I'm not sure why so many here, especially e.g. rsilvergun, revere Patrick Boyle. He's a former hedge fund manager, and the fund he managed almost certainly took at least 80% of the earnings over the life of the fund, while badly underperforming the S&P500. In his defense, his fund wasn't designed to beat the S&P, but there's a huge butt: Anybody who put money into it lost their ass to inflation, but the fund (including him) got paid very, very well. It's hard for me to watch him because I've literally watched him plainly state things as fact that I personally know to not be true.

However, the second link makes a pretty good point about investor limits, and unlike Patrick Boyle, doesn't try to paint speculation as fact. On the other hand, under the old rules, employees rarely got paid in stock. They had to be some kind of an upper-tier employee to get that, like either a top 10 programmer or VP, exec, etc. Where I work, literally every last FTE gets stock, including baristas, security, or any other job role you can name. Doesn't matter their pay grade, they get all of the same perks as everybody else. With all of the noise the rsilvergun-alikes make about companies being employee owned, especially the ones who espouse co-ops even though they typically have no idea what that word even means, you'd figure they'd be in favor of this. This year alone, I'm likely within a hair's distance of a 7-digit income on my w-2, and if not, then that means I've exceeded it. I know one guy who started early at the company and left a bit ago, and he's already sitting on $80 million worth. He retired in his 40s.

Your jealousy of America is showing. It is ironic that you seek to bash the country that made all of the technology you used to leave the comment.

Mine? ~1m revenue. Buddy? Probably more, but he's got a lot of debt.

Please define AI slop in this case, then. Automated bots running around doing automated fake bug fixing? Some guy who ran into a bug while using the project and used his local model or claude to file the bug? Serious question here. I modify some open source projects for my own use, and I'm hesitant to send stuff upstream because I'm not sure what's acceptable.

Individual workers make decisions. "Labor" makes decisions on workers' behalf while pocketing a portion of their paychecks. For their own good, of course.

Oh the way the plugins crash...
Pop-unders and games in Flash...

Those were the days!

Languages are neither safe nor unsafe. Particular implementations of runtimes and libraries, on the other hand, may be full of remote execution holes or so locked down they're unusable. Or something in between.

What if someone has fifty windows open with fifty tabs each?

Asking for a friend.

Solid effort - good job.

It's a bummer if any of the employees got rug-pulled but many of the best employees will strike out on their own, form new companies with working conditions they value, and likely hasten Skydance's demise.

I didn't even vote in the last election. I had still been registered in Arizona while living in California. Even if I had been registered to vote legally, I would have left the presidential box empty.

No. I don't have time to simplify this for you, so you'll have to ask your guardian or your babysitter to interpret what I'm saying but, in fact, you got both words very, very wrong. What credentials do depends on the context. For example, being credentialed with an accredited law degree and passing a state bar exam gives a person authorization to practice law. With nuance of course, but that's the gist of it. In computing terms, credentials often contain two parts: Your identity, and your authentication factor. You make a claim to your identity, and you authenticate to prove that identity. Usually in that order, but sometimes it's both at the same time. It depends. Authorization is tied to your identity, and (remember, computing terms here) an authorization mechanism, such as an access control list, determines what you, operating as that identity, may or may not do.

That's not what projection means. But as a special kind of person, you'd fit right in with them. Just remember to ask your legal guardian first.

Nope. Absolute yield total for the world is UP, as is per acre yield. Your "inflation means yields are down" point is illogical - that would mean yields have dropped every year as inflation is a given every year.

The reality is that yield per acre is up 20 and 28 percent respectively for corn and wheat over the last two decades. And, overall, per the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), total world global cereal production has had a 27% increase since 2010 (while world population increased 24 percent).

Over the last 7 years I've been working in cybersecurity. I understand that, and a lot more, a lot better than you do.

Well this is a concept that most people learn by high school. Most people. Let's see if I can put this into terms you'd understand. Soo...you might recall how, upon your 18th birthday, you were adjudicated incompetent. That's pronounced "AD-JOO-DICK-ATED", and, contrary to how it sounds, it has nothing to do with eating dicks. As such you were assigned what's called a legal guardian. This legal guardian has the legal right, and thus as a matter of law is authorized, to make important decisions on your behalf, where you are not. As a matter of law, a judge can't even speak to you directly after this, only your legal guardian, basically as if you aren't even in the room even if you're standing right next to your guardian.

You may recall at some point how your legal guardian was suddenly replaced one day. That's because your first legal guardian spent all of your money on crack. Although he has the right, and therefore authorization, as a matter of law, to spend your money basically however he wants, including paying himself for his services, he still has what's called a duty of care. That's pronounced "DOO-TEE", and it has nothing to do with poop. Think of it like he's your permanent babysitter, even when he's not around. But one day, somebody found you sitting in an empty room by yourself smearing feces all over yourself and a wall while he was in the other room passed out, and...well...one thing sort of lead to another.

A similar concept applies to something the abled people around you call power of attorney, that your legal guardian can also sign on your behalf. Here's one example of what power of attorney grants in at least one jurisdiction ("JUR-ISS-DICK-SHONE", again, no relation to dicks):

https://www.occourts.org/self-...

Notice for example, how power of attorney can grant another person authorization to make financial decisions on your behalf.

MAGA people aren't able to think for themselves, and there are a lot of them out there. So yes it's true, there are other people out there just like you! You're not alone in this world. Just like them, you're special! Ask your legal guardian if he can take you to a Trump rally, and you'll meet more of your own kind!

Hmm...no. You can authorize other people to act on your behalf, though in your case it's not your decision, it's your legal guardian's decision. As an example, you might notice that abled people around you have something called a credit card. People who have credit cards can authorize other people to use them. They do it all the time, usually without realizing it.

All labor activism is opportunistic Marxist radicalism until proved otherwise.