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Counterpoint: It's intrusive to a worker's life, career prospects and their family if you decide to hire a family member over someone who (and I'm adding this in purposely) - objectively more qualified - than the family member.
> The solution is endless growing bureaucracy to implement and enforce fairness at every level and it is happening everywhere I can see.
You are advocating for fairness - but for it to be fair - you need to be allowed special treatment and that treatment (positive mostly, from your stance) to be applied only to family members. E.g., "It's only fair I hire my brother. So I can enrich my family. He may not be qualified, but I'm the founder."
But then in the same breath, you say it is unfair to bolster nepotism and cast aspersions on the vast majority of workers who feel opposite of you.
Your argument is flawed and flimsy, with all due respect.
You may have a business that works but no one outside your family would want to work with you and especially working with inept family members. At least no one I know.
I'll edit to add: I think it's a sad state of affairs you see friends as just a convenience. Nothing more. Sure seems like there's no investment in relationships outside families which seems very exclusionary.
There are many reasons folks have no kids or only one kid. I don't think opining for a larger family 'for the chance' of having a family member with similar tastes is really... compelling.
> Nobody to pull them up and nobody to pull up in term. Not dynasties of tiger children, but simply support in minor ways.
Are you saying friends cannot provide support in minor ways?
In my view, it's more compelling to solution the many downsides of nepotism (esp. in governments not just private entities) rather than endorse or perpetuate it.
His title was `Former Head of Preparedness at OpenAI`. I make no other commentary on the article itself.
'Tag resources for any cloud you work in'
Azure recommends this. AWS recommends this. etc.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/tagging-best-... https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manag...
Have you seen https://hyprland.org?
Looking at the merits of this ... idea. Sure sounds dystopian to me. Just look at the Appendix for '1729'.
> "Crazy-but-correct ideas..."
Who says this is correct? The person writing the sentence?
"A network state is a social network with a moral innovation, a sense of national consciousness, a recognized founder..."
Whose morals? What national consciousness? A recognized founder? You mean a single monarch? These are all within the first part of that paragraph. Which means they have huge importance.
Here's how I read this:
"We don't like being just CEOs of companies, we want to own our own country too!"
Sure sounds fucked up to me.
They had read/write data for a few days before being denied access https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-associate-bfs-federal-...
Sources requested for this statement, made unilateral with no evidence.
> Declaring it a 'coup' is as silly as when Trump lost in 2020 and declared it a 'rigged election.
A single person, who somehow owns multiple major companies with, clear conflict of interest, is not a coup? What? He & his "engineers" reportedly have access to American citizen information. Where's the required oversight by Congress? I get trimming the government, but let's talk about it in the open rather than relying on his word and his word alone.
> You don't win by insulting, by dunking on the other guys on ~Twitter~ bluesky, or by protesting.
Would you say that to Tea Party folks who widely protested Obama? What? This makes no sense. Didn't they also insult Obama and his birth? Or anyone who voted for Obama? Whataboutism.
Frankly, I feel you are delusional and have bought into the ruse of the current news cycle.
> "Everyone not already in our tent is evil, fascist, dastardly white supremacists," but to their chagrin, their current tent is under 50% of the voting public and it isn't growing.
Trumps share of the vote was <50% via https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/2024pres...
This is incredibly dangerous. A select few, having such control over so many millions? Are you nuts?! This is a serious question, as a new member of this community, is this a normal type of comment I can expect on HN?
Agreed. It should happen to more & more people.
What do you say in those cases? Because that's my argument.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/k/knowyourclient.asp & know your customer
Oh, by the way, like any other service provided by humans - banks consist of humans and humans make mistakes. There's instances of it banks refusing service to folks who did nothing wrong. It happens. Either things get fixed or people part ways.
Thoughts on Toyota's solid state versus BMW?
Hard disagree here. I don't feel I need to state the reasons. If much of a business relies upon technology that the IT people ensure is up and running for the non-IT folk, I would say that is not overpaid.
This is such a shallow opinion with no forethought into the domino effect. I won't try to make a commentary on doctors, because I am not a doctor and don't pretend to say that "doctors are ridiculously overpaid" because I know it would be a wasteful opinion that does nothing for the conversation.