was shot at a baseball game, survived, and still stood against gun legislation. We'll see if things change if the wind shifts and more rich people (the Congresscritters' owners) are targeted.

>Laws and rules only matter so long as we're all willing to believe they do.

And everyone has seen it thrown in our faces for a year or so now what the blatant two-tiered system looks like. On a longer time scale if you want to count the lack of consequences for those behind an attempted coup in 2021 and a recession that harmed millions of lives in 2008.

If the government won't hold people accountable, and people are pushed to their ends, then things like this can happen. As OP stated, thankfully, it doesn't happen as often as one would think given our society. It does take a lot to murder someone else.

>Likewise I see tons of yanks complaining about Disney+ not carrying Alien Romulus, when outside of the US its on the app. All self imposed considering Disney owns a large amount of Hulu but is beefing with the remaining shareholders IIRC.

That's odd. Disney+ (with ads) is $10/mo on its own. $11/mo for the bundle of D+/Hulu (with ads). Alien: Romulus is on Hulu right now.

And Tokyo does have highways and large streets, they just aren't in constant gridlock because people have other options (not to mention many other factors at play in Japanese car-ownership).

Tokyo was so relaxing. Greater Tokyo has the same population as the entire state of CA and yet was so quiet.

>nothing drives those things so much as showing outrageous behavior

Visiting my parents and having to watch linear tv made this more apparent than anything. MTV seems to just have a show on repeat for hours called "Ridiculousness". The commercials blare (and were split between political ads and random drugs for obscure conditions) and the 'news' channels have bright colors and everyone yelling at each other.

I'm American and I grew up with many perfectly nice people (including family) that have held morally repugnant beliefs. Same for people in many other countries. Only exception are cab drivers - they get talkative quickly with no filter. I think the US is veering in the direction. People are complex. It's only when you get to know them beyond superficial conversations / introductions that this becomes apparent.

We have the same. I'm not sure if it's something built into humans but it turns out very much like the lunchroom at school, where the same people gravitate to the same areas/desks. I've probably sat in one of the same four desks for the past year and know all the people around me.

Also share in your experience that I'm going into Zoom with my team on a different coast, or other teams across the world. I'm the only one at my hq. I was thinking about this the other day and it's actually kinda nice - the people around me are on different teams so I get to talk to them about their work and I don't have deal with my team complaining endlessly about our problems! :)

This is probably even more than case when you get beyond SWE and into general admin stuff/operations that support engineers and the business. My org continues to have rolling layoffs, targeting specifically long-term employees, with tech roles going to India and admin/financial functions to Mexico.

>Many of these cars don't pass western safety standards and can never be sold in Europe.

Same for the Cybertruck

>Engineering companies success because of their engineering culture.

What current companies do you consider to be both successful and have this culture now?

It's brought up a lot on HN. Heck, the evolution from 'fun, small, engineer company makes through product then everything changes when it becomes larger, more corporate' is almost a Hollywood cliche now (films like Blackberry, tv like Halt and Catch Fire).

Are you in California? Just curious as this is the experience in LA but didn't know how widespread nationally things have deteriorated.

Yes, it's not "vexing" when you look around. I'm glad there's data out there as proof as well.

Unfortunately, I don't think much will happen on a policy front. US manufacturers are no longer building sedans and are focused on crossovers (which all look and act the same) and trucks. There's even an electric Hummer now which, I don't know, seems to miss the point. No one of anyone political party will go against what the car industry is doing (see all the bailouts across the years) because it's almost as untouchable as Wall Street in terms of looking like you're supporting blue collar jobs programs, union jobs, etc. even if it has a negative effect on society.

In a post earlier in the week, someone pointed out the CAFE regulations. That might be the best route.

The other side of it is designing cities that have safer streets. Here in LA, that means painting a lane and throwing up some plastic pylons vs actual time, money, and effort to reduce the amount of travel on streets and the speeds we can get up to.

>Honestly if I were in your position, I'd be more worried that my close friend and >co-founder is already planning to marry someone that they've only been in a >relationship with for less than a month. But maybe I'm just ignorant of their >culture.

This. Not to mention any type of drama this may continue to bring into the workplace.

>In addition, this still causes a wave of excitement for me [netscape gif]

Haha, crazy how that stirred something in me too. Very nostalgic. We were probably around the same age.

I work at a 50,000 person company. The powers that be want everyone to be in the office at least 3 days a week. Those offices are in expensive major cities in the US. Some people 'make it work' by living an 1+ hr commute away from the offices. I'm sure this is rinse and repeat around the country for people that a) might like the work they're doing and b) have it dictated from above that they have to be close to a major metro area.

Congrats on whatever opportunities you've made work for you but many people are tied to where they are due to onerous management, community, family etc. We are not the highly mobile society of even two decades ago and the false promises of mobile technology haven't truly been fulfilled. We got close during COVID but business interests and human nature got in the way of fulfilling what people on this forum have been touting for a decade or more with remote work.

My office is far nicer and more comfortable to work in than my studio apartment which may have a) loud neighbors b) leaf blowers going as well as other things out of my control.

We are asked to do 3 in office, 2 at home, which seems to be the new standard in industries where 5 days/week in office was the norm.

The only issues I have those three days that make it annoying are people that are taking calls at their desk or otherwise distracting and that the company will bug my manager, who will bug me about the data on my being in office being correct. There are multiple ways to track my whereabouts so it's a little annoying to have to explain their faulty systems or data.

Reminds me of this insane story from Ask A Manager:

https://www.askamanager.org/2022/01/the-new-hire-who-showed-...

I figured it had to be rare - how many people are brave enough to pull that off? Can't believe this is something people running into more.

I don't know if this is good news or bad for someone like me that's actively looking and not having much luck. Disappointing that fake people can get further.

I don't think this sentiment would go over so well if I expressed it to people here on the West Coast of the US. Not to mention that there are people that will send their kids to bilingual schools for (and this is conjecture) either lefty political points or potential socio-economic reasons (dual language or Chinese immersion).

I personally love learning languages and am that person that tries to learn a little bit and communicate wherever I go. I does seem to be a hot button issue here in the US. I think people have different expectations. You hear stories of immigrants from the early 20th century that would force their kids to only speak English so that they would get on well in society. It seems like a difficult topic here around heritage vs managing in a society, especially for kids.

>If someone is smart and capable enough to work on tangible things like AI systems or self-driving cars

Maybe they aren't as smart as they think they are? Or they find that there are interesting problems to solve in fintech? Problems they can tackle and see resolved in a realistic time frame vs 'tangible' (?) self-driving cars or chat bots.

I know AI encompasses a far larger range of things but right now, what problems is it solving? Artists, writers, and others can do that work. What do self-driving cars resolve beyond continuing the dominance of car culture in a world that could have better public transit and safer infrastructure?

I've been unlucky enough to have 'unintentional' job hopping, the gaps of which I think make me look like a poor candidate. If someone looked at my LinkedIn or resume, they might automatically move on because of a 4 month gap here or there. If I actually received an interview I could explain "Well, this was a small company and they couldn't pay me on time so let me go" or something similar. When you've been stuck towards the bottom end of the economy with companies that may not be run that well, it can make you look worse than you are vs circumstances beyond your control.