The more I live I’m less concerned about what are often described as “bad actors”. The bad actors are often the state, and this kind of information is collected without thought to the risk of future politicians who don’t follow the rules or who don’t have any respect for the laws.
Airlines are subject to enshittification just as all other things are:
• Diminished airline status returns
• Increasingly large/overpriced shops/restaurants
• More discrete seat/class upgrade costs, worse experience for base fare overall.
• Higher security friction
• Explosion of travel cards that overload lounges
• Increased nationwide traffic so even the drive to the airport is worse
• Costs of food purchases on plane (in the 90's any transcontinental flight usually had a free meal).
The only things that have gotten better are wifi and entertainment to act as recompense for less leg room.
Musically, he's done a lot to encourage and surround himself with brilliant younger artists. Jacob Collier had received tutelage and consult from Quincy and Jacob is a Mozart-level mind of our generation.
There are a lot of things related to business expenses that you cannot ask employees to pay for such as first aid kits, desks, chairs…even travel outside a certain range. this is simply to say that perhaps the categorization of transportation could be expanded
Additionally, as someone with very small pupillary distance, none of the existing headsets on the market are applicable to me. At this point I've written off VR entirely as I don't think any company will ever design for someone like me.
Agreed. I also like to think that these aren't necessarily "sin" taxes, but taxes paid up-front for the increased costs to society for the medical/public safety implications that occur from them.
I think there's enough evidence from 2020 that your views aren't cynical, but instead realistic. The feasibility of world-wide coordination should no longer be expected regardless how high the stakes.
I don't think "first class" citizens is the right classification. There are certain fields/work that are inherently more risky or serve a critical component of society. We are seeing this exact thing pan out now with medical care--doctors and nurses are precious resources and if we don't protect them, we put our overall societal health at risk. Same is true for judges--if you don't protect them, you put the rule of law at risk which is a way of protecting everyone.
Thanks for the link! Didn't know steam made that kind of analysis public.
But I'd take a closer look at those numbers: in 5 months intel has lost 2.5 points that AMD has gained. Doing some stupid, atrocious math of just taking the average point gain over those 5 months (and not accounting for the fact that my pc enthusiast friends are stating that their next machine will be AMD), that puts November of 2023 that they are 50% market share. That gives Intel very little time to pivot.
Same. Bought a 3 at the beginning of August. Is it perfect? No. Is it the best driving experience I've ever had? Bar none. I sometimes take it out just to drive in the evenings. I plug it into my house and have a full tank every day. The power on demand is incredible. Is there room for improvement? Yes. Do I feel like I overpaid? Not in the slightest. My last new car was a Mazda 3 and I feel as though the 5k difference in cost is negligible to the gas savings.
Oh man, this is all so many social issues in a pot that's boiling over.
First, as someone with kids, I appreciate everything my company is doing to help me manage workload and parenting. I've been impressed with my company. Not all are the same though. A friend, who is a child-less female who works with two other moms and a mom-to-be is constantly getting saddled with the work that her team members are dumping on her because of difficulties. She gets more work along the implication that because she doesn't have kids, she has plenty of free time. Is that equating to compensation? No. Does it make her feel like a second-class work citizen? How could it not.
Second, especially in the Bay Area, there's a growing divide of who can afford to have kids and those who cannot. We can all espouse the importance of children to maintain the human race and build a better world blah blah blah. But that's all going to shit both literally and figuratively. Nationwide, costs of child care are impossibly high. Cost of housing is impossibly high. Healthcare costs to have a child are impossibly high. Parental leave is near non-existent. Tech firms can solve for parental leave and healthcare, but they can't and don't solve for day care and housing. The people having kids where tech firms are located are, indeed, privileged--because they're making enough money to counter the other two needs.
Finally, I've had my own challenges over the past few months trying to gaze into the future as climate change and fires make the air outside today look like a scene from the Fallout franchise. The government is inept. Science is disregarded unless it makes someones internet load faster. A bunch of dumb shits decide they want to ride their motorcycles and infect 250,000 and cause $12b in damages, while at the same time huge portions of students who don't get food at home can't even get the school meals they deserve? Did I make a mistake having children? What is this shitshow of a world I've brought them into? I'll be honest, we're already a world fraught for resources and maybe we all need to think about the duty to the next generation is to not have kids.
I can offer that I, too, have a 4 year old and a 2 year old and I’m often in bed at 9pm because I am completely wiped. I can offer that you are not alone.
The other thing I’ve learned is that all (and I’m banking on) is that none of these stages is forever, because right now I know I can’t keep this up. Like when my first child didn’t sleep through the first 14 months we thought we were going to lose our minds and then...he did. And it all changed.
So at the very least, this part is brutal but it will, at the very least, change.