ryanmercer

An alien was trotted out for a press conference June 19th, 1997 https://www.deseret.com/2007/3/25/20009206/former-governor-s...

Maybe they're just friends of Gordon Shumway, Mork, Paul, and Uncle Martin.

Don't people realize many companies charge for API access?

Sounds like you copy-pasted a post to multiple subs in rapid succession and got caught in a spam filter...

Doesn't sound like a conspiracy to me, sounds like anti-spam measures doing what they do.

Yeah I don't do the whole "boo hoo unpaid worker" nonsense.

I moderate several subs, some of them rather sizable. I do it because I want a quality community, not because I want a payday, I probably average 8-10 hours a week moderating which often overlaps with my active participation in the communities. No one is forcing me to do it, I do it because I value the communities.

I similarly give many hours a week to my church, I don't roll up "yo, pay me!" because that's not the point. I show up and teach a class, my wife shows up and leads young women's, we both go and clean the building, when someone needs help and we're free we're there, it's something we care about not a means of earning income. Same goes for moderating Reddit - anyone that thinks it should be a paid gig has no business moderating.

I do! Day 72 post layoff

Location: Rural central Indiana Remote: Yes, only Willing to relocate: no Technologies: not a dev Resume: https://lime-gweneth-73.tiiny.site/ Email: ryanmercer@gmail.com

I wish I could say me, day 72 post-layoff. Not even a single interview yet with hundreds of applications, sigh.

>would be paying around 2,5$/month,

Which is less than I pay for premium. If more people would just, I dunno, pay for services they use regularly, Reddit wouldn't have a problem.

Best way to read the site is, and always has been, old.reddit on a proper computer.

And would be a heck of a terrorist target anywhere along its length.

"green book International Unix Environments. orange book Computer security criteria, DOD standards. book with man wearing pink shirt The Pink Shirt Book, Guide to IBM PCs. So called due to the nasty pink shirt the guy wears on the cover another book Devil book. The Unix Bible. another book Dragon book. Compiler design. large red book The Red Book. NSA Trusted Networks. Otherwise known as the Ugly Red Book that won't fit on a shelf."

Sorry, title took me down a nostalgic trip.

Why bother with shell corps when they already back companies in the clear: look at In-Q-Tel.

Exactly. If you make it open source, great, cool, but only well-funded entities - like massive corporations - can even afford the hardware costs.

Or maybe he just doesn't need more money and wants to do something cool? If my basic needs were met, I'd go volunteer at any number of non-profits full time.

>26 years of work experience are worth way more than most degrees,

Not when 10 of it is fast food/retail/digging graves for a living and another 15 and a half of it is filling out hyper-specific paperwork all day that doesn't translate to any other industry or role.

>Guess you have somewhere between 1/4 and 3/4 of a million USD, in some form.

Uh hardly. 2021 I worked 600 hours of overtime and didn't even break grossing 50k USD for the year. My take home pay for the last 15 years is probably around 300k USD, when I left 2 jobs ago for the job I was just laid off from I had a 49% increase in my income. Not everyone is making six figures. Median income in my state is just shy of 31k USD a year.

My wife as a high school educator was only making about 45k (with also about 15 years experience) until last year. She now makes more but she also has to drive 3x as far to get to work so it's almost a wash.

Unemployment in Indiana is max $390 a week and only lasts for a maximum of 26 weeks. At best it would extend our living 'runway' temporarily and I'd bring home more working a fast food job.

I was at the employer before this one for 15 and a half years, I left because I didn't get a cost of living increase in over a decade and wasn't even making enough to rent an apartment on my own, I doubt they've drastically changed what they pay in the past 13 months.

Thanks! :)

>Update your resume. Your last job section needs more fluffing and your long term job needs editing.

That is fluffing them.

>Get physical, if you aren't already.

Got that covered, I'd actually just bumped up to 20k a weekday on my BikeErg the week before this happened!

Cool, we'll have to look into it to see if it is cheaper at all!

Thanks!

>Instead of doing COBRA can you get on your wife’s health insurance plan?

Not until next school year several months away, if I don't have a "proper" job by then I'm working McDonalds and we're looking at selling our house and have a whole host of other problems.

>Next up is saving money. Most people can save an incredible amount of money on food by changing how they cook.

Fortunately we are fine on food. We have over a year of food in our pantry and make everything from scratch already :). We'll get food out for birthdays, valentines day, and our anniversary next month (we always get BW3 on our anniversary because we had it the night before we were married). We don't have to buy anything but just $10-15 of fresh produce a week makes a world of difference to our food storage. We were also lucky enough to already have all of our seeds for this year too and we always keep a few years of lids on hand.

It's crazy to think I've been (fairly consistently) playing MUDs for 29 years now...

I wish HN had awards like Reddit, I would spend coin on this comment. I got a much-needed proper belly laugh from it. :)

Discovered this a few months ago, have lost so many hours of my life to doing it over and over.

Not just tired but "worn out" or "fatigued" from 3 years of the stress of a global pandemic, the worry of an uncertain economy, the worry of a potential world war brewing, and then some have post-covid brain fog and/or other post-covid complications.

Just as we started to be able to cautiously gather and go out and do things, fuel prices skyrocketed and inflation started ramping up. We all just need a proper vacation.

But why? If civilization collapses I'm not going to think "oh, let me consult Wikipedia" I'm going to think "man, this sucks".