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Art of the deal: Pay $1.2B in exchange for a $900M investment elsewhere.

> Buying a house can be an investment, but it's also buying a place to live. I'm a strong proponent of both owning and renting, and each has tradeoffs vs. the other. I've moved bet…

I saw this in action on a smaller scale. In a past job, my wife organized events for a decent sized company. After an event, she'd typically have a $300k+ balance on her corporate …

My favorite recent example was submitting a resume for a job that was almost a word-for-word description of my current title and job at a similarly sized company. Within 24 hours, …

I was VP Eng of a 40+ person team at a startup, and my workaholic CEO once asked me if it bothered me that other people on the team didn't work as hard as me. My answer was very ta…

I'm in the northeastern US and it's very common for weather reporting to include the Heat Index ( https://www.weather.gov/ama/heatindex ) which takes temperature and humidity into …

I fully experienced postnatal depression, starting around 12-15 months, and it wasn't until relatively recently (my kid is now 18 years old) that I realized it. We were living in a…

> I get almost physically ill when I hear about kids getting harmed. Same. I literally have trouble sleeping after hearing about things like this.

>My guess is the bad experiences have to do with bad execution. This is the key, IMHO. I have not been able to access my Coinbase account for some time due to a login issue. (No er…

Possibly (probably?) a coincidence, but it did look like broad changes to how reading was taught started to land in 2010-2012: https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/common-stand…

> Is that really such a naive suggestion? IMHO, yes, but that'll depend on the kid, their friends, and all the parents involved. If everyone does line up and agree, than it might b…

I was in the Financial District in NYC when this happened in 2024: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/17/mete... I thought it was the firing of replica cannons or…

As a child in the late 1970s/early 1980s, I was FORCED outside by my parents. The same was true for other kids in the neighborhood. We were told that chilling indoors was not an op…

CS started as a major for "computer nerds" who were very into computers. Computers were a hobby for virtually every one of my CS classmates in the 90's. Studying computer science w…

> As long as the penalties for data breach are a slap on the wrist and buying everyone one year of credit monitoring, no one will. And, of course, that one year is totally useless …

FWIW, that was the second time I interviewed at Google. The first time, which resulted in strong yes across the board at L7, the first system design was to design Youtube Video Upl…

> He got the prompt, asked questions about throughput requirements (etc.), and said, “okay, I’d put it all in Postgres.” He was correct! Postgres could more than handle the load. I…

I worked at a no longer extant networking equipment manufacturer as an intern in college in the late 1990's. My role was to work on software for an in-development 45Gb network swit…

I don't know where my car keys are, but I still remember a significant portion of the "Our Father" that I had to memorize in Old English in the early 1990's.

> Also, _Discord_ deleting them is really only half the battle; random vendors deleting them remains an issue. This really is the issue. Of the 5 or so data breach notifications I …

>The wider implications of this are left to the reader. IMHO, it's actually worse than we realize. The Medical Loss Ratio requirement is good because it requires insurance companie…

Thank you! I'll have to check it out when I'm not on a work computer that's convinced filebin is a darkweb haxx0r paradise.

Is there a text version of this somewhere?

I'm sorry for your losses. My dad died of cancer when I was 26, and I had very frequent dreams where it felt like he was real and present, though never speaking or interacting dire…

In general, many (most?) internet plans specifically prohibit running a web server with a residential account. A business account would be necessary in these cases.