jimt1234

51 ms·

871.
by jimt1234 4y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17395675#17398314 Sorry if I'm being repetitive ^^^, but seeing the impact of civil forfeiture first-hand really shook me. I still get angry, and it took place 30 years ago!
872.
by jimt1234 4y ago
Also, did the Trump Administration relax a bunch of regulations around predatory loans? I recall the auto and payday loan industries were very happy.
873.
by jimt1234 4y ago
Me too! Battle Chess is what got me into chess back in the 80s. Apparently there's a new-ish version on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/200150/Battle_Chess_Game_...
874.
Netflix lays off about 150 employees(reuters.com)
307 points by jimt1234 4y ago|352 comments
875.
by jimt1234 4y ago
YES!!! ^^^
876.
Biden administration unveils action plan to boost affordable housing(cnn.com)
3 points by jimt1234 4y ago|0 comments
877.
by jimt1234 4y ago
Reminds me of war dialing as a kid and forgetting to exclude the 911 prefix. Cops showed up at my house around 2am, banging on the front door. They weren't happy, to say the least. Good times. Actually, it was maybe a year or two after
878.
by jimt1234 4y ago
Reminds me of a conversation with a counselor when I attended a California Community College. I was expressing how nervous I was to transfer to UC, that I was just some dumb kid from Modesto Junior College. UC had some of the smartest kids
879.
by jimt1234 4y ago
I had lighting strike a telephone pole about 30 feet from me when I was a kid in Missouri. It was like someone sticking a camera flash close to my eyes and pressing the button. I didn't really feel anything else, just temporary blindne
880.
by jimt1234 4y ago
Sorta-related topic: I like to listen to music while I run. I currently use a 7th Gen iPod Nano. It works because it's small and it has Bluetooth; I just put it in my pocket and go. However, I would rather have this same functionality
881.
by jimt1234 4y ago
Debate is dead, replaced by the echo chamber. Sadly, the ACLU has adapted to this.
882.
by jimt1234 4y ago
Isn't this the same governor whose solution was to declare a special day for citizens pray for rain?
883.
by jimt1234 5y ago
Reminds me of the movie "The Big Short", specifically the "Brownfield Capital" subplot. I'd love to hear some of these stories. I've never had any visibility into the world of insurance, but it's always ki
884.
by jimt1234 5y ago
Yes, it's true. My mother was a COBOL programmer for nearly 30 years. She retired in 2012 and quickly got bored. I convinced her to consider contract work, to ask for the sky - short-term contract, 100% remote, lots of money, etc. She
885.
by jimt1234 5y ago
Here's one I would add: "Go to jail." Seriously. I spent a weekend in jail when I was about 19. So many life lessons learned in such a short time.
886.
by jimt1234 5y ago
"We're not internet-facing, so we're not at risk, so we're not concerned with security." Standard misconception. I once worked with a team running a large Hadoop cluster. Everything in a private network. Nothing int
887.
by jimt1234 5y ago
Respectfully, I think that's the point. Why should a single-employee company have to outsource to deal with all the red tape?
888.
by jimt1234 5y ago
Please accept my apologies in advance. I don't mean to sound crass. But, after the incident at your daughter's school, she's still alive, right? Are you suddenly worried she's scarred for life and gonna grow up to be a m
889.
by jimt1234 5y ago
Stop signs seem to be the current solution to roads that promote unsafe/fast driving. It's been demonstrated that narrow, non-straight roads promote slower, safer driving. This is the opposite of how roads have been built in most
890.
by jimt1234 5y ago
My two cents: 1. Turn off social media. Or at least avoid all the fake, self-promoting garbage. 2. Accept that you're probably not gonna cure cancer or solve cold fusion. Nothing wrong with that. 3. Get a hobby that has NOTHING to do w
891.
by jimt1234 5y ago
This! So much this! ^^^
892.
by jimt1234 5y ago
This type of thing happened to me all the time back in college, except the "cult" was Christianity. It was sorta common on campus, though. But I think I got it a little more because I was a bit of a loner. So many over-friendly du
893.
by jimt1234 5y ago
I administered Microsoft Exchange for "Evil Corp" back in the 90s. I was asked to install a filtering package that monitored emails for keywords (curse words). After collecting data for about a week, there was one clear conclusion
894.
by jimt1234 5y ago
Funny you mention ROT13. I lived in China for a short time, and I experienced this same thing (certain email messages seemed to get /dev/null'ed), so we started ROT13'ing the messages as a joke, thinking it would never w
895.
by jimt1234 5y ago
Better rule: NEVER answer the phone.
896.
by jimt1234 5y ago
The influence of Intuit and H&R Block is basically meaningless compared to the wealthy in this country that benefit most from the complicated tax code.
897.
by jimt1234 5y ago
I'm really curious about opinions regarding "how this ends..." Seems to me that, if current trends continue, home ownership will basically become extinct; everyone will become renters. Home ownership will take the same path a
898.
by jimt1234 5y ago
I worked for a PBM back in the 90s. The company, and the whole industry, was/is shady AF. I remember once when I was volun-told to work for new program that handled "rebates". They needed a nerd to support the servers/da
899.
by jimt1234 5y ago
At least drug dealing provides a product: drugs/inebriation/escapism - it's something . After all these years of crypto, I still haven't figured out what the product is. The crypto zealots talk about government-free fin
900.
by jimt1234 5y ago
This is a question I've had for years: Does time of day matter for sleep? If I go to sleep on a "normal" schedule (wake up, start day around 7am), I need 8 hours. However, I can totally survive, and even thrive, with just 5-i

More ›