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In Illinois, I felt the original medicinal stores were more warm and very friendly and helpful esp to first time users. Compassionate to first time users who are dealing with legit pain and medical issues.

Newer recreational stores have popped up everywhere with many many more to come, but the few I’ve visited are cold and the staff act like they could give a shit.

- something like 75% of lawyers would not recommend their children go in to law

Yes, but it must be like what IT has become to some extent. Many people go into it because it's a (seemingly) high paying job with lots of jobs available, but they aren't passionate about it. Then get disillusioned about it. So you have a high rate of dissatisfaction amongst professionals in the field. Personal experience you can go from 50k/yr to 250k/yr and still be depressed if you're not excited about what you are doing.

Wife's divorce lawyer.. Guy has a small office in small town. Has one paralegal working w him. Charges his $250/hr. Not much stress. If he works around full-time per week, pays his paralegal and small office - he's doing pretty good by most salary standards.

Most technical people don't get paid to solve problems, they get paid to work on problems. That paycheck is an hourly/weekly/monthly paycheck.

This is definitely the future for Facebook. Everything FB does now becomes incredibly more exciting and visceral. We know the future is super fast computing and bandwidth. Virtual experiences become almost (or totally) indistinguishable from real world.

You don’t like a post your cousin made from Costa Rica, you visit Costa rica with your cousin in stunning realism! That’s the future for internet services.

I found it really fluctuates based on the team members. We definitely had 3x 4x differences in productivity between the worst and best on the team. Our estimates had to be good as it determined the size of the sales deal. Most everyone on the team was there for years, so we knew each other well. We could give a solid estimate but with a new team member is more challenging.

Who cares about space? It's one of those things politicians trot out that captures the imagination of the masses.

We have serious problems here on earth, most caused by the problems in the human psyche. In here, not out there.

The argument, well we're going to destroy the earth we better have a backup plan to get out. Maybe we can focus the resources and attention on the problems here on earth in a meaningful way.

Had a non-compete (consulting). Employer was cool at my old workplace. We didn't have any super-proprietary knowledge or book of business to walk off with - so generally they weren't enforced. But they needed it to protect the business and I can understand that.

In my state, by law the contract can't cause 'undue difficulties'. You could prob make the case that were I to leave, it prevents me from working in my industry - I'd call that a good enough argument to go before a judge with, esp in a blue state.

As someone who was abandoned as a child and still maintains a pretty good relationship w both parents, I'm sure they are oblivious to the effect that had on me as a child. Nor are they willing to talk about it now. They feel what's done is done and in the past, and don't want the awkwardness of that conversation.

It's cool, but sometimes you wanna cry for that child. As an adult, I've heard the mistake is looking at what happened to you through a childs eyes. Ya can't really ever let it go.

Cause many non-technical people have no useful skills. There's really only two things to solve, technical and sales. I can handle the technical.

Ideas are cheap and most suck (that is, not innovative enough to really be something special). I want someone highly skilled at the process of taking something small and good, getting people to invest, and making it bigger. I can build <whatever startup> faster and cheaper and more solid than you could ever imagine, but don't have any desire in schmoozing or learning the VC game.

The video surprisingly turned out less awful than this title makes it appear. The message is not, use people to get ahead.

But I’d imagine more important than your friend group. How are you spending your time. But some good points are made about advancing along with a small group of people with a common passion that have created a little scene.

You can see that with the Silicon Valley tech guys of the 70s, or the film geeks Coppola, Spielberg, Lucas, Milius who had their thing before anyone knew or cared who they were. Or the punk rockers in NYC in the 70s Blondie, Ramones who had their little scene before everyone got famous. There’s lots of examples.

Notice these classic technologies. They’re SIMPLE. That got lost in later development up the stack.

The key is finding the right mix between autonomy and direction. You really need both cause there is a need for direction and organization esp as the group grows beyond team size.

But most problems aren’t a result of following the correct “science” of management, itself a dubious proposition, but can be traced back to what’s really important. You have to have the right people in the building to start with.

It’s really to generate some excitement for OEM PC sales. 10 being the last version with Windows update is a viable way to go, but you get none of the annual “get people excited” event apple has capitalized on so well.

You're basically paying the SE tax in order to be independent, but the Solo 401k higher contributions and all the write-offs are major offsets to that.

Check into short-term health plans if you don't use much healthcare - esp if you don't need to cover a family. $170/mo. (plus the deduction - effective cost $100) vs. $600/mo for Obamacare.

