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Almost all US banks have had upside down Texas ratios since 2000. Used to be savings accounts paid the rate of inflation, but not paying inflation and driving investments into riskier classes is the way they are driving revenue to pay off their bad debts.

With covid, the likelihood of bank failures has risen considerably as the savings money is drying up or moving out of cities and investment risks have raised considerably. Historically, whenever banks got systemically over-levered and they try to avoid a systemic banking collapse, they come for the commoners assets. Last time around they did gold confisaction. I remember in 08 they were talking about confiscating 401k money into the stock market.

This is no different. This is a creepy article full of trite anecdotes and observational BS that demonizes anyone that uses cash as a drug dealer or sex trafficker and doesn't mention the root issue.

US has energy independance due to Fracking so it's pulling out and leaving behind all sorts of toys while handing the Taliban a political victory. China is dependant on ME energy imports and Russia due to its collapsing demographics only cares about taking the Carpathanian mountains and a chunk of Turkey to have a defensible border.

The Chinese need to take Taiwan to break out of the first island chain to secure energy Imports, but even if they take Taiwan this year or next, they now have to deal with a Taliban 3-5 years down the road that have American training and arms and all of whom have experience fighting Americans for the last 20 years. So if they take Taiwan they'll end in a direct conflict with Japan, Indonesia and India while the world shifts it supply chain to India whom has healthier demographics than China, and even if China manages to maintain its energy supply chain, it has to deal with disruption in the middle east and has to ship troops over to fight an arguably better equipped and more experienced adversary.

Should be interesting to see how this one plays out.

Was going to go back and edit my (now flagged) post in this thread since after seeing a few videos of the MSM my subcutical vitriol didn't sit well after a thought hit me. Figure'd I'd post this. Feel free to flag it too, these opinions are my own and not that of HN, I own them.

So the issue with MSM reporting and this specific article is the habitation of publishing without applying basic principles of news literacy first. Editorials and Opinion pieces are all too often confused with stories of fact, and Questions about interests, data, and how conclusions are all often buried or require way too much time to discover and determine or we are asked to take it at face value. I won't say what puppies the MSM have killed but I will say in the last couple of years, they've killed a few publicly; the overton bubble has begun boiling and the Frog is wondering which pot is actually safe at this point. In this article I have to click on 6 or so links and read seperate articles to find out what was proposed here is an opinion piece, then do google searching. I shouldn't have to proove out the authors statement myself.

And that has become a bad habit for many people, and it's infested the education system. The net impact of that is to destroy the capacity of a country to utilize reputation and sound reporting and lets be really honest here, there are institutions that even in this pandemic and well before it have prooven trustworthy.

I would reccomend anyone reading this that REALLY doesn't like what I'm saying to assume I'm full of it but do yourself a favor. Take a news literacy course.

FAANG hasn't been innovators for a long time now, closing in on almost half a decade. They started out that way but have moved full bore into politics. Politics is what happens when the rest of society tries to figure out what to do with the innovators inventions, an when orgs don't innovate, they die, usually a pretty violent and shitty death over time.

Does implimenting worker quotes address racism at it's root?

If they had the kind of sway over the public you say they had, then Trump wouldn't have recieved a record 72 million votes in 2020. They spent 4 years lambasting him over every single thing they could and the impact was an election about 90 million people in the US Think was rigged.

Stuff like this doesn't help the optics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGRnhBmHYN0

Nor does Zuckerberg spending $500 million on ballot harvesting initiatives and skirting the law where he could. The one thing this last election prooved is that when rich and powerful people feel threatened with losing power or fortune, they often decide to use whatever power they have and spend whatever fortune they've got to maintain what they have. We'll find out, as the forensic investigations drag on, exactly how compromised this election was. Suffice to say, an awful lot of people on the left are acting like they have nothing to lose which is a strong signal indictments and convictions are on the road ahead.

Look at the MSM's SEC 8k and 10k filings. https://investors.newscorp.com/node/10126/html

Free news is done to sell advertising, which also finds its way into their subscription businesses and even if you pay for WSJ, the articles are often paid for or done as political favors.

So you don't need a massive army to engage in an insurrection but you do need a massive army to engage in Guerilla warfare? What sized army do you need to engage in terrorism?

Metered speech is a speaking and writing pattern whereby you pause after so many syllables in order to prevent your audience from grasping the full idea of what is being said. Let me demonstrate this for you.

