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I would assume a lot of the types of people you're talking about are in fact not Microsoft employees, it's way more common these days to hire people like on-site cooks through agencies that effectively make them contractors for Microsoft. This notice is definitely about "corporate" employees, and I believe another comment noted that in a different source it's stated that sales and marketing are not even being offered this deal.

Weird comment when the context is about whether a TECH employee should take the buyout offer vs unemployment...?

To a degree I'd argue gambling can be more insidious - it's quite hard to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars being an alcoholic or drug addict, and also quite a bit easier to hide from your family (until your husband or wife sees the credit card/bank statement I suppose).

Let's add dumb, lame, sinister, grandfathered in while we're at it if we're litigating roots nobody thinks about on a day-to-day basis...

My pick would easily be the missing books of ab urbe condita by Livy, so much early Roman history that would be wonderfully filled out for us

India gets a metric fuckload of money back in remittances every year. Debatable if that's actually worth the brain drain, but then there's also the angle of having your young people learn from the rest of the world and return with new skills. I lean more towards the remittances though.

All I can say is that was an incredibly bleak read

I saw this tweet and the firestorm it caused when it happened. Being an Indian man myself, I was confused what all the confusion was about... it was so obviously a joke about sweaty young men. I actually resent the CEO and company more for caving to that pressure.

Understandable for not using it to write net-new content from outside sources, but agreed that at some point the translation becomes good enough to bridge all language gaps, where it's simply an obvious call that a translation of the more fully written English article is better than relying on a local writer.

Wow, this is actually so cool. Fantastic idea, I would LOVE something like this in Wikipedia. Nicely done!

Always thought you kinda have to do this to create a product that can even be translated considering languages like French where plurals take many forms.

You don't get to live in the S&P500. Also don't really get the point of this response. Both just prove assets are wildly out of reach for young people now compared to then.

The rivalry is whether one QB is better than the other in taking their team to the promised land, as they both have the most overall contribution to team success. Really all it is.