> DEI is entirely and completely anti-American

In the sense that America is all about keeping the poors and the brown people down? Yes I agree, DEI is anti-that.

People that keep going on and on about "America" and "I'm an American" and "that's not American" are so bizarre. To you, America is an engine of hatred and discrimination, of war and destabilization, of manipulation and corruption, of inequality and intolerance. Your America, at its core, is about shitting on the little guy, not helping your neighbor, taking advantage everywhere you can. America's heart is contemptuous and vile.

So, yeah, you're American alright. Because your values are those great American values of ignorance, lack of empathy, lack of compassion, i'm-in-it-for-myself-and-nobody-else-ism. If you ever had a perspective other than your own it'd be shocking.

You seem to want there to be some entirely homogenous form of American, like we're all supposed to be the same. But not only is that impossible, it would suck balls. Diversity is the spice of life. Literally, food would taste blander without different things that *are different*, that stick out, that aren't exactly the same as you, what you like, how you live, think, act. In a country where people think differently, talk differently, have a different history and experience, we gain from that difference. People here are supposed to talk different, walk different, think different.

The whole "melting pot" idea you mention isn't a good thing either. Since the turn of the 20th century, it was used as a tool to try to hammer out the "impurity" of all the cultures that came to this country, and replace all their unique traits with some bland, monotonous, homogeneous "Americanism" - which of course must be white, british/germanic, protestant, and reject any foreign elements. There's a big difference between adopting a trait, and being forced to erase all your traits. That erasure is discrimination.

And you keep saying you don't like this or that. But you also, very clearly, don't understand *why* things are the way they are. You haven't educated yourself at all. Just the fact that you don't understand why some people call themselves African-American, is pretty chilling. But what's worse is, you also don't care about anyone but yourself. You don't care if someone wants to be called African-American. You don't care how they want to be treated. You only care what you want, and how you want to treat this person. You only care about yourself. You're probably threatened by the idea of ever having to care about anyone but yourself.

This is what you think being American is. A single-minded idea, that conveniently serves your own ignorance, selfishness, and hatred. And you know what? Apparently you're not wrong. This is what America seems to be now. Just one big stupid fucking ball of hate and ignorance. God bless this stupid fucking nation and all the stupid selfish hateful people in it.

"People woke to beds locked in upright positions, excessive heat, flashing lights, and unexpected alarms."

This shit is gonna kill someone if companies are allowed to build software products any fucking way they want.

We have building codes, fire codes, electrical codes, to protect people from faulty products. We need a software building code to protect people from software.

A Philly newspaper writes that the Internet has a Philly accent? They think Philly sports teams have actually done well? And how exactly is Philly leftist? Have these people ever been to South Philly?

This is one of the stupidest things I've read on this website.

The SEC goes after him for violating laws on trading, he leaves the country and bets big money that Trump will win, Trump wins, and now the NYSE is investing 2 billion dollars in his company

This doesn't sound strange at all

Obviously the bubble is going to burst, so I'm preparing for it already.

First I stopped using AI-centered products. When the bubble bursts, my tools don't all stop working. Also helps if I don't use companies that rely too much on AI.

Second I changed my investments (401k, IRA, HSA, etc) away from big tech companies. There's plenty of index funds that don't have a heavy bias toward tech or AI. The whole market will dip, but if you're not in AI you won't feel it as bad.

Third I'm building out residential solar using the remaining tax incentives before they expire. Regardless of what happens with power companies (or even renewables) I will have stable and cheap energy for at least the next 12 years (warranties on the parts are 12-25 years).

How exactly is this different from the same thing with a smartphone? Don't people walk around recording TikToks of strangers with their phones every day?

The safety of a normal building is ensured in part because we require by law that it follow a building code, and that it be inspected, with fines if they don't fix it. Otherwise buildings would be built cheaply and shitty and falling down on us all the time.

