Where did that BS come from? having balls doesn't do any good.

Aggression? yes that is connected; but the kind of sociopath aggression that is over the top requires mental illness not balls. Some courageous people "have balls" but that is courage not aggression. Plenty of descriptive words to use but this "man up" crap and "big balls" is idiotic too. Promoted by writers who suck at English lowering IQs with pop culture. Don't get me started on these "musicians" who can't even rhyme or are marketing / egomaniacs trying to coin a new term into a speech fad just to show their influence. Now we have influencers dreaming of such shows of power.

courage. keep the word. use it appropriately.
maturity is "adulting." bring the word back.

Calling people scrotums is a great new idea. Pussy is actually about CATS from pussyfooting - similar to walking on eggshells except one is situational and the other is behavioral.

Americans are too corrupt and despotic to deserve anything but a despot who represents them. I'm in the minority now. He is not a king until he hands power down to his children. China is a republic too. Not having a king is just a republic. Many despots have existed and in a way are worse since they don't have a line of succession to attack like a monarchy.

Trump doesn't care if you are scum like him, only that he has the power to make you kiss his ass and do what you are told. He loves people to subjugate and embarrass themselves for him.

ICE is the secret police. People need to call them what they are.

We actively helped China the whole time. Even now we are too stupid and just charge them 25% to help them LONG TERM because we somehow are so shortsighted... it's like Trump doesn't have object permanence. That is actually a joke I've heard more than once about him; you've got to be exceptionally stupid to organically have so many people make those jokes.

The problem is that it's turning into a business. Catering to the customers; I have a relative that overly controlled their child - they are in a special pre-screened dorm and in a school within a school to keep her brat isolated from the lower classes. Ridiculous debt building dorms and amenities extending the sports insanity into everything.
NYU fired a prof for failing too many poor students who needed to fail; the brats and idiot administrators thought they were running a business and brats were customers. I won't ever trust a doctor from NYU to be competent again.
Hell, we have a mentality of blaming the prof now, when it's not high school and profs should get more respect. Teachers get none here. Both should get respect; but profs are not baby sitters! Used to be hard profs were known and people worked to survive them and learned something. FYI, there are employers who are far worse, far less fair, etc. I'm not saying we need to expose people to a slavery experience; but they need to not be snowflakes (right/left/center.) Drill sergeants are hated and feared at first; later, they usually are respected. Similarities used to exist... Oh, there is a fine line; but you can look at say, drug boot camp for teens and a modern inpatient live-in rehab and see there are common elements -- just the ones that actually work which is why those boot camps never have good numbers or stay in business - it doesn't mean that everything they did was wrong.

So we bash education; as was socially engineered... but we are "fixing" many of the good parts to make them worse --- because everybody is an expert. It's akin to telling your dentist how to do their jobs because you've had many teeth drilled! or maybe you have no dental issues so then you're a big expert...

AN ELITE SOCIAL NETWORK. Also an elite brand too...

Idiotocracy needed a scene for this... a flashback for the retarded lawyer's education.

There is a value there even if it is just social/political in nature. The education at Harvard is not likely better than anywhere else. Same textbooks...hit or miss professors. I knew one who hated students and was an ass to the grad students that did his job. Reality is that somebody like that should just be a researcher who is a jerk to coworkers who are PhD students but have somebody else as a prof.

College never helped you teach!
Multiple things and probably could be a book...

It was elite simply to be accepted and go; even if they dropped out later. Better, smarter, more innovative desirable workers who are generally less gullible. School helped make them but a large part was the selective nature of the process.

An adult who wants to learn who made it that far should already know how to learn well enough that no learning expertise is required! This is why there never was training in hand-holding education. One simply has to KNOW their topic to accelerate the student and the institution there to facilitate. A masters or PhD is more of the same. It is about training the mind; it could take a lifetime to get as far as an intellectual elite, or they could try to convey their secrets and wisdom. Some of which is not clearly understood or documented. still.

The PAST was for the elite. Elite was good; while now it's only good for wealth, intellectual elitism is attacked by the establishment because it's a real danger to them and their tiny little thiefdumbs they strive for as their legacy. I WANT an elite doctor...don't you? (extreme cases exist everywhere, but in this age, nuance is dead.)

Complex modern societies, realized free universal mandatory public education was necessary! High school wasn't necessary until it was. Think about that. Now we've progressed to where 2 years of college is necessary. Trade school included. You can't even be a plumber without training; it's not like the week of fast food training... and the difficulty almost entirely relates to pay.

High school needs to replace the first 2 years of college. But also, there is a war on education going on since Nixon started it. I knew people who were actively trying to destroy public education in the USA and figured we are so great we can handle the damage from some generations being harmed in the transition. These people weren't college educated by the way, also quite ignorant and not curious - but the marketing man I knew worked for the GOP on it. He stated the plan. American High School needs fundamental changes but it can't even perform at what it used to do; and the democracy and government are slowly collapsing. Repair is impossible, forget adaptation. There is no civics, the primary reason for socialized education that some of the founders argued was necessary was an uneducated uninformed society is not competent enough to govern itself. Absolutely, we're more educated, but relatively, we're incompetent in the USA and most of humanity can see that.

