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I have a few coworkers who recently got Ring devices. Now I see them constantly checking their phones and watching the security footage. The level of paranoia this device creates is pretty remarkable. These are rich tech workers living in low crime neighborhoods too.

Having a security camera isn't a bad idea at all, but one that gets you to check it constantly like it's instagram can't be healthy.

I don't see anything in the job postings about remote being available. Is it worth it to apply if we don't live in the city the posting is for and not inclined to relocate?

Followup article [1] in response to berkshire's response [2]after the article was published.

[1] https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/times-watchdog/a-l...

[2] https://www.omaha.com/clayton-homes-statement-on-mobile-home...

It appears a US military general was pardoned by Obama for leaking details and US/Israeli involvement in it.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/10/17/obamas-general-pleads-g...

Silicon Valley where diversity and inclusion is welcomed, unless you look like someone we don't like, then we hate you, and get out.

"If you want a better quality of life, choose companies that don't rely on software as their main source of income and have been in business at least 5 years. I usually only choose companies that utilize software, but the main product is not the software itself.

My motive is that I have side businesses that I also run during the day."

This post really resonates with me.

People on here always tout the idea that you don't want to work for a company where software isn't the main product because then you're in a 'cost center' so it drove me into a job at a faang company. Now that' I've been at one for a few years I see that it's just full of people chasing clout so they'll work themselves into the ground.

Trying to work on side projects is futile when you're expected to work lots of unpaid overtime so if you have any ambitions outside of work you won't fit in well. I wish I had known this earlier on.

Amazon corporate offices have inter-faith prayer rooms and mothers rooms. I have a feeling they don't offer these basic amenities to hourly employees.

Given the fact that warehouse employees are pissing in gatorade bottles because they don't have time to use a bathroom I would suspect that participating in a religion that requires stopping work to prayer mid-shift or stopping to go breast feed would cause their quotas to drop.

So it's already pretty clear there's a huge bias towards only certain types of people who can even operate successfully in their warehouse as opposed to their corporate offices.

Although I guess it's all by design, reading through comments here or anywhere on HN about worker mistreatment outside of high earning tech salaries and you can see how little empathy exists among many people here. These are the people Amazon wants and needs working for them.

It's not just Venezuela, look at what is happening in Haiti.

> I've entertained the idea of selling BMW M cars, Audi S/RS and Merc AMGs, but the reality is there's far more labor involved, far more to usually fix, higher acquisition costs, less demand, and buyers who are completely insufferable. I've sold several, but in retrospect it wasn't ever worth the time and effort.

That's interesting, when I used to have a shop and flip cars on the side, honda civics and euro cars were the most profitable. Civics because you can fix them up, lower them and throw on a set of wheels and you're good to go are super easy to turn over. Euro cars are easy to pick up at steep discounts when they're older and need repairs, and the parts are actually not bad and once you get the hang of it, they're not too bad to work on.

Of course you'd want to also have accounts with parts stores otherwise you're losing too much on those costs.

However this was 5 years ago so the small crossover suv craze wasn't what it is today.

Interesting that just 10 customers make up over a third of revenue for them.

I can't name any tech companies who do it, but I've seen in traditional businesses (the kind that don't lose VC money for years). They just aren't really the companies you're going to read about on here or cnbc.

Is it because of the ephedrine in the bronkaid that causes the test failures?

Taco bell is a surprisingly good fast food option for vegetarians I've heard. You can make basically all their options meat-less and add options you like and you're good. (note I'm not vegetarian, just going by advice I've heard others mention this)

If I gave up 10% of my salary and someone else making much less got to raise of the equivalent of my 10%, I'd do it in a heart beat.

Did he contact Kaspersky Labs with the intent to sell the secrets or to be a whistleblower? The whole twitter thing doesn't really make sense.

Why is the going to school if he's planning to cash out in a way that he'd have to flee the USG for the rest of his life?

I wonder if there's companies who sell ELD info similar to other examples listed in here about carriers and apps selling user info. Having ELD info from truckers around refineries and drill sites would give you a pretty good insight as to what's going on.

