$99 billion in cash reserves will probably insulated them from most of the AI bubble pop.

None of the junior people can pass our interviews. And none of the seniors want a full time job babysitting an code-generation machine. Modern AI has turned coding into the equivalent of a mindless factory job watching things go by on the conveyor belt.

It's really tough to measure and interpret results, I don't fault anyone for struggling to have perfect clarity in outcomes and business results. But part of the problem with the corporate world is an unwillingness to question their metrics and call bullshit on assumptions that cannot be supported by evidence.

Using a definition for success that is not outcome-based turns out to be a giant scam!

That's a relief, I can retire early then.

I don't recall suggesting this. Perhaps you have me confused with someone else.

I'm not Steve Wozniak. If I had his money, I would have retired earlier. (see above)

I think a radical leftwing movement would be unstoppable if they followed Mao's playbook. Because Americans have no defense against it.
I would be against it though. I think the means matter as much as the ends.

I go off road, but I try to minimize my impact. Roads themselves also destroy the environment, there's no perfect solution so we can just do the best we can.

Club body-on-frame trucks are the only trucks.

Heh. Supply chain infiltration has occurred numerous times in history without ever passing through the adversarial nation.
There are ways to improve confidence in your supply chain. But it is difficult to completely eliminate the possibility of state actors, even in a supply chain that is closed in your own nation.

I really care about who owns the soil underneath the factory my computer was built at.

Few servers in orbit around Earth are impacted by this flaw.

Exploiting the labor of others is a choice.

Download the offline version of Wikipedia and some backups of GeoCities. The good old days are in the past and immutable, you can look at it, but you won't be able to meaningfully interact with an online society that no longer exists. Because of that, it will feel more like being in a museum than actually experiencing the old Internet.

That said, there are corners of the Internet that have changed little. Forums for special interests. I'm on a synthesizer/musician forum (MOD WIGGLER) and it is pretty old school. There's are guitar forums like TDPRI (Telecaster Discussion Page Reissue) that are also pretty much unchanged for decades. I used to post on NESdev forum, which is a hobby retro game programming forum. But I haven't touched it in a decade+

I'd use it to get a degree in an AI proof industry, like dental hygienist. Nursing kind of sucks these days because of AI and healthcare business. Other AI proof industries might be aromatherapy and massage. Can't even go into a nice peaceful job of driving a garbage truck, robotics are going to end growth in that industry in a few years.

It's an interesting formula MS has though. Age + years of employment >= 70. But I'm not sure how much they are actually paying. Probably a formula of years of employment each get a fractional multiplier on base salary.

I propose prison for anyone who has over $1B in assets. Every month they spend time in a cell deciding how badly they want to keep their money. At the end of the month, they can decide if having a modest $900M is all one person really needs. Why would I go after someone's money, they "earned" it right? It's simple, it complicates a society that operates under the assumption of 1-person-1-vote. That at some fundamental level we are all equal in our representation and voice. That a shopclerk has as much right to their opinion as a the franchise owner of that shop.