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Hey, I met Vint once at a conference - we were talking about some subsea fiber projects I was involved with. At the time he was working on interplanetary IP (IPIP? jk), which I tho…

Something I hated about working in corporate America was surviving multiple leadership regimes, watching the same lessons being learned over and over, having to recount history to …

I remember these issues from earlier Surfaces. I was not impressed. Latest ones are pretty dope tho, IME.

If you have desirable skills, why does the business have all the power? If you don’t have desirable skills and yet remain employed, how could you expect otherwise?

Just being real here though, hiring flaky employees is enormously expensive. Every hiring manager / business owner would just as soon not waste their time on it. So there are these…

Globalization played (plays) a huge part in this timeline too. If I can outsource your job to a place that really does treat their employees as disposable, you should just be happy…

How would you characterize the functional differences between the good and the bad companies that allowed for a great implementation of unlimited PTO? For instance, is it more over…

It reminds me of the Dilbert joke about asking to be put on 4-10’s and the boss replies why would I do that when I already have you for 7-12’s? With unlimited PTO, if you can only …

Taxi companies in most cities were exploitive oligarchies - it was textbook regulatory capture. Often their workers weren't any better off in terms of lopsided deals. And the custo…

A good habit to build is knowing when to abandon a session and start over rather than trying to correct. There’s room for correction but you can kind of smell when the whole discus…

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I don’t think VS Code is remotely a replacement for VS/Rider. I use VS Code for a lot of things but for large and complex project sets the automation and features in VS are luxurie…

Interesting, for my part I would never build a data center (or underpin critical infrastructure) with Ubiquiti but I have a lot of it at blind remote sites and it works well enough…

"Project Gutenberg began in 1971 when Michael Hart was given an operator’s account with $100,000,000 of computer time in it by the operators of the Xerox Sigma V mainframe at the M…

> a more balanced version: Too complicated and subjective, stinks of more risk. Also, I don't think it's dehumanizing it all (having been on the receiving end of it way back when d…

Which isn’t to say government is bad as an institution.. just to say that we regard it with an assumption of good faith at our collective peril - it’s track record counsels the opp…

"Ostensibly" is the mistake in your formula. Current events are replete with examples to the contrary. It's not equivocating to recognize that governments are organizations of huma…

corporate overlords? These are the state governments selling your data. The call is coming from inside the house. The sooner we realize that government is comprised of the same sli…

Narrator: "But it did neither." Honestly, we're better off with it than without it, speaking as someone with exposure to that industry's internals. That act drives a lot of good se…

You would prefer emotional and impassioned hyperbole? Arm waving and hand-wringing? Self-flagellation? Navel-gazing? Struggle sessions?

Classic Scorpion and the Frog tale, or the older Farmer and the Snake. https://read.gov/aesop/094.html

$0.60 + 2.25%. The excise tax is a fixed .60+ per gallon, going up July 1. The sales tax is 2.25%, and local sales tax some additional percentage.

Good for California's budget as well.

Drink some clarit with the valit over a good filit.

"Clothes make the man", as the idiom says. Clothes don't impugn your character, but they define you in the eyes of others. Having been a long-haired holey jeans-wearing guy in my p…