Wealth will always be very unequal, see the Mathew principle - just like a few songs have the most listeners and a few books the most readers. And it's hard to stay at the top too, so the elites are always changing.
The real issue comes when the really powerful can inflate their and their friends assets at will.
Hindsight is 20/20 but wasn't it clear that the company selling ads shouldn't be in charge of metrics for traffic and ads? Just like the TV channels had to rely on media rating firms.
>Providing support should be required by law. If you run a service that people depend on for any of the requirements of modern life then you should provide real live human support 24/7/365 or be liable for treble damages and equal fines for all harm this corner cutting costs.
Yes, exactly this! Unfortunately many people will see this as socialism and reject this kind of regulation.
I was thinking more like ad-supported hearing aids with built-in analytics so marketers can ask "Have you heard of this brand before?" for precise ad recall.
Just let go of the 4h assignment. I know it seems like the perfect process for the company: introductory talk, assessment, talk, offer/negotiation. However, in reality that's for Juniors who need to prove their knowledge and have the time to do it. Seniors don't have that much time and good ones can show what they know in a 1-1:30 talk.
Sorry if I've put it bluntly, just trying to help.
Companies after achieving huge success and growth become finance companies, in the sense that it isn't about technology or products and services anymore, it's just about balance sheets and stock prices and cash flows.
Everything becomes money problems and money solutions, like buying smaller players, selling non-core business units, hiring cheaper workers, firing expensive workers, paying more dividends, buying back stocks, etc.
I'm biased but I'll say that as you age you'll value much more the physical world - a partner, children, your house, a pet. The best things in life are offline.
I don't know if I laugh or cry at the naivety of libertarians talking about common people funding defense contractors to protect them from organized crime and foreign state-owned armies.
Not parent poster but I've seen more and more startups setting up their jiras with whatever the folks who invented "safe" (scaled agile framework) say, while obsessing over measuring and predicting delivery metrics, all in order to have hard data to backup roadmap claims.
I agree with you, my concern is about what happens if the data doesn't point in that direction (tortured pigs taste the same) or if the market just accepts a trade-off (less quality for less price) disregarding their suffering.
I believe technology is inexorable and we'll just have to see what happens next.
This is the coolest way I've seen to have my mind focused on work 24/7 even while I'm laying down resting. If my employer gives me one of those I'll quit on the spot but I want to buy one (secretly) to try it, damn.
This. The ability to reach people from very specific demographics and behavioral segments is something every politician from all sides want. That's why they will always complain and promise regulations, but will never really do something - it's against their best interests.
I don't know much about security. I'm asking from a purely theoretical perspective, so you could imagine a worst case scenario - for example, Alice wants to use her phone to securely chat with Bob about resisting the dictatorship they're living in or something like that. Or they need to trade industry secrets that are in their phones.
Related: can anyone on HN explain which of those (matrix, signal, telegram, whatsapp) is the "safest" in terms of privacy and the technical reasons why?
I'm never going back to work in an office. If companies stop with WFH I'll become a freelancer on Upwork or whatever.
Sure, there are many advantages to being in the office, learning and career-wise. But those advantages are related to just one aspect of life: work. With WFH I get perks in every aspect of life, plus it is healthier for me and to the environment, while also being better to the community I'm in - I get to spend my money here locally and not in some corporate park.
My wife is a perfectionist, she spends unreasonable amounts of time even in little tasks (like making the bed) to make sure it's "perfect". We all talk about perfectionism in the workplace or job-related activities but in reality it's a PITA in every aspect of life.
Question: out of those 113, how many of the guests are associated with: the left, the right, pro-vaccines, anti-vaccines, pro- alternative treatments (ivermectin), anti alternative treatments?