altoidaltoid

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by altoidaltoid 6y ago
My personal career epiphany was moving from a tech giant to a late-stage, pre-IPO startup. The amount of freedom and range of challenges I dealt with were exhilarating. Did it pay as much? Not in the beginning, but I was given the room to
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by altoidaltoid 6y ago
Coming from a military background, I can confidently say that promotions at that level are more the end of a political process than a true assessment of skills...
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by altoidaltoid 6y ago
especially a used bookstore.
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by altoidaltoid 6y ago
My company contracts with a security training site. All the videos requires Flash. <sigh>
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by altoidaltoid 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_European_heat_wave 14000+ dead in France that year...
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by altoidaltoid 6y ago
Yeah but who do I get to look at their EULA? EULAs all the way down...
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by altoidaltoid 6y ago
There was this cartoon about a guy graduating top of his class in a CS program and the hoopla of him being hired at a "Big Tech" firm. Then he discover that his role was basically to keep someone on a web page for a half second l
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by altoidaltoid 6y ago
I always refer to my Toronto colleagues ( I am in Seattle ) as Southerners...
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by altoidaltoid 6y ago
Your local QFC is really a Kroger btw
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by altoidaltoid 6y ago
Pretty soon you're talking about real money
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by altoidaltoid 6y ago
Yeah, but people still want to live there vs. Youngstown or Cleveland
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by altoidaltoid 6y ago
Agreed, I already cancelled my business travel two weeks before our state issued its first guidance on WFH. OpenTable's data showed the significant drop in reservations weeks before official orders as well. Open the stores and nobody
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by altoidaltoid 6y ago
Consider also that alot of retirees don't stay in Illinois as well. So other states are benefiting from the discretionary spending funded by Illinois taxpayers
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Coronavirus Survey Results: 42% of Employees Drinking While Working from Home(fishbowlapp.com)
11 points by altoidaltoid 6y ago|2 comments
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by altoidaltoid 6y ago
Thoughts and prayers
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by altoidaltoid 6y ago
doesn't take a month to pull a business license search and check employee records.
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by altoidaltoid 6y ago
https://www.businessinsider.com/fema-paid-bankrupt-company-n... No corruption here...
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by altoidaltoid 6y ago
The implementation of disaster federalism
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by altoidaltoid 6y ago
I am currently sitting in an Aeron chair from one of the dot com bust furniture auctions... I had a friend who rescued servers just abandoned in their racks when one company just folded mid-day, the last remaining guy just walked out of the
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by altoidaltoid 6y ago
But think of the ad revenue you can drive off this data set!
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by altoidaltoid 6y ago
Cynically, since the morbidity is mostly in the elderly parts of the population vs. the younger ( a la 1918 ), I can see the Lt. Gov of Texas's attitude of " let the olds make their sacrifice" be the driving principle...
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by altoidaltoid 6y ago
"But another 200 city residents are now dying at home each day, compared to 20 to 25 such deaths before the pandemic, said Aja Worthy-Davis, a spokeswoman for the medical examiner’s office. "
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Staggering Surge of NYers Dying in Their Homes Suggests City Is Undercounting(gothamist.com)
25 points by altoidaltoid 6y ago|7 comments
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by altoidaltoid 7y ago
and have 6% representation in the Senate...
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by altoidaltoid 7y ago
Where is that XKCD about new standards... Ah yes: https://xkcd.com/927/
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by altoidaltoid 7y ago
Similar arguments made by Paul Kennedy in his seminal work Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (1987): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_and_Fall_of_the_Great...
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by altoidaltoid 7y ago
Excellent, I found my time sink for today. Another IDE!
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by altoidaltoid 7y ago
one way to fix the Social Security funding shortfalls...
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by altoidaltoid 7y ago
So your suggestion is...
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by altoidaltoid 7y ago
It has been horribly fascinating watching the (coordinated?) campaign to downplay either the fatality rate or just write off a percentage off the population dying as the "cost of doing business".

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