Yet another thinly veiled stealth lay-off by a technology company. Amazon’s cloud boss Matt “The Prat” Garman will indeed see some departures, as intended and desired. However, that first wave will be of their most talented, who feel confident they will land on their feet elsewhere, leaving those that simply cannot leave (yet) or those that will cozily under perform. When Amazon applies the inevitable followup reductions (subjectively based on their internal review process) to remove the latter, and the former buckle under the load or also leave, Amazon will be left with lower-middle talent at best.

The more I see of business “strategy” among this layer of “leadership”, the more I’m convinced it is just a game of Jenga with talent, resources, infrastructure, security, quality, etc; pulling out as many pieces as possible in the drive for short term/sighted gains until a company collapses under its own dysfunctional “efficiency” and “success”.

Remove the word “luxury” from marketing material, and cut the price in half. The world needs more electric Model Ts, not environmental-esque virtue signally for a minority of drivers.

Court “ordered” end to a strike generally means that any contractual, union or legal protections workers have are forfeited if the strike continues (i.e. folks can be fired, benefits lost, even sued in some cases). This is not uncommon in regimes where the judicial system has been compromised (USA, Israel, etc). That being said… be a real shame if productivity of non-striking workers were to mysteriously plummet to effectively non-existent levels. ;-)

OP’s original post/questions, in case you’re curious. They have quite the history of posting and commenting, receiving substantial downvotes and then deleting or obfuscating. Verdict, troll or puppet account.

In unrelated news, Georgia Court of Appeals sporting all new luxury RVs.

Not without buying a lot of folks RVs, at least. #SCROTUS

If they left for that reason, they weren’t visiting you, they were visiting your internet connection. :-(

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Agreed, claiming to understand quantum theory is an excellent example of the Dunning-Kruger effect (which, in itself is kind of dubious in certain situations). Took my shot. Maybe someone will invoke Cunningham’s Law and make my attempt better. ;-)

For a true ELI5, this will require leaving out a lot. This is simply an analogy. Analogies don’t hold up perfectly with very complicated things, so be careful about using them in place of complete understanding or learning more.

The basic principle is having two special particles. These particles are kind of like twins. Created together, they become “entangled” and share a special bond. It’s not magic but more like a connection that is hard for others to understand and see.

Now, let’s say we take Particle A and put it in a box, and Particle B in another box. We take the boxes far away from each other, even on different sides of the world.

Whatever happens to Particle A will instantly affect Particle B, no matter how far apart they are! It’s like they can still talk to each other and know what the other is doing.

Another way to think of it is like having two magic coins. If you flip one coin and it lands on heads, the other coin will always land on tails, no matter how far apart they are.

Scientists are still trying to understand exactly how this happens, but it’s a very special and strange thing in the world of of very small things. Some think it shows that there is a way that very small parts of the stuff in the universe are connected that we cannot measure yet, or that many different possibilities exist and we only see one of them when we look for it.

If we could create this connection reliably and stably, we could potentially use it send information across distances nearly instantaneously! After all, a lot of the information we send right now is just 1s and 0s which we put together to make more complicated messages. This has uses in protecting information to keep it secret, making very fast computers, and maybe even “teleportation” by creating a duplicate at the other end of the connection, to name a few.

Like many fields of science, we are learning more about quantum stuff all the time, so this could change really fast. If you’re interested in learning more about quantum theory and research you’ll need a strong background in math and science. Algebra, trigonometry and classical physics would be a good first step (of many).

While I sincerely hope so, possibly unpopular opinion… Lemmy will have to offer a lot more than “Not Reddit”. It’ll have to build up as a primary destination for a lot of “content of substance” and culture around creating and nurturing it (just cross posting from Reddit will not cut it). It may have to offer communities and opportunities Reddit bans or suppresses, although there should be some red lines there. And, like all Federated technologies, it will have to actively work to reduce friction for potential users.