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I know this is anecdotal but I remember anywhere you went in financial or political circles in 1990s London, everyone was falling over themselves about the nouveau riche from Russia and former Warsaw Pact countries investing. There were some who said it would drive up real estate prices and some upset about lack of oversight but they were looked at in the media and by politicians as kooky or close to it. Decades later - the Panama Papers, the Epstein files and articles like this and from that journalist killed in Malta exposing corruption.

Mind-boggling what people and corporations knew and did in the shadows while we cheered on and cheer on their holdings.

In terms if volume and distribution it's noteworthy that they also supply Sam's Club.

Thank you. Going to buy your books to read up first. Thanks again for the AMA and all your thoughtful responses for the HN crowd

I'm about to launch a startup, do you do consulting for small companies with what I'd like to think is a big mission (likely similar to all startups lol)? In other words, is there some way to contact you and do you work with non-billion dollar startups if you find it worthwhile? Or is it more in line with 'read my books and call me when you raise your first million'?

One of the best things about HN is a fairly troll-free environment. My politics is/was different than Clinton but I don't think he was convicted of that crime.

Norway, Finland, Sweden, Germany, Japan, New Zealand all have universal childcare and seem to have a lot less teen violence than the US that has no universal childcare.

The article mostly details the move by many legacy automakers to delay electrifying more of their fleet and touches on the aspect of gas stations and recharges. However, what it doesn't mention is that it appears that internal combustion engine vehicles cost about 40% more in service costs which obviously affects dealers. Here's an article I remember from MotorTrend a few years ago https://www.motortrend.com/news/government-ev-ice-maintenanc...

Not just the UK govt but same with the US govt. Loss of domain-specific knowledge is a real problem is one problem. When project deadlines slip, government departments have no choice but to pay whatever the cost for extending the contract since the specific knowledge lies with the contracting company.

For MS to even think Recall was a good idea is quite worrisome.

Financial services, government departments (including things like criminal cases), healthcare - talk about a privacy and confidentiality nightmare.

It should be interesting to hear the inside story about how this was championed inside the company and how it got the greenlight from the higher ups.

Well-written article and interesting series.

From my understanding, over 50% of inflation is due to corporations increasing prices to make more profits. https://www.epi.org/blog/corporate-profits-have-contributed-...

I think that is something that needs to be talked about much more. I'm not an economist so not sure how things like that are addressed. Anti-trust enforcement? I honestly don't know but I'm sure there are more informed readers in HN that can comment.

Excellent idea. Let's start with lowering wages across the board at the Federal Reserve.

Seems one of the former senior executives of Fujitsu now runs a gov't agency that handles contracts to digital services vendors like...Fujitsu.

Not sure how the legal authorities work in the UK but people have to be held accountable, regardless of political party. One would think the government's legal authorities have to act on behalf of the citizens not just in holding persons criminally responsible but also compensating victims.

https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/tory-donor-fujitsu-p...

I am definitely not a business expert but am I reading it correctly that Boeing has a -48% tax rate?

https://www.google.com/finance/quote/BA:NYSE?sa=X&ved=2ahUKE...

Corporate decisions to increase prices have taken a lot out of paychecks.

Not sure what any President could do without control of Congress and passing legislation against millions in lobbying by corporations.

https://thehill.com/business/economy/4057722-greedflation-is...

It'll be interesting for many countries to see how this program fares. From anecdotal evidence on my part speaking to friends in Europe, Canada and some places in South America, it seems housing has become very expensive.

Wait.

So, she had "the impression" that she was the company's first choice for the job? And as the interviews went on, they decided to not hire her and she's suing?

It must be amazing to realize oneself as so fabulous a colleague and fit and perfect at all skills that a company is obliged to hire someone.

This be the same Broadcom that wouldn't provide Linux drivers forever for laptops and such in the early-to-mid 2000s?

Don't know much about their management style and I'm pro-hybrid/work-from-home for jobs that can be done as such but their holding back drivers just as wifi was becoming pervasive seemed pretty low to many if I remember correctly.

This is a positive step by Google and a real positive for local journalism and journalism jobs.

Wish Google would give us a button with the option to do this in the domains.google.com listing.

What a disgusting cabin crew and flight crew. The women should get attorneys and take the airline to court. How is there no response by the airline? Passengers flying Air Canada need to know which pilot found it so trivial and easy to threaten passengers who didn't want to fly in vomit-covered seats.

All the passengers on that flight who were subject to that disgusting flying environment should be refunded their tickets.

Typical Air Canada level of service and yet they have the most expensive tickets flying in/out of Canadian airports. Not to mention their workers striking every other year.

Not sure the popularity measure is an accurate measure since the two apps are default apps bundled with the respective products.

Various bodies that track worldwide congestion/traffic show traffic trending upwards for years now. Of course not counting the CoVid year(s) but afterwards, it has been on an upwards trend. Even in "less developed" areas in the Caribbean, Latin America and Africa the trends are to greater congestion and the associated lost time, deaths, increased pollution and lower quality of life.

https://inrix.com/blog/2022-traffic-scorecard/

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/15/road-con...

https://www.itdp.org/2021/03/22/the-next-pandemic-surge-traf...

So after claiming the T-Mobile-Sprint merger would create jobs, it's going to result in a loss of about 11,000 jobs?

https://www.geekwire.com/2023/3-years-after-sprint-merger-t-...

Tipping at McDonald’s to ensure you get your fries and burger hot? What prevents the workers from slow-walking your orders if you're a regular and don't tip?

As for tipping in the Apple store, it's already a "hope I look like I have money and am worth their time" experience lol. So it'll be interesting to see if they use tips to acknowledge someone.

I've read a lot about Mr Musk's intelligence and many people commenting on those stories would often claim his intellect was media hype.

I never knew and obviously still don't but he's equating the environments needed to do things such as welding automobile frames with software and marketing and accounting? It's fairly obvious to even a third grader that the job environment and necessities for a cafeteria worker and a bookkeeper are quite different.