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I'm not sure why there's so much negativity in this thread. The listed requirements were already basic table-stakes security standards. IMO, anyone not encrypting all user data at rest, requiring MFA, etc. is bush league.

Poisoning Well 11 months ago

That’ll end up in an arms race where you refine the gibberish to be more and more believable while the crawlers get better and better at detecting poison wells. The end state is where your fake pages are so close to the real thing that humans can’t tell the difference

And has Optum conveniently forgotten to ship refills, but only for the expensive drugs? That happened to my wife on multiple occasions.

Or maybe they've rejected refill requests until right before your supply runs out, such that you have to go days without your meds while the new supply is shipped?

Optum is the shadiest shitshow I've ever dealt with.

I remember where I was when we hit 1,000,000,000. My coworkers thought I was strange for thinking it was significant.

... two days later all hell broke loose.

Even better: just uninstall the apps and only use the sites via mobile web. The benefits: you'll never see a single notification from apps you don't have, they'll never be able to eat your battery, openings for tracking are much reduced, and the slightly less awesome UI of the web version will somewhat reduce the dopamine hit you get from interacting with them.

Another is that it looks like runme is written in Go instead of python. It's a single executable I can drop onto any new machine instead of futzing around getting a particular python version installed before doing any work.

I’ve noticed the same in Seattle. There’s also a more “I dare you to hit me” attitude in a lot of my fellow pedestrians than in other cities I’ve lived in. I’m sure that has at least something to do with it too.

What if switching jobs came with no overhead? That is, what if you could decide one day to change jobs and you'd be going to a different job the next day? Would you do it? Sure you would. At worst, you'd find out that your original job was great and you'd go back there.

The reason I pose that question is that I've found that for me the hardest thing about switching jobs is the overhead of switching: I have to do uncomfortable things for a while: grinding leetcode, switching to a salesman mentality where I'm selling my skills, risking lots of rejection, etc. The thing is that it's always been worth the hassle. I've gotten a raise every time. I've met people I respect and like every time. I've also learned things that I didn't know existed at every new job.

If you go through a couple more jobs and find you miss your first employer then you can at least go back there with a better resume than you had when you left.