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Most people voluntarily imprison themselves in conventional, middle-class values because they have been brainwashed.

Your "logic" is bullshit because luck doesn't exist. Capitalizing on timing, risk tolerance, excellent anticipatory judgment, self-control, and rich parents also help.

Are you going to lecture me about women, online Mr. Pickup artist?

Yep. I was a freelance technical consultant for 10 years. Stanford University School of Medicine wouldn't pay my invoices. All you can do is keep asking politely for weeks or months. If they don't, then you might name and shame because there might not be anything else you can do except sue.

Okay, chief, you know it all. Liquidating assets causes significant losses.

That's what doesn't compute. The wisdom and care required to have and keep billions requires a certain pathological, insouciant public face or internal armor. Sure sexual thrills and "love" makes most people dumber, but a big boy billionaire baller ought to have a certain de rigeuer self-control to not catch the wrong sort of complications or perhaps they should've had a discreet open relationship arrangement a priori.

Birds of prey would probably be better at it and more trainable. I've see way more videos of hawks taking out drones than shore birds.

While tech advances are cool, I secretly do too. Like Mother Nature's vengeance and reminder that technology isn't invulnerable. Now if critters could just disable Russian tanks, the circle would be complete.

Humans can detect mercaptans down to ppb but I suspect they require a fermentation process to create.

Also, I wonder how it handles eating asparagus.

Bill Gates will be the number two.

Standardization by centralized administration, reduction of rogue external and DIY options, concentrating efforts on delivering managed services based on a common and repeatable platform, strict change control, clear training enumerating what is and what is not allowed, and a security team that actually digs in to make cross-cutting concerns more audited automatically, practical recommendations, least privilege continuously ratcheted down, and advise on new features and new projects.

There's an excellent book about this topic. Three Felonies a Day by Harvey Silverglate. Convictions for white-collar crimes aren't about stopping significant crime, they're about building statistics by sacrificing the most convenient bodies for expedient wins.

AT&T - too big to jail, worst UX, worst service, and worst customer service ever. Until CEOs end up in prison, nothing will change and there will be no consequences. It will never happen because money has more votes than citizens.