Bitcoin has tremendous value. Not as a currency or financial processing network. Those are pipe dreams. But in bringing the power of cryptographic and blockchain technologies to prominence.

Watch out for the fastest Samsung and WD drives. You want to find TB written (TBW) rating for the drive, which is in the specs but takes a little digging usually to find.

Consumer models will often have about 300-600 TBW of life. Data Center hardware designed for continuous use will have 1000-3000 and up.

Watch out for the FASTEST drives like Evo and WD Black, faster drives (PCIe 4.0, 7GB/sec read) can have much lower endurance.

Pretty easily solved imo by ending the warranty on the rated TB written (they all have ratings for this and they vary wildly - faster drives can have 1/10th the endurance of others) - in addition to the time limit.

I do have a problem with someone selling me a product and then telling me what I can and can't do with it.

I totally would but it better be REALLY fast

Since the cryptos electricity usage, at least that part which is generated by fossils, is a real problem (it is) - it would be nice to see this problem addressed with blockchain technologies.

Carbon offset tokens, or some token that will increase in value when cryptos global electricity usage goes up, and offsets with renewable projects. If it were funded by governments in billions of dollars it would make an impact, and everyone could participate in funding the token.

The problem must be addressed in altering the fossil/non-fossil energy mix. You are not going to control the financial incentive to mine, or kindly ask ppl to use less electricity please. Carbon taxes have been proposed but you would have to get that done globally, they are certainly working on that from a political perspective but you never know there are always resistance to a new tax.

Not sure I’d use the local deps file. I really like just the import {..} from “https://xn--ivg. The version, everything, is up front and explicit.

As a one person company I find it not just helpful but a core principle to minimize the number of stacks/tools/services being used. Overhead of task switching and learning curves.

The problem with that is, if it's not amplified on social media, it doesn't exist.

There were trials where it was shown that sufficient Vitamin D levels (most people are deficient) is very effective in preventing COVID. It got minor attention, but no-one is pursuing it on a widespread basis. Maybe it works maybe not, but even if there were clinical trials, it gets crowded out by what's being widely circulated in the media.

This is unfair. Probably acting unprofessionally. She’s made some serious accusations, let her go to court with them. Discrimination in hiring is not unfortunate, it’s illegal. Maybe she’s a nut. Maybe she’s a witness to illegal discrimination. Maybe both! But her claims should not be summarily dismissed. Bring your evidence to the court if need be.

Absolutely can be done. I think there’s a kind of brain well suited to it cause some people just seem to ‘get it’ and some don’t. Don’t worry about that tho I’ve worked with many people that don’t fully get it and remain employed. Worth trying if you feel it! Don’t let anyone make you believe you can’t do something if your heart is in it.

Enterprise Technology Sales and Technology are two entirely different worlds

The problem w Bitcoin as a global reserve currency is that it cannot be manipulated by the nation-state. Manipulation in this case is not a bad thing it is actually a safety feature for society against pure supply/demand dynamics. The prevailing wisdom is that having a fiat currency which value and velocity can be manipulated by, granted the Fed Reserve is a quasi govt agency, in times of emergency helps preserve the social order and smooth fluctuations. So Bitcoin has no value as a reserve currency unless it could be manipulated by the state, which it can’t, so it won’t.

Averages don't matter. Most people walk away from car accidents unhurt. Still, seatbelts are mandatory.

We choose a level of precautions (cost) according to the risk. Which is what bugs me about the non-mask crowd cause it costs NOTHING.

Having yourself injected with a newly developed substance is a different thing.

Let's face facts, the long-term effects are unknowable - you trade that for the short-term protection.

Apple almost the #1 PC maker. Wow.

Unfortunately that $1 aid will cost $1000 when it hits the public market. It would be nice to see open source hardware in medical devices. And a health/safety approval of the DESIGN. At least devices that won't kill you if they fail. So I can build my own like I build my own desktop computer.

Buying any Chinese electronics off Aliexpress doesn't excite me too much. Generally, they suck.

There is UNLIMITED money available to the government to fight this pandemic. The Fed simply prints the money, as they have, in the trillions of dollars since it began. Money is not the issue. The government has not made masks a priority. Biden won't do much better - I suspect he's pretty inept.

Production isn't the issue either - if you wave enough money in front of the private sector, they will do anything.

Prez simply makes a statement - every person will have N95 masks available to them - and we're going to do whatever we need to do to make that happen. It's better politically to guarantee everyone a $1200 check. This pandemic reveals the weaknesses in our systems.