ohh, the old trick of talking trash about a company in the mass media when you know an operation is in the works that will raise the stock, so you make the stock go down, you buy it, the operation is announced, you sell and profit.
I have been hearing in the last week a lot of "Intel is doomed" and I wondered why. Now I Know.
ACE 0, happy childhood, very problematic puberty and adolescence. I was bullied.
Much later in life I discovered I was what is called a Sigma male and everything made sense.
I created my own company but was poor for a while(but very happy to do what I wanted). People probably felt sorry for me but I did not care about their opinions.
>What is it that makes management so bearish towards remote?
You will be surprised how many people that became rich with startups have invested in real state. A lot of those investments are tanking now because of WFH, so they have something personal against it.
>When Microsoft "lost the mobile war" everybody was in the office still, no?
Microsoft lost both "the Internet" and "mobile" because they just could not understand it, like IBM could not understand a world with a computer in every desktop. It is a normal thing when your culture gives you success, the world changes, your culture remains the same.
Other companies appear that understand it and they win. If Google does not adpat, others will.
This is absolutely ridiculous statement. I have been invited to Google HQ several times. There is an entire culture there that is to blame, working from home is the smallest of the problems.
I would say risk aversion is the biggest problem by far. Google culture is also radically woke. Google is made by PhDs that always wanted to isolate from the world, they had always very weak customer support, everything was automated and had no contact with the customer so they ended isolated from the needs of your customers and lived in their own world.
On one side you see super brilliant people there. On the other you see total disconnection with the needs of the people because they were isolated on purpose.
Google was designed so people could almost live on campus, most of the time. So you could have 30, or 40 year old adults that are actually like children, not taking responsibility for their lives, isolated from the world most people live. How are you supposed to improve the world when you do not have incentives to improve it because you are not feeling the pain?
Your world is totally different from most people's.
This was obvious to me as an outsider. It is difficult to se culture from inside as you get used to it.
The old generation never understands. Science improves one funeral at a time.
I have worked remotely most of my life. We can work harder than anyone else precisely because we do not need to spend one/two hours a day commuting. We can focus without distraction for hours, control our working environment and do the deepest work.
But like anything else, you need to learn how to do it right and it will take decades before traditional companies learn how to do it.
>I can almost guarantee this is about commercial real estate taxes more than productivity.
As simple as that. I was looking at the numbers of one of our partners that has gone bankrupt in Europe. He made the brilliant decision to invest everything in Office space just before Covid. They expected to recover money after Covid, but it is not happening.
A lot of big guys invested there, specially politicians, and of course expensive taxes. They will do everything they can to delay the sinking.
Doesn't make sense at all to have 30 something people with cancer, but we see more and more, although the treatment improves.
My personal opinion is mandated flame retardants in foams, mattresses and cushions and other plastics. Smokers die less from fire but everybody else breath poison.
Young people have always had cancer at some rate, which is why anecdotes here are not particularly indicative. However rare and tragic, it's not unheard of.
That said, the pop media (of which Scientific American is part) routinely conflates rates of diagnosis with rates of late-stage cancer, even though they're very different, and there's a discrepancy between them. I don't know about colon cancer in particular, but I know that it's been a long-term trend in many different cancers -- for example (iirc) skin cancer -- that people are getting diagnosed far more often, but death rates due to the illness are essentially constant.
This tells you either that we're getting worse at treating what we diagnose, or more plausibly, that we're not detecting things that would lead to death.
Why not microplastics, fine particle pollution, noise (urban living around lots of cars and/or heavy industry), mental stress, lack of sleep, lack of healthy connections, lack of time outdoors and healthy exercise, and similar things?
Seems weird to me to pick one arbitrary class of chemicals when all of the things I listed have been worsening.
> microplastics, fine particle pollution, noise [..], mental stress, lack of sleep, lack of healthy connections
[..] pesticides, GMOs, the flood of chemicals approved for everyday use, ranging from "soaps" to perfumes, to indoor "purifiers" etc, ultra-processed foods, and the list goes on.
So everybody needs to be miserable as if you are not miserable the rest of miserable people will look at you and say: That's not fair!! I am miserable so you must be miserable too!
