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by disposeofnick9 10y ago
Qualitatively, the South / Peninsula SF Bay Area hasn't had many significant earthquakes in recent years compared with the 80's-90's. I remember the 89 Loma Prieta doing algebra homework at 5:04 pm in the setting sun,
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by disposeofnick9 10y ago
Yup, already saw this ages ago. Very old news.
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Airbnb negotiating with SEIU to offer unionized cleaning services(theguardian.com)
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by disposeofnick9 11y ago
It's not exitinct per se, there are millions of jobs in government with great retirement packages. Some university jobs are basically for life too.
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by disposeofnick9 11y ago
This is why many people, even today, take government jobs... not for massive pay, perks or fun offices but to build a stable life.
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by disposeofnick9 11y ago
Yup. One person's stupidity is another wise, entrepreneur's money-making opportunity... hire LGBTQ, disabled, ex-cons, neurodiversity, anyone whom typical businesses "reject," not just for PR reasons but to win bigger w
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by disposeofnick9 11y ago
For multinational companies, Belarus has been a solid country for sourcing technical talent. (Some work remote while others get visas... being flexible as an employer retains the best people longer.)
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by disposeofnick9 11y ago
Sounds like NCBLA for software engineering... in this case, tests which dont't add business value, measured as proof of value. F that bullshit. Mid-sized companies may have less perks and less organization, but there's often les
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by disposeofnick9 11y ago
Yup, sounds like press-release marketing. A terabyte+ of crown jewel dbs doesn't sprout legs, even from an APT.
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by disposeofnick9 11y ago
Yup, VCs tend to favor go-big-or-go-home ventures. There are also lots of seemingly tiny things that can be made bigger too... and those are better pitches/founders to astute investers like Thiel whom realize small people are all talk
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by disposeofnick9 11y ago
Horse / barn scenario... hard to see how that brand can recover without massive hustle and undeniable demonstration of proof for changed ways.
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by disposeofnick9 11y ago
Yup. " Think and grow rich" requires creative imagination and some experience to pivot into whatever has a better chance to become profitable, rather than just throw away value and opportunity. Even if folks really do want to g
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by disposeofnick9 11y ago
Theranos had their shot... Walgreens pulled all their in-store advertising.
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by disposeofnick9 11y ago
Verizon is throttling YouTube for unlimited data-plan customers a lot , to where it's unusable... other sites work somewhat better.
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by disposeofnick9 11y ago
I have a 1985 VW Westfalia (Digijet - pre-computer, pre-ODB, direct port injection), and it's a Donald Drumpf PITA to tune. The '86 Digifant is even worse, having a full, new ECU and mixed parts of the '85 control system. Ev
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by disposeofnick9 11y ago
More than a few Lenovo (was Google, was Motorola) Mobility devices require Lenovo to maintain servers in order for some of the carrier apps, their apps and other phone features to work. Sidekick (Microsoft, was Danger) also has an enormousl
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by disposeofnick9 11y ago
Using llvm might introduce a dependency, but it also gives all the LLVM advantages/disadvantages across platforms for "free" (some work, fewer reinvented wheels) and more toolchain utilities.
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by disposeofnick9 11y ago
Trickle-down economics fantasy doesn't work because self-interest results in trickle-up. One issue really is that there is an apparent lack of valuable, human-doable work to go around because of automation and a highly-connected, globa
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by disposeofnick9 11y ago
Most people don't connect unpatched devices as easy pickings for fraud and abuse. I was at the mechanic the other day, and this loud-mouthed boor bragged about never doing updates. The kind of guy whom would surf for porn on iOS 6 Mob
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by disposeofnick9 11y ago
Probably a practice best to run iOS updates fully charged, plugged into power and over stable Wi-Fi. Also an iCloud backup beforehand and an iTunes full-backup where possible seem like good ideas.
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by disposeofnick9 11y ago
There's also another annoying, existing bug in iOS at least back to 9.2 where if memory is low, copy stops working... the clipboard retains the old value until you kill basically every other app.
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by disposeofnick9 11y ago
For links not opening, tried pressing harder or turning off/recalibrating 3D Touch? General > Accessibility > 3D Touch For folks reverting iOS, it seems like it's probably a preference thing (sans that bookings app.)
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by disposeofnick9 11y ago
Accordingly, the US is currently in qualitatively worse shape risk-wise because there are fewer banks with larger portfolios, and regulators are part of the chorus of revolving characters in the banking-government complex... making another
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by disposeofnick9 11y ago
Maybe it's not that the profits are too high, but inequities of distribution are causing tangible, social externalities (Carrier moving to Mexico, undocumented workers rights abused in meatpacking facilities)? Perhaps more companies n
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by disposeofnick9 11y ago
It's the signals destroying trust that create the animosity, and will tend to make it harder to have decent, respectful, working relationships with integration partners. It reads as lopsided and occurring unilaterally, without any degr
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by disposeofnick9 11y ago
Maybe don't throw away the current integrations that work for magical new platform, but instead work collaboratively so that both parties plan and work together on channels to manage change from a position of trust? devops for vendor
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by disposeofnick9 11y ago
A startup becomes uncool when it starts driving code churn as a value reducer ostensibly as "new value," but instead alienates their vendors and customers alike. IFTTT reminds me of the audicity of Hillary Clinton assuming she&
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by disposeofnick9 11y ago
Such subconscious biases are what tends to allow some people to get away with being borderline useless, and others shot by cops or fired without warning.
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In the Standford med school, an IT admin named Can______ was pushed out for the treacherous crime of being older, and no pretext was used to pretend it was anything else because their supervisor admitted it openly. People have to realize th
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by disposeofnick9 11y ago
Exactly. Pain evolved as a guide to improve survival but it also can also create deadly stress when it gives chronic, false positives. If suffering is life-altering, it's on the patient or their advocate/s to keep on their medic

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