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Credit cards do the same, no? You can initiate a chargeback.

Being to blame is different than being actively trying to sabotage you. Many companies will be re-evaluating their relationship after this problem happened, but doing that while your systems aren't functional seems counter-productive.

Changing vendors and choosing one that's more reliable is a perfectly sensible outcome of this situation once your system are back up and you're no longer hemorrhaging money.

During an ongoing incident, when all of your operations are down, is not the time for it though. If you think there's even a 1% chance that the help can help, you should probably take it and fix your immediate problem. You can re-evaluate your decisions and vendor choices after that.

It’s the same with canadian and asian airlines. Is it not the case in the US?

I just assumed all airlines did it.

Most companies don't pay that, step 1 is identifying the companies that do and focusing your efforts on them exclusively. This will depend on where you live, or on your remote opportunities.

Step 2 is gaining the skills they are looking for. Appropriate language/framework/skill/experience they optimize for.

Step 3 is to prepare for their interview process, which is often quite involved. But they pay well, so when they say jump, you jump.

I'm not saying you'll find $600k as a normal pay, that's quite out of touch unless you're in Silicon Valley (and even then). But you'll find (much) higher than market salary.

Hindbærsnitter? It's a danish dessert with raspberry filling and icing on top. It's very much a better pop tarts.

It's actually more than that. Last I checked the US government spends much more per capita on health care than any other country on earth. And by a large margin, not quite twice the 2nd country spending the most but almost.

They issued for over $1B worth of shares in 2021: https://news.gamestop.com/news-releases/news-release-details...

According to Google their market cap is currently 7.78B but I don't know what it was when they issued them so it's hard to say how big of a proportion it was at the time. The stock price did go up when they did it too, against all odds.

There are issues with issuing shares as described in the link you shared, I don't want to minimize that. And you're right about diluting existing shareholders.

My point was more that many companies do it and the money the company raises by doing so gets added on the balance sheet, which can be used to fund profitable ventures, or to burn. The main differentiator is whether they are raising money because they believe they can make more money out of it (ie Shopify) or because they have to in order to avoid bankruptcy (ie Hertz).

A public company can absolutely issue new shares, it's not the typical way companies raise money but it happens all the time. GameStop itself did it during the craze to capitalize on the increase share price did they not?

No idea why you think it would bankrupt the company, it changes nothing. The new shares is balanced by the new money on the balance sheet.

Comparing the permanent loss of a limb to a possible fine to a corporation for mishandling data is a bit out of touch.

Put it in cold water in the fridge, it goes pretty fast that way. It has saved my bacon a few times (both literally and figuratively).

Historically sitting on cash is a terrible decision a majority of the time, it's not even close. Without knowing you, your chance of correctly timing the peak and the bottom of the market is simply abysmal. The market may crash tomorrow, but it probably won't.

Let's say by incredible luck you manage to time both of these events perfectly, then what? There will be other crashes in the future, that's a certainty. And you won't be able to time all of them.

The difference between null and undefined in JavaScript is something I wished had never been implemented. Other languages refer to null as their billion dollar mistake, but somehow JavaScript got 2 of them with slightly different but sometime identical behaviour. I would defer to eslint to prevent this particular issue if you care about it, this allows you to set rules in your own code without any impact to the outside world.

I have only seen null vs undefined lead to 2 things in my experience: mistakes and bikeshedding.

Balance is extremely important, and can usually only be appreciated with hindsight which makes it hard to judge when you're in the moment.

I'm in the same boat as the author as far as working too hard, but I've never done it on my salaried work, only on my own projects. Most of them went nowhere and a few gave something useful, but in the end I learned a lot. And it's easy to just drop whatever you're working on when it's just for you.

I can't say if it's out of principe or out of spite, but I actually despise the very idea of doing unpaid work for my employer. If they want more work they can pay me for it, or more likely hire someone else to soak the extra efforts. I work as hard as anyone else during my work hours, and I stay up to date so what more do they want of me. I've actually had managers, who were good managers otherwise, subtly told me I was not doing much (unpaid) overtime compared to other people during my annual review. Funny how things work out, I found another job right after that paid me 50% more and didn't care about my after hours work.

It's a business arrangement, not an emotional relationship. They backed her because they thought they'd make a profit, and they did. They owe each other absolutely nothing else.

