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So would not being able to get fuel because there isn't enough of it because no one allowed supply and demand to work.

Although a pain requiring backwards compatibility is an incredibly strong force in helping remains competitive in the market that is one of the reasons Windows continues to stick around despite it's many other copious flaws.

To quote groundskeeper Willie

"It won't last brothers and sisters are natural enemies. Like English men and Scots or Welshmen and Scots or Japanese and Scots or Scots and other Scots. Darn Scots they ruined Scotland."

Guess we can add DST to that.

> Technical skills gaps among employees have grown as more employees work from home, according to a Pluralsight survey

> according to Pluralsight

Something smells like a PR piece rather than an honest report.

What about those who have a change of heart and left facebook to try and do something better?

What about those in third-world countries that could only get in a on a Visa and FB was the one that hired them, could we fault them for choosing to leave a much riskier life to live the life of a FAANNG developer?

Are people beyond redemption because of one bad decision, what about people that see the world differently?

So something you might find interesting there is a website out there https://senatestockwatcher.com/ that reports on the trades made by congress people and one of the things that was discovered is that many congress people have below or only slightly above returns on stock market trading.

That being said as far as I know it is only trades they make so there may be ways around it but just an interesting point of data.

If your org needs that much complexity it probably is at a point that the time and money wasted waiting for Jira todo things is probably small in comparison to the rest of the wasted efficiency.

Ubuntu with i3.

Based on the cost of drones vs the cost of an F-35 we hit that point several years ago.

In fact I remember watching a military channel doc in 2010 where it pointed out that was the ideal strategy at that point anyway.

I got fascinated by this experiment and read the paper about it a while back.

To me it is haunting what it implies, on the other hand I also have to believe that humanity are not rats and are more capable smarter and able to reason in ways rats cannot.

Ultimately whenever I enocunter these apocalyptic Malthusian predictions I also try and remind myself that the original Malthus was wrong, so was everyone else that predicted the end of the world and collapse of society, thus this prediction is likely wrong as well.

To push against this point I prefer KPIs, or something objective that I can be measured against, now that doesn't mean I like bad KPIs but the fact of the matter is there are always going to be KPIs the only question is how explicit or implicit they are.

When KPIs are explicit everyone knows what they are and can modify their behavior to optimize for their KPIs when all measurement goes away the new KPI is the arbitrary one held in the decision makers head, and now instead of it being an explicit bar that can be objectively used to make decisions the entire system falls apart into politics and emphasizing appearances over work because the only thing that matters with implicit KPIs are what everyone else thinks of you, which is much easier to manipulate than the amount of cash you brought in.

Looks like boosters help. Something I am still not clear on though is that I got COVID then got the Fauci Ouchie. Do I need a booster?

"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.'' ― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956"

But if you go to the beach 3 times your risk of getting shot by a dog with a handgun in its mouth is 50% higher.[1]

[1] https://xkcd.com/1252/

People get HELOCs now, intending to flip the house sometime soon. Suddenly the house depreciates substantially in value, they still have to pay for the HELOC and the mortgage for a house that they weren't planning on holding on to and can't get rid of and now they are trapped.

I'd recommend when you decide to make claims you go ahead and provide a source rather than becoming passive-aggressive and telling someone it isn't your job to educate them.

This is part of a strategy to eliminate the openness of the web, right now your client still has full view and control of the code running on it in the browser to a certain degree.

Companies do not want this, this makes it possible to reverse engineer their process, to view what they are doing, and basically takes away control.

They want a future where your browser is instead a portal to the web where various companies just deliver black boxes of bytes to your machine and you don't have visibility into the code that is running, the actions they are performing or what is going on. In such a world they control the platform the content and the delivery mechanism.

Openness is contrary to the goals of these large companies because that causes them to lose control.

Except Marx was wrong for most of the time after he predicted this as there was a steady rise in wages during most of the 20th century.

Further Marx predicted that the first nations to fall to communism would be the most capitalist ones, but in fact the opposite occurred and the least capitalist countries fell to communism, meanwhile the capitalist countries have not.

That's just one example there are plenty of other others that can be provided, from how is theory of dialectical materialism was wrong on all counts when it came to any scientific power, to history.

In fact the most impressive part of Marx is how truly wrong he managed to be without actually being original as the majority of his work is derivative from Hiegel.

Just saying I've been using Ubuntu for my primary work machine (in a massive company) for over a year now and things work great, haven't had to fiddle with anything strange haven't had any weird issues and the UI is much nicer than Windows. I'd recommend giving it a try.

Every empirical prediction Marx made, failed. The societies based on his teachings led to the greatest human tragedies in the history of mankind. Marx's only relevance is to show the dangers of those who preach the philosophy of the ends justifying the means.

You are correct my brother got denied top secret clearance despite being active duty military because his wife is from a Caribbean nation. To get the right clearance is hard.

From the article

"John Binns, a 21-year-old American who moved to Turkey a few years ago"

I'm assuming it is the Turkey thing, probably counting on that to be a significant barrier. Yes they have extradition but I've also heard that Turkish authorities are quite amenable to bribes as well.

I was running an MBP for work and running Doom Emacs got me the exact same issue, that would spread to everything. Luckily I was up for a new machine before things got to bad and on the new Dell Percision I haven't had any issues (after I installed Ubuntu on it)

This is one of my concerns with what I've seen of the recent fetishizing of mental illness, it seems to many people I talk to or interact with, especially younger people, it is popular and cool to have some sort of mental illness, such as anxiety or depression, or something else.

Of course many of these indivudals are self diagnosed but that doesn't stop them from talking about it constantly and holding themselves up as a "suffering soul". Meanwhile those who legitimately struggle with issues like depression or anxiety now get either brushed off, or have people that "totally understand" when really they don't at all.

I think anyone that thinks that this issue of just closing the schools is an easy answer has no idea what the hell they are talking about.

My mother teaches at a Title I school (that means the schools that get the most federal funding because things are rough) they provide lunch and breakfast for the kids because many kids will probably not get fed otherwise. For these kids the risk of the problems that will arise from COVID are a much smaller risk and impact than what will happen to them if they are at home all day.

My point is that the more sure you're right about a given issue the more likely you are to be ignorant of what is really going on.

My wife kept wanting to get that for our kids. I told her no, because all it would do is increase her anxiety. So far we are 3/3 kids and all of them have been fine without it thus far.

Yes but you said that we should talk to someone who is black. I just said I did.

My brother in law is black and in Tech, and not African American just straight up African. He doesn't have an issue with it.

Incidentally also the three areas where the government is most directly pouring money into, via FHA/USDA loans, Medicare/Meidcade, and Pell Grants and Loans respectively.

Yes but it is a supply demand. If putting in the automation infrastructure is going to cost be $500,000 and $100,000 a year to maintain it then as long as I can keep an employee for $30,000 a year that probably doesn't scale. Whereas if the cost of the employee moves to $50,000 or $60,000 a year it becomes more advisable and prudent to do so.