Soldiering has always been the choice of last resort, a way out of desperate financial problems. But it's failing even at that because it's a bad deal: you may get killed, you may end up with a lifetime of medical issues and the government won't necessarily pay for it, politicians will actively harm your well being in the military for idiotic ideological crusades even their supporters may not care about, the skills you learn on the job don't necessarily prepare you for any kind of civilian life, the conditions even in peacetime are frequently poor, and ultimately there exists no job where you will pay a higher price for enforcing the will of an oligarchy who is much more clearly your enemy than any foreign threat.

It's not really a mystery.

I think we're looking at Neutral Evil here.

There's usually a story arc. Right now he's pretending to be moral (aka the definitely evil, "Do No Evil") phase. Everything is on the up and up, investors are lost in their wet dreams huge and imminent growth and everyone is content to be the kind of cancer that stays in its lane.

Eventually that will shift to pragmatism as growth starts to slow, perhaps a viable competitor that can't be sued out of existence enters, and we enter the land of neutral evil. We do what we can because we must, it's not a perfect world, but a few chickens sometimes need to be butchered to make a bagel.

Then the pace of technology slows, infinite growth forever looks to be in jeopardy as the current investment runs its natural course and investors need to find ways of tossing their shares on to someone else. The product itself is sacrificed on the altar of wall street, corners that can be cut are cut, things that can be stolen are stolen, competitors that can't be bought or murdered outright are subdued via backdoor arrangements and sabotage. We are in the land of chaotic evil, the resting place of the corporate world.

Lawful evil is an alignment.

They will find every possible way to misunderstand or misapply the wording
You spelled that sentence wrong. They will be given every possible opportunity to misunderstand or misapply the wording of laws and rulings.

The EU decidedly did not give the ruling some people wanted. They could have, and they definitely can do so some time in the future.

I don't have a horse in this race, everyone involved is some degree of wrong, and the solution that most benefits me, as a consumer, is not available.

rse, who doesn't use one of those? A classmates of mine at Hogwarts once cast a 'Explodeyouranus'' by mistake during duelling practice but the spell checker kicked in and corrected it to 'Expelliarmus''.

No need, this is slashdot, we have commenters that frequently provide a visual.

i have absolutely zero desire, or need, to interact with a single person when I'm working, except via controlled channels like dm tool or email or video conference tool. Whoever wrote this sounds like a shill that may or may not work for a living.

Valid commentary are probably lack of productivity applications, that will be a killer. It's not a "spatial computer' if you cannot do all the things you can do on a computer, including develop, install homebrew, pop shell windows, etc. Those things may not be very 3D friendly, but if you're going to sell a computer, it must be a computer, not an iDevice. If Apple has locked that down, then shame on them.

You wouldn't need to, they tend to send your brains, skull and entire body out windows on the regular, no effort on your part.

I'm 50, that ship has sailed. I do like to be home with my wife, go to lunch with her, and have some peace and quiet before the kids come home though.

Whether you're an intro- or extrovert, you need to have professional conversations with others.

Absolutely. In slack, or webex. My coworkers do not sit in the same cities, timezones or even country.

The office is for badging, going to the gym, and going home to do work.

No one is forcing you to use the alternative app stores.

It seems highly likely that larger developers like Epic would do that thing if the ruling were different.

People are mad at Apple, but the only actual solution is to separate stores/distribution from developers and prohibit exclusivity agreements. Developers don't want that either, they just have a personal battle with Apple and are pretending to have moral high-ground. So they got what they deserved.

According to apple, anything that runs on an iPad will run on AVP, so Netflix will be there. There may not be 3D content, but so far only Disney has really offered that. I am personally not sure 3D movies are a good idea, I doubt filmmakers have figured out this medium yet and certainly arenâ(TM)t targeting it.

Effectively heâ(TM)s just expressing ignorance about technology and his desire to focus on mediocre tv for the masses and is willing to let others experiment. For now, Netflix is the best game in town, but that town increasingly looks like Detroit.

This game seems like pokemon met valheim and bred Jormungax and Fenrol who combined for Ragnipok, the LoL of times.

He is trying to prove the point that without China, the west is nothing. He's done an excellent job of proving the opposite.

At some point there will be a renewed desire to normalize trade relations with China, and hopefully we can negotiate far more favorable terms than those which we endured from 1990-2015.

Literally impossible at this point.

Murray Hill was a dry town, so there were only two restaurants, a really bad french joint and a chinese restuarant (and a McDonalds I think). There was a TGIFs nearby in a town that was not dry, that may be what you were thinking of.

Murray Hill itself was pretty wealthy and mostly a suburb to NYC, there's not much reason to be there unless you live there or worked there.