$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!

Believe it or not, I am not new here. But contrary to your belief, not everyone is an asshole of your magnitude, even on Slashdot.

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.

Nitpicking all the way down to the last response on your comment, are you not ?

Fry's is a regional grocer that was bought out by the national conglomerate Kroger. Kroger is the largest grocery chain in the US. I live in one of the US's 2 biggest seasonal growth regions and the produce at the 'supermarket' is abysmal. For half of the year the farmers outlet is open and I can get super fresh whatever is in the fields. When the farms move to Salinas I am stuck with brown lettuce and shitty tomatoes, and green bannanas.

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.