Metered speech, is a speaking, and writing, pattern whereby you pause after so many syllables, in order to prevent your audience from, grasping the full idea, of what is being said. Let me, demonstrate this for you.

It can also be done with matter of fact statements, Dripped one after the next.

This is commonly done by the MSM on news websites.

Typically the articles have no more than 20 sentances in them with no more than 2-3 sentances per paragraph.

They drip the text one line at a time.

Again, the entire point is to cause you to pause for a second before reading or taking in the next point.

This is an incredibly common writing and speaking tactic that's been around since the dark ages if not earlier and was in common use during the fire and brimstone days of the church. The objective of speaking like this is to prevent the cognitive mind from evaluating information by throwing roadblocks in its place, and to get the limbic system to instead keep track of tone and base subject matter.

As a modern example, go listen to Cuomo Appologize for whatever his latest political situation is. Don't listen to the content, just listen to the pacing and delivery. It's all a manufactured production.

If you want a great demonstration, go to any big MSM news site, copy and paste the articles into a text editor and start removing paragraphs and comma's and apply 8th grade writing rules (minimum 3 sentances to a paragraph). Heck go to the article, copy and paste the responses into a text editor and begin removing comma's.

It is important to keep in mind this is a media production tactic they teach in marketing and sales courses and when you see production decisions being made they are clear signals as to the accuracy of the content.

MLK recognized that people are, and are always going to, judge others as they are and like people who are similar to them. This is human nature, and it's important for our survival. People are always going to be different, but they can however, make a decision to treat others with basic dignity and respect, to set boundaries around dignity and respect, and not use those diffrences as a reason to persecute or take advantage of them. It was that humility and basic desency that he advocated for.

It's easy to look at someone and pass judgement. It's expensive to get to know someone, especially if they are very different than you are. Learning to judge someone by the content of their character is a difficult thing to ask of someone.

Imagine having to get to know Ed Gein. At the very least if you listened to the mans life, you'd be questioning if there really was a god or if nature really had any sanity, given the developmental trauma he experienced. It's way easier to see a guy wearing his mother's skin on his face and go "yep, crazy". It's harder to look beneath that and go "How the hell did society fail you?".

That is the reason why his message resonated so well. Not because he was color blind, that is naieve. It is because he pointed out, and very rightly, that ignoring the black community or any community of people over racism creates a lost opportunity.

Sensationalism generates extremist beliefs as a consequence of its operation.

The mainstream media\media monopoly has two deeply engrained habits; one, the belief in distributing free news, two, in sensationalizing every story to maximize ad revenue.

Technology reduces cost, ergo, when costs reductions meet these two habitations, the net result is training the audience to accept sensationalisation itself as a brand and if they do so, you tend to polarize an audience in unpredictable ways as a consequence of operating your media empire.

Think about it this way. The reason the MSM puts out news is to sell advertising, and to the advertisers, we are products the MSM is selling to them. What do you do with products once you are done with them? You throw them in the garbage. Once we're used up we become trashed.

It's the belief that sensationalism itself is trustworthy that creates this trashing, and I would encourage anyone to learn to detect sensationalism as the psychological baseline for stimulation has risen to such an extreme these days.

In this instance, the moment we refer to any kind of warfare operation as "whack a mole" is when you begin rolling your eyes as the author is not treating people with respect.

Good, accurate information is expensive. If you need proof of that, talk to a historian.

The core base of the Democratic party; Pelosi, Schumer, Feinstein, and their ilk; have been in power in their jerrymandered districts for decades, and in line with accusing others what what they themselves are doing, they accused the Republicans for over a year with planning to usurp power for the mortal sin of making a fuss over Mail In Balloting, something most western countries have heavily restricted or outright banned.

In a country with more firearms in civillian ownership then every other countries military combined, Nobody in the Democratic party believes there was actually an insurrection. If there were, there'd be no place for congress or the senate to hide from the nationwide guerilla warfare.

As has happened so many times in politics, political parties get hijacked. The Democrats have been hijacked by foreign interests, the Republicans are in the process of being hijacked by domestic populists.

Fake article.

Each response is broken up into 6 to 14 syllables prose between comma's and periods. The translator intentionally wrote the responses to take advantage of metered speech so the reader doesn't make full thoughts as they read. This is the worst kind of sensationalized news, and as far as I'm conserned, if it's sensationalized and free, it's fake.

Google has a pending antitrust case heading for it. No secret Big Tech has been spending Billions trying to influence this election.

