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and I'm OK with most of that.

The business side is more critical than the development side - so business folks should be running what is a business. If the business goes down, it'll take the down game, however great it is.

The big but though, is that to be a successful business you need to feed, nurture and protect the creative side. The creative side in turn has a responsibility to the business - if you've burnt through a hundred million and decide you need to start-over, that's on you.

My completely uninformed opinion is that once the business screws with dev ("Let's turn this thoughful narrative game, into a free-to-play-shooter!") dev probably just check out, do what they're told, and take the pay-cheque until it stops. I'm not a game dev, but I've had dumb corporate overlords.

Basically EA can burn in hell - but the development side is rarely faultless.

I don't think Indie games "are better" - but I think they tend to better deliver on a coherent vision. Most crash and burn, but the few that make it to my Steam account are wonderful. Not because they're all perfect - but because I heard a voice in it.

Yep - some people are being paid to listen to that, but I'm not.

I feel I wasted my time and tokens typing "clone this" - just to see if I'd missed something.

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?

Precisely.

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..

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.

Sometimes they go on a ketamine binge shrugs

"We have physical buttons"

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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.

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.

You know what a LiPo pouch looks like right? silvery bag, some yellow tape at the end with some wires sticking out.

Less likely you know what they look like inside, as it's been drilled into us not to pierce the things. Also if your laptop battery only lasts a couple of hours you might suspect something is wrong. If your pager needs recharging every month instead of every 2 months... well nobody has a clue how often a pager should need recharging.

I've no idea if it was the battery, but just feels like the right approach.