Before 2022, that would have been series B material.

Thinking about a military career. Pretty sure soldier will be the last job to disappear. Mostly not joking.

Since this is a contract position, do you consider part-timers by any chance? I'd really like to do what you do and I think I could make a solid case on why I'm the man for this job, but I'm booked for 2 days a week for the next few months. Should I try applying anyway?

Not really. Education sucks because it doesn't scale. Every single child needs to be educated and educating them takes thousands (or tens of thousands) of hours of teacher work. Meanwhile an average person probably requires only tens of hours of doctor work in teir lifetime. Imagine doctors having to treat people by a roomful (even if they were pre-sorted by vaguely similar diagnosis). That would suck indeed.

I don't remember believing in any tech utopia for a very long time. On the other hand I regularly see people who still believe we are a few years away from AGI creating one for us. So while it's over for the author it's not so for others.

Personally I can name both areas where tech improved my life beyond expectations (not having to live near work for one) as well as huge disappointments (such as people willingly choosing to believe lies en masse despite truth becoming easily accessible).

I'd rather work for a leader with a strong product vision. Their job is to know where we are going. How we get there is what I'm being paid for.

The leader needs to have both vision and an understanding of the job separation you described.

Many don't, in my opinion.

Russian-controlled is an overstatment, but it's definitely Russian-influenced. There seems to have been some kind of balance - Durov allowed the Russians some limited control in exchange for being allowed to operate in Russia. The publicly visible manifestation of this deal was, for instance, the ban on "Путь домой" (Way home) channel where the wifes of mobilized men organized their movement. I'm not stating this necessarily happened as a result of some direct negotiations - maybe Durov just intuitively probed "the red lines", who knows.

Путь домой is an active channel. It has 53,690 subscribers. There is a "FAKE" label (first time I've seen that...) and an associated warning: "Warning: Many users report that this account impersonates a famous person or organisation[sic]." There are regular posts, the most recent being 31 minutes ago. Translating about 10 of them, I see a many parents complaining about the treatment of conscripts.

Yeah, "fake" means you can't find it in search, which was good enough to kill the momentum when it mattered. It's also not fake in any way, and the explanation they gave is laughable.

Also, there were previous instances of cooperation when Durov himself admitted it in his memetic "...or full cesation of Telegram operation in Russia" survey.

There's nothing funny or wrong about this argument. In a democracy, law is a community consensus. In a tyranny it's just a rule set up by the tyrant for everyone to follow (but never followed by the tyrant himself and his gunmen).

That said, even in democracy a law can be bad, and likely is in this case.

In a democracy two wolves and a sheep discuss what is for dinner.

Shaheds can fly at 4000m, good luck with your Maxim. They also try to catch them far from target areas by spreading roving AA squads all over the border, somewhat impossible at sea.

Something similar could also dive from 4000m gaining quite some speed.