With that said.

DCPD failed to inform FPS\SS of the protesters breaking through 5 barricades and into a building designed to withstand seige until the protesters were almost in the chambers forcing them to flee. The factual narrative here is there was a compromise of congressional security and trust in DCPD.

How we end up, instead, getting the hyper-critical over-the-top insurrection narrative from every MSM company and all the heavy-handed fallout of that narrative without even evidence of busted doors I just don't know, but 4 dead and a handfull injured doesn't even amount to a weekend in Chicago.

Nobody is buying this narrative.

Antitrust litigation and Caps on personal and private equity fund wealth.

Bezos and the staff at amazon are not hero's even if their platform was very useful in this pandemic; they stand on the shoulders of giants and were only able to build their platform because of the kind of economic system the US built.

There is exactly zero expectation that even if the current group is honest and decent people, that once those staff are retired, die off, or move on, that their successors won't imoverish, abuse, mame, posion, threaten, intimiate, assassinate or kill the next generation of garage geeks inventing world changing technology. Quite to the contrary, that is exactly what monarchs do, and exceedinly rich capitalists always tend to eventually become robber-barrons and monarchs. One only needs to look at the scope of E-bays' cyberstalking campaign to see the threat companies like Amazon represent.

Furthermore, the US and EU governments use antitrust only when there is no other resort for the market and when the companies' entroachment into government is not sufficient to purchase political favors in order to cement their monopoly which many brand-name companies have done.

We need to view income as a form of power and need to cap personal and private equity income as a form of power the same as any law. You can start with a ridiculous number, say .1% of GDP for a company and .005% of GDP for an individual, which comes out to 200bn annual revenue for a company and .005% for an individual. For the company, once they hit that number, they get antitrust laws enforced. For the individual, if they hit that number in net worth\asset valuation, you impliment an absolute tax (no further income can be acquired, you pay all earnings in tax). If they want to keep the game going and not pay it to uncle sam they can give it away or just not save that much and instead spend it.

This does not have to be rocket science.

The ban was a national security move. Psychological warfare is a well known military doctrine, if you want to see the sciences behind it, use the filetype:pdf tag on google with the terms psychoacoustics, psychographics, psychovisuals. They teach these techniques when going for marketing degree's and there are well documented studies on how the use of these techniques have ridiculosuly boosted profits e.g. supermarkets playing calm music and building their store like a maze to force customers to listen to calming music for a sufficiently long enough period of time to cause the autonomic and limbic nervous systems to relax thus increasing susceptability to other signals and triggers on packaging. This specific technique has been linked to a 30-50% increase in revenue.

There is a strong argument these adversaries have built domestic terrorist cells who have been running around in gangs threatening people, razing buildings, and engaging in nonsensical political discussions about disposing with government services, and they are using a social media company owned by a foreign state with stated military objectives to organize. Whether you want to view Antifa or Trump supporters as the terrorists, or TikTok, Twitter or Facebook as domesitic or foreign companies is a matter of perspective.

The fact is weapons of psychologcial warfare do not differentiate between targets and may yet proove to be as deadly as any WMD.

The reason Section 230 is under attack by the current regime is that astroturfing exercises on boards like this one to force perspective change and create sounding boards for corporate political policies has become a well documented business model as the recent deposition of FB and Twitter's CEO infront of congress showed.

The real insanity is that any CEO would ever think messing with people's brain chemistry without knowing what you are doing in order to make a buck was ever a good idea.

E2E solves none of the above.

Welcome to 2020.

Listen to black debaters in the 1950's and 1960's sometime, david hoffman on youtube has a few really great videos up. Some of the Black panthers stuff is pretty interesting IMO.

Black people are more than capible of holding their own in corporate america, but they've been disenfranchised and disabused by crappy social policies and generational complex trauma stemming back to the 1600's in America, compounded by familial and community abandonment.

The net result of this is you have a bunch of basically abandoned children that, when they get into an adult environment, especially a tech environment, they can't function. Then, the devil incarnate comes along and says an environment of high emotional regulation (professional standards and boundaries) where people strive to develop cognitive function (think through their problems) and work as teams (because we all have to specailize) is "whiteness" because people are explaining the basics to them, or they can't negotiate because they get very nervous, or a myiad of other issues that really boil down to development.

It is a terrible lie, many things that aren't really racist become racist because all of a sudden we are discovering this group of disabused people don't have the development they need to have to function in that environment, are getting left behind, and have no clear path to attainment. Then the media vultures come in and "monetize" them.

