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When I was just getting started in my first couple years of learning, I blogged at least once a week about what I was excited about and what I was learning.

It was a good way to put words to thoughts and solidify things I've learned. It also helped keep me on track, I could look back at what I wrote last week and keep myself on track and honest to myself that I was going to follow through.

I should probably pick this back up since it was an effective means for learning. No one ever read what I wrote but some times it helps to put it out there in the public instead of a diary in order to kind of force yourself to stay with it.

Doesn't this make him look bad when the lawsuit goes against him, or is withdrawn?

oof does not sound like a place to have a new born

https://www.nap.edu/read/11359/chapter/2#6

I don't see 1031 exchange mentioned much in the discussions of housing problems. People who own real estate absolutely lose their shit when this is brought up as something that should go away which is by itself a pretty good indicator. There's so much tax collection being 'lost' on this it's something that should be repealed but likely won't.

I have also noticed that although people are recognizing their is a massive growing homeless population in all cities, particularly the west coast, it gets pushed away as just a bunch of drug users on fent, instead of realizing the bulk of these people became homeless in the last 3 years as housing and rentals have blown up in costs without wages matching.

There's so little resources for the people at the bottom suffering homelessness, the only thing keeping a lot of people housed right now is the soon-expiring eviction moratoriums.

I work at a place now that ditched the time estimates and the sprint planning meetings and standups that go along with that and it's so much better.

Time estimates are always wrong, it always slips to the right. This is always used against you. You suffer because of it. Your work suffers because of this.

I get a couple extra hours a week by not doing daily standups, retrospectives, sprint planning, etc etc. This allows tasks to be shipped faster.

If there's a problem I communicate it up and stakeholders understand.

Want to know how long it might take? Look at some historical tasks in Jira and compare timestamps.

employees have to live within 100 miles of the office and be able to come in 1 day a week or 1 day a month depending on team.

This is much more reasonable than what I've seen most places offer. I don't mind the sound of that at all!

Anyone else get a "2% inflation raise" this year? Have you brought up rising inflation and pointed out that raise doesn't match reality? Did your employer agree to give you an extra couple percent?

I like my job and my employer but after getting that pittance after last years bs and now high inflation I'm not sure it's worth arguing for a bigger bump retroactively (showing my hand when I don't get it) and instead I think it might be easier to just find a new job.

Of course, why would they stop. Their cash cow in the US is right wing politics and political groups.

This twitter accounts posts the top 10 FB links everyday, and everyday the list is usually 9/10 or 10/10 right wing politics

https://twitter.com/FacebooksTop10

The article describes the drone buzzing the original CBP chopper as well as flying an orbit around the police helicopter. It is reasonable to suggest that a collision between the drone and either of those helicopters would be fatal for the pilot. No military pilot I know would ever create the type of risky scenario as described here.

Here's a video of CPB buzzing a crowd in a helicopter kicking up rocks at them. This happened 2 weeks ago. https://twitter.com/i/status/1401952522319843329

The idea of idiot pilots doing asshole things to other people is par for the course. No reason why this couldn't be military assholes either.

A gram of wax lasts me probably 50+ hits. It seriously lasts a long time. A tiny little crumb you can pinch out of the jar is more than enough for a big hit

What I've learned from this thread is that programmers doing zoom interviews have all developed their own personal conflicts with interacting with video conf software and you will be punished if you do not know their weird pet peeves and fractious reactions ahead of time.

Interviewing for tech jobs was already a crap shoot but now it's on a whole nother level.

On the other hand it's interesting to think about how you can game the system to get an advantage, like one user who said they bought/used fancy lighting and a dslr to have an edge.

Weird how aliens always show up around USG locations and vehicles. All the land mass in the world and some how it's always around the super militarized North America.

I'm unsure because I do not answer the calls.

Since I do not live in 470 area code I do not answer calls from there. I've read (unsure the validity) that answering spam calls alone can be used as another data point in phishing.

Thanks I haven't heard of that before. I will try installing this and see if it blocks the numbers from getting through.

Do you remember the image hosting site? If so, you could narrow down your search in Algolia to an approximate time frame, looking only for comments with a link to that site.

The absolute hilarity of HN obsession with 'both siding' every story and going back to see how it unraveled over the years.

on Jan 22, 2017 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13457176

on Jan 16, 2018 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16163558

on April 14, 2018 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16839542

on Oct 29, 2018 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18328772

on April 12, 2020 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22850723

How many cave paintings were just some whiteboard equivalent of hashing out an idea

Ho boy looking up Xinjiang then reading this comment was a trip. Any ways Dropbox is pretty great and seeing the differences in sentiment towards TSLA stock compared to Bitcoin over the years has been great. Can't pick all the winners.

I don't listen to Rogan anymore but I'm knee deep into MMA and I constantly see complaints about spotify by other people in my young male demo. Even people who have a spotify sub hate it because their video player is terrible compared to yt. Then there's tons of people who don't have spotify so they mostly stopped besides clips that get posted to yt. Could be just a thing of a mad vocal minority, but every time his mma interviews pop up it's filled with massively upvoted comments complaining about spotify.

What happened to Magic Leap?

They pivoted to building their device for commercial use and had a bunch of military personnel images on their site before.

-- Just did a search and found this Bloomberg article from 2018 about it and it mentions MSFT bidding on the contract as well, so it looks like they tried but MSFT won it.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-21/magic-lea...

Fantastic details and stories, thank you.

fyi your website in your profile is not resolving.

What languages do you speak?

Great stories btw also, it sounds like you really made the most of traveling and doing so much by bicycle is quite a feat!

Here you go. It's your homework not ours to find it if you care. https://www.bls.gov/bls/blswage.htm

Ever hear about NYC landlords who leave ground level properties vacant for years because they'd rather lock in a high paying tenant. Same principal.

It's more than just a jobs program too. It's a reelection plan for senators/house members.

Look at what states and districts get these big DoD contracts and then look at what committees the congressmen/women are sitting on.

They approve plans that benefit them then direct the funds right into their districts so they can campaign on it.

I mean it's not the worst form of corruption but it's pretty shitty when you realize how our infrastructure and defense is designed around congressional districts instead of what is best for our country.

Do you really need an explanation of why a multibillion dollar company wasn't removed and why a fringe app was?

Possibly debunked already, https://twitter.com/pwnallthethings/status/13602327536236298...

FWIW this is written by the same authors as the 2018 pieces.

https://twitter.com/jordanr1000/status/1049684795448537088

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-09/new-evide...

caveat to enjoying a wondrous life in OK of course is don't be a BIPOC

That worked out great for Wisconsin residents recently