I think I'd just like it done on percentage of overall wealth handed to the government or charity each year.
Handy side effect would be that if Jeff wants to buy some influence for Amazon, he could do it by paying all his warehouse and delivery employees better.
Somebody needs to introduce some sort of buddy system for billionaires.
This would allow them to air their dumb opinions in private to normal people, where they could be gently mocked like the rest of us.
Currently there seems to be a dangerously quick pipeline for them between a thought passing through their minds, and millions being made aware. God help me if you all knew the things I've said over the years..
Death very much depends on the specific media and how you treated them. I've got loads of CDs from the 90s that are absolutely fine. I've also got ones I've burnt in the late 90s, which have completely delaminated into a clear disk and and a piece of foil.
I don't think I've had any pressed discs that have rotted.. but only time will tell (I suspect Laserdiscs were fine, until they weren't).
You can pick up archival BR disks though, if you're concerned about longevity. This is what you're concerned about, right?
I was wondering why he got so many voting shares in SpaceX. Then worked out it was just enough to get overall control of a combined company (assuming SpaceX remains at or above IPO valuation and Tesla stays under his beloved 420).
Suspect it also means all pumping from now on out will be Space X, whilst Tesla will be "less bullish" than normal.
Whilst he owns a lot of Tesla, he doesn't have majority control - and has to get shareholders to vote on stuff like "Whether Elon should be given ridiculous bonus packages" and similar.
He's previously said both that he wants a single company and that he needs complete control of it.
Merge of companies at values I mentioned wouldn't give him over 50% ownership, but gives 51% of the votes
(Although I'd suggest you check my maths, people on the internet are sometimes wrong..)
I've also ignored the Tesla bonus plan - as it could be argued (and I'm sure it will be), that if it's Tesla that consumes SpaceX, then he's increased the market cap of Tesla. This then triggers new Tesla shares to be minted and given to him (last bonus plan), which both moves both more cash and voting out of the hands of the public into his.
Some might suggest this sounds like outright fraud - but his little fans will undoubtedly cheer this all through again..
It wasn't a bug. Please, just say it. Give me closure. It'll be good for your karma.
The adverts have been running all month and the 1* reviews on the app store and your forums would have made you aware of this 'defect'. Forum responses were initially to tell us to upgrade - and then they went silent. I presume you had some internal meetings.
The Verge story came out on the 24th, and on the 25th suddenly the adverts vanished (on both beta and production channels simultaneously). Imagine me raising my eyebrow.
Unlike some of my fellow previously-paid users, I'd said I was OK with paying you more money. The app's lasted longer than most, I've used it nearly every day, and I want to make sure the maintainers get paid and you can keep the lights on.
I think it's still the only app where I've raised a ticket to ask how to donate more money.
What's sent us all the the barricades though, is the tone-deaf way this was done - and it's continuing to happen. The adverts are gone, but I'm not feeling happy. This feels like remission at best. I'm suspecting you're not feeling deliriously cheerful over what the last month has achieved either.
My constructive thoughts are:
1) £40 is too much to pay each year for a podcast app. Nothing will work at this price.
Look at Antennapod and justify anything you're charging for - it's what any your new users will be doing.
2) For people who paid to turn off the adverts forever, they need to have a way to have their adverts turned off turned off - so they'll need to be differentiated from the new users.
3) This doesn't mean I (and I assume others) don't want to pay you money though. Give me a way. Maybe every month, or 1000 minutes of playback just pop-up a "I hope your enjoying us, have you got a spare $10" message"? And if I click the little X, that message should instantly vanish/snooze.
Annoyingly, this might have worked better before you'd torched the goodwill.
What the article seems to miss is that for every delusional high-performer who's about to be short-changed on reward and recognition, there's an order-of-magnitude more potential high-performers who aware of the lack of reward and recognition, are having a nice relaxing life. Possibly knocking out their work in a couple of hours in the morning and spending the afternoon studying micro-biology to perfect their sourdough pizza crust.
i.e. retaining your 10x superstar is important, but are the rest of the team really only capable of 1x? Really? What's the benefit to them of giving 2x?
There seems to be some myth that everybody gives every ounce of their potential, out of the goodness of their heart as an employee. I think the reality is that most of us do whatever the role requires, plus anything we happen to enjoy/fixing frustrations.
You also have the effect where the perception of being a 'high performer' might be gamed.
E.g. it might be rather trivial to churn out code and be perceived like a high performer, but you are essentially just creating alot more job for everyone else and drag them down.
Also, it is easy to do so much stuff that you will be blocked and waiting on other, who seem slow etc.
Unless the manager is working along side you he likely wont notice. And these points also happen automatically by itself. But I guess adversial collegues use the concept to game the workplace.
I suspect the easiest thing would be a "return to base and shutdown" button that the Secret Service could trigger at short notice - would cause problems for everything wanting to use a Waymo, but I suspect the SS are quite OK with causing disruption already.
Sounds like fake movie spy shit to me. It turns out, the Secret Service is an organization of humans with ordinary lives and a relatively modest budget.
Handy side effect would be that if Jeff wants to buy some influence for Amazon, he could do it by paying all his warehouse and delivery employees better.