allthecybers

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by allthecybers 7y ago
One-day shipping is definitely a logistical leap for mankind but I often wonder the environmental impact that is accrued in the pursuit of total convenience. Also, their Prime branded delivery trucks are driven by gig workers, essentially m
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by allthecybers 7y ago
I ditched Facebook long ago, Twitter has waaayyy to much politics and I’m leaning toward closing down LinkedIn because it has gotten bad lately with too much news and ads... it’d already be closed if I hadn’t gotten my last three or four jo
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by allthecybers 7y ago
I don't think you're far off. Plus, who knows how long the bad guys had to harvest this stuff prior to the good guys finding it. Or I wouldn't put it past some foreign hacker agency or even the NSA from scooping it up for a r
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by allthecybers 7y ago
Information security system integration consulting shops. I think we had some pen testing going on but the but the money was made selling a new IBM governance tool or SIEM solution and then a new security manager comes in and he prefers Sai
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by allthecybers 7y ago
Most of my years spent in the cyber security space revolved around consulting with large companies. The most common activity we consulted on was cyber security related technical transformation. Basically a company would hire a new security
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by allthecybers 7y ago
A family member works there and can attest to how crappy the PTO is at Amazon.
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by allthecybers 7y ago
This is an interesting article and much of the discussion points out the structures in our society that are not optimized for the consumer. For example student loans, medical debts and high interest on credit cards. But I would like to high
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by allthecybers 7y ago
I have to agree with this article. I’ve been a Mac User since the iBook G3 running both OS9 and OSX. Working as a video editor at the time Final Cut Pro was revolutionary and you could open up your G4/G5 and add RAM and hard drives. Bu
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by allthecybers 7y ago
It all comes down to your personal goals. If gaining 20-30% comp for the effort of building you resume and phonescreening and day long interview loops is worth it then it sounds like you shouldn’t stay somewhere for more than 2-4 years. If
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by allthecybers 7y ago
> I guess. You could just pay them more though. This is a good idea. Stop the stock game and just pay a set base salary = to comp + stock. But we can’t do that because that would take all the fun out of seeing part of your potential inco
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by allthecybers 7y ago
Same here. If I have to VPN in I’m less inclined to look at email outside of work.
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by allthecybers 7y ago
Their discovery algorithm is hideous and on most of their TV streaming apps the search is shit.
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by allthecybers 7y ago
I'm interested to see how this plays out. Netflix will either figure it out and survive or they'll continue to shed subscribers and get acquired by Apple to augment AppleTV. I say that partly in jest. My Netflix was cancelled abou
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by allthecybers 7y ago
> As someone who recently cancelled my Netflix subscription after idly flipping through it and realising nothing here holds my interest anymore Can't disagree with this. I cancelled Netflix not too long ago because it felt like it w
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by allthecybers 7y ago
> At this pace, it seems like the US might end up being the last country on Earth without some sort of government-backed universal coverage scheme. IMO this is a quickly growing competitive disadvantage for the US.
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Even a highly compensated US tech worker can be bankrupted by medical costs. Seen it happen.
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by allthecybers 7y ago
> The impression I got visiting the US in general (NY, Seattle, San Fran, LA), is that it all seems quite ran down, full of inequality and social problems, and lacking soul, mainly from being so consumerist. Having lived in at least two
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by allthecybers 7y ago
> I think in some respects the US has coasted on it's former economic glory - I mean sure Silicon Valley is a mecca for folks like us but then you look at things outside of the those types of Nexuses and its a very different picture
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by allthecybers 7y ago
This is a huge reason we use Target over Amazon for skin care products and household items. Trying to find an item, then determining if it is legitimate, if the reviews are real or fake and then comparing prices and shipping options its muc
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by allthecybers 7y ago
Well stated. If I could upvote this comment x10 I would. There are always a trade-offs.
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by allthecybers 7y ago
As a late professional bloomer in corporate America/megacorp tech and someone without a traditional CS education background I struggle with this a lot. But in the moment of envy it comes down to what your personal goals are and if you
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It was an interesting article detailing the intersection between what is essentially another gig-economy side of Amazon, America's insane consumeristic culture and the ebb and flow of American business.
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by allthecybers 7y ago
ya there is always some scary characters around McStabbys/StabDonalds at 3rd and Pine. I have trouble following the logic when a company decides to plop a corporate office down in the middle of the Seattle sketch corridor. Witnessed a
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by allthecybers 7y ago
> Huh, I also work in downtown Seattle but have never experienced any of this. You are fortunate and very lucky in this respect. But I would encourage you to stay situationally aware because the city is getting more dangerous and shit-fi
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by allthecybers 7y ago
> Actively avoiding human shit or fresh vomit every morning on the sidewalks and keeping an eye out for needles everywhere (watch where you sit on the bus) really just leaves you tired and unsympathetic. In addition to the dump dodging a
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by allthecybers 7y ago
Imagine if everyone learned to code... the coal miners, the fireman and the classy janitor, the cashiers with dignity, the migraine workers... then no one would get paid the big bucks for coding.
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by allthecybers 7y ago
I beat this drum pretty regularly on HN but it is staggering to me why with our technological productivity we haven't already transitioned to less working hours. I am aware that not every industry/job could do this but how many co
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> The 40 hour work week is tyrannical. If you are stating this seriously, I often wonder why there isn’t a great movement toward a reduction in working days/hours in the modern workplace. It’s kind of mind boggling to me why we have
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by allthecybers 7y ago
Today's major publicly traded companies have one allegiance and that is creating shareholder value aka profit. So if the company doesn't give an eff about employees in the US, why would they care about supplier ethics or the treat
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I think this is the tension for me in trying to embrace a fully libertarian mindset. When companies in their blind allegiance to producing shareholder value and conducting profitable free enterprise perpetuate harm upon consumers, what does

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