"His [Wozniak's] subsequent ventures, including a stint teaching computer skills to students in the Los Gatos School District, were marked by amiability and good nature, not a will to technological power."
Americans will never quite understand what they bargained away for a government and culture based on freewheeling capitalism and a vague notion of ‘freedom’ that seems to absolve everyone of the one thing real freedom requires: responsibility.
People who work at Meta are paid very well. I think the majority of them would prefer to be paid very well and have the danger of being laid off, than to be paid at European levels and have more job security. Being laid off from Meta is not some sort of ticket to homelessness. Most of those employees will get another job in at most a few months.
I was there. I was laid off from such an employer. I got another job in 3 weeks, and I didn't have to take a pay cut. Being laid off is never a pleasant experience, for sure. But that's the way to keep a strong economy. Here's an article from the Economist published 5 days ago: "America is experiencing a productivity miracle" [1]. The ability of employers to hire and fire as they see fit is part of the explanation.
I wouldn’t call it a “comeback”. By making some desperate ‘deals’ and the new CEO pulling the company hard to the right, they’ve bought some time to delay the inevitable.
But Intel’s time as anything more than a manufacturing contractor are over.
The ends do alter the acceptability of the means. E.g. if I offered you the means of “pay money to flip coin to make money as many times as possible” and the numbers involved were $50k if heads, lose $1k if tails and $50 buy in that’s way different if the numbers involved were $1k if heads, lose $50k if tails and $500k buy in.
If you can’t alter your reasoning to include outcomes then you will make poorer decisions.
Every power hungry maniac thinks their power of sycophancy is going to be better. If they had any shred of reflection they wouldn’t be working for this man.
Because what they're scanning for is scrapers. So much linkedin scraping. And I'd bet that the majority of the innocuous-looking extensions are scrapers hidden as other extensions to get users to unknowingly use them.
TL;DR: People aren’t unable to have more children; they’re just choosing not to.
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