The vast majority of people who use Amazon Prime Streaming get it for free as part of their Prime membership for 2 day shipping. They aren't paying for it in the first place.

Technical professionals should take note of what is going on here, and learn from it.

Throughout my career, I have seen a lot of very talented people get caught up in corporate layoffs, where the reaction was very similar to this. "I can't believe they let them go, they were so crucial to !"

Inevitably when this happens, XYZ Project was a "side project". The employee may have had full authority and blessing from their management on the project, but it wasn't what the employee was actually hired to do.

People need to understand that at the end of the day, the expense of your salary is showing up in a balance sheet that has revenue and expense. Every salary has to be tied to one, at some level. When layoffs come down, the first thing that upper management does is look at divisions with declining revenue, and seeks to trim expense. If your side project is not bringing in revenue, then you are an anomaly - and thus will inevitably be scooped up in the layoff.

There are three ways to avoid this from happening to you

- You can avoid side projects totally. This is *NOT* what I recommend, as these are the kinds of projects that help propel your career, and make the difference between who moves up and who stays stagnant.

- You can ensure that, while you may work on a side project, your "day job" is always in a part of the company that has growing revenue. This takes discipline. You need to pay attention to the quarterly all-hands, and how the business is doing... if the business line you work for is doing poorly for multiple quarters - then seek to transfer. You can always take your side project with you!

- The final method is the hardest, but can be the most successful - try to make your side project revenue-generating in some capacity. Many of the largest innovations in our industry started out as side projects. Do not rely on a product manager or external party to figure out how to make revenue - do it yourself.

This is exactly the kind of hand wavy stat I am talking about.

Soy is not an anabolic protein (aka it has low bioavailability and can't readily build muscle). Which means you need to consume far more of it to feed your body properly.

Everyone could become vegan tomorrow and we would not reduce CO2 by any reasonable amount. The often cited calculations used by vegan lobbyists are full of holes and borderline nonsensical because they fail to account for the necessary increased CO2 emissions that would be required to farm the high-protein crops - many of which are pesticide and very water intensive - needed to replace livestock in order to feed the world.

When it was invented, compute was all centralized into large systems that predate todays mainframes and accessed remotely via compute sharing systems (aka time sharing).

Then the PC came along, and businesses repatriated their workloads to their own servers and the desktop. The justification? Security and cost.

Then the networking and Citrix came along. Companies started centralizing their workloads again, turning the PC into a dumb terminal that just accessed shared compute, again. The era of "thin clients". The justification? Cost.

Then companies started building more complex workloads in the desktop PCs and apps, because it cost too much to run. The Era of "thick clients". The justifications, again, mainly revolved around cost.

Then companies decided that thick clients were inefficient, and started pushing the idea of web based applications. This came along with centralizing workloads, again. This time it was called "cloud".

Now companies are moving back out to the client again. This time, they call it "edge computing". Again, the justification is claimed cost savings.

5-7 years from now the cycle will repeat itself again, with a new name for the same rubber band motion, always claiming cost savings.

The best way to get people to switch is to make it painless.

I used Chrome for a decade straight. The past two years though, I switched to Edge, across all platforms. Why? Microsoft made it easy to try - everything imported, *including* all my saved passwords and form fields, and all of the extensions just keep working.

The same is simply not true of Firefox. It imports your bookmarks and expects that to be enough as if it is 1998. There is no effort to import all of my saved settings, tabs, and profiles, and no effort to automatically install equivalent extensions to what I am using. They make it too hard to test drive their offering.

Belief in the "free markets" apparently only goes so far as the movements of the invisible hand aligns with your personal and religious belief system.

JP Morgan
Santander
EY

Are these fly hy night companies?

Ethereum is used for a lot of legitimate applications only. Entire companies run their apps on Ethereum.

But it really doesn't matter because it uses negligible electricity so who cares?

Not all crypto is like this. Ethereum moved to a proof-of-stake model for specifically this reason.

The person in question (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonb16/) seems to have come from the FBI and NSA background and has never worked for anyone but the federal government. As a result, they are likely to have a myopic view on the art of the possible.

I suspect Meta and Google are far more adept at processing and gaining insights from OSINT than anyone from the FBI.

These steps have been going on by these companies for three years straight now.

Either fire them or give up. There's no middle ground anymore.

Frankly it's becoming exhausting.

So let me get this straight...

None of these employees management chain can get them to go back to the office?

You think a strongly worded letter will get them to act when their manager can't?

The employees are completely insubordinate. Either fire them with cause, or don't.

These workplaces are acting the same way as someone in a toxic relationship, thinking that they will be able to "change" them with words.

You're not going to change them. Either let them go, or put up with it as is. There isn't another third option.

You really shouldnt comment on things when you obviously have no clue as to the background because it makes you look foolish.

That's not what happened here whatsoever. The woman was hit by a HUMAN driver, and FLUNG INTO THE PATH of the cruise vehicle, which WAS following all of the rules. The vehicle was able to STOP INSTANTLY due to it being autonomous, which indisputably saved the woman's life. At that point though, she had fallen to the road and because the car couldn't see her, she ended up being drug to the curb, as it parked itself (which it is programmed to do after any collision when it is safe to do so). This dragging is what all the controversy is about, because a human would likely have known something was up and not drug her... what is never brought up is she would already be a corpse becsuse the human would have already killed her.

I am replying to the parent who is saying "the tech isn't ready yet"

There is no threshold where it will be "ready", I'd "ready" means 100% guaranteed to never harm anyone.

The fact is every day we delay deploying these systems, we are directly responsible causing thousands more deaths. That's a fact.