I think that you have been drinking the Kool-Aide. While as there are good CEO's out there, there are lots that get the position because of connections. Bush didn't get into Yale with a C average. Look at the business texts out there the next time you are in a college bookstore. There isn't a lot of content there. This was told to me by another CEO.

Even though a manager might have been a programmer before, to be a manager means that you have to understand the technical aspects of a project. Just because you have been a programmer [follower], to be a manager means that you have to make an assessment of decisions. Maybe you can learn technical stuff on the fly, but it really helps if you started out with this as an early goal.
Steve Jobs was not a technical person. He did manage to lead a technical company. A lot of his success was that his ideas were right for the time. However, he was an ass and selfish, mostly as narrated by Woz. Jobs was good at manipulating his peers and short changing them in many ways, mainly in getting a fair share of their options, especially Woz. His peer were spineless cowards who should have left him when doing so would have caused real damaged to Jobs' plans and accomplishments. Life is about knowing when to hold your ground. The programmers did not use their position to extract concessions from Jobs. Jobs was good at playing this game, but sometimes his people should have been bolder.

This was sort of the idea behind a void in 17th century thinking. While as nature abhors a vacuum, there wasn't really a void in the vacuum of space. However, if you talk about the expanding universe, you begin to think of the nothing "into which" it is expanding.

In the beginning, there was nothing.
Then God said, "Let there be light!"
And there still was nothing
But you could see it.

Well, this seems to be the case for most AI examples.
While as they might work on their training set, there are always going to be things outside its field of encounter with which it must deal, sort of like the Godel Incompleteness Theorem for algorithms.
I have heard it said that old ideas about the brain were that left-brain deals with analytics, while as the right brain deals with creativity. The newer reformulation of this idea is that left hemisphere deals with predictability and established patterns, while as the right side deals with chaos and disorder.
Evolutionaryly, that arose when primitive mammals planed a task and a situation arose to thaw the plan. For example, when a mouse set out to eat berries, gauging which bush had more, when a dinosaur tried to eat the mouse.
Given a couple of millions of years, we can ask if nothing means void [nothing expected], empty [in the sense that we expect something, but not get anything], unknowable [don't have an idea if we should expect an answer] or other [to be determined]. Wistful thinking of something like Georg Cantor's different types of infinities applied towards "nothing"s!

How is this any different than the mortgage crisis created by the banks. By creating any sort of highly leveraged deal, not only do you make money when things are working, but you make more to come fix up the mess after they fail. This is especially true when you have knowledge and access to specialized good, stemming from auto supplies to iPhone essentials to financial products.

While as FaceApp collects your pictures, Amdocs, hardhearted in St. Louis, MO is a front for the Mosad. It functions to provide cell phone billings for your usage. It keeps track of all of your phone calls to maintain a web of your contacts.

If you can't bedazzle them with brilliance, befuddle them with bullshit.
You can mess up the face recognition algorithm by incorrectly identify people. This is especially effective if two people look similar, e.g. family. I was first interested in doing this when I noticed that the post office forwards your mail to a new address, that information is sold to "interested parties". Well, one effective countermeasure is to forward your mail to as many addresses as possible. Also, forward it to unrelated people who have the same name as you do.

Just look at what happened during the 2007 TARP program. The US government was bought off to take toxic assets off banks hands and hand them over to the tax payer. The loans to the banks were made a ridiculous rate. Basically, if you believe in capitalism, then the banks should have sold off stocks based on market demand. Not some artificial price agreed upon by bankers and government officials. Even the loans given to "help out delinquent" taxpayers were done not to keep the person in his home, but to keep the banks receiving cash flow. If the government was interested in helping out the people, then the loans should have gone to the individual, who might decide to dump his mortgage and pay rent elsewhere. The law is full of all sorts of deals where rich can take over property via "imminent domain" laws, but these don't work the other way around.
The same thing happens with bankruptcy court. Big companies with strong ties to government get time to reorganize their debts and get out of unfavorable contracts.

I don't know about everyone else, but the contracting rates that I offered are not substantially higher than the comparably salary (including time-off and insurances). Moreover, contractors tend to get hired in the "crisis" of the project, so are expected to be highly effective with their resources and time, unlike management or BAs, which seem to just babble platitudes from a canned speech. Unless agencies or mid-management thinks that [we] programmers are smart enough to program, but stupid in the world of business, the only alternative that exists [for agencies or mid-level management] is to hold the line at a certain level of compensation. After all, either the project is not important enough, or the money needs to go to others, not the programmers. Even some of the "benefits" that we get are down right silly. I don't enjoy going to a baseball game or other parties, so its just not a "reward" for me. Maybe it is good for 60% of the team members, but the remaining 40% of us feel as if we are going through the motions of having a good time.

What made America great was the ability to buy cheap goods from abroad. As soon at phones cost three times what they do, people will cut back on them.

I thought that this was the country of freedom!

I thought this was the country of the free.

When I started out as a programmer, you never wanted to be anyone's beta tester. Now, people give up their free time to do so!

I think that some of this is linked to our expectations with stocks. We have seen wild speculation in the market, so we want to get into the game! BitCoin has had the wildest ride, so many people think that the can grab it as it is going up and sell before it crashes. Is this really any different than oil companies competing against Standard Oil. All other competitors were driven to bankruptcy, they think that this drive to bankruptcy is part of the process, they just think that than can sell before everyone else does.

About 20 years ago, jewwatch was in the top 3 listings when searching for jews on yahoo search, due to the way that links were created. Too many people got upset, so things were patched to prevent this, by adding code to explicitly prevent this.