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eip··on Dark Motives and Elective Use of Brainteaser Interview Questions
There is an enormous gap between being able to tolerate working on something vs 'really' wanting to work on something.
eip··on Dark Motives and Elective Use of Brainteaser Interview Questions
If you think anyone 'really' wants to build your shitty CRUD app then you are deluding yourself.

Do you 'really' love your job? Would you do it for free?

eip··on Federal chokehold on marijuana stymies studies on epilepsy, autism
Ganja cures the Babylon mind sickness.
eip··on Jack Ma to Retire from Alibaba
"Hey, from the latest 20-F (page 118) we know that you've created about 600 new legal entities over the last two years under your "Enhancement" program, getting more friends, family and political cronies involved in the dilution of the Capital Structure. So, I guess my question is "how long is this bullshit going to go on?""

https://deep-throat-ipo.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-calland-ope...

eip··on Jack Ma to Retire from Alibaba
"Alibaba Management is somehow increasing the length and content of their 20-F's, yet, incredibly, they seem to disclose and communicate an even smaller snippet of "meaningful" financial information every year. In fact, there's no longer any doubt in my mind, that they actually go out of their way to deliver ever larger bales of content-free financial silliness. They are not "unfamiliar with Western Financial Reporting Conventions" or doing things "the way they do it in China" as some pundits would have us believe. Math is math no matter where you are on the planet. Gravity is the same whether you are in London, New York or Beijing. Alibaba Managers are in fact masters of manipulation, bending the truth brilliantly to suit their needs. Perhaps they are banking on the premise that nobody actually reads their filings/drivel anyway? (The SEC staff doesn't seem all that concerned!)"

"If, by some strange, impossible happenstance, I'm completely, totally wrong.... and Alibaba isn't actually the tip of the spear for the CCP's full frontal assault on the Western Financial System, the only other conclusion I can possibly come to is that Alibaba the goofiest, most convoluted, opaque, mis-managed accounting mess and business structure in history. That, unfortunately, is the "best case" scenario."

"Yet, Alibaba (BABA) continues to trade higher as increasing numbers of shares find their way into US Financial/Custodial Institutions. Because its value, like the RMB, at least for a time, is pegged/driven by the CCP through off-shore mechanisms, the risk of collapse grows larger by the day. At some point it all has to come tumbling down. But when? That's the immediate, multi-trillion-dollar question."

https://deep-throat-ipo.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-baba-20-ffi...

eip··on Jack Ma to Retire from Alibaba
>Sometimes there are no smokes and mirrors.

This is hilariously ironic considering Alibaba is almost 100% smoke and mirrors.

eip··on Jack Ma to Retire from Alibaba
"You couldn't successfully audit a good sized publicly held, domestic US Car Dealership for the fees that PWC Hong Kong charges to audit a global enterprise like Alibaba"

"I have no idea how PWC can audit this mess for the fees they charge. Every year, the hours of work required expand geometrically and the fees come in at about what you'd charge to audit a large US/Domestic publicly traded Car Dealership. Keep this in mind, Alibaba now has 920 Operating Units (Did I mention that?) scattered all over the globe, a massive Capital Structure "Enhancement", with many of these WFOE's and VIE's located in the PRC and all of these entities are audited from the PWC Hong Kong office. If I were trying to audit this we'd have substantial travel, staff time and training on both IFRS and GAAP accounting treatment and methods. All to be researched and applied to myriad business combinations, sales, mergers and divestitures. Incredibly, PWC Hong Kong does the whole thing, including tax services and consulting for US$12.8 million dollars ($13,900 per business unit @ US$12.8 million/920), up from US$ 8.4 Million the prior year. PWC is the the new "Dollar Store" of public accounting."

https://deep-throat-ipo.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-baba-20-ffi...

eip··on Jack Ma to Retire from Alibaba
Enron 2019 confirmed.
eip··on Twitter Permanently Bans Alex Jones and Infowars
"Weapons not food, not homes, not shoes, not need, just feed the war cannibal animal. I walk the corner to the rubble that used be a library line up to the mind cemetery now. What we don't know keeps the contracts alive and movin'. They don't gotta burn the books, they just remove 'em while arms warehouses fill as quick as the cells."
eip··on Petrol Free Car (Powered by Salt Water)
RIP Stan Meyer
eip··on How South Africa can become a competitive startup nation like the USA
Seems like they would need to figure out the food and water situation first.
eip··on Is it be possible to detect an industrial civilization in the geological record?
They literally left giant pyramids and other stone megaliths all over the earth.
eip··on The Ford Focus is dead in the US because of Trump’s trade war
Not because it's the vehicle equivalent of giving up on your dreams?
eip··on Ask HN: Where can I get a whole project reviewed?
I would consider doing it. What's it worth to you?
eip··on Ask HN: How long does it take to learn a new keyboard layout?
Highly recommend the EZ. I am never going back.
eip··on Ask HN: What can I learn next that will have practical value as a senior dev?
There comes a time when the ax is sharp enough. Time to start chopping the tree.
eip··on Office Life Is Destroying Your Butt
Copper deficiency combined with pressure causes them.
eip··on Ask HN: Why do companies do “remote within the US”?
Where in Mexico? And why tell anyone? Just say you live in the US and travel a lot.
eip··on Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In
"We are deeply sorry to have to send this email, but unfortunately an error occurred in the software that triggers acceptance emails. The acceptance email was sent to you even though we are unfortunately not able to include you in the Startup School Advisor Track.

Although you are not in the Advisor Track, you have, in fact, been accepted to audit Startup School and will have access to all of the content just as soon as it is made available.

Again, we regret having made this error and raised your expectations unnecessarily. We hope you continue working on your startup and that Startup School is a huge help."

eip··on Pre-sleep treatment with galantamine stimulates lucid dreaming
Definitely don't need to drink it. Not sure how anyone could. It's pretty awful.

Just smoke it two or three times. Then prepare for journeys to other worlds.

eip··on Pre-sleep treatment with galantamine stimulates lucid dreaming
https://www.iamshaman.com/eshop/catalog/480.htm

Just pepper your angus bruh. The effects of this stuff lasts 4 to 6 months after only smoking it a few times.

eip··on AMD Is on Fire
"soon"
eip··on Horrors of Using Azure Kubernetes Service in Production
> That is the norm, not the exception.

Have you never used any other Microsoft software?

I mean it is the same software company that made Windows ME, Vista, 7, and 10, along with countless other chocolate covered turds.

eip··on Ask HN: What could NASA do with a 100B budget?
Use better CGI in their videos?
eip··on The truth about auto dealer invoice prices (2017)
Seriously. On a 6 year loan the car is almost free at current rates of return.
eip··on JavaScript fundamentals before learning React
Unrelated but didn't know how to contact you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdzIKD0oMzo
eip··on Why getting back to the moon is so damn hard
>it is lower energy than the belt's themselves

Doesn't mean you can survive in it.

A dental x-ray is probably lower energy than the belts too but if you sit in front of one for 6 hours you will likely regret it.

eip··on Why do people believe the moon landing hoax or other conspiracy theories?
https://projectunspeakable.com/conspiracy-theory-invention-o...

Titled “Countering Criticism of the Warren Commission Report,” the dispatch played a definitive role in making the “conspiracy theory” term a weapon to be wielded against almost any individual or group calling the government’s increasingly clandestine programs and activities into question.

eip··on Why getting back to the moon is so damn hard
Surviving outside the Van Allen belt would require your spaceship to have 4ft thick lead walls.

I assume that is a big part of it.

eip··on Ask HN: Software Engineers, would you ever try recruiting?
Jeebus. Do you need help?
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