The US as it stands right exhibits quite a few hallmarks of fascism rather socialism: amalgamation of the capital and the state, marginalization of minorities, an extreme abuse of power, extreme nationalism. One of the tenets of socialism is that the worker class has no state, that it can only work if the workers of all nations unite, that's the exact opposite of nationalism.

the only common thing I can think of between the soviet flavor of socialism and Trump's administration is that both are authoritarian.

> The word balance never came up. Probably why it’s considered one of the worst places to work for. Works well when you are a small company that is trying to attract talent to build great things with the promise of big rewards. Doesn’t actually work that well when you’re trying to keep an established company stable and don’t offer much in return. If all you can offer is mediocre pay and a threat of PIP if I don’t work 60+ hours, I’d rather stay unemployed.

In his next comment he explicitly confirms he wasn't even comparing to the FAANG companies but to his very own "crème de la crème" set of companies.

> I’m not sure what you mean by FAANG standards, but Meta and Netflix both pay way more and Google and Apple pay similar if not more with waaay better work culture. Tech companies of the last decade like Uber, DoorDash, Block, Snap, Airbnb, Snowflake etc. all pay more than Amazon while the new generation of AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are not even comparable. The only way you would consider Amazon pay to be very good is if you come from Microsoft or one of the old school companies like Cisco and IBM. I would put Amazon pay as middle of the pack or mediocre.

That was the context and this context was just so unrealistic and absurd.

Good for them, I guess, but also has nothing to do with the reality

Pytorch-related articles do surface to the frontpage pretty often, but I might just be more attuned to notice this stuff.

Nuclear and chemical weapons, artillery were invented by West. The US remains (hopefully continues so) the only country that used the nuclear weapons against another country. All defunct European powers routinely engaged in slave trade, drug trade, ethnic cleansing (in very inventive ways sometimes as the Americans nearly exterminating the entire bison population which was the main food source for Native Peoples).

40+yy ago, HIV was still a death sentence, lung cancer slid to the 3-4th position in CODs caused by cancer. Late 90s saw the introduction of gene therapies. New drugs for diabetes and heart disease came to the market. These aren't small incremental QoL improvements; these advancements saved millions of lives since then.

All this progress should be celebrated, not trivialized

I really hope it won't be delayed

https://en-emea.support.motorola.com/app/answers/detail/a_id...

Shame, I liked it very much since Samsung phones are expensive

It was a really dumb thing to bring up and it chips away at the authors' credibility.

Edits: grammar

Those ads were so incongruent, they got featured on one of post-election "Daily Show" episodes.

The only slightly annoying thing is that there's only one thunderbolt port and it's being used by the DAS. For some reason, the DAS doesn't work on a USB3.1. Otherwise, I'd love to plug eGPU in and use for simpler AI tasks such as CV in immich and RAGs on some repos.

If you don't need a web UI, I'd strongly recommend rclone (https://rclone.org/) that can layer e2e encryption over many and I mean MANY cloud storage providers!

It runs on Linux, Windows, MacOS and Android.

Finally, it has some nifty features as "union" which combines multiple backends into a single directory view.

Don't get me even started that the cost of a wasted hour is MUCH more devastating to someone unemployed vs your multi-billion fortune 500 corp.

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[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fake-job-listing-ghost-jobs-cbs...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36446770