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NYT and New Yorker and other establishment media outlets are corporate businesses. Their only interest is to push their propaganda narratives to further their own interests and protect their owners and other corporations.

However, it takes more than talent to achieve things in life.

Most successful people in any industry leveraged some talent, with drive, persistence and LUCK to become successful.

Facebook and google both needs to be broken up with anti-trust rules.

Inconvenient “facts” are hidden and censored from platforms.

News people don’t tell the news and truth tellers don’t tell the truth.

The extremes is what’s interesting, that they only go through the cycle if there’s competition. And, it’s fascinating to see in person how their bodies can balloon up so fast.

Lots of women use the competitions as focal point to work on their bodies, fitness and get results.

I know several women that are generally out of shape frumpy looking, but spent time to get into shape for figure completions. They look amazing with model perfect bodies for competition. Then, right after competition, they celebrate by binge eating junk food for days and get fat. Then, the cycle starts over again.

The four quadrants of competence applies.

Q1. Unconscious Incompetence. Q2. Conscious Incompetence. Q3. Conscious competence. Q4. Unconscious Competence.

Most people never leave Q1 phase, just muddling through their career and stagnate or burn out.

It takes lot of effort to jump from Q1 to Q2 and become aware how difficult things are in reality. Some take effort to become better and these types will usually succeed over time.

Lot of senior level people end up in Q3 and it's comfortable zone to be in. But, it takes more significant effort to jump to Q4, where they can gain additional pull to be able to lead and make significant more money.

It's significant journey and the timescale is not linear, it's logarithmic in some situations and extremely long in other situations.

Eating cow and livestock meat is better for people and environment.

They will be much better off eating good quality meats from reputable sources.

People should demand and buy better meat from better farms with better practices.

Ground up plants with food colorings and odd shapes are not meat.

HSBC money laundering for criminal cartels. Big companies will commit outright crimes and when caught, simply pay some fines that is much less than the profit.

How does the market differentiate between money losing startup, like Amazon of past, and some money losing penny stock pitching free energy electric car engine, aka perpetual engine ? Lots of muddy waters and shady regulations that hide many fraudulent companies preying on people.

QA is orderly process of utilizing techniques to create instability in stable systems.

Everything has a breaking point. QA is finding out if the breaking point is above specified threshold or not.

QA knows anything can be broken at some point. The job of QA is to verify that it meets specified criteria under certain stress conditions and document them.

QA is more than randomly pushing buttons hoping to pop open the box.

There are some drugs that can help think outside the box in QA testing, some will not work out at all.

Whisky drunk development and QA are time tested processes. Classic xkcd, https://xkcd.com/323/

Many people have celebrated Apple and Google censor and deplatform their competition and others with political bias. It’s a private company, they can do whatever they want.

Pakistan is private country, they can do whatever they want. Now, they are using their powers to force Apple and Google censor and deplatform.

Slippery slope is slippery and water is wet. As the saying goes, power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

It's laughable that Microsoft was under anti-trust scrutiny when they were much smaller company. The Microsoft anti-trust situation created enough lanes for smaller companies at the time, like Google, Apple, etc. to gain traction.

The situation is the same now, anti-trust rules are in place to promote healthy competition at all levels. All these big companies has to be broken up under anti-trust rules to further competition in technology space.

Why do you choose to live in this neighborhood? People can choose to live in less engaged neighborhood.

It’s safer because of the vigilant neighbors reporting crime and keeping community engaged. The increased safety increase house values, because people want to live in safe neighborhoods.

Ask yourself or your parents why they chose to move to the neighborhood and still live there? The safe neighborhood is likely the top reason.

Teachers unions enable bad teachers by excusing their behavior. Doesn't do much to help good teachers.

What does teachers unions do to help good teachers become better teachers and helping students?

Teachers unions help bad teachers by preventing vast majority from being fired for being bad teachers. Everyone knows who the bad teachers are in the system.

Teachers unions make money by controlling the teachers and politicians in the system.

You also have the right to voice concerns about your neighborhood and community. I would assume you want others to respect your right to voice your concerns, just as they would expect you to respect their right to voice their concerns.

If you know visual designer, discuss the contrast aspects of your site design.

It still has to be written first.

Pulling these kind of shenanigans is simply cost of doing business. When they get caught, they just shrug and pull some other shenanigans.

There are much better themes out there for free, crystal clear and elegant.

Everyone knew who stood to gain and who stood to lose in the short squeeze.

WSB crows was going after the short squeeze, anyone that got gains just rode the wave and knew when to step off or not.

It's the first hook that software engineers learn in React hooks.

Google paid Anthony Levandowski $120 Million to lead their autonomous car project, before he went to Uber and the legal troubles. Uber was paying him more than Google.

Facebook paid $16 Billion for What's App, which only had around 50 engineers at the time. Facebook was buying the IP and the productive software engineering members of the team.

There are countless other examples.

No amount of management process can create productive software engineers. That's why companies recruit productive software engineers from other companies. That's why companies buy other companies that has productive software engineers with proven products.

Productive Software Engineers are exceptional. Their work are worth Trillions of dollars and generates Billions of dollars in revenue every year.

It has failed every time.

When the latest management fad fails to live up to expectations, new terminology are created to hide the failed management fad. New terminology simply replaces the old terminology and they can now sell new and improved management concepts again and again.

Software Engineering is extremely difficult. That's why successful Software Engineering companies are highly valued as unicorns. The companies have temporarily captured the right type of people tackling right type of problems and delivered right type of Software Engineering solutions. The process can not be replicated. That's why it's so valuable and worth Trillions of dollars.

There's no other Microsoft. There's no other Apple. There's no other Google.

These are unique companies with unique products that provide value to customers. It took years and decades of Software Engineering man hours to iterate until they delivered the valuable software solutions.

Lot of these Software Engineering management fads are trying to capture something that does not exist.

Productive Software Engineers are exceptional. Sooner Software Engineers understand that paradigm, the better they will be able to value themselves and be more effective.