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We are quickly reaching the point of no return because of the fear overshoot. We don't JUST have a virus problem, global financial markets are seizing up. They should not have clos…

So what's your plan? Socialized medicine? I mean, it's working out so great for those Chinese folks, right? Making everyone else pay for you is no better of a solution, it's just s…

Okay reading that didn't help me at all.

It doesn't? Also, there is no point where a Tesla will cross over to being more economical per mile driven with gas prices this low.

Good luck losing your ass shorting stocks! Shorting requires very accurate timing and even if the trend is your friend, it simply is not the opposite of going long. It just isn't. …

CNN Doom Porn

Don't worry, management will bring your lifehack to a screeching halt soon enough. Better not get used to it.

I'd say most of us probably are. I am suffering from chronic overwork at this point. I'm thinking of just quitting and taking 6 mos. off and maybe never going back to tech at all. …

Why were all the instructors volunteers? If your for-profit bootcamp company asked me to teach but not pay me I'd tell you to go fuck yourselves.

Luckily, we're not a democracy!

How much did he pay the Russians?

Several major things bother me and junk science isn't even in my top 3. 1) Big shots don't get indicted at all. We have a 2-tier system of justice where only "little people" are ha…

Highly intelligent, but partner choice is what cemented our wealth. I'm not sure being super smart is anything but a liability, honestly. I had terrible social anxiety for most of …

Totally agree. We skipped right over "better driver training" in order to have meme stock stocks that short squeeze to nearly $1000. Such awful anti-patterns in humanity.

My take is that Huawei was bugging their hardware the same way the NSA does it and there can be only one. Plus, the US doesn't want Chinese bugged hardware.

On the face of it sure, but then the key people start having heart attacks and mysterious accidents and suddenly the problem goes away. And that's the world we live in.

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I wish Journalism could spring back to being more professional where they were a) not so damn partisan and b) actually investigating and not just tossing out wild conspiracy theori…

The first one I used was a DEC UNIX based workstation. That thing was pretty cool at the time, circa 1993. I learned a ton about UNIX on it and was really my only access to that ty…

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Tech Lead here, 20yrs or so experience I guess it is now, I don't know what counts and what doesn't. That's a good list, but I find it's very difficult for any one person to live u…

I don't believe that. There was a guy who made a Youtube video showing the hundreds and hundreds of daily flights coming and going from China even weeks after the outbreak. He said…

The greater threat is that automakers will be able to geographically limit where you can drive "your" car. They are also going to limit you by time of day as well. "No unauthorized…

Because surfing is a bum lifestyle. They're just hip bums.

I have some Eddie Bauer oxford shirts, but yeah, it was by and large a preppy, sorta get the outdoorsy "look" kind of mall store, not the real deal "hell and back" type of gear you…