Long-Term Capital Management [1] was run by PHDs and Nobel laureates. And as far I understood you basically need to be at least at the PhD level in order to be a quaint on Wall Street, and for better or for worse Wall Street runs West's very financialized economy, it's not the politicians (see for example how a recent British prime-minister who had to back up and then quickly resign when her decisions were not viewed under a good light by said financial markets)
Consulting for smaller companies to give them cheap software that helps them with their problems cheap? (And scales revenue with many subscribers) - I could write one example that comes to my mind but I dont want to soubd like a shill
Probably some of them are good, but software recruiters have problems to identify who (this happens to many jobs, not only software). I could write a book how recruitment and assessments could be changed to identify real gems.
The new OS that doesn’t exist yet. Linux is starting to show its age, dominated by special interest groups and with the upcoming C+Rust contention it’s a perfect breeding ground for the competitor to enter the scene. Best idea likely not to come from corporate
A new OS to replace the incumbents will only be possible in conjunction with a disruptive innovation in hardware. The device driver issue makes it effectively impossible to build a new OS for PCs, tablets, or smartphones. We don't know what the next disruptive hardware form factor will look like yet: a lot of people are betting big on AR/VR goggles but it could be something else totally unexpected.
I would say a Unix OS that can leverage existing Unix/linux tools like OSX, but more open than, and with real UX effort, native UI, not the gnome/kde, whatever stuff. Or at least something that has a Linux subsystem like windows does.
Such OS should be more secure than Linux, yet it should be able to run practically all Linux apps (and ideally Windows apps, too). It should be FLOSS with a good UI and a serious developer team. Such OS exists: https://qubes-os.org. My daily driver, can't recommend it enough.
I like Qubes, but it is just multiple Linux installs running in VMs. Also it depends on Xen and an X server, both of which are not long for this world.
"Just" is doing a lot of work here. There is no OS more secure than Qubes, judging by the number and severity of Qubes security bulletins: https://www.qubes-os.org/security/qsb/.
You don't have to run Linux in Qubes. You can run OpenBSD [0], Windows [1] and more [2].
> I could write a book how recruitment and assessments could be changed to identify real gems.
What if the companies people really want to work at have already solved this issue and the legacy companies won’t figure out how to change before they die off…
Are you seriously saying porn is being suppressed? It's a bigger industry than it has ever been.
Visa has the option to do business with whomever they like or dislike and I'm not even sure they don't support them because of religious reasons.
I'm not saying it should be banned but saying the people who are against it or don't want to do business with such entities are miserable is twisted given it is an industry where most of the actors are victims of abuse, the viewers learn a distorted view of sexuality and younger generations have less respect for each other because of it.
All speech is "just stating one's view", if you want to view it like that. That doesn't mean it doesn't have effects on the world. Consider white racist group members standing outside a mostly-Black voting location shouting slogans.
I think it's more a matter of people being overworked, so they just skim and answer the first thing that pops out. Or in some cases it may even be strategic, like in a negotiation, ignoring the parts that aren't beneficial to answer, while still responding.
The firefox admin are making millions of dollars per year even if they make one bad decision after another (mostly focusing on acqusitions and new projects instead of actual work on their core product: firefox).
They were always run by politicians, oligarchs, capitalists and interest groups.
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