Just one 20 GW AI data center which is being built with gas powered turbine generator power plant, will be the largest fossil fuel power plant in the world... How exactly is that the same as one coal mine

What happened 'so fast' was how fast they pulled off the mask. 10 years and it's practically off in its entirety...

So without a training pipeline to provide experience to jr. Devs, in 15 years we will be hurting for senior devs to replace all the graybeards. Kind of like the fortran crisis of the last decade or so.... Just across an entire industry that supports every other industry....

I have only had one company ask for my transcripts and GPA. Ever! And guess what, they were the one company I never wanted to work for after the interviews.

You know what the best companies I ever worked for cared more about? That I got the degree, and a million questions about my skills and projects that I engaged in.

Like can you honestly say you'd feel rested if you had to wear a Fitbit like device to bed owned by your company to track your sleep?

Well I learned over a decade ago that they have had Pass/no-credit for the first year implemented for years... So at this point it wouldn't surprise me if you said it's been going on for two decades (at min.)

Again, I think people are having the same reaction I had "what, MIT just gets off scotch free for the first year?!". Decade later, watching it help relieve the stress from their rat race of 110% from their childhoods... Man is it worth it. And everyone still loves hiring people out of MIT

You can both become a company that supplies 80% of the world with your type of product, and then still have your stock go down in value.

All it takes is over evaluation by the stock market. Then a course correction from unsustained growth on growth (second order). So even if you continually replace YoY 80% of the world's hardware on a rotating business, but you don't increase market share or increase demand (aka growth)... Your business looks stagnant to the stock market, and there isn't really anything you can do about it. The best you can do is track inflation +/- 2%.

And that's why a lot of older established companies were dividend stocks. You don't expect to growth anymore, but that's not where the value is anymore... The value is in the reliable sales that will happen after infinitum because your company controls a majority share of the business... And that's ok! Unfortunately, silicon valley has created a philosophy of 'you gotta expand into new fields or your on the decline' - aka neo-monopolization

You wouldn't pick someone who ended up a Uber driver, because they dont look to you as someone from your field to model your future on.

Ultimately, getting fired can drastically change your life. Either for the betterment or detriment to their lives.

Very whataboutism