I see no downside for legitimate trading to run everything on a fixed once a second, or heck once a minute clock. Everyone places their trades for a given window, then everything gets settled in time for the next window. High frequency traders are providing net negative value to everyone around them, just simplify it all.

If you talk to intel and former intel employees I'd argue the real rot is the dog-eat-dog internal company culture. I've heard from multiple people who describe an environment where you need to work for the biggest A-hole boss, since otherwise your group will get no resources, get canned, or otherwise perish. The teams compete instead of cooperate, and in a ruthless underhanded way.

The result is that projects get essentially sabotaged from within, as this is often more effective a strategy to survive than out engineering a competing team.

The fab has traditionally been focused on CPU's to the exclusion of all else. Completing a tape-out without deep internal knowledge and connections is essentially impossible. In one case OSU's engineering department was given a free tapeout run, which normally is a godsend to cash strapped universities. It was impossible to get a clean DRC taking months of fruitless effort by the beleaguered grad students, and a favor was called in from a friend who worked in layout there. It shipped with literally thousands of violations, but he was versed in what was real and what could be ignored. Compared to tapeouts at GF and TSMC this was all shocking.

So you have a company that has had diseased culture with broken tools/fabrication that previously masked these issues with monopoly level income flows now facing declining sales, real competition, shifting customer focus, and no real stomach to fixed a deeply entrenched toxic culture. What could go wrong?

I enjoyed going to the theater. You experienced and event, blocking out the outside world, usually sharing it with certain people.

Home viewing has improved, but you still have the dog interrupt, spouses pause things, and often viewing gets split across 2-3 nights. The committment is low for better and worse.

Theater viewing has largely gone down hill. The recliner seats are improved, but fellow patrons are so much worse. Full brightness phones, rude behavior, late arrivals all seem more common than 20+ years back. Prices are obnoxious with minimal matinee discount, and I absolutely despise and feel insulted by "convenience fees". With reserved seats and insulting pricing, I will only go if I can get good seats.

A rare treat was to see Goonies in the theater for their 40th anniversary at the local kids tech museum (OMSI here in "war torn" Portland). Tickets for something like $8 a head, open seating, and a very well behaved audience. I didn't miss recliner seats and really felt something was gained over watching at home.

Do layoffs, no H1B eligibility for 12 months.

Overworked parents turning to phones as babysitters combined with a nihlist mindset that hard work no longer pays off, and “why bother since the planet is on fire?”. So you have underprepared kids who don’t see the point flooding schools staffed by underpaid and frazzled teachers. Just a few kids that are way below grade level and not caring drags down the entire class. Various factors have also kept kids from being failed, so they get punted to the next grade to continue dragging everyone else down with them.

If everyone was after you, you’d be paranoid too.

So faked ads selling counterfeit products. Can’t wait

We've gone to the movies a few times in the last year, and I mostly hated it. Ads go on for 15-20 minutes after the listed start time, then you get a bunch of trailers for another 10 minutes that are so spoiler heavy that they ruin any desire to see those movies. So by time the movie even comes on I am out of both snacks AND patience.

Given the shrunken audience I am guessing this is all a desperate money grab to make up for the tiny audiences, but it is resulting in a death spiral where their few remaining patrons are being turned off.

I need AI generated 3D NFT’s to watch on my 3D TV and in my VR goggles that are certainly getting a killer app any day now.

NFT Lemonade

I believe kids are also showing up to school already behind, and not by just a little. Our kid went to a Title 1 elementary school where you have a lot of parents working multiple jobs and the kids were raised with the iPhone as the babysitter. Some of the tales from incoming Kindergarten classes were horrid and trending downhill as he finished there. We are talking kids showing up that were barely verbal and just screamed a good part of the day, one step away from being feral. Many studies have shown that those early few years are absolutely some of the most formative and trying to teach a kid to read, write, or do math when the simple concept of a "book" and how it works is foreign to them is just a losing battle even if we actually funded our schools well.

I don't know what answer is, but we have a terrible situation where a lot of working class families simply cannot work enough hours to pay the bills AND actually care for their kids at the level needed for them to be successful at school. Free daycare and an actual living wage would help a great deal, but blaming laptops is just the tip of the iceberg of the problems families living on below median incomes are facing in raising their kids.

100% agree. How about we address the Visa Mastercard Duopoly that keeps swipe fees so high? We all effectively pay a 3% monopoly tax on every transaction that does not get any attention.

Indeed, many aspects of work have just gotten slowly and steadily worse. The amount of technology noise is wearying, dozens of different portals to log into a few times a year. No offense to the WFH crowd, but mixed in-person with remote meetings just exhaust me. Being in an office when half the people around you are on a conference call from their cubes is maddening if like me you don’t really want to live inside your noise canceling headphones. All the administrivia what used to be handled by an admin is a chore shoved back onto the worker bees, usually in the form of so e portal you flail around with a few times a year after work travel or for minor reimbursement.

Monitoring has so far not hit me, but constant paranoia has got to be exhausting. Hard to be creative and do deep work with HAL constantly staring over your shoulder.

NY Post is propaganda and rage bait, not proper journalism. I would not trust them as a source, full stop.

He just believes he is more equal than the rest of us.