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The other curse is to progress to IC7-9 (non manager) at MAANG making 500k-900k and unable to be hired anywhere else. The only place to go is to stay at a megacorp. Thankfully, som…

To afford to buy a home (average value of $2.2m) where I grew up in a barely middle class area, it requires a minimum income of 400k USD. That's just a middle class home with nothi…

Western Union predates the Pony Express by about 10 years, which operated for only 18 months. It was the Webvan and WU was the Amazon.

Pantelegraph -> wirephoto / radiofax / teleautograph -> telex / weatherfax -> fax

Duh. I mentioned A to dismiss it rather than invite inevitable conspiracy theories. His lawyers came out almost immediately claiming he seemed in good spirits. Perhaps this was a s…

Yep. America has the simultaneous problems of being both too spread out and too busy/dense in most areas without sufficient public transport. There has been a widespread, long-term…

Must first start with the political operating system that cannot be reformed from within. After that happens, then it's possible to have sensible governance and effectively impleme…

Title author clearly isn't from CA. They've been hyping HSR since the 80's. Never gonna happen without lots of pork barrel waste and, like VTA light rail, no one's going to use it.…

I can see why they sold even fewer than Apple LISAs. Crazy prices.

Davis CA enforces BUI.

RIP

Use a pastebin rather than making my eyes bleed. You didn't even capture the whole thing.

Nope. Hell no.

Changing all of the world's infrastructure isn't a "hack", All they have to do is use AnyCast and geoip to block most users from a specific region. If you really need Pornhub in Te…

1st a. will be the least of our concerns when Ruth Bader Biden loses to orangeman who will change the flag, make a new loyalty test salute, and require documentation checkpoints ev…

Content of message. https://pastebin.com/TGuVBpst Pornhub is low-quality crap, haven't visited it in years. FYI: delta-9 THC is legal in Texas when derived from hemp, so actual wee…

$2m+ for San Jose retirees with Prop 13. $300m houses and every billionaire are absurd and policy failures. Correct without over correcting/ping-ponging between anarcho libertarian…

Perhaps: A. Most people dismiss an actual conspiracy to murder a whistleblower witness as a conspiracy theory automatically. Such a cliché seems possible. Remember, Boeing is run b…

Learned this 30 years ago. Durable quality goods are generally best bought used, but furniture requires close inspection to avoid pests. Custom Macy's extra long couch from ~2000 i…

Most people buy IKEA sawdust or are low information consumers, and the market responds accordingly. As such, people don't buy fine furniture or understand how to discern quality in…

s/Lab-Grown// would be a better idea. - Climate change - Antibiotic resistance - Novel pandemic pathogen evolution, including the "Spanish" flu and COVID-19 - Air pollution - Water…

These numbers alone are of marginal utility. They're missing std deviation and seniority level brackets. CS probably the most individual contributor upward mobility as IC/L6+ can r…

It's illegal in Alaska to waste meat of big wild game animals because it's a form of food waste otherwise. > If no attempt is made to salvage meat, the minimum fine is $2,000 and 7…

Yeap, dangerous AF because of a failure to design from first principles.