Who are you to dictate what someone "should" be paid?

If you earned $300k would you be arguing that you should be paid less? Or are you the exception because your work is work that money? Half of Google is being paid $300k because it was decided that their job is worth it.

It is comical, if not downright evil that someone who is earning $500 million per year is demanding people be paid *less* or not at all.

This idea that if someone is earning more that *I* am, they clearly are overpaid or don't deserve it is there so we regulate ourselves and don't see that these gold hoarding dragons are siphoning off money that we should be rightfully be earning.

I have to say that sounds like a pretty accurate definition. I was expecting something more pejorative.

The author writes at length about the problem and Rust itself, but there is no explanation as to how they mitigated the issues that Rust presented.

I feel that would have contributed more weight to the article by at least show how they were dealing with the problems Rust was creating.

Gold as a material has many useful physical properties that make it valuable above "being pretty". Gold conducts heat and electricity better than copper, and resists corrosion from everyday conditions. It is far more malleable than copper, so it wouldn't be used in applications that require durability, but as a material it has many potential applications.

If it wasn't for its rarity and expense, it probably would displace copper in many electronic applications.

My only thought on this is that EVs are still a developing technology.

As someone else commented, ICE vehicles haven't been perfect either. I'm sure a modern EV is probably light years ahead of your Leaf simply because a decade has passed since you bought it.

I don't think there is a good way to let people go.

There is also no way to write a "mea culpa" when you don't actually suffer any consequences.

I was thinking this. Even the ultra super rich would see that there is no real value in spending hundreds of thousands of dollars for what a one hour experience? Yes, it's cool, but is it $600k cool?

All these multi-payment articles only mention targeting Google.

Why is Apple getting away with it?

Once the layoff process has started, no, but if it hasn't started yet then that is exactly what they are trying todo.

There is absolutely 0% chance that exactly 15% of employees are screwing the pooch which just so happens to be equal to the 15% employee reduction Meta needs to balance their reduced revenue.

You're right, but any enforcement of the law would be in the hands of the state and that could take a long time to settle, all the while the "fired" employees are left hanging out to dry.

Yes, the employees could sue but an individual suing Meta is financial suicide while a class-action lawsuit means handing over 50% of your severance to the lawyers.

Cutting 15% of your workforce is one thing, but if they just did a regular layoff they would be on the hook for severance. By manufacturing a reason to fire them, they won't be on the hook to pay them anything.

Tuning layoffs into firings just to avoid paying severance is another level of evil entirely.

I wasn't with you in the beginning of that statement, but I like where it ended.

Glad I stayed for the ride.

Apple is well known for trying to *appear* cooperative while then applying so many restrictions to said cooperation that it ends up becoming untenable.

Yes.

I looked into installing Swiftkey on my wife's iPhone based on my longtime use of Swiftkey on Android.

Based on my research, the iOS version is nothing like the Android version. The iOS version is more of a keyboard skin than a different keyboard software.

In the end the work to migrate her phone to a new keyboard seemed to be a waste of time and I left her phone as it was.

That's what I got out of it. So this podcast episode just sits on your phone forever and just takes up storage space? I would be pissed if this happened and would uninstall the app immediately.