And in some cases, they make people feel threatened and not physically but intellectually, and some narcisstic people feel like they've been dressed down a few notches which is BS.

You're American, some goat farmer is going to come over and invent the next big thing, put you out of work, then you're going to go work fixing robots and make 4x what you were making. Deal with it, leave your cultural identity on the boat.

So first of all, be the best you can be. You have nothing to feel guilty over by doing that and working towards that.

Second, recognize this group has been through an incredibly difficult time and more importantly, that survival instinct and moral perspective are important to really listen to and to play chess with. Keep "whiteness" and "blackness" out of the discussion and just stick to this as a navigation exercise.

Third, keep in mind a lot of them are impatient and angry. That isn't your doing, the best you can do is offer them an ear, mentorship if they ask for it, and a straightforward and fair explination.

First, and I really want to point this out. The author's sentance you are quoting doesn't have fully correct english and due to that is missing meaning. You're reading into it what you want.

Second, applying the assumption they are obfusicating code to maintain control or ensure job security paints a lot of people with a very, very wide brush. If you asked why or spent time understanding why, then you'd get a lot closer to the truth of whatever the situation happens to be.

Third, Arthur Schopenhauer is attributed with the statement "Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see." High performers tend to hit targets nobody else can see and that tends to be a very disorienting experience for all involved because systems end up behaiving in unexpected ways. Some people call it code obfusication, some people call it forcing people who are looking to break things to understand what they are doing before they do it; both are forms of organizational dysfunction which is pandemic in the industry.

Subtly demonizing these people as "inhuman", or as you are doing right now, painting them with a wide brush, illustrates one of the serious problems that high IQ and high performance staff face. Namely, they get scapegoated and harassed by groups of people.

At one org I found a bug causing 8 figures a year in inventory shrink caused by 2 lines of SQL Code that had been there for 10+ years; a contractor had come in, implimented a fix, and nobody had ever questioned it. Millions of dollars of inventory were being stolen by staff. Now imagine how disorienting that is to the entire end to end org. Believe you me, the c-suite wanted me gone after that and not because I wasn't doing a great job, but because I was fixing organizational issues that made them look bad and they wanted that stopped. They hired a high performer, encouraged it, and then when it got too bad for them, they got rid of them.

It is fully possible that some of these situations exist where there's a toxic, narcissistic fascade being sold to maximize profit. It happens. But I doubt that is the norm.

Is this an issue of organizational incentives? It's an issue with organizational structure, not recognizing people for who they are, and not aligining staff's interests because in this world we have this f'd up idea that we're just here to make money for shareholders or be the ATM machine for ownership. If running a company as pageantry makes them money, then they do not care.

This is why many high performers often create a niche money-making product that doesn't take up a lot of their time to get cash out of, then move on to working on other things that make them happy.

Why waste the effort if people don't care?

This article hasn't been grammer checked, uses a lot of recent, sensationalist words, doesn't ask questions directly except at the end, provides no new or interesting information on Mileva, her accomplishments or her day to day, her kids and family, background, or their accomplishments. I conclude with no picture of what her life was like.

It's substance consists fully of vague diatribes about why Mileva didn't get credit for general relativity, asking vague, emotional questions that can easily be construed as accusations without providing new information or answers.

It is, by definition, trite and spin and poisons the news feed of HN. If it's a slow news day, it's a slow news day.

This reminds me of slashdot back in the early 2010's after Cowboy McNeal sold it off to I think it was Dice. Every day there was minimum 1-2 SJW Agenda pieces; initially they were recieved warmly but as the material got more and more radical over time, the community realized what was going on and turned extremely vitriolic. Then they drew an unbelievable amount of automated bot spam and even people with old accounts became hostile and left. Towards the end, they got sneakier and sneakier about the agenda pieces; you'd see one about an obvious feminist topic draw ire and a tremendous amount of vitriol, then another about "How do I help my daughter learn STEM\Electronics". Articles like the ladder became more common and people began ignoring them. Eventually the community left and all you had were a bunch of hateful people left. BizX stopped posting those pieces after buying the site a few years backl; They have a different agenda mostly inline with their financial portfolio.

I remember when the site had minimum 300-400 responses per article, many of which were tremendously useful, with some articles hitting 1000-2000 and it did that on every article. Today they're lucky to hit 100 and most of that, these days, looks like astroturf.

