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You say that as if it’s a bad thing.

Not all writing needs to be as dry as a technical bulletin.

… lesswrong apocalypse cult?

Like the guy who wrote that insufferable Harry Potter fanfiction?

The strategy is Broadcom doesn’t give a flying F about any customer smaller than Fortune 50. They really don’t. Hock has said as much.

Oh please. Take a look at the pictures of “redevelopment” back then and tell me it mirrors modern practices. We’re talking wholesale bulldozing of entire neighborhoods. Not a block or two, the entire damned thing.

Where we’re going we don’t need no stinking drip tray!

Believe me. You need a drip tray.

Best of luck. Hope it turns out better than ZPM.

This is a pot, kettle, black situation.

Did… you really just use the term Chinamen in 2024?

Pivotal Labs was acquired by EMC back in the day. They bundled it with some cloud foundry work and created Pivotal. When Dell acquired EMC they also acquired a big share of Pivotal. Dell then decided to squeeze more blood from the VMWare stone and forced them to acquire Pivotal before selling the whole thing off to Broadcom.

Nails are reversible in under an hour. Foot binding causes crippling disfigurement.

They aren’t remotely comparable.

That’s because film actors are hired to voice act for their fame, not for their skills as voice actors.

That’s a blatant misunderstanding of how voice acting works. A good voice actor is a vocal chameleon, and can really change their voice for each role.

Full Self Driving is vaporware. The “cross country with no interventions” drive is vaporware.

The tomatoes and strawberries you grow at home don’t need to hold up to long distance shipping. Not to mention, the mass market fruits and veg don’t have somebody personally motivated by getting something at the peak of ripeness.

Like most things, it’s a different set of priorities and incentives that drive different results.

Having dealt with this person at a former employer: No.

When people say the Rio Grande Valley they typically mean the counties at the southern tip of Texas. The Permian Basin is at the westernmost parts of the state. The areas don’t overlap. At all.

I’ve moved here roughly when you moved away, it seems. For Boston proper, it seems like things are finally picking up again after kinda falling off a cliff during the Walsh years. Wu ran on a campaign that prioritized transit, biking etc so we’re seeing some big, quick projects implemented (the temp Mass Ave bridge bike lanes for one).

Add that to the cycling ordinance in Cambridge and a cyclist mayor in Somerville and it feels like we have a chance for a comprehensive regional cycling network coming into reality.

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Yeah, this is the carbon equivalent of trying to get abs by working out more without adjusting your diet.

The entire premise is ridiculous.

Downtown? What downtown? We don’t have one.

If your talking about Assembly Row, that’s a “town center” development. Used to be a movie theater and a sea of parking lots. It doesn’t factor into Somerville’s style of urbanism.

Most? You’ve gotta be earning more than 400k to get into the 1%.

Top 10% maybe, since that’s around 125-150k.

I had the same issue.

I’ve switched to Vyvanse and have been loving it. The on and off ramps are much longer so everything feels a bit more smooth than Adderall ever did.

It’s delightfully chonky and I love it.

oh good, they’re reviewing their policies. Worth just about as much as an internal investigation at a police department.

Pivotal does this. The interview is usually just a "day on the job".

This is the same thing everywhere. When I was living in San Antonio, I'd always joke about folks who moved from Austin because they were always saying that "Austin was better X years ago." X being equal to +- 1 year from when they moved to Austin.

Maybe this is related to Amazon's health venture? Both it and Pillpack are based in Boston after all.

Boston is similar.

With so many universities, local leaders are always bemoaning he fact that more of them don’t stay. For any type of specialized field, we’ve got the school... in triplicate. God knows how many law schools and business schools we’ve got scattered around the metro area.

Whoa, what kinda market had Car2Go but no Uber or Lyft? Is Zipcar not an option?

Moving is expensive and disruptive, not just financially. Having to start your professional and personal life over is daunting as fuck.