It's the kind of thing Karl Marx predicted would happen but all anyone can remember about him is that a couple of tin pot dictators borrowed his books for rhetoric.

Private health insurance just spends half a trillion dollars scaring our old people with death panel talk, even as they're running active death panels deciding who lives and who dies. They do keep pushing the retirement age up and they've pushed it above and beyond what it can reasonably be so it's possible that will eventually bite them in the ass because old people won't be able to kid themselves if they'll make it into Medicaid. But the real problem is you have to convince people over 55 that healthcare isn't a limited resource. We can just make more of it in the form of cheaper medication and training more doctors and nurses.

But I mean damn when somebody is literally going to spend half a trillion dollars lobbying against something that's hard to beat. And fun fact if you're an American and you're reading this now you paid for that half trillion dollars with your health insurance premiums.

It's texas. They moved from California to Texas so that they could get away from the regulations that required them to treat employees well when they fired them in Mass.

If they're moving to Tennessee it's probably just a tax Dodge. Texas has notoriously high taxes and they've probably started to shake down Oracle. The governor is spending literally billions of dollars showboating on the southern border and that money has to come from somewhere since it's not coming from the federal government... Seriously look it up they've spent something like 6 billion dollars mobilizing the national guard. You could take every single migrant for the next 20 years and pay him $50,000 a year to sit on their thumbs and you'd come out ahead

both sides want to use military spending to keep their flagging economies going. Eisenhower warned us about it, but if it's one thing we never do it's listen.

We know what would happen in that case: non-competes all around. A few years ago, a bunch of companies in the SF Bay Area (such as Apple, Google, Adobe, etc.) were sued because they had agreements to not hire from each other.

I think you have misunderstood "gardening leave". Most Formula One employees are in the UK, so it's UK law. In general non-competes haven't traditionally been used in the UK, but this seems to have changed in recent years.

However, a one-month or longer notice period has been common in the UK. It was quite typical for employees to give a one-month notice and their employer telling them to to stay home for that month. That's gardening leave.

Gardening leave was usually only required when moving to a competitor. I knew someone who got gardening leave by refusing to name his new employer and the old employer gave him a month of gardening leave out of caution.

Or how about the earlier Wickard v. Filburn?

https://www.oyez.org/cases/194...

The Mirai weighs about the same as the larger Tesla Model 3. So that's another thing that early promoters of hydrogen claimed (lower weight) that turned out not to be true.

The California ban on non-competes has an exception, which is probably the only valid reason: If you are a business owner and you sell your business to another company, the contract for that sale can have an enforceable non-compete for you (but not your employees).

For anyone who bought a Mirai, it was obvious that they had backed the wrong horse before buying. Either the buyers did no research or they trusted Toyota's reputation far too much, or (more likely) both.

Tesla had started building the Supercharger network a couple of years before the Mirai was introduced and Toyota was clear that the Mirai was a car to be used in limited locations. You might not make it between San Francisco and Los Angeles because the Harris Ranch hydrogen station may be offline.

that writes stuff like "sharply beyond expectations" about low sales. That's the kind of chutzpah one could only dream of.

You work a *lot* more hours. And you do work. Back in the day you'd have time to do research projects to keep my skills up no problem, it was encouraged. These days you're on 24/7 and doing one very tightly defined task because your CEO doesn't want you to be too critical to the company, they want a cog in the machine they can replace as needed, even if that means paying a little more. The predictability is worth it.

I mean, I guess if you're one of those freaks that doesn't need sleep. I've known a few. Get by on 4 hours a night and they're fine. It's like having an extra 28 hours a week in your life. But for us mere mortals we're kinda stuck. We make due with what we've got.

you have to get out of tech by 35. It's not because young people are more savvy of the latest trends, it's because experience is basically worthless because tech moves so fast. In 5 years your knowledge is out of date unless you've been keeping up with it on your own time, and good luck doing that working 60-70 hours a week.

So you either move into some kind of management or customer service role or you get out of tech. That works when the economy is growing like gangbusters because there's enough spots for you, but when the economy is contracting (they way all are because of trickle down economics + massive amounts of automation) it breaks down.

and a democratized workplace if you're going to do something like this. I'm sure many here on /. (which leans a bit conservative) don't agree with these protestors, but think a little ahead to a time if/when there *is* something you agree with.

Having a say in how the company you work for is run is something we should all desire, at least if you don't believe in Divine Command Theory.

Their goal was to buy up a ton of companies and then sell them all in one big package for a huge profit. We had any sort of antitrust law enforcement that wouldn't even be possible. When interest rates went up that was the basically the Doom of it. Nobody was going to get the cash to buy out all their recent acquisitions. As a result tons of games have gone unfinished in a whole bunch of people lost their jobs and whole studios are basically dead. Entire franchises are basically over.

You really need to stop these destructive private equity buying sprees. They're terrible for everyone but a handful of Wall Street ghouls