Cloud is giving a service provider all of the benefits of a utility with none of the responsabilities. If Compute was really a utility, then like water, sewer, and internet, it'd be highly regulated.

BTW, Mailstore free can backup your google e-mails handidly and is the best such client for doing so.

If they treat you like an ATM machine, you treat them as such. 40 hr weeks, go home, and DGAF.

Patients dieing because people don't work 80hr weeks? Why are you working for such a shit management team? That's management's problem. Don't like it? Quit. Really don't like it? Name and shame.

It's unfortunate we live in a day and age that kind of thinking is necissary but it is. Burnout in the middle of a pandemic can get you killed.

The actors responsable are doing an all out attack to maximize profits as US Large corps and military are currently targeting their networks to prevent election tampering. These botnet networks have prooven difficult to disrupt even fort hem. This is a profit maximization effort for them and probably one they'll do right before folding and disappearing as the last time hosptials and police were directly targeted national governments began disappearing the perpitrators.

What'd be heartless is if the malware, such as the ryuk ransomware in December of 2019, had a bug in it that prevented the decryption key from working and all it did was garble and trash data.

Be forwarned, a few groups deploying ransomware are on sanctions lists which carries direct liability if you pay them. If you're the IT staff, make the CFO\CEO pay them and wash your hands of it.

For things to be said here.

First, Ben Bagdikian's media monopoly highlights how we now have very concentrated media companies and almost every company that calls itself "the mainstream media" is actually part of 4 or 5 companies that are I think are best deemed an oligopoly of influence brokers in the US. Much of the reason those companies have been targeting the current incumbent president for the past 4 years with a ferver that the Bushes, Clinton, or Obama never were attacked with is largely because when a rich person is threatened with losing their money, they'll simply spend it all to stop it from being taken away. Great example of how that works is here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGIYU2Xznb4

(This is older, we're down to 5 now). https://producertales.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/mediamogul...

Second, you make more money as a "news" org if you foster an unquestioning, guillable audience that doesn't question what you're putting forward much. Hence, the use of naming and shaming, guilt tripping, heckling and otherwise berating their own audience through innuendo and sleight of hand. The MSM has repeatedly crossed the line in the last year of attempting to incite their audience to violence. A great majority of americans at this point, by polls, consider those orgs to be trash news and tabloids; what these large news orgs are attempting to do is to stop competition from taking root. Some of that is supported by the US Government; psyops are a real thing and having media control is an effective means to stopping them. Much of that is revenue assurance. The problem today is, people are turning off the TV and Cable news broadcasts and are going to 3rd parties because they've gotten wise to big media pissing in the soup.

Finally, 8chan has been, for a long long time, targeted by social engineering groups including spooks from the US government. The internet has this funny issue where unregulated, anonymous boards tend to get targeted by social engineering threat groups in foreign governments and that has been pretty well documented. Even HN gets targeted. The problem with psychological warfare is, much like any WMD, it doesn't differentiate between target or target audiences, and as a spook org, you have no idea who really uses 4chan or 8chan. So you end up with these platforms being used to attract and radicalize certain broad audiences, then SHTF such as e.g. Anders Behring Breivik, the courts and governments are left to pick up the pieces and save face.

Pretty much at this point there's no more face to save, and the burden of proof is now a hell of a lot higher for audiences going forward. The game of building trust in an org then using people is prooving less and less effective.

Krebs did an excellent job at following the money down on what looks like a fairly sophisticated psyop. Interesting to me he'd do that.

The cost of innovation in crude governments of faith (Dictatorships, Tyrranies, etc) is measured in starvation, famine and deaths in the population. The cost of innovation in modern governments built on systems (socialist or capitalist democracies) is a lot of squaking about the innovation and its uses.

The cost of the NORK's replicating nukes and China's profiling their citizens contrasts with the US in that those costs are much lower in the US. The US isn't carting off undesirables to re-education camps (there's a prison system with a lot of people in jail but every single one of them was put there by a jury) or starving its citizenry to make innovations (although there is a point to be made there). This, in turn, tends to increase the rate of innovation (people don't come to associate the change with bad things and because they are discussing them more people are exploring them).

China or Europe can be #1 in scientific paper publishing but until I see robots that can do what General Dynamics is doing or even what Honda was doing 5 years ago, it's all just copying the leader and the development cycle for those countries to product decent copies is quite long and tends to be inconsistent due to people developing bad cases of I-don't-give-a-shit-itus. E.G. China has problems innovating for the same reason they have problems making an aircraft carrier and maintaining a navy; their steel mills churn out inconsistent crap.

