I got laid off at a previous job and they asked me to stay on six months to train my replacement(s) and finish my project(s). In return I'd get my normal severance and a significant bonus for staying the whole time. I did so and worked hard for the entire time. A few months later I got lunch with my former manager and they informed me they would have absolutely coasted the entire time. In hindsight, I'm not sure why I put the effort in. Live and learn, I guess.

Well, I, for one, am shocked.

The people who would, shouldn't. The people who should, won't.

There's an old SF short where one of the people who won't gets forced to. Battery of psychological tests followed by "you're one of the rulers now, and you're going to hate every minute of it, but we enslave you so the rest of us have a peaceful, prosperous planet."

Wish I could remember the name/author.

Isaac Asimov had a story where one voter was selected by Multivac to pick the leader of the world.

Thanks. Franchise. Not that one...

This is the dirty secret about any health study that can be impacted by socioeconomic status: if it can be impacted, it is. More money, fewer problems. 99% of the time.

I’m regular commenter with an old (er) account. Flighty is an 11/10 experience.

Also let’s not forget that Google’s app store fees are also 30%

I believe the term is democratization?

You’re telling me that salesforce CAN’T actually solve every problem in the world more simply and efficiently than just building a tool to fit the job??

The software industry has just abstracted every problem to the point of being unable to solve anything.

DNA/biometrics are the only secure future!

I joke, but there are those out there who don’t.

> A jury form given to jurors asks the panel to decide whether Meta or YouTube should have known their services posed a danger to children or if they were negligent in design.

From the evidence I’ve seen Meta especially seems like they were not only negligent but malicious with regard to their users in their design decisions.