If the company tries to layoff 10% "due to AI" the remaining 90% can strike.

History is full of union solidarity vs idiotic management.

If I hadn't already landed a job somewhere else, I would only return with a 20% pay bump and an iron-clad contract.

This "across the border" strategy will not work.

Seagate Singapore was hit with civil penalties and settlements for shipments to Huawei under the Foreign Direct Product Rule.

ZTE, a Chinese company, was criminally prosecuted and settled with U.S. DOJ/BIS in 2017 for violating U.S. export controls and sanctions.

In the US, drivers kill pedestrians all the time and are barely punished.

Is this the same standard that should be adopted everywhere?

It feels more likely your investment account gains are driving your decisions. Stock gains are also driven by inflation though!

I can sort of understand the feeling though, I just recently got a 2.5% raise for "inflation", which hardly feels like it's making a dent.

You can see if people are in there and actively talking before you join and that alone encourages spontaneous drop ins.

21% of Americans are functionally illiterate according to the University of Alabama.

"Not X, not y, not z, A!"

The overly emotional paragraph headlines were also off putting.

Schmidt could have paid off every student loan for every graduate in full and not even noticed it as a rounding error in his net worth.

Would have done so much more for humanity that this vapid speech.

High taxes on the wealthy, high social spending for all, lower business regulations, lower wealth inequality, and high labor market flexibility.

https://maseconomics.com/nordic-model-economics-high-taxes-g...

School is naturally good at forcing this, since we are filtering in and out of different class groups.

If you want to recreate this in post-school life, you have to join high membership interest groups, like casual sports groups (kickball, tennis, golf).

Game nights at the local pub work well too, since there will be a rotating cast of characters to make friends with.

Basically, you have to seek novelty and regular re-occurance to make "natural" new friends.

"curl is currently 176,000 lines of C code when we exclude blank lines. The source code consists of 660,000 words, which is 12% more words than the entire English edition of the novel War and Peace. ... curl is installed in over twenty billion instances. It runs on over 110 operating systems and 28 CPU architectures. It runs in every smart phone, tablet, car, TV, game console and server on earth."

I wouldn't call that simple or well contained...

Most OS or web browsers don't run on cars or tvs.

I would 100% expect a commencement speaker to be hyping me up for what comes next.