'That's the thing I'm going to be expert at for the next 30 years,' I can promise you that's not going to be valuable 30 years from now,"

I dunno. I got started programming Acorn Risk Machines and here I am 30 years later making a decent living off of it.

They will still fix this faster than any of the traditional NASA cost-plus contractors. They would take years to fix this. SpaceX will have their next iteration within 6 months.

Either on the front end with your bill or the back end where you pay more for Steam.

or both

You said Quebec could ban Amazon. Quebec can't, and Canada as a whole is unlikely to throw out Amazon because of issues in one province. Heck, they might keep amazon just to twist it to them.

The point is a lot of people have to be against something for it to get banned. TikTok is disposable, it will get replaced with some other app in short order. Amazon is less so.

This is not the same situation. (1) different country and (2) different level of government.

The Supreme Court did not ban it. Congress did. Both Houses, and the president signed it. The Supreme Court upheld it.

Quebec (one province) likely does not have the authority to ban Amazon on their own. They would have to get that from Canadian Parliament, and it too would likely be challenged and go through a similar judicial review. But that has not happened.

They did not interrupt the formation of the union. They just decided that it was better business for them to covert to 3rd party distribution.

Family members are often the first investors in any venture. Trying to use this fact to imply that someone does not deserve their outcome just looks like sour grapes.

There seems to be a lot of hate towards family members helping out. Everyone calls it "privilege" now, like having a family that is willing and able to help is a bad thing.

there are many things Quebec can do, including telling Amazon it's not longer welcome in its providence

I am no lawyer, but I don't think the state actually has the power to do this, unless Amazon is doing something illegal. It is not illegal to convert to 3rd party distribution because that is more favorable to their business.

MBAs were often used to give people with other expertise the tools needed to talk to senior leaders using (mostly) financial tools. Their underlying expertise was still a very necessary component of their management jobs.

If you replace that with someone who only has business experience, and no other subject matter expertise, then you have a hollow manager that does not offer real value to the company.

For instance, if a company makes metal boxes, someone who worked in tooling, fabrication, or engineering would be a better MBA candidate than someone who has a business degree and no real experience making metal boxes. They are not going to understand the 'why' behind various decisions that impact production.

AI may be writing 20% of the code, but how much of that makes it to a product?

I use AI generated code to quickly write up some demo code to check things out, like new APIs and whatnot. "Write a C# windows app to list all attached USB devices using the WMI API". It can type that up much faster than I can, and usually does a decent job for those trivial demos. Those demos let me see and interact with the code to help me understand it more.

I'll then cut and paste bits of that code into my application. If you try to ask AI to write the app, it fails miserably. You'll spend more time detailing it or correcting it than if you just write it yourself.

The people you want to shoot are already long dead. Everyone involved now has just inherited this problem. Nobody alive actually caused it.

hence the dazzling, polychromatic sky visible even from South America

It almost sounds like he is saying "OMG it was soooo powerful you could see the northern lights in South America!!1!!one!"

Like he never heard of Aurora Australis, and South America had never seen that before.

This happened long before DEI was a thing. This is corporate rot from when the Jack Welch-type MBA's from the McDonnell Douglass merger took over the company.

https://www.amazon.com/Flying-Blind-Tragedy-Fall-Boeing/dp/B08SPK4FHQ/
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/04/boeing-corporate-america-manufacturing/678137/

The inflation would have to overcome the pressure, which is the weight of the water column on top of the payload. The deeper you go, the more water you need to "lift" to inflate the sacks.

I'm not sure if that math would add up, but it certainly is an interesting idea.

Our company blocked Firefox and Chrome from running "for security". Stuck with Edge. :-/

How much of that is going on in corporate IT offices?