So goblins killed the nerd.

SE jobs is a fairly huge umbrella. RF engineer is a specialization within EE, same way firmware devs are a fraction of SE.

Quite so. There's literally no moat that can withstand a prospect of 10x cost cut.

On the timescale it's like getting buried today with a copy of Beowulf.

I disagree, the brainrot is about the same across generations. People have a slight bias to reporting their generation as being more resistant though.

You gotta start somewhere.

If you can iterate quickly, sure, but that’s something governments famously don’t do well. It’ll take five years to assess the results and another five years to change them.

100% agree. The 2007 smoking ban in the UK totally transformed the landscape here, and yes people could still go home and smoke or whatever, but that ban has made a huge and significant change to health and thinking about smoking over the last 20 years. We need to do the same with social media and recognise that it's likely to be seen as toxic as smoking in a few years time - if not already.

Yes, the effect of prohibition was enormous. Same with America's War on Drugs, that had a massive impact.

Probably not the impact you're implying though.

Legislation and law is not the place to just throw shit at the wall and see what sticks.

Social media had been with us for the better part of two decades. It doesn't exactly feel rushed.

Pretty sure Count 1 through 5 above cover insider trading by administration officials too.

I think 3 and 4 are frauds on others in the prediction market agreement. As in, it’s fraud against the terms of the market.

And what I am saying is that the same articles of prosecution as in the soldier's case are applicable for their case too. Not going after them is a choice.

IANAL but what you state seems to literally fall under the STOCK Act of 2012. It is one kind of insider trading.

There was a widespread belief that U.S. government has an elaborate system of checks and balances but it was not evidence-based. Kind of Flat Earth period of American political science.

The checks and balance are between the 3 branches of government. If congress wanted to stop the war, they could. If the supreme court wanted to hand the power to start wars back to congress they could.

Just because they don't, doesn't mean they aren't able. The real flat earth theory is thinking that unwritten rules and institutions were protected from a president that insists on pulling every lever of power at once, but that's separate from the checks and balances.

If one person in executive position is able to effectively override the nation's rules and institutions it sounds awfully close to saying there are no checks and balances.

Same. Using my MacBook 12" of Theseus still at home. It's a fantastic machine for travel or field work if configured to 16GB. That 1" down from Air makes a huge difference on a seat tray.

Samsung Galaxy Note 7 was a great phone as long as it didn’t spontaneously combust.

These keyboards did not pose safety risk and were nicer to type than whatever the normal mushy Apple stuff is.

Mine lasted 6 years of daily use.

Good for you and I bet Apple had similar thoughts when they were introducing them.