The BBC article is trying to deliver a message using Schmidt's name, and isn't coming to any conclusions or providing any data. It's pure propaganda and a total waste of time to read or comment on really.

Japan declared war on the US by pre-emptively bombing pearle harbor in an attempt to permanently cripple the US Pacific fleet. The president at the time knew it was coming via intel and forward radar installations and let it happen to maximize the political mobility of the act.

After WW2, the US had been drug into 3 seperate foreign wars at that point; the Spanish war, WWI and WWII. Spanish war we were attacked at the southern tip of Texas and won that one before an invading army could get into the states, Both WWI and WWII The US entered because their merchant fleet was being attacked. In WWI a luxury cruseliner was sunk and that served as the tipping point, and in WWII our mechant fleet escort ships were attacked and the tipping point was a Torpedo fired at the Greer, a military escort ship. Basically, once you begin attacking the merchant fleet, your next step is to attack ports and port cities to stop material from getting on boats and to stop boat production. The Japanese harbored expansionist\empirial ambitions and knew they'd come into conflict with the US, hence the reason they had built a huge pacific fleet. That doesn't just happen overnight, they had a lot of build up of ships and material. Once the US entered the European theatre officially, the Japanese Military command became worried the US might attack them due to their alliance with Germany\Italy, hence the pre-emptive strike. Had Japan not attacked pearle harbor, had stayed in Asia, and had not built an alliance, a good sized chunk of China would probably be Japanese today and we might've had a Japanese-Indian war.

After WWII, The US had a unique viewpoint. Because we had just about every single culture on earth represented here, we could see how dumb these squabbles were. We had the bomb, and decided that instead of having a war every generation, we'd instead build the most terrifying set of ICBM's, Bomber planes, and nuke subs to make our adversaries know that attacking us or involving us in a war is Dumb. The tech for it was leaked to the soviets by US Scientists fearing a monopoly of power and M.A.D was born.

This shifted warfare into the use of economics and psychological warfare (cold war) to trash your enemy before an attack and the use of psychological warfare specifically and the creation of puppet ideologies used to weaken an adversary is what lead to the war against the spread of socialism\communism. E.G. The soviet union used ideological subjugation (look up Yuri Betzmenov on Youtube) successfully against countries including Afghanistan and Venezuala and those places are hot messed due to it today. Marxism is what we call the current puppet ideology in the US; it encompasses a lot of things the Russians do not do or believe in today and never really believed in and most people don't recognize that.

The Vietnam\Korean war was largely about stopping the spread of Communism by setting up military bases on Mainland china to keep an eye on the chinese, and creating capitalist\democratic economic powers in mainland China to serve as an example. It was a pre-emptive war to stop a bigger war from ever occuring.

The problem we have today with Conscientious objectors is psychological warfare is now a thing and if an adversary can eliminate your will to fight, they can take you by suprise or engage in domestic politics to create domestic problems to keep your attention at home.

In WWI, trench warfare was an excuse to send lots of perfectly good men to their deaths in a bullshit defensive game. Great thinking exercise; what is the cost per square mile of territory taken in human life? You'd extinguish the US male population before you got halfway into Germany. Given the survial rate of front line troops, objecting was an intelligent decision; that's no way to fight a war.

In WWII, they had less issues after pearle harbor due to the politics played. You had much better survivability and moral politics in that war.

When you get into the cold war and attacking smaller countries on the auspice of stopping the spread of an ideology, that is going to create cognitive dissonance.

One of the ways you tell you have someone with exceptionally high IQ on your hands is people will scapegoat them. Talent is being able to hit a targets nobody else can hit, genius is being able to hit targets nobody else can see, and the problem with hitting unseeable targets consistently is that the ground starts shifting under people's feet and they have no idea why.

For example, at one place I worked I found the source of a 7-figure inventory shrink problem that had been there for 10ish years and was caused by 1 line of SQL Code. Now you'd think out of THOUSANDS of employee's and THOUSANDS of management and IT Staff, someone would've gone "Gee we have a lot of inventory shrink" and go take a look.

What does your management do when they lose all of their bargaining leverage with customers due to customers finding out their warehousing co lost tens of millions of dollars of inventory? Staff theft accounted for a lot of the missing inventory, so you have employee trust issues added into the mix. You wouldn't believe the blowback from that I got, total nightmare fuel. Managers could not, psychologically, handle the truth of the situation; it was armegeddon to them.

