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djkivi··on Manatee county teachers close class libraries, fearing prosecution under FL law
Oh the hu-manatee.
djkivi··on Ask HN: Good resources to become financially literate
I wish I had known this when I was 20 years old:

https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/01/13/the-shockingly-si...

djkivi··on Companies use drip pricing to overcharge consumers
They were treated like dirt on this visit--being asked to pay an unexpected 20% extra.
djkivi··on It's time to put cancer warning labels on alcohol, experts say
Well, drunk driving is a serious problem that can affect others.
djkivi··on Money, money, money (and investing) (2015)
Where should someone invest next? How do you get your investment ideas?
djkivi··on World Cup Daily, Day 25
Canada had its own history of migrant workers. More than 4000 Chinese migrants died building our railroads:

https://torontorailwaymuseum.com/?p=1152

djkivi··on Ask HN: What is your go to idiot-filter question in interviews?
Go to Leetcode and start doing problems.
djkivi··on MSN replaced journalists with AI publishing fake news about mermaids and Bigfoot
CUM?
djkivi··on The Twitter Files
You can see that the media doesn't think this is that important since it is not a story on the New York Times or Guardian websites.
djkivi··on You can fire 80% of software engineers and the company will survive
I think it was Joel Spolsky:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/03/23/strategy-letter-iv...

djkivi··on Books recommended by profitable founders
Just in case, "How to Win Friends and Influence People" is by Dale Carnegie, not Napoleon Hill.
djkivi··on Meta lays off 11,000 people
Over 1000 points and 900 comments in 4 hours and not #1 on the front page?
djkivi··on How to succeed at Meta
Family medicine $270k. Doesn’t seem that far off.
djkivi··on Censorship by big tech at the behest of the U.S. government?
While President Biden may not be a Dr, but his wife is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNyZm6A0OfQ

djkivi··on People Are Being Arrested in the UK for Protesting Against the Monarchy
Try the currently #1 post on the active page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/active

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32817103

djkivi··on Mikhail Gorbachev has died
The book Red Notice by Bill Browder discusses this period. I wish the Netflix movie of the same name was based on it instead!
djkivi··on Why did Airbnb dump React Native? (2021)
Why does Airbnb host their engineering blog on Medium?
djkivi··on Declining quality of consumer-grade products – 2009 fridge compressor autopsy
Well, the cassette tape is obsolete, unlike toasters or refrigerators.
djkivi··on 'Too many employees, but few work': Pichai, Zuckerberg sound the alarm
Such a beautiful metaphor for the daily standup!
djkivi··on Job switchers are earning a lot more than those who stay
Maybe your boss says, ok take it then. It is a risky strategy.
djkivi··on Learning The Elite Class
Eyes Wide Shut is a very good movie about class in America as well.
djkivi··on Books to read to understand financial crime
When I first heard there was going to be a movie "Red Notice" on Netflix, I was hoping it was going to be based on Bill Browder's book. Sadly it was not!
djkivi··on Religious Discrimination at Google
Not when he gives a lump of coal to the bad kids.
djkivi··on Thoughts on OKRs
Andy Grove wrote High Output Management, which is well worth a read.
djkivi··on Are film critics losing sync with audiences?
Speaking of Nicolas Cage, he did a thoughtful Reddit AMA a few days ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/tzxev3/hello_im_nic...

djkivi··on How CNN's Jeff Zucker and His Cronies Manipulated the News
Much like CNN is "The Most Trusted Name in News".
djkivi··on How CNN's Jeff Zucker and His Cronies Manipulated the News
Spin is a documentary capturing a number of similar conversations captured from satellite feeds before/after the actual "show".

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin_(1995_film)

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uock08dy19s

djkivi··on Ask HN: How do you deal with getting old and feeling lost?
There should be a 20-year Academy Awards, for movies people still care about 20 years later. Stanley Kubrick's films would do very well in such a competition.
djkivi··on Speaking Freely: Why I resigned from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Conrad Black hasn't owned the National Post for over 20 years.
djkivi··on 54% of adults in the United States have prose literacy below the 6th-grade level
On that linked Wikipedia page, the major western countries (e.g. Australia, Canada, France, Japan, Switzerland, UK, US, ...) don't appear to have any data listed.
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