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>That's very reassuring. I'm sure the CIA has mended its ways and is now staffed and led by boyscouts. They wouldn't do anything like, say, plan to assassinate or kidnap Julian Assange out of an embassy in London.

The current CIA director got promoted BECAUSE of their role in the torture program, not in spite of it.

"Actually the rolling spy box is a good thing for reasons I'm not able to articulate, but please trust I am very smart."

Won't someone think of the children? A whole generation of high schoolers deprived of the ability to steal their daddy's luxury sedan and bang their girlfriend in the front seat without the car narcing on them.

So much worse than that, because they go online and simp for the company after doing it

Pass that buck on down the line.

What would you call it if a VC was sending group chats to founders telling them to withdraw from a specific bank? Seems like ringing a bank run bell to me.

My understanding is that insider knowledge on the risk literally precipitated the run as more and more founders were trying to move all their money out at the same time.

You can't say that right now, I'm not sure anyone can. The government is literally writing a blank check because they don't yet know how much it's going to cost to fix.

Everyone seems to be operating under the idea that while their liquidity came into question the underlying assets were and are strong-- if that were true they would have found a private sector solution early in the weekend. Waiting until 6pm on Sunday and a second regional bank collapsing to announce "oops, all bailouts!" seems like an open admission we're in the early stages of another banking crises.

How are these scenarios "use cases" for a mixer and not critical flaws in the underlying system?

We're in a thread about a rogue state using the tech to steal money to fund their operations (Chemical attacks in airports, nuclear warheads, intercontinental ballistic missiles, etc.) How many nuclear detonations would you consider acceptable in exchange for the cryptobros to have their toys?

Arguments around force projection are certainly going to be popular inside the beltway. At a certain point the deficit does become a national security concern, and announcing to our adversaries that they can exacerbate that timeline with incredibly inexpensive balloons is no longer "projecting" anything that resembles "power"

Jingoism isn't power.

How does a $400,000 missile "miss" it's target? Surely the bulk of that $400,000 is related to targeting and guidance?

If it takes a million dollars of ordnance to pop a balloon how are we not completely fucked in any real conflict?

The US defense industry will absolutely find a way to make the marginal cost of shooting the laser be $200k or more.

This is nonsense. The rules can and will be easily changed if/when enough miners agree they should change.

>Doctors are licensed, Plumbers, barbers, Lawyers, what's the issue with people in IT having a standard base of knowledge?

It's hard to establish hard standards in an industry that moves as quickly as tech can, but virtually anything would be an improvement over the frat house hazing ritual that technical interviews have become.

>Plus, being an ex-FAANG is a huge bonus when applying for jobs at "normal" places or starts ups.

YMMV on this one, depending on what you consider "normal" companies (non-tech, non-coastal, non-advertising).

Plenty of those hiring managers have their own opinions about FAANG employees

So FAANG developers traded long term stability for stock based comp and now that deal turned sour?

From a super lame C# dev at a boring company in a flyover state that's never gotten stock comp-- I used to fear a collapse in big tech that would cause an influx of skilled devs flooding into boring companies and displacing mere mortals like myself. Now that it's actually happening I'm very amused at how unemployable the SV cohort is to normal companies. To them you're all annoying overpaid assholes that whine about tools and process instead of just doing work. They've got 10 years of experience with ephemeral front-end frameworks, while the companies still hiring deploy Java and build UIs with XML.

It's as varied as the work-- Lawyers and Doctors have professional organizations that enforce very strict credentialism, Screen actors have a loose org that enforces a firm "floor" for work conditions without hindering the ability for top talent to negotiate eye popping compensation packages. Pro sports players associations are another good example of low touch organizations that get results for everyone without holding back the super stars.

