ironlake

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by ironlake 4y ago
The poor just aren't carrying their weight.
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by ironlake 4y ago
>Now that restrictions are more or less gone, I'm glad to be working in the office again. In the US, COVID cases are five times higher than this time last year, and the CDC estimates that 1 in 5 will result in long COVID.
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by ironlake 4y ago
People have been waiting for the online ad industry to collapse from fraud since the 90's.
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by ironlake 4y ago
>language would be impossible Actually, as you're seeing, defining words based on how you feel makes language more difficult than just understanding what the article is about. The Economist is using the word "recession" to
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by ironlake 4y ago
I agree with this. The Java I learned in 2002 is still applicable, but you could also make a career using only technologies that had been invented since then. No one suspected that Apple development would be a viable tech path, and ruby was
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I never get a high from running or any other kind of exercise.
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by ironlake 4y ago
I've been a software developer for over 20 years and never showed a portfolio as part of a hiring process. Also, I take time out of my workday to learn stuff because my work doesn't teach me anything new either.
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by ironlake 4y ago
As an American, I could afford a few months of unpaid leave – I couldn't afford the health insurance or risk switching plans if my employer didn't cover the costs.
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by ironlake 4y ago
I've worked as a contractor at a large corporation when they were having layoffs. It's mostly luck. From an accounting standpoint, cutting contractors does not have the same impact as cutting full time employees, especially for pu
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by ironlake 4y ago
The hn bootlickers really come out hard when someone suggests that wealth inequality can't be fixed by unregulated capitalism. Won't someone think of the oligarchs?
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by ironlake 4y ago
I don't believe younger folks are at all done with TikTok. I don't believe TikTok is a social network only for younger people. Younger people my drive adoption on certain platforms, but other platforms like Etsy, Goodreads, and Pi
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by ironlake 4y ago
Enron signed a 30 year, $100 million contract for the naming rights to the Houston Astros stadium in 1999. Less than two years later, it was revealed that the entire company was essentially one big accounting fraud.
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by ironlake 4y ago
Terra Luna offered some great DeFi yield opportunities. Unrealistic yield is one of the hallmarks of a ponzi scheme. The DeFi yield opportunities require more money to flow in than to flow out. Apple stock, for example, pays a dividend that
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by ironlake 4y ago
I was in tech for 2001 and 2008 recessions. In both cases, the short answer is I got lucky. In 2001, I happened to be in an area that did not have a lot of exposure to the dotcom bubble. In 2008, I had just started at a new company after fl
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by ironlake 4y ago
>Even though it's technically a line of credit that happens to have an insurance policy attached? Dear god. If your federally insured bank goes belly up and the federal government doesn't fulfill it's promise to make you w
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by ironlake 4y ago
Based on the pipe bombs, I suspect that he does not.
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by ironlake 4y ago
All blockchain is a ponzi scheme. Reasons to give your money to the blockchain: currency of the future (Bitcoin) -> trustless computing (Ethereum Classic) -> trustless computing with that one bug fix (Ethereum) -> store of value (B
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by ironlake 4y ago
Can Ethereum Classic be stopped?
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by ironlake 4y ago
>The valuation the board has reached, for Twitter shares Absolutely! When the board demanded that Musk pay $54.20 per share – which is a completely rational number that they demanded from Musk and not a meme number that he made up himsel
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by ironlake 4y ago
>if tech wages came back to reality it would be affordable for mid sized companies to hire software developers to truly empower their specific businesses with software. Most mid-sized companies don't have the skills to manage and de
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by ironlake 4y ago
A lot of people have looked for conspiracy or motivation around the Terra Luna crash, but the real answer is if you can legally make money by making something crash, then someone will make it crash. Terra Luna was a slow antelope on the sav
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by ironlake 4y ago
I will further muddy the waters by saying that not only is the meaning of "worst" relative, but the scope of "worst" is at the team level. I worked for a dysfunctional (now dead) company about 10 years ago. The mobile de
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by ironlake 4y ago
Coffee with my partner at 8:30. Zoom standup meeting at 9:00 am. I usually take a few minutes to organize my space, make some plans for the day, then I start procrastinating.
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> Now every move by Meta is under intense scrutiny by three regulators who love to assert their power: USA, EU and UK. Facebook has proven they need more regulation, not less. Brexit could not have happened without Zuckerberg's gorm
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by ironlake 4y ago
I use it and do find it useful. The decorative aspects of the journal keep me engaged. That is, if I spend five minutes doodling or drawing lines and bullets, my mind is occupied with what's on the page. Whereas a digital todo list or
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by ironlake 4y ago
I like Pages and Numbers better than Word and Excel, but I write, and I got tired of converting documents so I could exchange with editors and peers. Though the conversion and interoperability is very good, it's not frictionless. So no
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Atlanta, GA – 14% gross, 23% net. Utilities are an additional 3%.