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rlewkov··on Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to cut emissions
An attorney friend of mine summarized it by saying that the Supreme Court said it's OK for the EPA to dictate particular emission levels for power plants but not OK to require a plant to change it's method of power generation.
rlewkov··on Former U.S. congressman, operative pleads guilty to election fraud charges
Assuming your a member of a union

Before election

Union boss: "we expect everyone to vote for candidate X"

After election

Union boss: "show me your vote receipt"

rlewkov··on My journey through the American immigration system as a computer engineer
IMHO it matters because of the "D" word ... diversity
rlewkov··on Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
I have so, so may people on my Twitter feed muted for this reason. Toxic crap gets immediately muted - sometimes blocked. Have practically zero patience for crap so Twitter is quite nice for me. If you want to engage in a screaming contest you certainly can but that's not for me.
rlewkov··on Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private
In general, more free speech is always preferable to less free speech. If you could stand on your proverbial soapbox and say something in the town square then you should be able to say the same thing on Twitter (modern day town square) without being censored. No one knows exactly what Elon will do but I think whatever he does will be a positive ... IMHO.
rlewkov··on The only thing we should be talking about is the climate crisis
So so true
rlewkov··on AT&T's website raising the price every time I refresh the page
The QA manager should be proud.
rlewkov··on “Signify forces people to work in the office”
I haven't heard anyone complain that Fred can work from home because he lives more than X miles away from the office. Everyone, at least it seems to me, is OK with distance being used to determine if someone is allowed to work at home. There may be people who are irked about it but they aren't particularly vocal. I think it's more that company X just down the road allows it so why not us.
rlewkov··on “Signify forces people to work in the office”
Their general theme is that we, as a company, are more productive if working collaboratively together. The CEO has been asked many times to change policy and has not. At this point I somewhat think it's more "because I said so". I'm sure the distance from office that will allow you to work from home was decided in a meeting and published in someone's TPS report.
rlewkov··on “Signify forces people to work in the office”
My (unnamed) employer does too unless you live greater than a certain distance from the office. Have had several high-caliber engineers quit. They had reqs out for their replacements within a week. It sucks but their company their rules.
rlewkov··on Google “hijacked millions of customers and orders” from restaurants – lawsuit
Google wouldn't do that because ... well ... because don't be evil
rlewkov··on Amazon moves employees out of downtown Seattle office due to crime
Because, as of yet, there has been little penalty for making bad choices
rlewkov··on Amazon moves employees out of downtown Seattle office due to crime
That's up to Andre. If he makes better choices in his life he may stop selling stuff on the street corner.
rlewkov··on Ask HN: Service to find minimal set of streaming providers?
Thanks, I'll have a look at this. Have been thinking of cutting the cord from cable and want to know most economical way of getting my must-have set of shows/networks
rlewkov··on Ask HN: Service to find minimal set of streaming providers?
Thanks. Gave it a look. Sounds like it might be helpful though not exactly what I want ... was quite sure the exact app that I described didn't exist ... but you never know.
rlewkov··on What to know about the stock market (2007)
You can be assured that all the known public information is reflected in a stock's price at a given point in time. Which doesn't mean that profits can't be made in the market.
rlewkov··on A simple system I’m using to stay in touch with hundreds of people
I keep a spreadsheet with name in first col and one col for every month and in cells I put day of month for birthday. I also use this as my Christmas card list and my keep in touch list
rlewkov··on Twitter misses ad revenue and user growth estimates
Was trying to be a bit glib and sound like a cold calling stock broker "if you liked it at $10 you should love it at $5" :-)
rlewkov··on Twitter misses ad revenue and user growth estimates
Buy more, it's on sale
rlewkov··on Ask HN: Should I publish my research code?
Yes
rlewkov··on World ocean temperatures in 2021 were the hottest ever recorded
Scranton
rlewkov··on New York City will make it mandatory for companies to post salaries on job ads
Company: You want the salary range ... sure it's $5K to $600K, somewhere in that range, now F off
rlewkov··on Former Harvard chemistry chair to stand trial for allegedly hiding ties to China
He knowingly lied to the FBI, and the IRS. If found guilty the jail time is a must. He's a liar and cannot be trusted
rlewkov··on Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with China in 2016
If it's on HN or Twitter or FB then it NOT a secret
rlewkov··on An oral history of Bank Python
Are you talking about Arctic from Man AHL? https://github.com/man-group/arctic
rlewkov··on An oral history of Bank Python
The horror
rlewkov··on Physics Student Earns PhD at Age 89
Because they think the tradeoff is worth it. You may not, but some do.
rlewkov··on Law firm sues Kellogg for not enough strawberries in Pop-Tarts
IMHO ... Cinnamon Pop Tarts are still bad ass
rlewkov··on Stop Equating “Science” with Truth (2017)
In which domains do you believe it's ineffective?
rlewkov··on Some reasons to work on productivity and velocity
I think they do matter from the p.o.v. of the people footing the bill for the results. I have yet to work on a product/project where mgt doesn't care about when it gets done and how much it will cost. Call it productivity, call it velocity, but the people paying care and someone always pays.
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