Why wouldn't you just turn OneDrive off? I mean, I get it, stubborn master of your computer stuff, but honestly, you're just making shit difficult for yourself. Just turn it off.

"Usually to my desktop."

Oh my.

It's adorable you seem to think the experience of home/prosumer users is that of enterprise deployments/users.

Also, right of ownership should criminally penalize companies for stealing functionality in stuff they already sold you.

I would argue that cruelty is the point.

There are only three ways to fund a government: extracting cash from foreign nations (war / tributes), extorting taxes from citizens (income / tariffs / VAT) and debt engineering (monetary / fiscal policies and platinum coins for some reason)

Modern societies are reluctant to pay the cost of blood and threatened violence to reliably extract money from foreign nations.

Democracies are reluctant to pay the political cost of reminding their citizens they are being extorted for taxes.

So elected governments tend to fall back on the monetary games, which conveniently depends only on credibility and sleight of hands and while its subtle enough has little political cost

Unfortunately by the time being subtle is not enough, the political class may not know how to use any other tool. And if you burn all credibility with shenanigans you lose the legitimacy to any of the three toolsets.

Somebody needs a brain transplant.

(It's you, by the way. One from a pig - or really any animal - would be an improvement.)

"some pain" probably means a lot of people dying and maybe even the return of slavery. We could make utopia, but we won't.

The pronoun people aren't the fascist; obviously they're more Marxist instead. They do share some authoritarian tendencies with MAGA though. (See "horseshoe theory".) Moreover, their contempt for the narrative of American freedom is their undoing... yeah, America was never a perfectly free nation, but people who fought for freedom and pressed for freedom under that narrative routinely won it.

I mean, Apple solved this problem a decade ago with App Store, I don't think we need an exotic solution here.

Eh, the buggy whip makers went to work for Ford.

So, are you saying that software developers are all going to go work for OpenAI? *facepalm*

Maybe Libertarians can use the current crisis to finally achieve their political ascendency, but they'll have to learn the value of coalition and cooperation first, which aren't exactly their strong suit. Still, America needs saving from fasiscm, and I don't see the pronoun crowd getting the job done.

It's basically a year to a year and a half off people's life expectancies, from the heat alone.

Although this is not trivial, the antivaxxer movement will likely chop 10-15 years off life expectancies and greatly reduce quality of life for much of the remainder, same again for the expected massive reduction in air quality that will result from modern political movements, and the absurd puritanical movement in the US will likely chop another 10-15 years off the life expectancies of women.

These are, therefore, substantially more significant, although politically impossible to deal with right now.

I fully expect that, if current trends prevail, by 2040, life expectancies will resemble those of the Neolithic and Bronze Ages.

Attending work for 2 days means I pay £190 per week to work, with no recompense from the company. Because there's a decent amount of holiday time, my wages have only dropped £9000 per year from last year. If I needed to attend 5 days a week, I would have to leave the only job that I have ever held that actually made any functional effort to handle my disabilities. In other words, if I lost this job, I would not be capable of functionally working in any job at all, simply because most companes don't give a damn about disabilities. Legally, however, I would be deemed "capable of work". As such, I would have no wages and no benefits. Once my money ran out, I'd be on the streets. There is simply no viable alternative.

If a business guy thinks adding to the homeless is the best way to improve work morale, then maybe he's not a business guy that holds any opinion of value. He may well be listened to, which will cause a LOT of problems for a LOT of people and WILL increase unemployent and, in countries with failing industry, increase the homelessness of people who are far more competent than him, but that does not make his opinion valuable, merely incredibly stupid and sickeningly naive.

You can catch the boss between meetings and pass along a little tidbit of information

Wait until the author hears about this thing called asynchronous communication!

He'll lose his top when he hears that I can pass along a little tidbit of information to my boss in the very same meeting in which we are both attending, with all the other meeting participants being none the wiser.

I can even schedule my messages so that they'll be delivered right when my boss wakes up.

I guess Wharton hasn't heard of these new-fangled technologies yet. That must be a downside of being at such a prestigious, ivy league school.