At another manufacturing company I fixed serious data quality issues that were caused by previous management, over decades, forcing the place to run too lean. A High rate of order change had guacamole'd all downstream data from the order book to the AR register in their workflow process. They had hired a BP guy just to do nothing but BP for years on end and he couldn't figure it out. Because nothing appeared consistent to managers thus the data was never consistent. I put together a powerpoint and had a whole boardroom of c-levels grimacing at the findings.

What do your c-levels do when you show them all of their data is literal trash? What do they do when you correct the manufacturing product data so they don't have to go on research projects all the time, which in turn de-controrts the rest of their data enough to begin to make it look usable, and staff begin making big changes to processes that save buko bucks because they have the information when the c-suite couldn't do it for 20 years? Imagine how motivated someone who has 20 years into a company is going to be to fuck over or the guy who comes in and shows them where their limitations were at? Again, they are not psychologically equipped to handle the change.

Instead of accepting the failure and addressing it then moving on, what do they do? A Great deal many of executives and staff engage in engineering and management emotionally; they use their limbic system to navigate their day to day, but developing that takes years of work and deep integration with their personality, identity, and sense of self. When a seriously traumatic event occurs, like the above situations which BTW are great for an org; we're adding million in revenue by fixing mistakes; people deal with it like a trauma. Their limbic system wants to maintain emotional regulation, thus, they will often go through the process of grief in a corporate setting, presenting a number of "feel good" strawman arguments and isolating the person who found the issue.

The empirical data, however, does not care about your emotions, and if this is done consistently in an org, the genius gets associated with "pain, bad, nightmare fuel, bad". Hence, you get scatching articles about the genius we didn't need that got in our way and if you put the word "we should burn all geniuses" at the end, it'd fit right in with the undertones of the article.

The genius knows what they are doing, they can see it clearly, they can proove it empirically, and they are often doing it for an altruistic reason because they want the world to be a better place. They have a difficult itch to scratch, to be satisfied with their lives they need to do things that challenge them, it's human. But the fallout for an org can be detrimental.

What they don't have, due to a lack of adaquete socialization, is a sense when they are reorienting other people's realities too much. To develop that socialization, they need people of similar IQ that can keep pace with them because they start out life with a seriously debiltiating situation. Someone with an IQ of 150-170 will have the mental developement of a 9 year old at age 5, and a 20 something by age 9. Imagine being 25, in a room of people who look just like you but who inside are all 9 year olds and that's your life, end to end.

You will, guarauntee'd, develop complex trauma due to this. And the 9-year olds, quite naturally, demand you pick up "social skills" and "soft skills" because they sense instinctually something is wrong or off. What they don't understand is that someone with an IQ of 160 is literally 1 in 10 million; they figure if you're so smart you can figure it out. It does not work that way.

HR people are beginning to figure this out, and their response in general is not to hire geniuses because they know they cannot handle them. The problem they run into is, it's almost impossible to tell if someone is less intelligent than you, and utterly impossible to tell if they are more, and if you measure them by success, then eventually, their success will turn into the above at some point.

A better way to have handled the OP's situation is to give the genius an architectural role to alleviate from them the burden of writing boilerplate code, and have them working on system design and doing proof of concept projects. Many established companies have built internal think tanks for this purpose; it's how they house their geniuses.

Loaning money drives inflation; when a loan check is created, it spends just like cash, except the banks, behind the scene's, trade the loan checks so everyone has enough cash on hand to appear solvent.

Inflation drives interest rates; interest consists of the rate of inflation plus risk and margin, no bank is going to make a loan at less the rate of inflation. This self-regultes the rate of loans; the first people to take out loans gets them cheaper than late comers and have more favorable pricing.

Business loans drive companies to leverage capital by taking out loans using their business as collaterol in order to capture market share (and rarely, creating new markets or shrinking existing ones through technological change). If they do not do this, they will be driven out of business.

Net on net, because the markets are not expanding at pace with interest, prices rise. I like to think of this as the accumulation of cumulative interest; effectively when every business in a supply chain has to pass its labor and material through a bank loan, the end product becomes much more expensive than production cost.

Cumulative interest acts as a tax on the velocity of capital, and when that stagnates, business revenues drop and companies\people begin to play a game of musical chairs of solvency.

