There's a salesperson at the door saying "I can make sure your employees are saying please" and zero salespeople saying, "I can make sure your buns aren't stale".

The franchisees don't want the machines to work. The daily clean-up time (and believe me... when dealing with dairy you want it to be VERY clean) takes a long time. They lose money unless they are selling TONS of servings. Nobody could possibly sell enough ice cream to break even.

Let's suppose it is going to take 1 person-hours each day to clean the machine and you make 10 cents profit per serving. Assuming labor cost of $10/hour (these numbers are all fiction). You're going to have to sell 100 servings just to break even. That would mean a TON of advertising and promotion to drive that kind of sales volume. Doing those promotions cost even more money, which requires more sales to make up for.

It is much more profitable to leave the machine broken and have that 1 hour of labor doing something that they know makes money... like grilling burgers.

Of course... this is an excellent opportunity for iFixit and others to advocate for the changes they want. McDonald's can't publicly admit they don't want the machines fixed. It gets good PR for iFixit and friends.

What do you recommend eating so that you don't need healthcare related to being pregnant?

I hate to say it this way but only a dude would make a statement like what the CEO said.

Last I checked, a more healthy diet doesn't stop you from needing healthcare when you go into labor.

I loved that film!
    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0...

The 2018 edition is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

SIGGRAPH is the ACM computer graphics research conference. You won't find anything more cutting edge. Each year they produce a video "SIGGRAPH $YEAR : Technical Papers Preview Trailer". This is exactly what the OP was looking for. Here's 2017's video:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The "Rust" programming language boasts the ability to perform more static analysis (finding errors at compile time) than Go. Could Go add better static analysis?

In the preface there is a chart of "The Origins of Go" which includes many languages such as C, Modula-2, CSP, and so on. However C++ is missing from the chart. Oversight or intentional?

This report measures the wrong thing. If GF is profitable purely by itself (no accounting tricks, no assumptions about how much additional ad revenue could be generated, as son on), then the investment would be justifiable no matter the cost.

Also, since Google has released zero actual cost numbers, this is making guesses based on how Time Warner or other highly inefficient companies operate. Why do that?

I had 15 items and picked the 10 best.

You sound like one of those people that piss all over the public bathroom floor and say, "ha! it's someone's job to clean it up! why should I care!" (since you made the janitorial analogy, I thought I'd complete it)

The biggest change in business in the last 10 years is the realization that IT is not a "cost to be reduced" but the driver of innovation that should be invested in, respected, and optimized.

Those advertisements don't sell themselves. Google has a very large salesforce. Since NYC is the center of the universe for advertising (think "Madison Avenue") and magazine publishing (name just about any magazine) it is obvious that Google has a large salesforce there.

Google already rents a large part of that building and has been quoted as saying there are at leaset 2000 employees there. It's cheaper to own then rent.