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Bork argued that antitrust law shouldn't inherently challenge bigness. He felt that the antitrust should seek to maximize consumer welfare. That's been interpreted by the courts to mean lower prices, but any economist worth their salt will say consumer choice is an aspect of consumer welfare.

It doesn't matter if Little Caesars pizza is the cheapest option, if there aren't any other pizza options, consumer welfare is severely negatively impacted because some consumers won't like Little Caesars.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg—despite being lionized by liberals—was an extremely pro-business justice who played a strong role in the Supreme Court siding with businesses in all but one antitrust case from 1995ish on. With her gone, I think this case may actually have a chance

Trade secrets already get legal protections so the non-competes aren't relevant there anyway

Certainly a respect for the individual played a role. Thomas Hobbes argued for a strong monarch specifically to protect their subjects and their subjects’ property. Other philosophers like John Lock, David Hume, Adam Smith, and John Stuart Mill would expand on this and build the classically liberal tradition.

But we also can’t underestimate the impact of: 1) abundant energy sources—initially wood and then coal that could power machinery. 2) a scientific tradition with engineering applications in mind. 3) the Black Plague that let people just drop their scythes and move to the city to become tradesmen and earn a better living. 4) the Common Law tradition placing property rights and the right to contract on near-sacred grounds. 5) Access to abundant fishing off the coast of what became North America.

I don't think there's any one thing we can point to explain the rise of West, it's a confluence of factors that I'm very grateful happened before I was born

From the Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914:

"Under this Act, the Commission is empowered, among other things, to (a) prevent unfair methods of competition, and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce; (b) seek monetary redress and other relief for conduct injurious to consumers; (c) prescribe trade regulation rules defining with specificity acts or practices that are unfair or deceptive, and establishing requirements designed to prevent such acts or practices; (d) conduct investigations relating to the organization, business, practices, and management of entities engaged in commerce; and (e) make reports and legislative recommendations to Congress."

Seems to me like the FTC is exactly the group to make this decision

Yes, lower barriers to entry than general software development. Get to program, stand up and configure cloud systems, and might get to do some data visualization if that's your thing.

It's a good alternative to data science. The market for data scientists is flooded (especially at the lower levels) and more and more companies realize their data pipelines are a mess.

Learn how to do something cool and dangerous and expensive. Race motorcycles, fly planes, climb mountains, go skydiving. People will want to talk to you

People have been calling for a recession since June and you can see the signs everywhere except where it really matters to people: the labor market

Slow down? Sure. Recession? Eh.

LinkedIn is good for finding potential contacts. Message people who seem like software engineering managers and ask if they have internships. See where your classmates get roles and ask if there are some openings or if they can vouch for you. If there's a meetup, try going to one. Don't discount looking at company's websites either.

All but one job I've gotten was because I knew someone or someone knew me. The other one, I just applied through the company's website and they called me

What time did the storm roll in?

Does the order matter for Kochenderfer? Any one of those put more emphasis on controls than the others?

You can freeze the worknumber so people running background checks can't get information. When I changed jobs the company ran a background check and they kinda freaked out cause they couldn't get anything out of this database. I loved it.

I haven't seen a video from the Verge where they walk up to random people randomly, stick a mic in their face, and ask them random questions