They don't want his money, the want him destroyed. By allowing him to continue with his business, he could continually pay the families. Now, they won't be getting much of anything.
This is a great idea. In the US, it pretty much stopped the idea overnight that cops were beating people for no reason. Many activist groups now want to get rid of body cameras.
Finding clients is the single hardest thing you will do as a contractor. I've been contracting for 10 years and even now, I deal with clients ghosting me, projects falling through at the last minute, etc.
I just had a client that wanted to talk about a new project today. They never sent me a meeting link and ghosted me.
Applying to 1099 jobs is a good idea. it's a numbers game.
This is great, for the government. The average person that uses this will just let it fill in the boxes, without even trying to look for anything that might save them money.
After my first few jobs out of college (15 years ago), I realized I hate working from someone else's office. It feels so constrained and like I'm in school again. Remote work was very rare then with salaried jobs, but not as a contractor.
The company I'm working for now had an office pre-pandemic (I would meet with the director once/month), sold the one here locally during the pandemic, and got acquired by a large, international, company where the majority of the employees work remotely and the HQ is in Europe (I'm in the US).
The last time I had to go to an office was for a local contract a few years ago (80 miles away from me) that required me to drive-in once/week for a few hours. The project ended after a few months and I found something 100% remote.
I used to work from coworking spaces and sometimes the library, but now I have my own home office. Everyone talks about mixing life and work when working from home. It's pretty easy for me to just turn everything off and walk away at 5.
I will use caffeine when I need it for a few days and then cut all consumption. I find that it helps me focus and causes a slight euphoric effect when taken in moderation. If I take it for long periods of time, I end up getting major anxiety.
I didn't realize until I was much older. In high school, I would drink 2-liters of Mountain Dew/day and had major anxiety issues.
I see 'anti-vaccine superspreaders' being one of the main topics of discussion. How about the misinformation about the vaccine stopping the spread? This was pushed by prominent politicians and actors and was completely false. with no science to back it up.
MRNA-based vaccines have had lots of injuries (some were taken off the market for causing blood clots, which was also lumped into 'misinformation campaigns' for a long time).
It's impact has been hidden and many people have lost their jobs by even questioning it. If this weren't the case, misinformation against these kinds of vaccines wouldn't have flourished. Not to mention the fact that you can't even sue the vaccine companies for any harm it causes you.
The vaccines didn't do much to help stop the spread. Herd immunity did.
You underestimate the laziness of the average employee. I've worked at a company that removed 2FA because upper-level management didn't want to have to re-login once/week.
There really is no killer app for the vision pro. Meta has many years of lead time with lots of great apps and games. I'm not surprised by this at all.