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You're underselling the problem which is that they profit off your addiction. Time you could be spending creating art, exercising, or learning a useful skill is instead spent watching an endless stream of junk videos hand-picked for you by the Chinese government.

The average engineer at Boeing makes $120k/year. That's about $50k less than what a new grad with no experience will get from big tech.

Boeing doesn't have a culture problem, they have an idiot problem. The idea that you can hire competent engineers offering salaries like that is absurd.

They need to adopt a pay for performance mentality and bring in managers who are not afraid to fire underperformers.

> errors and unsafe acts will not be punished if the error was unintentional.

No sane organization would ever implement this. If someone repeatedly makes mistakes, they're going to get fired even if the mistakes are unintentional. Anything else is going to cause more safety issues in the long-term as inadequate employees are allowed to proliferate.

This is not a gotcha question. It's a smoke test: something that should be really easy to get right.

This is like building a calculator that can't get 1+1 correct, and then complaining nobody would ever need a calculator to calculate 1+1 so therefore it's an unfair question.

> Google doesn't want to offend or be racist

This is where you're wrong. A non-trivial percentage of Google's workforce does want to be racist and does want to offend.

And despite the fact that this group is a minority in the company, their lack of scruples allows them to have substantial power in setting corporate policy. Since they're willing to play dirty, they get their way more often than the employees who play by the rules.

We didn't allow them to do anything. They're just not accountable to us.

If you've been following Harvard's anti-Semitism drama over the last 4 months, it appears they're not really accountable to anybody. Neither US Congress nor their wealthiest donors have been able to force action from them.

No, the page title is "How an African streaming service dethroned Netflix." And that was also the title posted here originally.

Also, Showmax most definitely does not have more subscribers than Netflix. That is only true if you limit to a specific geographic region. But if you don't state as much in the title, you are lying by omission.

That's a much better title than what was posted originally. You should apply for a job as an editor.

If the streaming service isn't even popular enough to refer to it by name, it has not dethroned Netflix.

Personally I find it depressing. He could have retired years ago to work on a passion project. Why is he still dealing with the soul-sucking internal politics of a mega-corp? Unless he somehow enjoys walking on egg shells all day, it doesn't make sense to me.

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I don't understand the secrecy about firing somehow. If I were an employer, I'd want my remaining employees to know that what the fired person did was unacceptable.

I bet you have a hell of a time trying to buy gas. Do you pick Diesel, 85, 87, or 91?

The only thing I like about it is that it makes it easy to know whether I should care about this person's opinion.

Sure enough, the blog post was completely deranged -- to the point that the author even tried to present it as a given that reporting on both sides of an issue is a bad thing. This moron is legitimately mad that modern journalism isn't propagandistic enough. Incredible.

I'd guess the majority of pedestrians who are at fault for accidents are vagrants who can't or won't pay for any damage they cause.

I don't see well-to-do businessmen jumping into the road all that often, but I do see deadbeat beggars do it every day.

I regularly pass people on the right and then cut them off getting back into the left lane just so that I don't have to be stuck behind someone I can't see around.

The tinted front/rear windows really piss me off because they make my drive more dangerous for very little reason. I'd make them illegal if it were up to me.

The end of the article was bizarre. This did not remind me of Trump at all. Most of it is the exact opposite of Trump who is usually criticized for being rash and not picking his words carefully enough.

Most socialists only hang out with other socialists. This has tricked them into believing capitalism must soon be coming to an end because everybody they know hates it.

It's pure delusion. Capitalism isn't coming to an end any time soon. None of the candidates for the 2024 election are even close to being anti-capitalist.

What does that have to do with anything? Using Google Ads is not a requirement of having your website be accessible through Google Chrome. It's not analogous to this situation at all.

The recent push to relax education standards in the US is only going to make problems like this worse.

For example: https://www.oregonlive.com/education/2023/10/oregon-again-sa...

I can see it already in my company. Many of the newer engineers don't even have basic language skills. Reading their design documents is an exercise in divination. This has repeatedly resulted in delays and costly miscommunications between partnering teams.

We need a national push to raise the quality of our educational institutions from grade school through university. And we need to re-focus the curriculum on the subjects of greatest importance: reading, writing, math, and science.

Google has a union. It costs thousands of dollars per year to join and primarily focuses on political issues like lobbying management not to pursue contracts with the US military.

And even if they had a good union, I fail to see how it would have prevented this.

The onion made me watch an unskippable ad before I could watch the video, and then started another ad 30s into the video. Incredible. No wonder they're irrelevant now.

Nice. One step closer to finding the enzyme that gives urine its delicious flavor.

The fact that you think employers are legally required to give in to employee demands is truly bizarre.

Even stranger is the fact that you seem to think such a law would be a good thing if it did exist.

How could it be illegal to refuse to bargain? If want to sell my piano for $1000, am I legally required to lower the price if someone tries to bargain with me?

My Facebook feed is almost entirely comic strips like Calvin and Hobbes. If they are AI-generated, the AI is doing a really good job.

I doubt "Facebook is being overrun" is an accurate description of this situation.

No. What an ignorant question to ask. Any halfway decent lawyer would pursue all available avenues to defend their client. Challenging the Constitutionality of a law is not an admission that the client has violated said law.

He's trying to say that California's law banning false advertising must be Constitutional because libel is illegal.

It's a non-sequitur though. Libel and false advertising are not the same thing.

That logic doesn't pass muster. Imagine if a state passed a similar law and then started piling fines on newspapers for misleading reporting.

Clearly, the mere fact that the newspaper is a corporation doesn't dissolve its speech rights (nor should it).

They are state-owned media for an authoritarian government that is hostile to Israel. They are incentivized to make Israel look bad.