My employer has never allowed remote work and likely never will. They have private offices for all developers and insist on the unmeasurable value of in person work.

I don't love it, but I at least respect they are upfront about it and are consistent vs flip flopping and impacting people's lives unexpectedly.

How and why?

Unnecessary, this administration destroys R&D funding on its own.

They do not know what R and D is, let alone what is does. One guy bankrupted a casino and saluted a North Korean General, and the other tried to impregnate a couch

The BBB actually has great tax rebates for R&D.

Memecoins as art? I count myself fortunate to have not been subjected to that line of thought until now.

Yes, Also petition to just call memecoins ponzi scheme or scamcoins to not even ever let people think that its worth putting 1 cent of money on.

Scamcoins are comparable to disease or even cancer. Theoretically every scam is.

This does not scale. If you have eccentric sure it's fine. If you have millions it degrades the experience and is impossible to moderate.

In my experience, there has been a widespread decline in how customers treat service personnel.

There is just a widespread kindness gap in our society.

Quite right, I'm sure. But the part that I'm more interested about is why it feels like the floor got so much lower? I don't know that the average interaction in public (in any context, not just flying) is any or substantially worse, but it seems like the variation to the downside got more extreme.

It's a big tent, good luck getting agreement on what football we should be kicking.

It's hard to be safe when you are snatching random people off the street without identifying as law enforcement. Especially in a country this armed.

The USA 2A group is surprisingly quiet with all the tyranny happening.

What tyranny?

Why should criminals who flee law enforcement feel safe? They broke the country's laws. Trespassed the borders of a country! Doesn't matter what nice people some of them are. It's called crime. There's a big gate for entering the country legally for anyone who wants to feel safe.

Those problems might be more tractable if all of our best and brightest were working on them.

>>> People are starving to death and the world's brightest engineers are ...

>> This is a political will, empathy, and leadership problem. Not an engineering problem.

> Those problems might be more tractable if all of our best and brightest were working on them.

The ability to produce enough food for those in need already exists, so that problem is theoretically solved. Granted, logistics engineering[0] is a real thing and would benefit from "our best and brightest."

What is lacking most recently, based on empirical observation, is a commitment to benefiting those in need without expectation of remuneration. Or, in other words, empathetic acts of kindness.

Which is a "people problem" (a.k.a. the trio I previously identified).

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistics_engineering

He could, but he's more focused on decreasing vaccine usage.