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Is there really a surplus of nurses? https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/nursing-and...

This is bogus. Meta doesn't have bootcampers escorted out of the building for accessing PII all the time. PII is locked down behind ACLs which are not auto-granted for just anyone asking.

A lesson in knowing when to stop reading.

Sweeeeeet!

My yoga studio and sailing community. Nearly every day I find myself at my yoga studio after work to practice. It's how I met a lot of my initial friends where I currently live. Then, there's the hobby of sailing which has a rich community where I live. Intentionally I don't seek out tech-based communities, but ones centered around other aspects of life.

+1. This book changed my life. Wouldn't be doing what I'm doing today without it!

Also, I support sci-hub through crypto. That's pretty much my only use case for it, but it is one. Wish we lived in a world where we didn't have to bypass regulations to get free access to journals... but cryptocurrency is a solution for now.

Technically it is a zero-day since the vendor didn't know about the vuln. "zero-day" has nothing to do with complexity

I hope there's a good plan for deleting all of the dead code that will be left to rot. It has to be immense.

Totally relate with this feeling.

I used vimium to get here and to type this messsage!

No they don’t “just ignore it”. The studies that show this harm comes from Meta research themselves.

There is M1 and there is M2, and then there's Director. There's no level 6+ on the management track. I'll disagree with this statement by saying that I think the step function in skills between managing people and managing people who manage people is huge. There are larger gaps between M1 -> M2 -> D than IC6 -> IC7 -> IC8...

but, I think the answer depends. If you are a really strong individual contributor, I presume getting an IC promotion is easier. If you are just decent, getting an IC7+ promotion seems incredibly challenging because IC7 requires an very high level of competence. If you are just decent as a manager, you can get luckier.

My professor told me that learning category theory would make me a better person but not a better programmer

I have a home in Taos, New Mexico that stays around 74 degrees Fahrenheit year-round w/o the use of a heater. Completely off-grid!

Not sure why you're being downvoted.

Might be true for you. But this is so not true for a lot of the world still. Lots and lots of young people (late 20s, early 30s) still use FB. Anecdotally, quite a few of my friends still do, if not mostly for the groups.

Is "normies" a euphemism for "every day people"?... Jeez.

It's not a "spy apparatus". It's an ad company... and people from all over the world use these services because it does make their lives easier.

Wasn't this already tried in the early days? printcoins.com made paper notes with private on them and a picture of Ron Paul X-D https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/guess-w...

It is worrying how deep the political pockets of some of these rich cryptocurrency “elites” are and, ironically, how integrated they are becoming with traditional finance. A big downturn in the crypto space will have ripple effects that could affect the larger economy. Combine that with an actual looming recession.

This is mostly for regulatory reasons.

Wouldn't you want to bring up the work of David Card, who won a Nobel prize by analyzing "natural experiments" on the effects of minimum wage and unemployment?[0]

[0] https://davidcard.berkeley.edu/papers/njmin-aer.pdf

Unless there is... free food ? That's how I was lured.. However, I also live a very short bike ride away from the office.

Does anyone like Seattle?

M E T A B O O K

Yes. Very good, & also challenging :) Highly recommend

Can someone tell me if adopting Bitcoin in El Salvador as legal tender is a way for the Salvadorian president to print money, in a way? Since the only other legal currency there is USD, which they can't print. Not sure if that question makes sense.

This seems like a place to plug for the study of social ecology: https://social-ecology.org/

Liberatory technologies, like the ones you mention, are just a piece of the puzzle. A tenant of social ecology is that "humans problems with nature come from humans social ills".

Is that true? Is there a source to back this claim up?