At some companies I've worked for all of the management was late to every single meeting because the previous meeting went long. Mostly because they were late to it. I'm pretty sure that being late stat is pretty close to normal for in-person meetings too.

I'm going to blame an entire development ecosystem that encourages developers to just blindly include the 'latest' version of something taken from an upstream repo that has no significant controls on it's contents. We've had multiple instances of things getting broken/taken over/turned into malware and there is no longer any excuse for just blindly pulling shit in!

Yes, keeping an eye on the things you depend on DOES in fact take extra work. Perhaps you could, I don't know, pay someone to do that work?

Shocking, I know, but if you DON'T do the work, then this shit WILL CONTINUE TO HAPPEN.

Yes, re-inventing the wheel is bad. You aren't wrong to want to use a library. BUT, having a library suddenly turn into malware and screw-over your users is, in fact, WORSE.

I do not believe for one moment that they could turn $4B worth of crypto into real currency in any sensible timeframe, if at all.

I REALLY want to see them try, because I'm pretty sure it'd break enough things to expose the whole sham, but I think the commenters saying that the NFL won't let it happen are probably spot-on.

It depends on the circumstances, the amount of data, how fast you need your shit back in play, etc, etc. Honestly, the arguments around this kind of thing are kinda dumb. The only proper solution is to sit down and think about this for a bit:
Do you need air-gapped backups? (I don't know who doesn't, but...if all your data is ephemeral and easily re-created, perhaps your response to ransomware would be to just burn the whole network down and start over).

How much data does that have to be?
How often do the off-line backups have to update?
How many off-line copies do you need?
How much money do you have to spend on this?

Now, what technologies can do all that? Pick one and roll with it.

For me, we only have a few TB of data, so a set of 5 TB spinning drives where we swap one into an enclosure once a week and replicate our latest backups onto it is FINE, and CHEAP. And if we have to recover, it's not the fastest thing in the world, but it'll get everything back in play in a few hours. But we're small fry, so that's OK.

The important point is to THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE DOING. Also, remember that the vendors LIE.

I mean, there's been a lot of 'oh well, of course everyone really wants to come back to the office' bullshit lately, but this is next-level capitalist propaganda - "You can't really be happy if you aren't slaving away for someone else most of the day".

Rocket science is still rocket science.
If your first few rockets DON'T blow up, I have to assume you're cheating somehow.

how that's supposed to work in general. I mean, I guess it's supposed to boost subscriptions to the NY Times? But who needs that thing on a regular basis - you only want reviews when you want to buy something.

Not really seeing how this helps profits any.

You know who wants everyone back in the office? Micromanaging a-holes who have no idea how to manage and just want people around to make them feel important. I'm pretty sure that 'silent majority' here is actually 'the editor wrote the headline first, then assigned me the article to write'.

Half of them had no idea that's what they'd signed up for, presumably because the language used at the time was sufficiently obfuscatory and they weren't paying enough attention to realize something was up. I doubt that the language used was in any way fraudulent, but I'd bet dollars to donuts that they seriously buried the fact that you were giving them the right to adjust their thermostat.

Given other actions of the various providers on the Texas grid, this is absolutely no surprise to anyone.

The long term profitability is going to be on the diamond side - you buy the gear and can run it for many years or even decades. It's possible a techology shift will render your gear obsolete, but given what you're doing it's not that likely.

The Bitcoin mining rigs are probably going to be outdated in relatively short order, OR the bubble will burst again, and it won't be worth running them because you can't get enough to cover the power.

It's possible you'll hit things at just the right time and make more overall with the Bitcoin mining, but it's just as likely that things will go bust again (as they do on a rather regular basis). Oh yea, and the block reward halves again in what, 2 1/2 years?

In exchange for dumping the slave labor.

Also, if this takes off (and I think it will), I'm going to have a lot of fun laughing at De Beers as the market erodes around them.

Third possibility is that the money is moving around just to convince other people ('marks') that there's something to this bit of idiocy.

There are FAR too few IT organizations that ask themselves questions like this before they start flipping switches and applying new methods of deciding not to let stuff on their network (I spent some time helping track down the issue with an IT department that kept over-tightening their internal firewalls to the point that the gear they bought from us wouldn't work. Great work, guys!

People already complain about ticket prices. So...what would be the difference?

Some folks probably did good work on some of that stuff. It wasn't the content that was the problem, it was...everything around the content.
I just think it's pretty damn funny that they spent 1.75 BILLION dollars of other people's money and the stuff that remains isn't worth 1/10 of that.

I would actually be really interested to know what they spent to create/acquire that content - I think it might be instructive to know that.