Your "logic" is bullshit because luck doesn't exist. Capitalizing on timing, risk tolerance, excellent anticipatory judgment, self-control, and rich parents also help.
Yep. I was a freelance technical consultant for 10 years. Stanford University School of Medicine wouldn't pay my invoices. All you can do is keep asking politely for weeks or months. If they don't, then you might name and shame because there might not be anything else you can do except sue.
That's what doesn't compute. The wisdom and care required to have and keep billions requires a certain pathological, insouciant public face or internal armor. Sure sexual thrills and "love" makes most people dumber, but a big boy billionaire baller ought to have a certain de rigeuer self-control to not catch the wrong sort of complications or perhaps they should've had a discreet open relationship arrangement a priori.
While tech advances are cool, I secretly do too. Like Mother Nature's vengeance and reminder that technology isn't invulnerable. Now if critters could just disable Russian tanks, the circle would be complete.
I don't understand marital instability when you're rich and live in a community property state. Either stay married because there's way too much to lose or stay single, but to philander and divorce is just economic suicide.
Standardization by centralized administration, reduction of rogue external and DIY options, concentrating efforts on delivering managed services based on a common and repeatable platform, strict change control, clear training enumerating what is and what is not allowed, and a security team that actually digs in to make cross-cutting concerns more audited automatically, practical recommendations, least privilege continuously ratcheted down, and advise on new features and new projects.
There's an excellent book about this topic. Three Felonies a Day by Harvey Silverglate. Convictions for white-collar crimes aren't about stopping significant crime, they're about building statistics by sacrificing the most convenient bodies for expedient wins.
AT&T - too big to jail, worst UX, worst service, and worst customer service ever. Until CEOs end up in prison, nothing will change and there will be no consequences. It will never happen because money has more votes than citizens.
An interesting footnote is that installing the web browser package on AIX caused a telemetry dial-home to Big Blue. I found this because it was keeping our ISDN BRI leased line up constantly and costing us money. Blocking that address solved it.
There are many stupid choices: violent religious extremism, picking altercations with strangers, snakeoil wellness products, driving a giant diesel SUV without a seatbelt, trying to control others online, and listening to The Eagles. Eating meat is just a middling unsustainable practice amongst many. Organized civilization has about another 20-30 years before a cacophony of unsustainable practices brings it all crashing down because there is minimal appetite in enough centers of power for either awareness or reform. The Roman republic/empire is history that is repeating itself slowly.
It's morally indefensible to create incurable bacteria or another pandemic, destroy antibiotics' effectiveness, and destabilize the climate balance of the only planet we have through the supply-causing action of buying and eating a fucking Big Mac.
Also, I suggest anyone who eats meat and has a functional sense of smell to take a trip to Greeley, CO.
That's historically the least-persuasive argument for vegetarianism. The far greater threats are anthropogenic climate change, antibiotic resistance, accelerated pandemic evolution, land/water/air pollution, higher food prices, and less total available food.
The cognitive dissonance is very strong because people get violently defensive with their somatic lifestyle choices and will believe and do almost anything to extend them indefinitely. The only way out is leadership to tax, reform, and regulate excessively-subsidized meat agriculture that isn't good for public health.
The startup was ServiceBell. It was a feature company in a crowded market with little defensibility. They're still around.
It's easy to get rich quick in business when you're dishonest for a short time, but it's slightly more difficult to be honest, trustworthy, and not a pathological liar. Karma, reputation, and the law eventually catch up with shady people who didn't learn anything about the social contract from their parents.
It's no surprise Microsoft and Boeing get special treatment and never face scrutiny for their foul-ups that get people killed and harm America's security because PR and profits come first.
I had a titanium ring cut off my middle finger that swelled from high blood pressure and weight gain. It took a long time with a ring cutter at a jeweler's in Chico, CA, but it worked.
Some scammer "founder" invented a "job" to pick my brain while pretending to be hiring. Absolute liar. One of those customer/feedback chat widgets with video call features.