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My personal career epiphany was moving from a tech giant to a late-stage, pre-IPO startup. The amount of freedom and range of challenges I dealt with were exhilarating. Did it pay …

Coming from a military background, I can confidently say that promotions at that level are more the end of a political process than a true assessment of skills...

especially a used bookstore.

My company contracts with a security training site. All the videos requires Flash.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_European_heat_wave 14000+ dead in France that year...

Yeah but who do I get to look at their EULA? EULAs all the way down...

There was this cartoon about a guy graduating top of his class in a CS program and the hoopla of him being hired at a "Big Tech" firm. Then he discover that his role was basically …

I always refer to my Toronto colleagues ( I am in Seattle ) as Southerners...

Your local QFC is really a Kroger btw

Pretty soon you're talking about real money

Yeah, but people still want to live there vs. Youngstown or Cleveland

Agreed, I already cancelled my business travel two weeks before our state issued its first guidance on WFH. OpenTable's data showed the significant drop in reservations weeks befor…

Consider also that alot of retirees don't stay in Illinois as well. So other states are benefiting from the discretionary spending funded by Illinois taxpayers

Thoughts and prayers

doesn't take a month to pull a business license search and check employee records.

https://www.businessinsider.com/fema-paid-bankrupt-company-n... No corruption here...

The implementation of disaster federalism

I am currently sitting in an Aeron chair from one of the dot com bust furniture auctions... I had a friend who rescued servers just abandoned in their racks when one company just f…

But think of the ad revenue you can drive off this data set!

Cynically, since the morbidity is mostly in the elderly parts of the population vs. the younger ( a la 1918 ), I can see the Lt. Gov of Texas's attitude of " let the olds make thei…

"But another 200 city residents are now dying at home each day, compared to 20 to 25 such deaths before the pandemic, said Aja Worthy-Davis, a spokeswoman for the medical examiner’…

and have 6% representation in the Senate...