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How exactly does "SF: dirty, and full of angry people with extremist positions who've never had to reflect on their own opinions." add anything to this conversation? This is just typical right-wing bias complaining that the bay area isn't new york, or dallas, or whatever.

Sure. In the meantime, please leave the bay area since you hate it so much. If you're not from here, please don't visit, you'll be happier.

I definitely worry about this, I've had this phone number for almost 20 years now.

Google voice has been all but deprecated at this point. The form for buying credits has been broken for a year, and calls calls to my google voice number no longer get forwarded to my phone / google hangouts.

The problem with co-working spaces is that there are too many techies there. Sometimes they're fascinating and you want to engage with them, which destroys concentration (in a semi-welcome way), but more often-than not they're populated by self-involved extroverted tech-bros who won't shut up.

Home-office, cafes, parks and libraries have been my offices of choice as a remote worker for the past decade.

2038? Does this have to do with Epoch time ending somehow?

So essentially the republicans are trying to force (telephone pole) rent control onto cities ? Commies.

I recently began a new position at a company which has had a bit of turbulence in the past year. While getting up to speed someone said, "We had this other guy a while back who was great, but he ghosted us and we didn't realized it until we checked our AAA logs to see when he had last authenticated".

I wondered if it was an old colleague of mine with a 15+ year reputation for ghosting employers when he was burned out, so I asked, and of course it was.

I usually leave on good enough terms to have a conversation with my boss, but I ghosted an incredibly abusive employer once, and it felt pretty good.

Glassdoor does provide the ability to review the interview process itself which somewhat fits the bill.

Considering Israel is increasingly succeeding in making it illegal for Americans to protest them, I would answer your question with, "A minute ago?"

You just described what it's like to work for all global arms contractors, not to mention Palantir.

Cash Rules Everything Around Me -- Wu-Tang.

With my logging setup right now (ELK + Fluentd) org-wide we have ~120 dashboards, and the overall setup costs us about $750 per month in resources. This would be a 700% increase for us. A 2x-3x increase would be worth it I think, but not that much.

This is also one of my complaints about Duolingo to be honest, in that they only give you information about the lessons you're doing if you navigate to a specific page before starting an exercise (on the web interface, I haven't used the mobile interface). Ui-bug for Ui-bug compatibility?

> A muslim shot up a gay night club, we don’t ban Islam or mosques or deplatform Muslims from the internet for holding similarly antisemitic views. To suggest such an action would be roundly decried and the person drummed out.

This is a false equivalency and a weak argument, where you are suggesting that all muslims are both terrorists and anti-semites.

A "terrorist" shot up a gay night club, and yes, we do ban terrorist propaganda from the public square, or are you advocating for allowing ISIS/Taliban/Al Qaeda, etc, to be allowed to preach their hatred and drum-up support?

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Interesting choice of garments actually. Wearing a hoodie in America, especially if you're a young black male, gets you instantly profiled as a criminal. Whether or not the law says you're legal until you leave the store, if a clerk called the police on you, you'd be arrested in that scenario / under those conditions.

Hrm, thinking through this more, one of those guys from IT, Ryan, a big-hearted (literally) lumberjack of a guy died of congestive heart failure. Then our CEO died on his bicycle a few years back, and there was also a suicide of one of the developers. It was a cursed company.

Absolutely, in America we tend to assume everybody is out to rob / harm everybody else and are always on guard.

Especially if you're young, just having your hands in your pockets will get a store clerk following you around. My parents even taught me as a child to never put your hands in your pockets when in a store.

This reminds me somewhat of a non-profit retail store in San Francisco where I volunteered to pay off a pile of parking tickets. The store itself sold local artisanal housewares to help support a number of local AIDS/HIV-related charities.

What really made a lasting impression on me was their loss-prevention training me was that not everybody is strong enough to carry an item, a bag, or push a cart while shopping. When seeing somebody place an item in their pocket/purse/bag we would offer to carry it for them or hold it at the front-desk.

