The least he could do is keep his family in the country he’s helping destroy.

The whole point of destroying a country is to raid it of its wealth and to get out before it burns to the ground...

No one has the honor to ride a ship into the ground.

These days the captains would jump ship at the site of an iceberg and leave everyone to a certain death if there was a chance they'd lose 1 dollar.

The longer we go without a wealth tax the more we're allowing ourselves to be raided

The billionaires can’t handle “losing” money to taxes so they’d just never come here. Whether that would prevent the raid or enable it remains to he seen.

Until they piss off people there too and wealth taxes are adopted there as well. The less havens they have the better

Besides, the proposed wealth tax specifically includes provisions to capture billionaires attempting to flee state taxes

Guess they won't be billionaires then. Cut off their nose to spite the face and all that.

Developers just aren’t good at determining what works best for the user experience. How would designers and PMs justify the hundreds of thousands of hours of combined industry research poured into that beautiful, performant front page design and following modal auto-load?

Please, leave this to the professionals.

Any tips on finding this again? I had a great situation turn sour in exactly this way once growth and leadership change came.

nothing tactical from me, but I've fostered a strategic approach over the years that's lead to a deep appreciation for the real-time experience. You can probably recognize when it's good (and bad) once you've worked for a while, and you really need to consciously pause and remark "If this isn't nice, what is?"^1 at those times when it is good.

A decade of consulting had me always ready to wrap my engagement at the end of any day, and (for better and worse) I carried this with me to future jobs. I always miss (at least some of) the people, but never the situation when it turns sour and I leave. The good news: you often get a chance to work with the good ones again (even if that's because you entice them away to your next gig).

^1 https://archive.org/details/ifthisisntnicewh0000vonn/mode/2u...

Same here, it has always been a state transition. There's always that snake showing up who forces everyone to watch their back and eventually disband. A tech coop seems like a good option, but it's almost exclusively web dev.

It should be obvious who the real criminals are in this case.

How recently? As of about 2010, it was very much still there. I understand that is 16 years ago.

If AI takes over Microsoft itself, it might result in a significant improvement in the quality of its products.

I think we’re in a bit of a renaissance period honestly. For the wealthy elite, it likely will be significantly better, pushing their wealth and status even higher. We’re already seeing that. For everyone else, we’ll see increasing economic inequality and a return to hard manual labor which will likely be a significant destabilizing factor.

The average person’s life was arguably not better after other revolutionary periods. The back breaking labor after the agricultural revolution; not better. The high pollution and dangerous manual labor after the industrial revolution; not better.

Will AI have similar outcomes? Remains to be seen.

Uniform Military Code of Justice and Military Court Martial.

Also, probably for obvious reasons military unions are strictly prohibited by federal law for active-duty personnel [1].

[1]: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/976

Related, 4tb ssds went from $320 msrp in December to $2k in May. Blows my mind.

So Sorry, And I literally just moved all my stuff to cloudflare 2 weeks ago… if it means anything it was a great product.