> I’m confused what kind of software engineer jobs there are that don’t involve meeting with people, “aligning expectations”, getting consensus, making slides/decks to communicate that, thinking about market positioning, etc?
I’m not sure everyone would agree with that statement. As a more senior engineer at a big tech company, our execs still believe more code output is expected by level. Hell they even measure and rate you on lines of code deltas.
I don’t agree with it or believe it’s smart but it’s the world we live in
It's probably difficult to find out (but someone here could probably analyze the blockchain), but it would be interesting to know the mean and median stake of the investors who got wiped out.
If the mean is large, it's mostly an off-the-books bribery scheme. If the average stake is small, it's mostly a pump-and-dump con of regular people.
But it was probably just a gambling scheme with just one big bet, where as ever, the house always wins.
It can be both. Use the "Contributions" from "Donors" to make it appear that the coin is going to the moon and then dump it once enough credulous victims buy into the scam. Reward the donors with their appropriate tit-for-tat and then pocket it all.
> It can be both. Use the "Contributions" from "Donors" to make it appear that the coin is going to the moon and then dump it once enough credulous victims buy into the scam.
Sure, and cynically, just like in traditional casino gambling, the wipe-out could be viewed as the price of "entertainment".
If there is no class action lawsuit, then we know that the people who got wiped out thought the price was worth whatever they got for it, whether favors or fun.
> For me, it works like this: on the Owner user, because that’s the name of the main account created automatically with the system, I installed the Google Play Store along with Google Play services and GmsCompatConfig
Many people here might recoil at this: to go through the trouble of de-Googling your phone and then just install Google Play services and the Play Store, but the important part is that it is a choice they could make.
Pixels are arguably the best option for software choice among mainstream phones (and iPhones are the worst), but both are a huge regression of choice compared to traditional personal computing platforms.
> So with the AI is doing more of the work and you need less humans, what are you doing with the extra humans to eliminate their no-longer-productive resource consumption?
Soon enough, we won't be able to avoid this question.
> So this is obviously dumb and short-sighted. But also ... why do they need it?
It's more about propaganda and fodder for lawmakers who will try to use it to justify fossil fuel promotion legislation.
It's not fooling anyone though. Most of the world - including the US - is well aware of that increasing GHGs are warming the atmosphere. Those whose livelihood depends on existing climate patterns is already feeling the effects.
Some just don't care because they believe they are insulated from the effects, and gain huge amounts of wealth and power from a short term boost in fossil fuel demand. In their fever dream, they might wish that the world at large somehow forgets the physics of GHG emissions, but that's unlikely.
> Furthermore, pretty much everyone, in America and abroad, views business as both more ethical and more effective than governments and non-governmental organizations.
> Not sure your point. It's fiction. Are we closer to finding dragons, faeries, or magic?
No, but we've become increasingly superstitious, and cultish. A lot of the day to day parts of sci-fi (screens everywhere , instant communication) have become reality so it's not as exciting anymore. Sci-fi no longer serves as escapism. Anymore, it reminds us of our limitations.
> Oh yes, I'm absolutely sure the Democrats were just sitting on a treasure trove of - only - Republican Party members' pedophile crimes for 5 years, and they did nothing because they are useless
No, they did it to protect wealthy and influential people, regardless of party.
It happens that such people are disproportionately Republican aligned, there are fewer places to hide this behavior in the Democratic tent - really just at the top - and the current POTUS seems to be very close to the center of it all.
Independently, we are learning that extremely wealthy and influential men often commit sex crimes through shared fixers like Epstein.
This is about huge wealth and power imbalances, no accountability for the wealthy and powerful, and the behavior they get away with as a result.
If there are any "good guys" here, it's Massie and Khanna for shaming Congress into forcing DOJ to release something, even while DOJ does everything it can to avoid/minimize it.
I'd suspect the kind that's going away.
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