This enabled a compassionate the benefit of the doubt to a clientele base who were often too frail from HIV-related illnesses to hold the item in their hands and offered a gracious, de-escalated escape route for would-be thieves.

> Mr. Halligan, how was Napster back in those days? Like, do you have a blog about that time period?

I was the "only" sysadmin when I was at Napster (We had 2 people in desktop support/it, one of whom actually died a few years later. The guy I replaced, Stephen Fountain, was actually shot to death by police). We hired 2 more a week or two before I left. It was a shit-show that I prefer to forget. (I'm also not at all proud of my work there. I was an unprofessional, somewhat incompetent 19 year-old workaholic who worked 100 hours a week and did a half-assed job at everything, which in the end actually was a huge net-negative to the organization, and myself!)

The real answer: I try to primarily type with my keyboard set to Turkish, which means autocorrect always changes this to the native spelling.

Well, I have an active social life, and I'm not a big fan of working in the evening, so sure I can adjust it, but it's frustrating.

Turkey is a bird. The Turkish word for Turkey is Hindi (which is funny, because the Turkish word for India is Hindistan, -stan means country, so a literal translation of Hindistan is "Country of Turkey")

Türkiye is the Turkish spelling for the Republic of Turkey.

Türkiye did this a few years ago. Working remotely from here for a California company has been less than fun during the winter as my work day now ends at 21:00, severely hampering evening social / music outings.

If you've ever been to the San Francisco Bay Area, you'll find that this never happens. Quite the opposite in some cases, the influx of thousands of upper middle-class young techies has priced out families (and teachers). This lowers enrollment, which results in school closures. Circularly, school closures reduces educational funding to the detriment of schools while increasing distance for children to travel to schools, encouraging more families to move away.

Logically you would think as these rich 20-somethings become rich 30-somethings they will start having children, but after 10 years they cannot afford SF either, so they also move away.

Sure, forcing out Google doesn't solve the problem, but it sends a very clear message: Profits are not more important than livable communities.

Can you please tell me whose abortion you've actually paying for lately? The laws around Planned Parenthood's funding are quite clear, and government money does not pay for abortions, which is misfortunate. Planned Parenthood is audited more frequently than any other organization in the United States.

What do your tax dollars pay for in regards to Planned Parenthood? Things that Medicare should be paying for, but fails at, specifically, reproductive care for women, including obstetrics, which should go well with your pro-birth agenda (I'm not going to dignify it with the phrase "pro-life" because once the baby comes out, the "pro-lifers" seem to run for cover)

Meanwhile, when it comes to giving my tax dollars as welfare to your religion, your conservative agenda infringes upon my constitutional rights established under the 1st amendment to our constitution (in case of the USA).

I would argue that all religious tax-dodges are scams if you're an atheist. My businesses and lack of faith don't get a free-ride, but I have to subsidize that of somebody else's?

By this logic, it's a cool business hack to run a megachurch and buy your own 737 without paying taxes, not a scam?

Sure I guess.

tl;dr: Christian organization scams tax payers, recent conservative trends on Hacker News somehow makes this interesting?

What relevance does this have to Hacker News?

Agreed. The Saudis have been snatching up real-estate all over Europe, America, and the middle-east. KSR is the largest foreign investor in Turkish real estate. If you remember the Gezi park protests, they were more about Saudis and Qataris forcing unwanted conservatism on the Beyoğlu city of central Istanbul than it was about saving the park.

The average Türk, except for the very upper-class, would be very happy to end the influence of the Saudis in their country.

The Trump regime is salivating at the idea of removing all restrictions on fracking. He could also easily switch alliances away from KSR by easing sanctions on Iran and Venezuela. The gap is negligible given those two potential scenarios.

A side-effect of ending our persecution of Iran, however, is that Putin would likely start a war. If Iran were allowed to dump their vast natural gas supplies on the open market, Russia's economy would starve.

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