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Entire countries have had access to a currency completely pulled. Not just the US wants to use USD.

Plenty of people can lose access to their money, not just alleged domestic terrorists (and isn't alleged is a scary word?).

What I would tell you that is verifiably true, is that myself and other engineers all worked under the impression that these metrics were being used. Whether or not they actually were I cannot say for sure, but I can definitely tell you that it affected the culture.

The OLR process at Amazon is notoriously opaque. The HR and management at Amazon are notoriously smart. Amazon has a bad working culture (obviously, this is in my opinion). I would say that it is my duty to share elements of it that were bad for my wellbeing, to help others make informed decisions about their own futures.

The iterations per MR metric is one I know for a fact is used in PIP docs. Heard this directly from a friend that was PIPed.

And then on the even worse side, you have Amazon's stack ranking coming into play. Engineers can screw each other by blocking merges with needless comments, slow dripping reviews (eg problems that were in iteration 1 aren't brought up until iteration 3).

I won't deny that maybe I'm a paranoid person and that I read into patterns that weren't there sometimes. But the fact that those patterns could exist was enough to hurt my mental health to the point that I wanted to leave.

Its ridiculously dumb. I've heard those numbers matter less as you gain tenure and seniority. But for the new grads and lower level engineers, all the savvy ones were gaming these metrics. It sucked to work in that environment and was a big reason why I left.

Or are you saying that Rust/Golang/React are simplistic in a world of over complexity. React I would generally agree with, the other two not really.

https://www.fs.usda.gov/ccrc/topics/carbon-benefits-wood-bas....

What would be my savings in the short term, vs what I could earn from carbon capture/timber if I paid for the planting myself?

Brandon Sanderson, a modern fantasy author, is famous for having an entire corporation of editors, storyboarders, and researchers. But only his name goes on the book.

I've studied Shakespeare a fair bit, his plays were certainly not written truly solo. But as the lead creative, alongside with humanity's love of hero worship, only his name stood the test of time.

A Tale of Two Cities, Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet, Beowulf, Pride and Prejudice were the first ones that come to mind, though there are of course many more. Wish I knew more of the non-western classics

From the article you linked, here's just a few snippets that showed he was not treated like he should have been.

"After a contested hearing in January 2011, and an appeal, he stayed registered in New York State as a "level three" (high risk of repeat offense) sex offender, a lifelong designation.[122][123] At that hearing the Manhattan District Attorney argued unsuccessfully that the level should be reduced to a low-risk "level one" and was chided by the judge. Despite opposition from Epstein's lawyer that he had a "main" home in the U.S. Virgin Islands, the judge confirmed he personally must check in with the New York Police Department every 90 days. Though Epstein had been a level-three registered sex offender in New York since 2010, the New York Police Department never enforced the 90-day regulation, though non-compliance is a felony."

"On June 30, 2008, after Epstein pleaded guilty to a state charge (one of two) of procuring for prostitution a girl below age 18,[117] he was sentenced to 18 months in prison. While most convicted sex offenders in Florida are sent to state prison, Epstein was instead housed in a private wing of the Palm Beach County Stockade and, according to the sheriff's office, was after 3+1⁄2 months allowed to leave the jail on "work release" for up to 12 hours a day, 6 days a week. This contravened the sheriff's own policies requiring a maximum remaining sentence of 10 months and making sex offenders ineligible for the privilege. He was allowed to come and go outside of specified release hours."

" According to the Miami Herald, the non-prosecution agreement "essentially shut down an ongoing FBI probe into whether there were more victims and other powerful people who took part in Epstein's sex crimes". At the time, this halted the investigation and sealed the indictment. The Miami Herald said: "Acosta agreed, despite a federal law to the contrary, that the deal would be kept from the victims.""

And yes, this is all has been known. What's not known is why, which is the conspiracy. The why is extremely important because of the likelihood that some of the world's most powerful are involved.

The people who are truly broke don't have the option of choosing between a history degree and plumber training. They grow up in broken homes with parents working 3 part time jobs because no one will give them benefits. The benefit cliffs prevent their parents from jumping up in social status.

"The only people I see are struggling are the ones who have made dumb choices" is naive at best, dismissive, callous, and uncaring at worst.