entangledqubit

If privacy is a core focus of your pitch, there should be a document with specifics about your promises around privacy, etc. There's nothing stating who you are and why I should trust you with my data.

If you really want to sell me on your privacy stance, you'll convince me (with something structurally binding) that once successful you're not going to sell out and have my data subject to new rules I didn't sign up for.

I this point I've been trained not to trust any company that's not charging me.

I'd love to hear insider stories about how misaligned fundraising department metrics can end up being for the university.

Regarding donating buildings in general, Andrew Carnegie seemed to get a lot of prestige leverage when he funded thousands of public libraries by paying for the buildings while requiring the locals to pay the upkeep and operation.

The 12V/5A power supply seems a little undersized for 4 x 3.5 HDD startup. I suspect that it's fine if the drives are started sequentially but the drives will probably want to pull more than 5A if they're all starting simultaneously. Possibly something to watch out for.

5A should be plenty for normal post-start operation.

Amusingly, the voting shares are currently worth less than the nonvoting.

One of my favorite network incident reports involved someone using aerial fiber for target practice...

You could have the fines be "heavily" pulled out of compensation packages for the higher ups who actually have the power to change the organization... but then they'd probably just leave and screw up some other place?

Do boards generally try to claw back compensation in these sorts of situations? (Just as they have been doing in some of the recent cases involving financial shenanigans.)

I believe the Google X building in Mountain View on San Antonio used to be the Mayfield Mall. They did a nice job renovating it for their purposes but you still feel like you're at a mall when you go through the building.

I'd suggest explicitly keeping those apps off the second monitor. I like keeping reference documentation and running notes there.

I don't think the cork board analogy really works here. This sounds like a person (ab)used their position and access to the backend of a security tool (Chrome extension or not) to broadcast a non-security related message.

I think we can generally agree that if they were on a team maintaining protocol buffers and they baked an unnecessary ignored message into the encoded stream (about whatever) there should be repercussions for lack of good judgement.

Generally speaking, I am for workers self-organizing if they feel it is appropriate. It's not clear to me that Spiers should have been fired for this seemingly minor offense.

When I used to conduct a ton of interviews, I would explicitly call out candidates I found exceedingly charismatic in my feedback so the hiring committee could watch out for other interviewers lowering their expectations. This pattern popped up regularly when I would compare my feedback against feedback from others.

When you meet these people, it can really be its own kind of drug.

This doesn't mix well with the ad-based compensation model.

Sadly, there still doesn't seem to be much in the way of micropayment infrastructure.

A childhood favorite of mine. It seems infinitely more plausible today than when I read it.

Based on my experience (not a lawyer) this depends very much on what company and (in the US) what state you are in. Google had a very broadly scoped right to your work in the paperwork signed when you got on board. Barring those agreements states, like California and Washington, explicitly have laws giving workers rights to their work done without using company resources.

Hang in there but return it if you can. I had a bad experience with my laptop purchase as well. (Issue wasn't discovered until after the return window.) Hopefully, you've already been escalated to their "real" customer support tier by now. I had to send mine in three times. One of those times they returned the laptop with a downgraded mainboard.

In the end I'm pretty happy with the laptop but I will never buy from them again.

Are you referring to the B&O taxes (seems to be based on industry) or are there others around as well?

I could imagine some reasonable arguments for having a low tax like that around.

My experience is pretty dated but back when I did some work with DARPA retention was a mess at the two defense companies I interacted with. Management wanted to minimize getting security clearance for employees since it involved a substantial amount of money/effort to get and then it was almost guaranteed that the employee would immediately jump ship to another better paying job requiring clearance elsewhere.

The other disturbing trend I learned about was how even if a company lost a contract, they would almost inevitably still work on it as a subcontractor for whoever the new contractor was. Part of that makes sense but it gave me the impression that no one ever really loses a contract.

I watched my father fade away from Alzheimers over the course of 5 years before he passed. Based on anecdotal stories in a support group, we were very lucky that he realized early on that something was wrong and he was very cooperative throughout. Other families in the support group experienced everything from lighthearted denial to emotions running amok.

Personally, I want some solid tests so I can have reliable information to make sure I end my days as myself.

I have the same complaint.

Perhaps a hidden, floating, spandex style layer that encapsulates the pocket and contents against the leg would solve that issue? This could be done while minimizing impact to the outer appearance.

Perhaps setting the atmosphere ablaze would have been an exceptional success? I remember someone telling me that this possibility was still being discussed before the Trinity test and, again, after thermonuclear bombs entered the arena. This seems to be a nice summary: http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2015/ph241/chung1/

How much of this not "good for agriculture" is a result of a mispricing that doesn't factor in the unsustainability of the current mainstream approach? Like many areas this may involve more human workers before later transitioning to smarter machines in the long run.

Aside from the altruistic aspect, I had extra motivation to give blood from an unfounded pet theory that the body isn't capable of removing all bad products that ends up in the bloodstream. Giving blood seemed like a safer way to purge some of these products than diy at-home phlebotomy. It's nice to finally have some research supporting this guess.

NEL aside, for CDL I'm curious what the bar is for possession. Could we have a community distributed library where people with purchased books can "give" their books sitting on their bookshelves to a CDL program but not have to physically ship anything? The donor then promises to check if their book is in use before cracking it open. Most of the time my books aren't being read anyway...

I've been expecting a "cash crunch" too but the Fed seems happy to keep making me wrong.

How do things look without using the questionable guidance of "asking price"? "Asking price" (and the notion of above asking) often seems like real estate agent reality distortion to me.

Mortgage rates are super low, so some may see this as getting an asset they can leverage in an improved environment later.

I bought about a dozen GE LED bulbs a couple of years ago due to the quality of their light. Sadly, in that short amount of time about 75% of them have either outright failed or developed some other condition that made me question their safety.

> Once you've smothered the competition in investor money, you're free to raise prices to profitability and beyond.

Of course, if a company started raising prices to profitability, perhaps it would be "worthwhile" for another group of investors to come along and start the whole cycle over again with a new - excessively funded - startup.

From what I understand, severance is also often offered as incentive to sign some kind of exit/termination agreement.

Unfortunately, right now it seems that there is incentive out there for oil to "go missing" for a profit -- presumably at the cost of the environment. I'm curious if anyone is thinking about trying to replace their fracking fluid with oil for a while...

Just make sure they don't sell it to you already filled with "thank you" oil...

While I've had thoughts along these lines as the "pragmatic" thing to do - given that the population level health effects of a busted economy and the fact that we're probably not changing the system anytime soon - we should still acknowledge that there's a lot we don't know about covid and that this would be a huge experiment. There are follow on health effects from both chicken pox (shingles) and polio viruses, for example, that often happen decades after their first onset - so we could have a "bonus" surprise from covid down the line. This would be to gain an immunity that is not assured as of yet - because we still don't know enough.