What this is supposed to do, in theory, is kill off rotten businesses and ownership, and provide a capital market to ensure the economy can continue expanding and when you have commonwealth companies; companies that pay majority profits to employee's and put employee welfare and interests first; this works because employee's invest in the company during downturns to reap profits in upturns.

In practice, in every downturn, wages stagnate because businesses shed labor and do not have to compete for labor during the upturn. Governments are motivated to assure labor shortages are solved because paying staff more because they demand it never improves profitability of a business and is always a serious detriment. Because wages stagnate and do not recover, the profits from upturns are captured by ownership and investorship.

This cycle, historically, is not new, and tends to repeat until the people become so impoverished they lose their concept of self repect and dignity and actually think burning things and killing people are effective means to solving their problems which tends to break down systems of government and force governemnts to devolve to basal forms such as tyrranies, dictatorships or autocracies out of necessity.

E.G. Many western countries have negative fertility rates despite being the most technologically advanced societies in recorded history, and the way governments are assuring labor shortages do not occur is through replacement-level immigration which further radicalizes politics (it provides people making arguments about genocide with a lot of convincing empricial evidence in favor of their argument).

Trump has a travel ban on India through the end of the year and he just ordered Wechat be sold, and He's also sending foreign students back home. You also have, what is very obviously, a puppet ideology infecting people's minds in western countries and the tolerance for that radicalization in many is heading towards zero. As one example, Idaho still has militia units running around keeping the peace.

I think the "good ol' days" of tech companies hiring the best and brightest from around the world to sell exploitive products is over with. If those people want to move here, become US citizens, bring over their immediate family, and rescind their foreign country citizenship great. On the backend of this pandemic, you're going to see a gargantuan backlash against exploitive companies period.

Put your effort into making sure whatever you are doing is efficient and don't get too invested in your current employer.

What you advertise your product as will always stick with people.

History Lesson. Back in the early 00's we all used IE and Proxomitron to block undesirable web elements. Firefox, Safari, and Netscape all existed, but IE6 was constantly forcing companies to break them.

Then, Firefox came out with Tabbed browsing and plugins, something that took IE years to catch up on. You could use adblock with firefox as early as I believe version 2 or 3 and that was very effective at blocking web advertising and undesriable elements as well as making the web more convenient to work with.

Then late 00's Google decided it wanted to be an advertising company, and its interest in Firefox changed and firefox was was pulled down the path of becoming an company selling advertising.

Today, they do things like quietly implimenting DNS in HTTPS, which we all know is aimed at ads and ad targeting. All while putting up cutsie pages with animated animals in them about their product with undertones about sticking it to the man.

The reason people flog you and your organization on the internet is they have very, very long memories and know what bullshit looks like.

Try forking firefox into a ruthlessly ad-removing, DRM abusing, secure, privacy protecting, enterprise quality version of what it is today with vastly simplified configuration options and sell it for $25 a year. Then you'll get some attention, otherwise, you're being paid to not compete.

"Trump’s latest gambit to distract from his monumental mismanagement of the pandemic response"

This is why I don't read articles like this. 2nd sentance in and we're bashing the president for what purpose exactly?

If you add up all of the infections in the EU, you get numbers similar to the US, and test results are very situational. If you get tested in a state that doesn't have an outbreak, it'll go faster than one that does. The US Federal government doesn't have the authority to swoop in and play hero in the same way the EU itself can't come in and dictate to Germany what they must and must not do. For the US, habeus corpus among other laws and our constitution are reasons why. What the federal government has done is print money and hand it to the states and people directly which IMO, is a solid initial move while all the other machinery is brought to bear.

Never discount a European's willingness to poo-poo the united states. It's like a pass time.

As for data.

Peer Reviewed Antivirus\Seriological studies show a mortality rate of .9-1.1% when hospitals\ICU's are not overloaded. When they are overloaded, the observational data shows that rate jumps up to double digits. Something like 30% of patients require hospitalization. There's also a body of observational evidence this virus also reinfects people; GISAid shows 6 distict strains at this point.

So your enemy looks like it can infect and reinfect and every round, if your healthcare system isn't built up, it kills double digits.

India has an exponential breakout they will not be stopping any time soon, Brazil is following suite it seems as well. It doesn't require a lot of scientific infrastructure to count body bags and the fundemental reason the numbers are so f'd up is due to the fact once body bags begin piling up people freak out and try something new.

If you are smart you'll take this thing seriously, wear a respirator or CBRN Gas mask, and work at getting yourself healthy.