Wrenches is a weird example to use, there's well defined tiers in hand tools.

harbor freight < craftsmen/kodiak < mac/matco < snapon

Each tier gets a little pricer and quality is different at each level.

However I do understand the point you're making and it is valid.

It also doesn't come with pager duty, stack ranking, working weekends, working long hours during the week, meetings, constant rush to meet deadlines, bad managers, bad coworkers.

For people who just want to earn a living and go home it doesn't sound too bad.

They break (nuclear) ships in Bremerton. When I was stationed there I watched them pull apart a few subs and a boat.

Maybe because it's close relation to weed. A lot of people (in the US) associate cbd with being the same thing as weed just as an oil. Given the topic of weed acceptance there I think that's what makes it surprising. People there are able to make the clear distinction.

>This is a "normal" thing, there was a HN article about it some weeks back: often if someone has their mind made up about something, often no amount of facts, figures, logic and proof will change their minds. They may even see these things as personal attacks. Facts are, sadly, not an effective way to convince people.

Does anyone know which article this is referring to? I'd like to check it out.

When I was in the military this is how our barracks were. They closed the on base kitchen and gave us a food stipend instead. Our rooms were the size of a large bedroom, shared with 2 people and we had a mini fridge and a microwave in the room.

Still managed to get pretty big working out and eating a diet that consisted of meats you could microwave (a lot of precooked sausage and can chili haha), we definitely didn't make SF money so there wasn't a lot of eating out.

Being statistically illiterate, could I get an explanation of of "The p-values for all the reported effects are presented in the appendix [2] and ranged from <.001 to .054 for the outcomes reported to be different." I looked at the link, but I'm still not sure what the table means, or how I could explain what this means to someone else who doesn't know stats.

I'd like to share this with her, but neither of us know stats so the significance is kinda lost.

My girlfriend has a twin brother. Since they were born in Haiti and we live in the US I'm not sure how relevant this study would be towards her, meaning the socioeconomic changes between living in those two countries is pretty wide. How does prenatal test affect someone after they've gone through puberty? I just don't see how that can be attributed towards college graduation or marriage rates. Is that not a far reaching statement to associate the two?

At this point reps (fakes) get so close to the real thing I couldn't imagine spending the money on the real thing unless you were collecting them. If you want to wear the shoe, why not just buy a 1:1 rep instead and save hundreds.

Crazy how many common nouns are already taken. People are rushing to squat on these.

I'm going to be the unfortunate hater, but it sounds like he should spend more time on actually learning how to be a baker and less time writing code in this particular case.

This is what I'd imagine most of the people on here would fall into the trap of when the monthly 'I want to quit and work with my hands' post comes up. It's the cliche, I want to disrupt the industry before I even learn it.

My girlfriend works at a bakery and I showed her this post and asked her what she thought about it. None of the bakers need to write down anything or make spreadsheets on how to make a loaf of bread or any of the other products they make every day. This is like having to google 'how to write a for loop' even though you're a programmer.

Bakeries make the same things every day, there's very little change even though as a customer(me) it might look crazy. Knowing recipes and quantities and how to adjust them are the most basic requirements of the job.

Huge props to this guy for doing it though! I hate making negative posts shitting on someones venture. If this is what makes it more fun for him, then keep doing it, and get better.

I've got a surron electric bike which does 45mph or about 70kph on flat ground. It's a bike that can be registered as a moped (with DOT lights added, some places option them already for this) or used as an electric bicycle (it can be optioned with an janky crankset, but it's more for appearances than pedaling).

It's a lot of fun, I ride it more than my cbr, but it does blur the lines of bike and motorcycle which can be tricky.

Interesting I have friends and family who work at sand mines that supply the sand for fracking. The companies they work for are still expanding and they have more overtime available than they can take. I'm not sure on the long term future of fracking but in the short 5-10 year span it doesn't appear to be going away based on how much infrastructure these companies are adding right now and how much land they're buying.

If I remember right a YT channel needs at least 4k subscribers now as of last year change to qualify for monetization on your channel.

So I'm surprised there's channels big enough which are dedicated to this anti vax thing to be monetized in the first place.