Colleges and technology have degraded. Aside from the problem that it is no longer elite learners, we've been treating the masses as customers. Business metaphors all over; and far too many business majors probably is part of it. Education is NOT a business anymore than electricity is water (the metaphor fits in simplistic ways that become a hindrance later.) Lectures a century ago were more interactive; active listeners existed back then. When nobody utilizes the expert, then they may as well watch a recording or a student presentation of the textbook, or an AI. Powerpoint has done immeasurable harm to education... it may have helped business people with their toxic meetings... When all you have crap education you can't tell any difference and online learning should look comparable as should AI, certifications, etc. The wealthy will still get the better education if they buy into the right schools. The masses will get cheap AI bots; engineered to job training and actual indoctrination.

A graduate is supposed to be able to think and learn on their feet. Part of that skill development is weening them of baby sitting teachers! Yes, it would be best if we specifically focused on how to learn and we do not. How do I, an expert, teach myself? what is best for doing that? The kids should be learning study habits before this point... oh, and not memorizing processes. Science education is largely science history memorization. The scientific method is not applied enough in practice. My science lab was doing measurements in a pre-configured experiment that mirrored some homework problems. What you learned was how to fudge the errors of the experiment to fit into the word problems. HOW you devise the experiment never ever was alluded to. Eventually, if you go masters etc, then i suppose it gets to you by osmosis?

ENGLISH. YES! They need to be able to communicate. A well funded school can handle it if the TAs are good and plentiful. The TAs learn much from their experience... probably grad students. If managed well it's not cheap and it's a good model where English might not be needed by the expert.

Look into the tradition of Oxford. Some bad stuff but some results in them being elite even today. Just flunking out is still something people brag about (but present as how many years they attended.)

Textbooks are valuable. Most everything can be learned from those; if you have discipline and self-learning skills. It goes faster with help... a coach. or assistant coach. sport is a far better metaphor than business. A full time student spends a FULL JOB 40+ hours per week on study, not passive lecture watching. We've come to expect lecture to replace the textbook; it's supposed to clarify, highlight, supplement, and reiterate (repetition is needed for retention.)

What the customers want is wrong. The inmates have too much control over the asylum and we're all slowly going mad.

No, you see, it's an emergency. The US is being invaded and the president is using his legally granted emergency powers to shake down, er, regulate the flow of trade to China. And deploy the US military against American citizens in American cities. And conduct extrajudicial murder.

No one should express concerns about the environment unless they themselves live fully off-grid, is the most asinine opinion I've read all day.

Excellent! Since you're posting on Slashdot you are clearly not "fully off-grid." Therefore you can't complain about the PCB dump we're putting in your neighbourhood.

So in essence this boosts their stock price by making them look more profitable than they are.

Sure it does. Any serious investor is going to look at their basic financial statement, not to mention the numerous articles written on the subject, and make an informed decision.

The rest aren't going to give a shit what their profits are. Most of them think revenue is profit anyway.

No, it's how you get mens rea for the felony murder rule. You didn't carry the gun with the intent to kill, only to intimidate, but you still had a guilty mind, and if you then used the gun to kill someone in the heat of the moment, there's your mens rea.

And remember that actual cause does not mean literally pulling the trigger. At least in the U.S., the courts apply a "but for" test. If the event would not have happened without the previous event, then the previous event is considered the actual, not proximate cause. The police would not have shot the other person but for the perpetrator pointing a gun at someone (and possibly shooting at the police).

IMO, that's not meaningfully different than involuntary manslaughter convictions for allowing unsafe working conditions at a construction site or leaving your loaded gun out where a child can take it, both of which have happened.

True, but only momentarily. At the end of the first depreciation cycle, assuming purchasing of hardware is not accelerating, you're depreciating 5x as much hardware over 5x the time, and your momentary bubble in the stock price is gone.

And even if hardware purchasing is growing right now, eventually, that will flatten out, and the above will be true.

The only real question should be whether the depreciation rate is reasonable. If you're still getting substantial use out of the hardware after five years, then depreciating it over 3 years is questionable.

Also, the more slowly you depreciate it, the less you save on taxes each year. Faster depreciation is beneficial if you think the tax rate will go down and you will lose the benefit of that depreciation. Slower depreciation is beneficial if you think the tax rate will go up and you will benefit more from depreciating it later. So this may also mean that these companies are expecting corporate income taxes to go up. Make of that what you will.

In my experience, with only rare exceptions, the limit should be three. More than three, and you are likely involving people working on multiple projects who don't really need to know what the people on other projects are doing beyond what an email every few months would provide.

Those rare exceptions are situations where you have a meeting of managers in an org or similar with each other, where everybody is working towards the same goals, and they're planning towards those goals.

Or the way I usually describe it is that the usefulness of a meeting with n participants is one over the square of n minus 2 for all values of n greater than 2.

Depends on what the person was doing at the time. If the person who didn't pull the trigger was holding up a liquor store and the police shot the wrong person, there's at least arguably mens rea, which is how we get things like the felony murder rule. Extending that to involuntary manslaughter when the person didn't actually pull the trigger but directly created a situation where the police did seems like not that much of a stretch to me.

Remember all the people talking trash about Telsa failing. They only made it because they went with an expensive sports car that wasn't very high quality and begged for a lot of help and they also had a huge government infusion of cash that saved them. Aptera was exempt from that same government program because it did not have 4 wheels.

The hard problem was starting at a cheaper car; which is what everybody but Tesla did... although, without a lot of help, hype, and bending the truth Tesla wouldn't exist.

There are 3 wheel cars on the roads now. Motorcycles are all over and often driven by morons; those things are death traps without any other cars on the road.