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I quit smoking after 18 years and think the same advice is applicable: remove yourself from the triggers.

Right before I got married I quit smoking and started using the patch. Once we got to our honeymoon spot the urge to smoke dropped off because I was in a new location. I didn’t use the patch at all and am still smoke free to this day.

If you can afford it, take a 5 day vacation and don’t drink. That may give you the mental distance to break the cycle and give up drink.

I have a right to be free of guns. If someone had a CHP I, as a citizen, have a rihmght to avoid them.

So East of town (Austinite here) there's a lot of wide-open space. My money is on something East of 130 toll road near the Circuit of the Americas. I could see a lot of incentives being thrown that way from the Red McCombs family (major funder of COTA, highly influential in TX politics) to build alongside or nearby.

I'm an organizer for one of the (many) DevOpsDays Conferences held around the world. Speaking only for myself, I struggle with making sure that DevOps is about Dev and Ops working together, not just Ops / SysAdmins using a different, more marketable job title. When Operations Engineers become DevOps Engineers, it subconsciously says to Developers that they don't belong.

I'd encourage all of you that feel excluded, or feel like these are just SysAdmin conferences in sheeps clothing, to go to your local DevOps Meetup and start there. Demand that DevOps continues to stand for a community and cultural way of making software development suck less and not just "the next Agile". /rant over

My wife's a lawyer but she's a Taurus.

Jumping in to reply because I made the switch to Authy about two years ago and haven't looked back. You get the ability to sync MFA across devices and desktop without a hitch. Add in the backup (with encryption) and you can onboard a device quickly and it fits every use case I need.

Silicon Hills actually refers to the boom in chip manufacturing in ATX in the 80s and 90s. After the dot-can boom and bust it now has the “like Silicon Valley but ‘weirder’” connotation.

If you're run k8s on your infrastructure there's a pretty slick alternative called Open FaaS: https://github.com/openfaas/faas

The 'vote with your dollars' premise is flawed; the very nature of monopoly is to erode choice by consolidating market position and using influence (government, market) to maintain position which tends to mean creating barriers for more choice / new players to enter the market.

I was involved in the alpha for QiuckSight and found it interesting. My feeling is that Amazon realizes that there is a market for data visualization and analysis for RDS, Redshift, S3 flat files, etc. There are many players in this space as well as traditional BI companies like Tableau.

QuickSight is going to be leveraged for more than just data analysis. They'll (probably) be using this for cost exploring and other features down the road (ELB Log Analysis, VPC Flow Log Analysis).

There are several limitations that I ran into. If you want to use a Redshift cluster as a data source it has to be a) publicly accesable and b) you have to whitelist the QuickSight IP range. QuickSight is launched in Amazon's infrastructure (their account and VPC) and that places limitations on what can be accessed (no VPC peering).

As an operations engineer, my biggest feedback was "let me launch my own QuickSight resources in my own VPC". Don't get me wrong, the fact that you get an AD instance, SPICE DB, and Web UI at a button click is nice, but I want to have more freedom to control and secure it. Just my two cents.

You should probably be going on more than just AFAIK. The Atlantic Slave Trade http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Africa#Atlantic_slav... was a complex issue that evolved economically as a consequence of agriculture demands.

> I also think it's comforting to think that this was the work of simply some greedy guys on wall street using strange words.

Yes, actually, it was in a lot of cases. From the aggressive use of NINA loans (in some cases targeted at minorities) to selling mortgage-backed securities while betting AGAINST them, the financial industry had a much larger hand in this. Read the Levin-Coburn Report if you'd like to get better informed about what happened: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd...

> are they not equally guilty of wanting to one-up the next guy with a bigger house, a quick flip, a granite countertop, or a cash-out refi

1) The assumption you're making the insinuation that all homeowners engaged in this kind of activity which is an existential fallacy. 2) In situations like this, where one party (the financial industry) has more training, connections, influence, and knowledge and the other (homeowners) have CNBC, it's a stretch to say that the homeowners are the ones to blame.

Hyperbole and incorrect facts ref. Cleveland.

Cleveland's name is based on reference to the nickname for Joe Louis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_Browns and the original owner wanted to name it after the coach Paul Brown.

My wife is a defense attorney that works claims litigation, e.g insurance defense for carriers. Watching "Hot Coffee" was very difficult for her. Part of her job during the pre-trial phase of any case is to push as much potential liability on a claimant as possible and push for mediation; trial should be avoided at all cost. |If a case goes to trial it is her job to make the claimant liable (enough) so that the damages are split better.

For 'frivolous cases' to actually hit trial months of depositions, research, and meditations have to fail. If a case actually goes to trial it's because one side feels so confident in their case that mediation is not an option.

As a side note, in insurance cases in Texas, the jury is not allowed to know that any insurance money has been paid. So in a situation where someone is hurt in an accident by another driver then sues for medical expenses, the jury is not told that the medical expenses (are often) already paid for by the carriers. They're also not told that, no matter how much money they award, if it falls under the civil caps on awards (in Texas) that the judge will automatically lower their award after they leave the court room.

There are numerous options downtown in Austin for travel while drunk. The person at fault here is the guy behind the wheel that panicked.

From http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/2-dead-21-injured-in-...

The incident started after a police officer began checking for DWIs. The suspect, fearing arrest, weaved his silver Toyota sedan through a gas station and sped off, driving the wrong way down a one-way street. The officer turned on his lights and pursued the suspect. A second officer stationed at a nearby barricade was forced to move to avoid being struck by the suspect, who proceeded to further accelerate, drive through the barricade and strike multiple pedestrians.

The suspect continued driving "at a high rate of speed" for two blocks before hitting a taxi and striking a male and a female and killing them both. The suspect exited his car after running over the moped and proceeded to flee on foot, where he was apprehended and tased by an Austin police officer before being taken into custody.

"As a result of this person's reckless and willful disregard for the safety of the people, we have two individuals who are now dead," Acevedo said. The entire incident lasted under two minutes.

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