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Reminds me of the Amazon joke in the 90s (before they barely avoided bankruptcy): Amazon loses $5 on each sale but makes it up in volume.

LOL at “Chernobyl accident was caused by bad control rods”. This seems to imply other control mechanisms worked, when in fact plant engineers could not even monitor the plant operations. They had malfunctioning Geiger counters. Also - plant engineers had no idea how much water was flowing through the nuclear core cooler. Monitors for the temperature of before mentioned water did not exist even on a whiteboard.

If developer's lawyers were better than Oracle's lawyers and stopped those weasel-words in the contract - that would be poetic justice for Oracle.

The joke is on you: HR never tells you why you weren’t hired.

Thank you for the link: it proves my point. Most of business-only airlines did not survive, the only two that survived had to add economy class.

If this was the case and the cattle class would cause airlines to lose money you would definitely see airlines flying smaller planes just for the first class.

Most likely what happens is that cattle class pays for the plane to fly, and airlines make more from first class.

Should have been checked by both. Lockheed should have checked because of contractual obligations; NASA should have checked because of minimal engineering practices (bugs happen in all your dependencies).

I think the system will burn down before AMA would allow any US States to import a massive amount of doctors from anywhere in the world. Which maybe is better for the rest of the world - they get to keep their doctors.

I think Russia is more of a dictatorship than a feudal state.

What you describe as feudalism- a czar/emperor/king/absolute ruler at the top with some people under him to carry on orders - applies to any dictatorship.

Feudalism includes (among other things) complete lack of population movement: serfs were not allowed to leave their villages. In Russia today people can (still) leave the country.

Well, the article seems mostly theoretical. One of the premises of the article is that the capital owners (who thus own the economy, and the political system, and the legal system and the law enforcement) will give the rest of the people enough to assuage economic anxieties.

We know this premise is pure fantasy. For example Michigan which produces so much food it cannot even eat all of would not provide free school lunches for students: https://www.michigan.gov/mde/news-and-information/press-rele...

"the offshoring of manufacturing started in the 50s and 60s and accelerated in the 80s. " - not true.

Manufacturing offshoring started in late 90s in small part due to NAFTA and then accelerated when China entered WTO in early 2000s (thank you President Clinton for this one).

The manufacturing employment trend shows this quite clearly I think: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/manemp

Plus one. My parents experience as well in Montreal. My dad could not understand why Canada bothered to move him and his family and the keep him on welfare. BTW - life on welfare in Canada was 5 times better than life as an electrical engineer in România. My parents never stopped thinking it was a really good idea to migrate to Canada.

The H1B coworkers I work with really go the entire spectrum. The laziest programmers I met are H1B. And there are also some pretty smart ones that I learned a lot from and I continue to learn from.

To say that the H1B are all brilliant is hyperbole.

How was the environment that enabled businesses to lower their cost by admitting China in WTO hostile to conducting business?

BTW - with or without unions manufacturing was profitable in the US before NAFTA and China entering WTO. So your narrative that manufacturing was dying because of labor unions does not hold much water.

You moved the burden of proof from you to me. This looks like a disinformation tactic.

With this logic one cannot enjoy a drink with a restaurant meal and then drive back home. Seems excessive to me…

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The article you linked doesn’t mention that Saddam answered a call right before his execution… which is what you implied earlier

What if aliens and us have completely different requirements for life / entertainment? Fighting would be pointless if we do not compete for resources

Would you mind sharing some sources re: Saddam answering a call moments before being hanged? Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence…

If we had President Gore we would have done a lot more and a lot earlier re: climate change. Probably the biggest missed opportunity in our lifetime.

Actually I am not logged on OneDrive (AFAIK I did not create any OneDrive accounts) Excel insists that I should save my spreadsheets on OneDrive. Thus the infuriation.

I think I can. In 2026 Excel is unusable for me (I cannot see the active cell at a glance, I cannot trace dependent cells to “debug” my formulas, I cannot save directly to my local hard disk with a keystroke combination- I have to click around to avoid OneDrive)

Outlook freezes all the time. And in the past year or so AI “helpers” became very intrusive and distracting.

Office 365 usually has an authentication snafu twice a year-those days are completely lost for me. But even in the days without outages Office 365 is glitching and requires multiple attempts to login.

Could you share some examples of Swiss being cozy with the Nazis? Wikipedia seems to make the counter case [0]. Switzerland did trade energy with Nazis - but they were dependent on Germany for their coal needs. Switzerland also kept the gold Nazis stuffed in their country-but that is OK I think for a neutral country.

Switzerland let in their country (and thus saved the lives) of some Jewish people. They also hosted Allied airmen. They hosted the famous Lucy spy ring - which helped Russians incommensurably.

To me it seems the Swiss helped the Allies more than can be expected from a neutral country, not to mention they were completely surrounded by Axis powers.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland_during_World_War_I...

Every time I run across yet another one of these “let me explain C++ move or copy semantics to you” I thank my lucky star that I am using C# in my day to day work.

I agree with everything you said except for "Skiing has always has been the prototypal "rich person" vacation".

At least in western WA from 2000 till 2010 I could ski for a day for less than the price of gas to get there. I skied like that at Baker and Stevens. Day passes at Whistler in 2004-ish were about $70CAD - very reasonable even for Canadian customers.

Not anymore. Skiing (like a lot of other things) started going back to being a rich people hobby in the past 10 years or so.

FYI - I deleted my response after reading the post better. While as far as I can tell there has not been massive expansion in Western WA skiing inthe past 25 years, you were comparing with 1970s. I really have no idea how skiing was in Western WA in 1970s, thus I deleted my response.

This would not work in Western WA.

Snoqualmie (the shittiest snow in western WA) offers 4 day passes for $229 (https://www.summitatsnoqualmie.com/tickets/flex-ticket-packs...) or season pass for $759 (https://shop.summitatsnoqualmie.com/l/all-passes/downhill-pa...). Both options exclude Alpental

Mount Baker (the only ski-able place last winter. I skied there 5 times) season pass for returning pass holders is $1,200 (https://www.mtbaker.us/tickets-and-passes/season-passes/any-...) for new skiers is $1,300 (https://www.mtbaker.us/tickets-and-passes/season-passes/any-...). Day passes though are $100.

Still looking not to pay retail prices, but if the only way to save on the daily ski cost is to get a season pass and ski 13 days in a season I will pass- there are not that many good skiing days in a season in Western WA any longer because of climate change.

How are you avoiding full retail prices? Curious since where in western WA state where I live the only alternative to day prices are season passes (and I stopped buying season passes due to climate change. For example: last season at Snoqualmie was absolutely horrible- I skied only 1 day)

I got more news for you: iPhones are made in China. And more astonishing news: US cannot manufacture iPhones.

About Chinese oil imports from Middle East: US cannot stop its Middle East “vassals” from selling oil to China. Not sure what point you’re trying to make…

the GP is not a reductive statement. 40% of Republicans think Trump is doing a great job - right now with all the Iran war, all the inflation. When you realize that 20% of American electorate are lunatics you will see the US political system differently.