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World makes complete sense. Its just ran by properly fucked up sociopaths who can't ever reach happiness so they hyperfocus on competitive zero sum games with short ego boosts and with no regard for anybody else, future of their kids or anything larger. They think their legacy like that is something that will be admired for generations because they got a lot of money and who cares how they got it, right.

Most will end up in deep regrets, ie how jobs regretted being an asocial dick and all above to his own family before dying (thats the better outcome, many simply see them as stars of their show till last moments, like potus for example). Its not some secret cabal, these people if smart naturally bubble to top of social and financial hierarchies.

It used to be much less visible, some sort of on-surface decency momentum and shit behind the curtains, now everything is out in the open for whole civilization to see instantly and its pretty tiring and nauseating.

If you don't get it its fine, it means you are a normal human being, probably well balanced. Folks like that abhor such people personally, be it c-suites of corporations or politicians or just a pos colleague.

As mentioned elsewhere here the damage is cumulative and started in their youth

Gotta stick to the crowd at all costs, its so uncomfortable outside of it right

I presume codebase is for something critical to your company. To give full keys to the company to unproven foreign entity and lose control of codebase for good... a fireable offense to say the least

Like it or not, thats plain whatabouttism you are doing, on top of false equivalency.

As an European I care much more about somebody trying to properly enslave me and all my kids eternally while taking away even the means to feed them, compared to not allowing me to criticize their leadership. Also, criticizing trump means if I ever made the wrong decision to travel to US, I can expect a lot of bad things on the border, also thanks to posts highly critical to current US government I am making here so your argument is invalid also in that regard.

If thats same for you, well... we have different values to say politely. I've grown up 'enslaved' by soviets behind iron curtain (when you cannot travel, study and are forbidden to have a decent life, when speaking up your whle family is punished, and getting murdered if trying to escape elsewhere, thats pretty close to traditional slavery) so I have a bit different viewpoint on these matters.

Are you actually from former Czechoslovakia? Because I've lived there during those years and it wasn't as much student-led, just generally young people-led. Some of them were students, many were not. Of course CIA had its share of working but that is to be expected, literally their primary mission.

The only reason it wasn't ended quickly by army in bloodshed (and army leaders all declared that they stand fully behind government and tanks were ready) was that ruling party politicians at power were not hardcore fanatics and understood it would be often fathers fighting against sons, or childhood friends against each other... civil war. It was allowed to happen from above, however non-romantic this reality is. It was also happening in times when iron curtain was visibly falling apart all around including Soviet union, 5 years before it would be crushed like nothing.

Its fine to have romantic view on the world, but for better understanding of the actual world out there and humans living in it, where we come from and where we go this isn't very helpful.

And if you don't like somebody, punch them or worse... no flame wars in forums when you can use flamethrower

How do you even want to measure it up. Wide hacks spread the harm across many targets, say land registry in your country gets hacked and all DBs are wiped out. Now there is no official proof you own the house you live in.

How do you even want to calculate costs. Should you be even calculating costs when real damage is also a lot of misery, some heart attacks and 50k people lose 1 year of their life due to massive stress for example.

Imagine the PR when you are the only / one of few vendors who are still up, while rest is in shithole. That has its weight too, in certain situations at least.

It will start working when majority of folks here on HN will stop being so uncritical to apple and consider this very topic in way you suggest, ie by yearly independent public audit of whole trail related to security. Not the most important topic probably but a great litmus paper for crowd thinking.

Far from only such company but the pass apple gets probably the biggest globally, its so emotional and thus I cannot take it seriously.

Still waiting for that glorious day.

It completely depends what you want from system and how efficient it will be. Want social protections dialed to 11 (like even small government bureaucrats getting golden parachutes worth 1-2 years of their salary while being otherwise practically un-fireable, regardless if they are actually needed... in fact most perm folks are extremely hard to let go). Or you want strong economic prosperity. Cannot have both, the best mix is Switzerland but French will die sooner to the last person before they would admit somebody did state and laws things better than them and that they should maybe get inspired a bit.

What french public conveniently fails to grasp and loses 100% of my support is the naive expectation that in struggling economy they should be rich, while having social system actually dialed to 12 since that 11 is never enough for them. And have 0 doubt, all the protesters now and also before are at the end after money. Money will magically appear in government budget and in all salaries, prices of petrol/diesel will be magically ultra low regardless of yet another failed war being waged by US causing massive rise in prices globally. If one doesn't travel around the world and just lives there it may feel like a normal default system, but given reality of the world out there its anything but.

Lets talk like adults what is achievable or not and manage expectations accordingly. Not very french way, is it. I predict it will get much worse in France before there is chance to get things better again, and how much depends on their ultra comfy, some would even say spoiled population.

Some of.the biggest ones woild float on water... which tells you its not very useful to compare density based on Schwarzschild radius

Yes but it removes some groups of otherwise-investors, meaning there is less interest in stocks, which pushes them up less, if not down

You get that treated with new car like any other owner in such environment. Or is your whole car rusted through?

No its pretty bad and shallow, more money in the worse it is.

But if you dont know any better I guess its fine

What an episode. Are we in a variant of this? Sometimes I feel like humans would deserve it, sometimes there is some light

Seems like you are constructing a very specific situation that should mark some sort of regime change to dictatorship. The reality is, complex things have their own momentum and US society is a big thing.

Btw I've lived in one of those regimes. Yes people often privately expressed their stark opinions against the system, sometimes in more vague forms also publicly. There is infinite amount of gray between those 2 extremes, and US is already somewhere there moving darker a bit each day.

