I'm imagining a comedy in the style of "The Office" in which the majority of the workers are agents of sabotage who are unaware that the majority of their coworkers are doing the same. How far fetched is it for the entire program to be a fake, with all the pomp and cost of a real program, but secretly existing only to string the leadership along with occasional dog and pony shows?

This seems so clear to me; KYC is an end run around the constitution.

But how do we stop it? If we legislate "no KYC" then what is my recourse when an imposter empties my accounts? You'd want it to be at least allowed.

But if we allow industry to require KYC "we will only deposit your pay to a verified bank account" then you may end up with de facto KYC if not de jure. But if you tell businesses they may not require it, it enables other kinds of fraud.

Legislation does not constrain people who will to do evil.

What previous administration funded programs that did not align with its policies and priorities?

Where I work the title "Principal Engineer" is a coveted, well compensated, and rarely achieved. Those I've worked with are all highly effective and personable, but I interviewed one about how he achieved the title at his previous company.

His strategy had been to help people and actively give away the credit. In 1 on 1s or in meetings with multiple layers of managers, he would consistently emphasized the value of his other team mate's work. This ingratiated him with his team; years later, when a high dollar project was behind schedule and several key engineers had quit, he carried the project to victory with some late nights, and was awarded the title+raise at his next review. While the key project pushed him over the edge, he wasn't the only engineer there working late nights. He credits his promotion to the goodwill he'd built during his tenure by actively giving others credit.

Why stop at zed? The trillion dollar investment AI companies have amassed was nominally for datacenters, but as those costs rise and completion timelines extend past the typical business planning horizon, it becomes more efficient to put the money to work elsewhere. You can buy whatever you want with a trillion dollars.

> 80% of the questions the agent asks me require a lot of thought. 20% of what it does needs correction.

I've found even the permissions questions give me veto power over fruitless lines of exploration, especially in planning mode. For instance, it wants to use tools I don't have installed to access information that I have made available elsewhere? I get a chance to override this decision by declining the permissions check and redirecting it. Feels tedious, but helps me understand what information sources are influencing it. I head off a lot of bugs this way.

Yeah, there's no rule structure that can't be skirted and subverted by new owners with different objectives. The most resilient way to preserve your values is to:

    Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, 
    lest you forget the things your eyes have seen, 
    and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life.
    
    Teach them to your children and to your children's children.

This family[0] appears to be 90% agriculturally self-sufficient: they occasionally eat out, but grow most of what they eat. They store a lot of food in their basement, critically, with a DIY ventilation system. If you're building a home from scratch, and you're independently minded, it's the ideal time to build in some food storage and ventilation access in your floor plan.

When I showed this video to a coworker who also eats mostly off her own land, she recommended beginning by experimenting with preserving store-bought produce before planting an ambitious garden that yields more food than you know how to store.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz7OVfaYeSA

There are some fascinating youtube videos on digging your own backyard shallow well (12-40'). This close to the surface, the water is considered non-potable, and you should have yours tested, but you can pump up what you need for backyard garden irrigation. Wells like this can be seasonal, as it is essential a rainwater catchment system using the permeable ground as your reservoir. Still, a neat concept for a relatively low cost.

Correct. The average was 1.37x revenue from the last decade[0], and the peak was 1.92x in 2020, not quite 2x.

[0] FY2015-2024

Meanwhile, even in an alternate reality where IRS was occasionally seizing some billionaire's entire life savings for cause, the proceeds would fund the federal government's operations for just a few hours. Hours! No amount of collected taxes make a difference when congress spends 2-3x what they collect!

But Milwaukee has very little to do with global combat or diplomacy. They don't issue passports or interact with all the other cities in the country. Their flag doesn't need to stand out from all the others at a distance or to non English speakers; it is functionally a sentimental, commemorative quilt to hang at city hall. It wasn't hurting anybody.

> “I wish we would take a breath and not just get rid of everything. because good or bad, it is our history.” [0]

[0]: https://www.kltv.com/2020/06/19/webxtra-family-woman-who-por...

I can do far better for myself than that if I'm simply allowed to work overtime, and especially if I'm not criminalized for savings that I invest.

This measure would either be toothless or it would make it impossible for the most toxic (non-criminal) team members to be fired.

If you're counting KBs and you have to include zstd yourself (a reverse proxy isn't handling it for you) does that mean you're targeting an embedded device? Are you supporting TLS at that size?

Was this supposed to be an internal posting? This seems like a highly specialized skillset -- you can't just poach any FAANG coder. And even engineers who have verified chips before have probably not done it at Intel scale. How would anyone not already working for Intel actually land that job?

You can already do this: hire a consultancy to build you a working deliverable for a fixed price. They will be incentivized to prompt their tools well and to avoid tools that are consistently pathological.

Hey now! The `nautilus' file browser on linux got me hooked on tabs and for years it's been a glaring deficiency of File Explorer. Many tasks involve a collection of directories, and tabs can be ideal for reducing demand for screen space.

I concede the the current Windows implementation is poor but I hope they improve it, rather than dumping tabs entirely.