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At least according to the Meta employees in the article, people are terrified of voting with their feet, because of the current job market.

As a result, many are communing hours a day, to sit on zoom calls. Wasting their valuable time on earth for the sake of a manager's dictat.

Things are good. But they can always be better :)

Management pretty often do not have the best ideas, and often the people doing the work know how best to do it.


> Wasting their valuable time on earth for the sake of a manager's dictat.

I mean, isn't that what work is?

You get paid, in exchange you spend your time doing stuff at your boss's behest, which you wouldn't do if you weren't being paid?

I mean sure, there are some jobs like being a doctor which you might consider a higher calling, but nobody joins Facebook expecting to do socially useful work, it's an ad company.


Out of interest, do you use Emacs as an alternative to Jupyter for interactive work (examining plots etc.)?

If so, which modes and packages do you use?


Jupyter can be used with Org Babel (interactive output, ansi escape codes, plots. I haven't tried widgets (shiny apps mostly cover this use-case for me https://shiny.posit.co/)).

https://github.com/emacs-jupyter/jupyter#org-mode-source-blo...


They are ruled by an avowedly Marxist (state-capitalist) government, who have lifted hundreds of millions from abject poverty, in the largest economic miracle of our lifetimes.

I'm not saying it was pristine. But you make an extremely poor case against Marx, or the negative effects of US imperialism on the global poor.


Practically all of Chinas economic growth was after and due to economic liberalization that welcomed corporations into the country. China is easily the best example of how much more economically effective markets and property rights are than central planning and state owned everything. Their dumbass government literally starved tens of millions of people because of their ill advised central planning attempt


The whole idea relies on a hierarchy of power so unnerving it's the basis of folklore across human cultures.

Unlike costmetic surgery, your gain depends on someone else's loss.

There are likely to be supply/demand issues in a society with where citizens have free access to each others blood for recreational purposes.


>Unlike costmetic surgery, your gain depends on someone else's loss.

How? The 'loss' from donating blood is fairly minimal. If properly compensated everyone could be coming out better off.


Had never heard of these plates. At least the current models may well make the problem worse:

> "In addition to the flexibility of the display, the digital plates also sport a tracking device that will alert the police to the location of a stolen vehicle and allow for general vehicle tracking. While a lot of people can get behind the idea of never going to the DMV again, not a lot of people are thrilled about the whole “license plate as tracking device” angle"

From: https://www.reviewgeek.com/4225/california-unveils-new-e-ink...


Completely pointless, the thieves already swap license plates out on the stolen vehicles.


Depends where the thieves discard the old license plates.


You should write to to the author, to scold them directly!


Ah, famously easy to measure knowledge worker productivity!


Out of interest, what kind of work do you do, on Linux, on a laptop, in a swimming pool?


My guess is a data center that heats a swimming pool. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/technology-649...


When I started I was doing platform engineering for Netflix from my pool. Now I do full time consulting in the same space.

I use a floating card table for my desk and a CF-31 for the laptop.


Obviously none if their laptop is too fragile to be doing any such work :P


Where will you go?


That might be a different type of S&M team


Buyer definition, sales and marketing?


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