johngalt

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by johngalt 15y ago
tldr; The only way to stop the mob is to pay more protection money.
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by johngalt 15y ago
General Motors finds flaw in one of their engine designs putting millions at risk. It responds by requiring all drivers to waive their right to sue, or they will send an engine kill signal through onstar.
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by johngalt 15y ago
And you can learn to build a house in a day... because you managed to figure out a tent (with skilled help).
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by johngalt 15y ago
Poetic, but trust me it wouldn't work. All it would do is push 90% of the country to back the government more. The average Joe already fears the amount of control computers systems have over his life. Both parties would play that fear like
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by johngalt 15y ago
Don't bet on this. Too many people will build anything they are told to, and won't pay attention to what it means. Or at least they will be able to rationalize it. I've seen this in person with CALEA in the late 90s.
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by johngalt 15y ago
It's exceedingly rare to get a huge raise just for doing the job you were hired for. The best place to demand dollars is in the interview. Inside a company your best bet is to clearly delinate role changes, and make your demands parallel to
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by johngalt 15y ago
Everyone spys on everyone. We do it with drones and satellites, they do it with people.
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by johngalt 15y ago
Makes me wonder if there's a different solution to the elevator problem entirely. Expand the scope to "moving people along a vertical axis efficiently". What would a safe continuous elevator look like? Or could the solution for going up be
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by johngalt 15y ago
Do you really gain much from a carrier plane if you want to reach orbital velocity? LEO velocity being ~18,000mph, and any realistic carrier plane going much slower than that.
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by johngalt 15y ago
Decouple the drivetrain from the cabin. The drivetrain is automated, and has standard connection types for the personal cabin. So you can have a mobile space that is "yours". Still has all the benefits listed in the article, and handles a f
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by johngalt 15y ago
Consider what your audience wants to know, not what you want to say. Try to avoid metaphor or analogy. "We recommend games based on what their friends play. Someday books and movies." = good "Our EC2 based cloud platform combines social dyn
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by johngalt 15y ago
I'm aware, but I'm trying to take it one step at a time for those just starting out. I've trained a few people (mostly friends and family). A common thread among people who don't negotiate is a belief in fairness. That haggling is about ask
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by johngalt 15y ago
To defeat the fear: I wouldn't recommend a book or a class. Instead find the best negotator you can and spar with them until you get over the anxiety. Find something arbitrary to negotiate over like who's buying lunch (I'll buy drinks if yo
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by johngalt 15y ago
I discovered this a few years ago, about a large number of women and some men. My wife got a job and the employer glossed over salary negotiations with an "assumed sale" of minimum wage! I asked why she accepted that, and she said "There wa
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by johngalt 15y ago
Completely agree; additionally there are legislative requirements on the employer if any decision is based on credit score (FCRA).
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by johngalt 15y ago
While you can't train experience, the value of experience decreases steeply over time. Sure someone at year 0 has less utility than someone at year 10, but the difference may all but disappear when comparing year 5 vs 10. Edit: I started ou
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by johngalt 15y ago
Technical skill isn't that important for front line staff. Most IT shops will have a bunch of $10/hr types handling "how do I fix this excel formula?" questions. And they have a phone number for the big guns when they need it. Please don't
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by johngalt 15y ago
Love the entitlement attitude of some managers, and the weasel words. As if it's some sort of moral failure to get paid market rates. Employee leaves to get paid their market rate = evil poaching! Management firing everyone to replace with
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by johngalt 15y ago
It makes the amount of sky you have to protect from inbound RVs much smaller. A smaller cone for your anti-missile interceptors.
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by johngalt 15y ago
It's not the classiest person who highlights/broadcasts the flaws in others.
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by johngalt 15y ago
I've got no doubt the execs still make more overall, but how much more? And is the difference worth their name? We will never really know the answer to this question. Likely they picked a minority of the employees, and there will be a lot o
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by johngalt 15y ago
Zynga is aiming squarely at their feet and firing a cannon. Would you invest in a company where management is obviously looking for a short term cashout at the expense of the future success of the company? The future success is precisely w
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by johngalt 15y ago
It's not like Zynga will have another IPO in the future, or will need to promise future employees equity. Precisely why "trust" should never be a part of an equity negotiation. When millions are on the table people will do whatever they can
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by johngalt 15y ago
You could make the same arguement without any sci-fantasy. Why bother starting a new gold mine? If it doesn't have any gold then it's wasted effort, and if it has tons of gold then it will just depress prices. So why bother exploring for an
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by johngalt 15y ago
So which is it? IT bans Macs because they want their job to be easier and intentionally cripple users to that end. IT bans Macs because they are so easy that less IT work would be required. I've seen both views presented, but they seem mutu
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by johngalt 15y ago
If they are connected to a share already... done. Just let the list of open sessions tell you what username is associated. Alternatively dump the FDB on the switch. Really easy if you use voip phones with downstream connections to the compu
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by johngalt 15y ago
I think we have a tone mismatch here. For instance if a user brought in a Mac the email would be something like "Hey, just saw $newdevice connected to corpLAN. Remember that all company data needs to be saved to a share in order to be prope
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by johngalt 15y ago
Ah so that falls under the umbrella of expectations of IT. E.G. someone brought a machine from home one day and proceeded to work on it, then had a failure and lost "business critical" data. Then management chewed out IT with questions like
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by johngalt 15y ago
51% allow access to web-based email? 37% allow internet access? 19% native email? I've been in IT for 12 years, I've never seen anyone endorse blocking Macs from any of these. 49% block Macs from webmail ? Difficult to imagine a situation
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by johngalt 15y ago
True which is precisely why banks used to charge a small monthly fee to have an account. Then one bank offered "free checking" and all the rest had to follow suit or lose all their DDAs. There are evil banks out there, and customers flock t

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