A sad perspective, maybe rooted in good set of experiences, but it reeks of being sour, closed in injured person who is potentially not so mature emotionally. Good relationships take serious effort to create and sustain, approach of 'I don't need any of this' won't get you far with any decent folks. Maybe you overload the term 'friend' a bit.

I hope being wrong for your sake, but I've met such folks, brilliant in 1 very narrow direction but socials are lacking pretty badly.

Just 1 nitpick - women who care about you suddenly once you have some wealth and/or show off you have are not good partners, not even short term. Its obvious common knowledge yet when looking around its surprisingly often ignored.

Parent's claim are as old as human civilization, we are still just a bit better apes and what he wrote is still valid for 100% of the humans. It doesn't mean 100% will admit it, far from it.

Maybe, maybe not. For sure the time and energy spent getting it all, and then realizing you didn't enjoy life as much as you could just to acquire it is the real killer.

Nobody is arguing against just getting more money (well it gets philosophical at least) but how much you lose of your most precious item you have in this world to attain it and if its worth it.

Or to put it in other way, just check by far the biggest regret of many dying people. If you think you can behave the same but somehow avoid ending up in same situation well... good luck I guess, you'll need it.

The only folks demonizing China are clueless US 'patriots' and I can see it only here on HN since nobody in the world really consumes US news. Rest of the world is already seeing it as better option to US in many ways, but warry of not destroying domestic companies by cheap imports.

What I see from outside is complete full reversal of US and China and their roles in the world regarding politics and security. US has nothing to offer to anybody - backstabbing, frequent changes of policies on morning whims of an old sick man, or very direct economical attacks to closest former allies and threats of military attacks. Plus completely destabilizing global oil transport, massively increasing prices and helping trigger a global recession.

Only an absolute fool would think US has anything positive to offer. In such world, China is by far the least of the evil, role traditionally held by US but not anymore.

Maga logic, as typical as it can get right.

One suggestion - don't travel much around the world and certainly avoid backpacking and interacting with locals and understanding things like history or culture, you may eventually lose those... beautiful opinions of yours

There ain't nobody 'looking up' to US these days, where does this fairy tale idea come from? People around the world are not dumb, whole world is completely fed up to the brim with direct and indirect attacks from US in past 2 years, sowing chaos, conflict and death. We just wan to be left alone, and thats it. Not something US can do but one can always dream right.

There are many places which are more democratic and free than US ever was, its not a secret information but you won't hear about it in latest hollywood flick or fox/cnn. One only needs to travel a bit outside US bubble with open mind.

US system of 2 parties is pretty dumb if you think about it, artificial in pretty bad ways and not really transferable elsewhere. Constitution and laws which are less than toilet paper when power is taken by sufficiently motivated bad actor, 0 working checks and balances. It could have been worse of course if thats how we want to rank it, but we are not even in the half of it and something tells me we haven't seen the worst of it yet.

Depends on the business. You cannot have a bar or restaurant behaving like that with some racist/xenophobic/whatever shit like that, you would get your license revoked rather quickly.

Not sure if airliners are regulated like that, but 'free business' is not anarchy by any means, unlike you suggest.

Sounds like if one desperately wants some sort of excuse, this can be shoehorned to anything and everything. Exactly what 3 letter agencies would say to keep doing whatever nasty dirty unlawful and unconstitutional things they are doing on whims of current set of people in power.

Its still pretty lame and shows vast incompetence on all levels. Maybe I am a bit naive but correct solution is to tackle underlying problems, not just give up because thats what you basically suggest.

Or about 33 wash machines or half of a (US) football field

Its private companies and not state per se, often spawned from young folks going through mandatory military service serving in NSA-like places like Unit 8200, and then continuing their trajectory either locally or in palantirs/faangs.

I don't think morals and ethics are drilled too deep into those recruits, more like 'the end justifies the means' style of operation.

Wealth redistribution doesn't have to be 50% tax rate for billionaires for their current wealth you know.

If can be just factually and morally correct step of taxing given company for income from given country and thats almost it. Maybe close few biggest loopholes how to hide income while having massive revenues. None of the faangs operate like that, with such move their revenues and stock prices would fall down since part of valuation is based on continuing this tax scam/fraud.

This would spawn few hundred billions globally to start with. Of course tech bros et al would launch some massive PR counter-campaign also here, thats all fine and expected.

Will it solve everything? No but will set a better path for future while helping also right now massively. If you have kids and cared even a little what world they will inherit from us, this is how you build its foundations. Not hoarding money at all costs and fuck the rest since everybody relies on rest for existence and thriving.

> The alternative is a dystopia beyond Orwellian.

And this is where we go full speed, and if anybody voices concern there is 'think about children!' for 'em or just laugh them off as luddites. If you ever wanted to move social layers, yesterday was too late.

But imagine the control - how desperate folks will be for some pocket money if half of population is unemployable. So much control! So many cheap gardeners / sex slaves to choose from! You would have to work outside openai / anthropic to refuse that, for sure you will be one of few on top of the pile, not some trash within it right.

Time to rewatch V for Vendetta and Gattaca.

I hate to be that guy but this reads like llm-generated blah even to passing tourist. Maybe not enough !!! but otherwise ticks the boxes

These systems seem unbeatable but thats just an illusion. Either market forces will make it so unattainable that people will simply revolt due to frequently dying from stuff thats curable in Haiti, some saner politician in style of Kennedy will come and make change (with very high risk of getting killed but that risk is there in all cases, see mr trump) or some other massive shock will happen. System in US is so twisted and unfair where 99% lose, sometimes in very life-destroying manners.

Shocks do come, nothing is static. One may end up bankrupt earlier than correction happens though. Vote with your feet if you want change earlier than it coming from the top.