Of all the "arguments" used by hired Public Relations companies hired to spin "work from home" in a bad light, this is the most stupid argument I have ever heard.
This makes me uncomfortable as probably because of that it could be the most successful.
The article doesn’t recommend forcing more people to come into the office, so your comment reflects experiences outside of this article, not what they’re saying.
> So everybody needs to be miserable as if you are not miserable the rest of miserable people will look at you and say: That's not fair!! I am miserable so you must be miserable too!
This argument gets used a lot in politics, whenever a situation is to be improved people claim "but we suffered, that's not fair!!!".
Personally, I know this from fellow second-generation migrants here in Germany that are opposed to how "easy" refugees have it - their claim is that they had to fight German bureaucracy for years until they were allowed to work and whatnot. Which is valid, yes, but they seem to be unaware that times have changed.
Crab mentality is dangerous. It seems like a lot of people would rather pull others down to where they are than allow everyone to be lifted up to somewhere better.
The issue seems to be that many people don't consider their situation in absolute terms, but tend to look at how others have it.
An interesting book on the subject is Envy: A Theory of Social Behavior (original German title: Der Neid: Eine Theorie der Gesellschaft) by Helmut Schoeck.
That book is incredibly relevant to current trends. While envy in small societies spurred improvement, in today’s complex societies it breeds destructive tendencies, vast disparity in achievement makes envy less about motivation and more about resentment, fueling calls for collectivism and redistribution. The rise of Progressive politics might be less about fairness and more about an unaddressed, deep-seated envy. We know historically there are only destructive outcomes for policies rooted in such emotions, rather than constructive societal development.
Envy is who has a problem with Inequality.
Charity is who has a problem with poverty.
Easiest way to reduce inequality is kneecap those at the top and share the lucre with your downtrodden political allies.
Easiest way to help poverty is teaching a man to fish after giving him a couple fish so he doesn't need to worry about starvation during class.
That's the idea anyway (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_mentality) but honestly I haven't observed nearly enough crabs in buckets to say with confidence that it's typical for the species. It's entirely possible that a few asshole crabs have given them all a bad reputation and that I'm just perpetuating an unfair stereotype.
If I get the chance to get to know more bucket crabs I'm perfectly willing to change my view of them if turns out that they're largely cooperative and helpful.
They called the Chinese to help with their experience like 6 months after the start of the war as they realised some young people could access news outside the official channels.
They have been testing it since then.
In China once their AI systems or whatever decides that you are using a VPN you will be punished by increasingly blocking your Internet for more and more time.
> In China once their AI systems or whatever decides that you are using a VPN you will be punished by increasingly blocking your Internet for more and more time.
This isn’t true. VPN use is widespread here, but I’ve never heard of anyone’s internet getting wholesale blocked because of it.
Yes, they are. There is a world of difference. In the West you normal people have so much power they do not even realise. You see that when you live outside it.
In the West there is a long History of institutions(like cities) that went against the abuses of the people in charge. You were a servant, you entered a city(burg) you became free, the city protected you. This happened for centuries. In China something like that happened at specific periods, but eventually the Emperor took all the power.
In China the Emperor or the Tzar in Russia could do anything. In Russia those that wanted freedom lost every single time. If a servant entered a city and the city did not deliver the fugitive, the Tzar will burn the city. The same happened with the Soviets. You want your own food? We will kill you all and send your children and wife to Siberia. Everybody else(not the Emperor) were servant. Now Xi or Putin are the new emperors, like Lenin, Stalin or Mao were.
I have lived in China as a privileged engineer/expatriate.
Basically most people have no idea what a country without rule of law(like China) is.
>If necessary anyone can be canceled.
Or you can cancel them. You consider yourself a victim, a nobody, but people can get public and get a million views and could do real damage to those in power.
you were also a privilege person in the West and oblivious to poorer people outside of larger cities as the people you saw in China being oblivious to poorer people living outside of larger cities. foreigners, no matter how privileged, hardly can live inside the safety bubbles you yourself lived in the west.
I have been hearing in the last week a lot of "Intel is doomed" and I wondered why. Now I Know.