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Yeah, there are a lot of bad ones out there. The best way I know is through networking. Chances are that someone in your network has worked with a good recruiter; or worked with so…

How is that "baggage"?

Ah. Set yourself a price ceiling before the call. Develop a habit of applying a skeptical attitude towards anything you hear, especially from someone you know has motive to persuad…

The ability to run entirely different operating systems from the host, for one thing.

Find a good recruiter. Make a practice of taking the occasional personal day / mental health day even when happily employed and not looking.

Yeah, except the effect only lasts past the next good night's sleep for 5% of patients. And I can't speak for about anyone else, but having experienced moderate depression, I'd rat…

Empathy, self-awareness, and self control.

Your description is way too vague to even begin to evaluate and respond to.

Former member of Freelancer's Union here, though the only service I ever used was the health insurance. A decade ago it was pretty solid, and certainly better and cheaper than you …

Most of the "gig economy" is not contracts like a freelancer negotiates. It's tons of tiny jobs at non-negotiable rates like Uber or Fiverr pay their "contractors". I agree that th…

Because rail never has to sit in traffic. Also, someone did a calculation that for buses to carry the same volume of passengers and NYC's L train alone when it's shut down for repa…

When my grandmother became too old to drive safely, we sold her car and had her use the proceeds for cabs to where she needed to go. When that ran out, her kids and grandkids cover…

That assumes the customer is the one who chooses. With most Americans getting insurance through their employers, they don't have the option to choose a less crappy insurer even if …

Protect yourself in what sense?

Join a pen testing firm?

That's a good point. There's probably a way to highlight unexpected characters. I wouldn't use "Unicode" as a criterion (that's an encoding, not a character type that excludes ASCI…

That seems to me like a rather anglocentric view. How are people who speak Arabic, Hindi, or Greek supposed to use the internet? And believe it or not, not everyone's keyboard allo…

I prefer a newsgroup/Google Group over either of those.

Anecdatum: lack of protected bike lanes. My commute is a perfect distance for cycling, but the idea of sharing the road with drivers terrifies me.

Additionally, as that quote points out, we tend to have higher sanitary standards for spaces where we clean ourselves.

Yes. Some blue collar workers and most white collar workers get Christmas Day off. A fraction get Christmas Eve off or a half day. Many white collar workers get New Year's Day off.…

I would hypothesize that we measure our free time in boredom. With smartphones in our pocket and the internet always available, we're rarely bored out of our minds any more - there…

Taxes formulated like this tend to be regressive, since people with lower incomes tend to spend a higher proportion of their income than people with higher incomes do.

What are you planning to do with the money when you return?