Yes, that was my point. I'd rather be unemployed in Europe than struggling to make ends meet with two jobs in the US. Don't get me started on healthcare.

I'd rather work in the US, with all the opportunities to be found here.....either director or actual 1099 contract working....where I can make more than a comfortable living.

I have good insurance and have access to the best and most modern health care options in the world here in the US....I wouldn't want to live anywhere else. Life if GREAT here.

Every country has its problems and all, but you have NO reason to be looking down your nose at the US.

If it sucks here so badly,, why are SO many trying to come here?

and when a serious illness hits you in the EU or Canada why do you try your best to get to the US for treatments that your socialize medicines won't or can't cover?

In an elite school it doesn't seem there would be a whole lot of "year full of dumb people" happening.

Don't forget the vast number of students admitted on the basis DEI (race, sex, injustice over the years, etc)....

When you admit based on criteria other than merit and measures of intelligence, you're bound to have more dim bulbs than you might think of in an "elite" university.

What I'm hearing is "But, I'm a highly-compensated professional! Not like all the plebes we spy on constantly to compensate me."

I do agree that they should stand up for themselves, and they have my support, once I'm done supporting causes I consider more important, like toe lint eradication.

Facebook headhunters used to bug me constantly. I put up an autoresponder telling them what I thought of their business model, leadership and general behavior, and that I would wash dishes for a living before working for a degrading, anti-human shithole like FB. Eventually they got the message.

I ended up in a fairly heated argument with some FB employees several years back when I mentioned that. It was obvious they felt stung by someone rejecting the choices they made and kept leaning in to, "but I make more money than you". Which was I was happy to concede, it was true. Suggesting that my self-esteem costs more than theirs didn't seem to be what they wanted to hear..

I wonder if those folks are still there, protesting about their workplace privacy.

Yes but there is initial required capital to start the process of a leveraged buyout. An average person like me cannot start a LBO. It seems like no one is willing to do that in this case. Generally the purchased company gets the debt while the investors sell off the company piece by piece to enrich themselves. In this case what assets does eBay have that can be sold? Maybe some real estate property but not a lot.

Sears is a classic example of how companies are ruined by LBOs. Sears owned most of the land their stores resided. It was sold to the investors, and the land was leased back to the stores at huge rent rates. Sears owned multiple consumer brands like Kenmore and Craftsman. Those were sold to other companies, and the new owners got those proceeds. Eventually the stores failed, customers and employees being hurt in the end when the company goes bankrupt.

I don’t think that getting GameStop in the news was the reason. It seems more the CEO is trying a crazy idea because he has no other ideas. An ulterior motive might be CEO bonuses and plain capitalistic greed. Many good companies have been ruined when purchased in deals like leveraged buyouts. But the investors who did the deals made lots of money running companies into the ground. The customers and employees do not matter to them.

Dude. Its Kenya, not Somalia

What's the difference....?

I do not think anyone here believes everything Altman says. But it sounds like something Musk would do.

I do not think either of them are trustworthy, and I do not know if Altman is lying about that. It sounds like Musk though.

Maybe a little ironic, but I would imagine current Apple modem designs are different from the ones they bought from Intel. From what I can tell, it took Apple many years and revisions to get modems to work they wanted. One of the main reasons Apple bought the business from Intel was the patents. Qualcomm is very litigious, but they would have an uphill battle if they never sued Intel for the same technology even if Apple had improved upon the design.

There is no purge. People forget this is an announcement of plans for a future kernel. Current versions are not affected. Current installations are not affected. All prior versions are still available for download. I would imagine there are few things in newer versions of the kernel that would greatly benefit 30 year old hardware for someone to stop using a working kernel.