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Alcohol is a harmful drug much worse than some of the other banned drugs on the market.

This is a terrible solution. Writing is part of the developers job requirements. And writing doesn't just happen in documentation. It happens in emails, technical specs, presentations, code comments. Developers should maybe just get better at their job because documenting and writing is part of it.

A majority of credit card fees goes to the issuing bank. Like a huge percentage of it. Visa and credit card processors take a much smaller percentage relative to the banks.

Maybe hologram should also think about writing more succinctly. He could have gotten across this message in half the words.

San Francisco is still a major financial hub by the way.

Miami has had a nice cultural revolution in the last 10 years or so. A lot more art and culture than before and tons of things to do besides partying on South Beach. Many areas of Miami feel more like SF in LA than Trump country.

Can we also start hosing down rich white kids who drop out of rehab?

Please link your data showing that for me and Rome to Soviet Russia people flock to population center because of socialism.

Microsoft, Twitter, Dolby are 3 who share an intersection! Square and Uber just a block away.

SF like most American cities has suffered poor city planning and no foresight about future population growth.

Time zones still matter. Which is a huge deterrent for being productive more so than being in the same office.

The only thing I really got out of this long article was the importance of having a customized organizational and workflow system that suits your lifestyle. For me there's two books / methodologies that has made a huge impact in how I think about and organize my work. The first is David Allen's getting things done system. It is extremely generic but comprehensive and suitable for pretty much any kind of knowledge worker. The second is using a personal kanban board for organizing all of my work and personal tasks. Highly recommend the book Personal Kanban.

with a sufficient organizational assistant in place I don't feel the need to be productive all the time. I know that when I sit down my work is already planned ahead so I can immediately start being productive. I also review and plan my work ahead a little bit which saves a lot of time and makes contact switching less costly.

That is a failure of the public education system not unions. It is not as if the governments are trying to push innovative teaching methods and investing more in public education especially for the underprivileged.

This is patently false. Local indexing and search will always outperform a network call

Slow death of Google as the company we know it today is not a bad thing.

Restaurant indian food is made in batch though. The food tastes just as fresh and often tastes better after the spices have had time to settle.

It's irresponsible for anyone with kids to have not done this.

It's possible to give yourself unapproved 4 day week at megacorps if you are a high performer. Nobody bothers me in Friday and no problems yet.

Do you have a TV? Do you have a Roku or other streaming box? Do you use a smartphone?

Yep. I found Amazon pretty useless these days and rarely use it. I buy household essentials from Target their service and delivery is good and I have an option of in-store pickup within a day or delivery within a couple of days. At least they have a stable set of brands that they sell it's not the highest quality but it's good enough for most things. The things I care about quality I will buy directly from the seller.

Stop using Google search. DDG works just as well

Yes Java is uqititous and it's not going away for 30 years at least. See Cobol. Java also has had significant improvements in the language so that there is less incentive to use other JVM languages like kotlin and it's fully interoperable with heartland code bases as far as I know

Your argument is a strawman. Car and phone or bad examples to prove your point because car reliability improved because of factors unrelated to the internet, and phone reliability improved because a better reliability of satellites and computer networks. Better examples are things like watches or desktop applications which seem to work fine before they were connected to the internet.

The purpose of hardware engineering is to make up for the short falls of software engineers.