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djkivi··on Google cuts dozens of jobs in news division

Michael Lewis famously started on Wall Street, not journalism.

djkivi··on Replacing Engineering Managers with AI Agents

See the world's 38 time zones:

https://flytrippers.com/number-of-time-zones-in-the-world

djkivi··on Seriously Consider Skipping the Drinks (2022)

It's been a few years since I spent much time around those in the military, but as a bunch they seemed like heavy drinkers in general.

djkivi··on Airlines make more money from mileage programs than from flying planes

Why stop there? Lots of other "big guys" in politics.

djkivi··on Two-parent households should be a policy goal

Not to mention the possibility of life insurance.

djkivi··on Marc Benioff: “I don’t work well in an office”

Crap employees shouldn’t work for that company at all.

djkivi··on CIA bribed its own team to reject lab-leak theory, whistleblower claims

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." - William J. Casey, CIA Director (1981)

djkivi··on The U.S. housing market vs. the Canadian housing market

Dubai wasn't much 30 years ago.

https://www.businessinsider.com/dubai-in-1990-is-totally-unr...

djkivi··on The U.S. housing market vs. the Canadian housing market

A lot of Ontario license plates here in Alberta these days.

djkivi··on The Housing Crisis: We Must Tackle Property Wealth Inequality

It's called the Century Initiative to try to grow Canada's population to 100M by 2100:

https://www.centuryinitiative.ca/why-100m

Canada recently passed 40M this year:

https://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/subjects-start/population_and_d...

djkivi··on Before there was Oppenheimer there was Vannevar Bush

Linked at the bottom of this article, and well worth a read -- remember it was written in 1945!

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-m...

djkivi··on High Crime Forces San Francisco Federal Employees to Work Remotely

If only there were an island near San Francisco we could use as a prison.

djkivi··on Wi-Fi sniffers strapped to drones: odd plan to stop election fraud

Don't forget about Titanic news...

djkivi··on Canada had poached 10k tech workers from the U.S. – in just 48 hours

Reddit's busy thread on this topic:

https://old.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/15s968t/how_canada_...

djkivi··on Cash Amnesia

If you pay with cash then once your wallet is empty you’re done. I could spend far more on my credit cards than I actually have if I wanted to.

djkivi··on Mark Zuckerberg: “We’re moving very slowly” (2012)

Don’t forget Tik Tok with Reels.

djkivi··on New York City’s AI hiring law takes effect

Do not tell Subway.

djkivi··on Why do Ivy League students self-sabotage?

As someone who had a low opinion of George W. Bush when he was president I found this article interesting:

https://www.keithhennessey.com/2013/04/24/smarter/

djkivi··on Canada plans brain drain of H-1B visa holders, with no-job, no-worries permits

Our last Prime Minister called them "Old Stock" Canadians.

djkivi··on Patterns of Distributed Systems (2022)

It seems Unmesh Joshi wrote this article on MartinFowler.com.

djkivi··on Is it OK to recline your airplane seat? Some travel experts say no

Lean back, relax, and enjoy the flight :)

djkivi··on Fire Mark Zuckerberg

They may be changing their minds:

https://www.spglobal.com/spdji/en/documents/indexnews/announ...

djkivi··on Fire Mark Zuckerberg

It came as a shock to learn this for me too! I thought it was a good rule when they introduced it a few years ago.

djkivi··on Fire Mark Zuckerberg

Apparently the S&P 500 rule is recently changed:

https://www.spglobal.com/spdji/en/documents/indexnews/announ...

djkivi··on No dates, no sex, no weddings, no kids

Canada?

In an astonishing statement to the New York Times in 2015, Justin Trudeau declared, "There is no core identity, no mainstream in Canada," and consequently that "makes us the first post-national state."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/donna-kennedy-glans-d...

djkivi··on The effects of wealth on (Swedish) marriage and fertility

Not just wealth...lottery winners.

djkivi··on Accenture would cut 19,000 jobs

Try the Fortune 500 also. The one I work at uses Accenture for much of its technical support.

djkivi··on The Butlerian Jihad

Tim O'Reilly actually wrote a biography of Frank Herbert that people might find interesting:

https://www.oreilly.com/tim/herbert/

Edit: I see Tim O'Reilly was the editor of the "Maker of Dune" book mentioned here also.

djkivi··on Why So Many Elites Feel Like Losers

On the other hand:

https://www.cbssports.com/soccer/news/a-dallas-fc-under-15-b...

djkivi··on The Coffeeshop Fallacy (2011)

Think of all the parents taking their kids to soccer, football, whatever. Many of them grab a coffee on the way.

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