oldpersonintx

Because the US is asking Europe to defend itself eighty years after ww2

for decades we have prioritized market gains over jobs

HN constantly derides the "number goes up" mentality

so, Trump is in agreement

he is saying he will prioritize jobs over "number goes up"

love it! finally something for the "/r/nothingeverhappens" people to latch on to!

be careful turning off the power to NYC...your brokerage accounts in Canada might stop working!

long overdue

the cartels are not just a problem for Mexico and the US, they are a global scourge

once free from the cartels, Mexico will become a major global economic power

Newsom should be thankful for this opportunity to end the nightmare of HSR once and for all and blame it on Trump!

HSR is now the greatest infrastructure boondoggle in US history, and its "record" will get worse the longer it goes on.

HSR has already failed. No matter what happens with it from this time forward, the project is the worst infrastructure failure in US history.

I dare Newsom to put it to a new Proposition; you wouldn't even get 10% of Californians wanting to keep it alive.

Just kill it already! You can blame Trump!

you've had twenty years to build an EU-native alternative...what do you have to show us?

the EU has settled for using US tech but just taxing the success with fines

whenever someone uses the phrase: "it's not a sprint, it's a marathon", I suggest they go to a world-class marathon and watch the first few runners

these folks are basically at a light sprint

If a fire like that hits your neighborhood, clear out and pray your home is razed. Smoke smell never leaves

In the same way it is desirable for your car to be deemed a write off after an accident

if you want to get mad, get mad at the RTO orders

in almost every case, these folks seems to be remote workers who can't/won't comply with RTO so they are taking a payout

> (yes, this is direct from stoicism)

stoics don't write multi-paragraph goodbye letters

Ukraine is an independent nation

if the EU wants to bankroll and arm Ukraine, and Ukraine wants to go on fighting, then by all means proceed

the outcome will be the same, just with more death and destruction

look at maps - Ukraine is not winning

Russia is not winning either but they also aren't losing

regardless of what else you might think of this, eight months severance is well beyond anything I have seen from private industry

if they are allowed to retain some sort of pro-rated portion of their retirement benefits, I can see a lot of people going for it

decades of government rot finally being subjected to the most trivial auditing and you have liberals invoking the Reichstag fire

is this where we are? you literally cannot have even demand trivial operational competency without being called a nazi?

intersection of geek-cred author + hipster language

but its actually fine software

Go and Python are both firmly rooted in anti-cleverness

Cleverness makes for macho code golfing and aha moments in small codebases

Cleverness makes you quit your job when the codebases pass 10k lines

this is actually an incredible offer compared to current standards for severance in private industry

if my current employer offered a similar buyout, I would jump on it instantly

buyouts are an honorable way of reducing headcount - both sides consent

contrast this with current trends in tech - PIP...

yeah this is just someone losing their work virginity

the real pro-level insight is understanding that the people left behind are often in a worse position - inertia keeps them locked into a dying company

LBJ literally destroyed the soul of black America by turning them into a welfare society

he did succeed in getting "them" to "vote for us for the next two hundred years" which is exactly a part of the quote attributed to him...the real quote is actually quite a bit more offensive and is revelatory (Google tries to bury the quote now but you can find it)

what LBJ delivered is the plight of most inner cities now...ask yourself if this is "progress"

btw feel free to read Caro's "Master Of The Senate" for the full download of LBJ's crazy racism...even by the standards of the time and the standards of the South, the man was more than willing to say things out loud that made people blush...a lot of it is just deranged and near-psychotic

Case in point, his own driver...he asks the guy one day what his first name is, when his driver replied, LBJ goes on some whacko screaming tirade that he "has no name and is nothing but a n-----" and continues to rant in a like fashion...who says things like this?

Who is "we"?

This isn't your money

Every scenario for Canadian "retaliation" makes weird and inaccurate assumptions about Canadian capacity and capabilities.

Canada has hollowed out its economy and reduced itself to real estate Ponzi schemes or exporting raw resources. Otherwise there is nothing. Canada put itself in this situation and instead of torching Trump, Canadians should be torching their own government for pursuing identity politics and virtue signalling over real national development.

Bullies seize on weakness. Canada is an easy target.

> I'm not at work to make friends,

Most of my great friends I met at work

After years of research, our mole discovered that "militia" members liked to dress in plus-sized camo and shoot legally-owned ARs on private property...

Samsung is going for 2nm in Taylor TX

longtime FM user here

good on them, understanding infrastructure and cost/benefit is essential in any business you hope to run for the long haul

if a bunch of very unhealthy people die off in a short period of time, the general public will appear, statistically, to be healthier

> what do you do when people turn out to need social scientists?

avail yourself of the thousands still at work in other allied societies

the world has more people at work pursuing pure academics than ever, and they are sharing their work

the demos are amazing

I need to rewire my brain for the power of these tools

this plus the quantum stuff...Google is on a win streak

I can go a week now without receiving a single useful email...gmail or fastmail are fine

Ukraine is also exhausted

its time for America to stop pushing Ukrainians into the firing line

this seems mostly about VW, a company that is both a huge presence in the EU economy and probably irrevocably f---ed

VW is slowly vanishing from US markets (EV or ICE) and tried to enter the Chinese market only to get the crap kicked out of it

I'd mention Stellantis which is also mostly an EU company now, but they are so screwed at this point it isn't even sporting