There should be a tariff to equalize environmental and human rights differences between the US and other countries.

If they want to sell to our citizens, then they have to protect their citizens like we protect ours.

No environmental laws? +10% tariff
No 2nd Amendment? +20% tariff
No worker protections? +20% tariff

"They also said there will be a limited number of teams that can work remotely or on a hybrid basis if their "work can be easily and clearly measured.""

This is actually a horrifying admission that JPM cannot measure the work of virtually all their employees.

OKRs aren't hard, people.

I run a remote team of 122. Work from the moon, I don't care. We pay $400k-$500k TC and one of our employees lives on the beach in Portugal with a house they bought for $40k.

But the flipside of OKR management not being political is that it's pitiless. Miss an OKR and you're fired.

I would be using this opportunity to try and poach JPM people, but I don't interview them anymore as none of them can pass our tech interviews.

BM was boring and corporate even back in 2004. Full of stuffy aging anti-fun hippies

Culture has moved on. BM is irrelevant and over.

The real revolutionary counterculture is now churchgoing Republican families with 6 kids.

...I'm not ok having to live in a crime ridden city that hates cops, punishes anyone that fights back against criminals, makes guns illegal, and has literal human shit on the sidewalk from the oceans of homeless junkies that wash up on its shores.

I'm not ok with the schools in said city calling my kids racist oppressors in school because of their skin color.

DEI and DIE

Correct answer, especially about the bribes.

A friend was doing a $5M home build in San Francisco and the permits, fees, and bribes were easily $350k before two boards were ever nailed together.

He wound up paying the bribes to get the city to "expedite" their review process.

"...all polls released to the public are for the purpose of manipulating, rather than informing, the public."

It does work, but doesn't scale. Every instance of transistors/memristors has slightly different thresholds and must be individually trained on a chip by chip basis just like human children. Also they are really sensitive to EMI and power supply fluctuations. Digital is much more robust to device nonidealities.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eetimes.com%2Fresear...

“If you try to do back propagation in analog, you get this effect where the forward activations and backwards activations from the two separate [data] paths errors due to device mismatch and non-idealities tend to accumulate as you back-propagate through the network. If you look at implementations of backpropagation in analog, they perform very poorly for this reason.”

This is the FAA is just holding out their hands for additional bribes/fees. I used to operate in this space.

Not all bribes are monetary; for most government officials, all they want is you to kowtow before them so they feel powerful.

I was the one assigned to take people from FDA out to dinner/resorts and butter them up with how wonderful and powerful and all-knowing they must be, and how lucky the US people are to have them protecting us unwashed peasants. Our medical device was approved the following week after months of stonewalling.

Apparently one of our engineers had (justifiably) called one of their senior examiners an idiot on a phone call and he was holding up our approval out of pure spite. He was demanding we fire the engineer who called him out in order to get approval, and we had to go over HIS head to his management with a hat in hand apology from the engineer.

Fuck all US government agencies.

I have been in the room when it was asked by our CEO "What additional regulations can we propose that will create enough paperwork so our competitors have to leave this line of business?"

Working groups were formed and it was determined that a combination of reporting and auditing requirements would create enough work that a competitor would have to hire another 14 people and we could absorb that easily.

CEO appears before the relevant government committee wringing his hands about "safety" and the regulation is adopted.

Competitor left that line of business a year later. We doubled our prices. I got a bonus.

Indeed, if we really want to be consistent, we should look at other erotic practices that are considered protected speech, like dance.

In order to be consistent, shouldn't we remove the age limits for strip clubs? Erotic dance is clearly protected speech.

At some point we will have to resolve the inconsistency between the fact that going and buying physical girlie magazines requires ID, and logging onto xxx.com does not.

If we were to be consistent, we should remove the age limits on purchasing or consuming physical porn, as both violate the 1st Amendment.

Don't get me wrong, porn is useful and good to keep males docile and happy, it's been used that way since the beginning of time. All I'm advocating for is consistency.

:P

" for clearly key people who aren't coming in, they get to convert to a "remote" employee, and remote employees are explicitly exempted from the metrics."

Correct. I work for a Silicon Valley company and got a special exemption to the RTO policy at the VP level, and I immediately pulled up stakes and went to work from a 95 acre ranch in Wyoming.

Being permanent remote is being used by every company in the Valley as a perk to retain their best employees.

AR15/AR10 rifles are not like other rifles; despite being designed in the 50s when you look at the design it is almost like it was designed to be 3d printed

Which really it was, as it was meant to be built from aluminum, the cheap 3d printer like material of the day

The reason is that the receiver (the controlled part from the BATFU's perspective) bears almost zero force whatsoever during the firing cycle; all the force of bolt unlock and recoil is constrained to the bolt carrier group and the upper. You could practically make the receiver from balsa wood and it would work.

Comparing this to an HK or FAL pattern rifle, the controlled part of the receiver bears significant force during the firing cycle.