We need a building code for the technology that critical companies (like the credit bureaus) use. Otherwise they will just keep having shit security and we will all be hacked constantly forever.

"Right now, people might be saying, 'I will quit if I have to go back to the office,' but it turns out they don't mean it. The reason, of course, is it's one thing to say that you will quit; it's another to actually walk away from a paycheck..."

He's saying out loud that you can make workers do anything because they're afraid of losing their jobs.

We need unions if we ever want remote work back.

I love how stupid the stock market is. Throw money at the trend! Oh shit we threw money at a trend!

It's the only way we will get laws with strong enough punishments that these stupid startups will actually fear launching insecure services. If there are no repercussions then this will keep happening forever.

I entered the tech job market then. Previously tons of people had been hiring, often purely off of "certificates" rather than a graduate degree. The job market tightened and it was hard to find a job, especially if you didn't have experience or start with an internship.

The solution was simple: hustle. I went to User Group meetings, forums, chat rooms. Met people, networked, posted for jobs. Eventually one startup hired me. Soon after that, one of the people I met through networking offered me a better job. A few times I've been out of work since then, but I always save enough to be laid off for a while.

Welcome to the adult world, kids. Nobody's gonna hand you anything. Get that Chipotle job and start hustling for something better. Keep interviewing and networking, and build up your professional network. A career is mostly based on reputation.

If somebody at Microsoft is reading slashdot: what the fuck is wrong with you?

But seriously, stop making new versions of Windows. Just make it a rolling release. Bridge versions for changing APIs. Continuous Windows forever. Your customers will be happy, and you can push your new crap on them any time you want.

This is the "Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification" regulation, that companies have to follow if they're planning on having a layoff.

Thing is, most companies use one of the many loopholes that exist to prevent from needing to follow this regulation. They only use it when they have to.

On top of that, mass layoffs happen because you're losing money and you need to cut 10-20% of your workforce. The reason won't be "because AI". It'll be "because we suck at business".

Useless article trading on controversy over AI. Slow news day I guess.

...how borderline moronic and insane that people can be that are talented and motivated. Sutskever seems like simultaneously a genius, and a crazy person. A computer program bringing about a rapture? Bunkers? AGI "in 10 years" (for the last 30 years) ? Turns out this kind of genius-yet-crazy is pretty common.

- Newton was super smart. But he also thought he could find the date for the rapture hidden in codes in random texts. And of course spent half his life studying alchemy.

- Einstein had some really great ideas, but some stinkers too.

- Alfred Russel Wallace, the guy who thought up evolution right before Darwin, was obsessed with seances to try to talk to the dead.

- Joseph Priestley discovered oxygen, and used it to continuously try to justify a theory of 4 natural elements... and every scientist in the world used it to prove why there *aren't* four natural elements.

- Francis Crick, the guy who discovered DNA, also says that DNA arrived on earth because aliens.

- James Watson, the other guy who discovered DNA, firmly believes all black people are less smart than white people, because of his interactions with black employees. Oh and women scientists are more difficult to work with. And we should alter the genes of "inferior" people.

People: we have nukes. NUKES. And they're not even controlled by strictly designed, non-AI computer programs to keep the system safe. They're controlled by humans. Humans like *Trump*. Crazy, insane, aggressive, emotional humans. Yet we aren't all dead yet. A lot of people did hide in bunkers, when nukes came out. But, amazingly, despite this _super dangerous technology_, we aren't all dead yet.

Idealism doesn't make people work less hard. Lots of idealistic people kill themselves to get work done.

"He recalled telling employees: "Look, we have to work really, really hard. We're in a competitive space.""

Working really hard doesn't equate to making money. You can work yourself to death and still fail.

"The CEO said that he, too, didn't like being rushed as an engineer but that setting realistic deadlines was part of his maturation as a leader."

You know what else is a part of mature leadership? Inspiring your troops. Just telling them to work harder doesn't equal motivation. You may have to actually do some work yourself, Mr. Leader.