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Are you dense? Matt Taibbi is possibly the most informed and important financial journalist of the last several decades.

That was the dream a long time ago, mainly in the 1950s-1970s. You'd work hard in school and hope for a good job at a good company like IBM or Ford, then you'd be the best company man possible to cling to that job and rise as high in the ranks as possible, then retire with a substantial % of your salary paid out in pension and generous benefits until you died.

It was real, but mostly only for the high born, the nepotistic, people in the "correct" church, and the backstabby. And of course white males only, hahah that almost goes without saying. It wasn't quite as amazing as people thought, but those who benefited sure did enjoy it.

Pretty much, the open space hype seems to have peaked in like 2010-2012, now we live in an enlightened time where even corporate leaders (gasp) are willing to admit different things work for different people.

The goal isn't even to watch everyone, even if you devoted 100% of all federal spending to watching everyone you wouldn't be able to do it. Not enough resources or time. The goal is to chill conversation and thought that is too critical of institutions. Mission accomplished.

Yes, it's easy to dismiss him for many reason, but more interesting to me is how he survived the brutal Maine winters: by getting up in the middle of the night and pacing back and forth to warm up. Every night. For 27 winters. I don't know how you measure willpower but that's gotta be one of the greats right there.

I want to hate the FBI but also like this post. Also I'm hungry.

A study from 1976 might as well be from 976, we still ate humans and worshipped star gods back then.

Unfortunately the idea that you would just restyle the content a bit as needed and viola website is redesigned never really worked. At any point in history. I just wish you could get through a redesign without learning three new languages nowadays.

I can see why you would want to spend as little time on support as possible (and actually the goal is to improve your internal workflows, which the article spends more time on) when your business model is founded upon taxing scammers 5% and ignoring users.

Sorry for the snide post, I'm just 0/3 now on kickstarter projects. All abandoned for years now, nothing delivered, no recourse, nobody cares, kickstarter aggressively ignores. It's beyond stupid and completely unsustainable.

Needs to be said more. Not to mention every telecom company, which are unofficial government entities at this point.

If you work for these companies in any capacity you're being highly unethical. End of discussion.

Why is every arrangement of characters now a "meme". That word has moved beyond devoid of meaning, at this point it's like a black hole of nothingness of a word.

You don't know how leverage works.

I wonder how many people die because of their smart homes being dependent on some network thing this time around. I'm 80% kidding, I think?

Should be 84MB doing from 10.3.2-> .3, that should be about 90% of use cases I think

It's odd how much utter nonsense you must embrace (at least publicly) to survive in so many companies in this world.

The amount of corporate worship that goes on around here is insane, holy hell just tone it down a notch or two they aren't your friends.

Yeah this seems to be happening more and more often. I guess this is it.

Yeah this is an old theme for sure, but Google has screwed up with angular so epicly, it's just surprising from the company that invented so much of the web that they would miss the mark so badly. I think that's why the angular/react discussion is a bit more wild than the old ones of yesteryear.

It's really more interesting from a perspective of institutional blindness/incompetence/arrogance than any real technical discussion.

What the fuck happened to the internet?

Yeah it's all inevitable and we are just powerless peons in the face of the purely efficient and all knowing machine.

That's certainly the bullshit narrative Google wants you to believe.

We worshiped the corporate hierarchy so much we protest it's destruction! Even when it was evil!

Some people just like to be told what to do I guess.

You posted the exact same line on the Susan Fowler story

This is an unpopular sentiment around here, but needs to be said more. You're still a child playing with other people's money until you're actually self sufficient.

In some cases this lack of maturity is particularly striking.

You're wrong because you can't even get to the "search problem", many of the current popular job boards are such unusable garbage that it's effectively impossible to wade through them and apply to jobs without inadvertently having your data stolen or spyware installed, it's that terrible. Something like monster.com or dice.com is more dangerous than the deep web at this point.

As much as I hate Google, someone has to come along and become the authority to put these all in one place and hopefully drive all these terrible sites/recruiters out of business.

My corporate overlord is the good one!

That's basically the thesis of the paper, there is some randomness completely independent of both genes and environment. I think it's super cool but I can see how some (white) people would find this upsetting.

I think you might be a tad overly cynical, this is basically unheard of nowadays and a pretty major move by the board.

I moved off of gmail a few months ago, pretty happy about that but man duckduckgo fucking suuuucks. Really wish there was a nonprofit (with a strong privacy policy) wikipedia like .org solution that provided good results.

Yeah let me guess this dude was white. Unbelievable, the world must be so different in that skin.

Yeah the startup scene is pretty rag tag and unprofessional in a lot of ways, but in other ways it far exceeds any capabilities you'll find in California or anywhere else for that matter. Boulder doesn't really need a model, they are sort of pushing a bunch of envelopes uphill all on their own.