We can have a setup where everyone benefits, people who think they are top talent are free to capitalize on that fact if they truly are top talent, while also being protected from predatory employment practices if/when they aren't top talent. Even if we recognize the existence of 10x or 100x engineers surely we must also recognize that they are humans that will have family issues, mental health concerns or struggle with burnout / purpose / direction during a multi-decade career. No shortage of evidence that tech companies are working together to suppress engineering wages, why wouldn't engineers respond by working together to invigorate wages?

SAG has absolutely no trouble raising the standards of the entire industry without any "ceilings" for the highest paid members, nor has it become a credentialism machine like state bar associations or the AMA.

>I don't think YCombinator is doing brainwashing us or some crazy conspiracy

Try posting any kind of substantial critique of a YC company and see what happens to the submission.

This site is rather open and shameless about it's manipulation. YC companies get to post job ads that are instantly boosted to the front page and nobody can comment on. They have an official "second chance" queue to force boost posts that didn't receive the "correct" amount of organic attention.

If an individual is posting too many independent ideas they get re-educated by Dang or shadowbanned

The reaction I got from previous pithy comments on unionization in past years vs. the reaction I got today from a pithy comment about unionization is absolutely night and day. The volume and pace of upvotes was eye popping and the comments have actually been discussing the merits of unionization and the realities of big tech as a labor force instead of incoherent screeching about the benevolence of FAANG

I've been making pithy comments about tech bro unionization on the orange site for years now and I know exactly what you're talking about. Anything that even smelled like worker solidarity was shot down with vacuous logic about how the 10x engineers in big tech can't possibly be asked to associate with a lowly web master in a fly-over state.

Then suddenly today I said something and instantly got 100 upvotes...

Absolutely yes, Gasoline is the most demanded product so their production chains are built around re-processing components into as much additional gasoline as possible.

Residual products from oil are a convenient feedstock for plastic but it can be made from other sources. Corn is a good example.

If we stopped using gas/diesel/jet fuel and stopped refining oil completely the biggest tertiary products the world would miss out on are vaseline and petroleum based fishing lures

Guess tech workers should have unionized when they had the chance. As if capital was going to let the most powerful group of workers that's ever existed continue to slip their noose

America is a recently dead empire and you are observing the corpse twitching and going into rigor.

AI hallucinations are going to be the new database query injection. Saying that real time internet connected fact checking will solve that is every bit as naive as thinking the invention of higher level database abstractions like an ORM will solve trivially injectable code.

We can't even make live fact checking work with humans at the wheel. Legacy code bases are so prolific and terrible we're staring down the barrel of a second major industry crises for parsing dates past 2037, but sure LLM's are totally going to get implemented securely and updated regularly unlike all the other software in the world.

Compared to what? Either you're on contract and they could simply not renew it when the 1/3/6 month timeline is up, or you're an employee and they could simply lay you off without warning on a completely unpredictable and arbitrary timeline.

Everything is tenuous compared to living off the safe withdrawal rate of a $10 million diversified investment portfolio.

On the one hand PagerDuty's hiring process is shitty, but on the other hand the rest of the industry's process for identifying which heads to reduce is worse?

If you subscribe to this logic then doesn't it follow that you're trying to rehire only 50% "bad" programmers from a pool that is (again by your definition) newly comprised of individuals a previous company recently identified as 100% "bad"?

This not only assumes that you can identify bad workers, but that you can also identify some percent of "good workers that other companies identified as bad workers".

Shameless profit taking by executives and shareholders seems a lot more likely. Google and Microsoft providing PR cover for smaller companies to do it under the radar.

For the purposes of this discussion, lets say “the same frequencies the radio operates on”

Satellite based launch detection would likely suffer. Literally one detection method we use is measuring ionospheric disturbances caused by a rocket punching through the atmosphere. I’d imagine a solar storm is going to A) Destroy the satellites that measure this and B) generate enough ionospheric noise to invalidate the monitoring.

Yes absolutely. A mass death event on a scale previously unseen.

You'll need a bigger gun to threaten the species though.

Civilization is fragile, life is resilient