Most people can't afford to stand up for themselves, I'm glad she's doing it.

You can disable remote login in the settings. It's the first thing I did when I got mine. So it's impossible to login to my router using my Ubiquiti account.

Can't comment on issues have been getting, but I only have good things to say about mine. It's not perfect and the learning curve can be steep, but it's miles ahead of any other routers I've used before. The only thing that came close was when I flashed dd-wrt on my old Linksys.

They can run on github's infra, but you can host your own agent as well.

https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/actions/host...

They had support for Bitcoin a few years back, merchants could accept Bitcoin in addition to whatever currency they already supported. The feature was killed because they didn't find Bitcoin useful for transactions (can read more about the why here https://stripe.com/blog/ending-bitcoin-support).

I'm using the Reeder app on iOS, it syncs with a bunch of services. Before I was using Fiery Feeds, but they switched to a subscription model and the app I had paid for wasn't supported anymore.

It's difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

This is why we have laws. Clearly no companies are interested in changing their ways, and why would they?

I agree with you on the lottery, the world would be better off without it. The problem in this case is that it's also entertainment, and people will pursue it whether it's legal or not because they want to gamble. In this case if we have to have it, I'd rather have the government run it than a for-profit company.

Herbalife (and other MLM) are just straight fraud. Pyramid schemes are illegal in most countries, but companies like Herbalife manage to squeak by. My guess would be it's because of money, but really I have no idea how they get away with it.

You're assuming your hypothetical project is gonna work and be successful, and that dependencies breaking will be the end of it. In reality, most projects never go get that far, they go nowhere. Building successful software is a lot of work. Building the wrong thing, scope creep, not finding an audience are all much bigger problems.

That being said, just start. Build something. Make it work. Learn. You can figure out problems with dependencies going out of support when you get there.

Experiments should not involve other people’s money. Both companies and individuals do it all the time, but involving « investors » (mind the quotes lol) for something that’s expecting to fail is simply irresponsible.

Maybe I'm wrong. I do hope the model works. But all I can think of when I see their business model is Spotify. Where content creators are being paid cents, and have to rely on alternative streams of income like concert and merch. Except in this case, there is no alternative, the patron model was supposed to be the alternative to ads and sponsorship.

I do wonder how much can be contributed to the content creator, even without considering the cut they take for their services. If I'm watching more than 5 content creators in the month, then they're getting less than a dollar each.

I come from a TypeScript background, so I can compare it to that. The biggest difference to me was the soundness of the type system, where you're ensured (from a runtime perspective) that objects are correctly typed.

This cuts both way: it was great not having to think about typings all the time around input/output, but it was also cumbersome when implementing the internal implementation. I'm a bit biased because I've come to think in term of structural typing much more. Typing in Dart reminded me more of my time with C#.

Null safety was a huge missing piece though, glad to see it being added.

HGST is owner by WD. They have operated independently for a while, unsure of the current state.

Wild guess here but fatality rate is based on the number of dead and the number of reported cases. High fatality rate means either high number of dead, or low number of reported cases. Knowing the real number of infected is really hard, especially in population less at risk (the young and healthy).

For example, there was this anecdote this week about a woman in the US. She believes she's infected, but none of the responsible authorities will let her pass a test unless she's physically been to one of the high-risk countries. So she either self-quarantine or ignore all of it and go to work. The twist is that she's a health practitioner...

I would not recommend taking investment advice from HackerNews. /r/PersonalFinance is a better place, or you can start reading forums like Boggleheads and blogs.

If you’re canadian I can recommend a couple of blogs I follow, otherwise I’m sure there are others from your country with specific advice.

If all else fails, paying a for-fee advisor that doesn’t sell funds can help you setup a plan for yourself.

It's definitely a mix. You can't hire just juniors because you need seniors to mentor/train them. You also probably don't want just seniors because as you said, they need the bodies. Add to that the fact that you must expect people to leave, so you have to plan for the future.

If you can manage a balance of both, depending on the individuals in the team it can end up being beneficial as juniors level-up and seniors tackle the higher-level stuff.

Unfortunately I don't know enough about it to offer an opinion on this specific case. I only know it will pay only part of the promised benefits. But from other pension plans I've seen, this happens because the plan is undercapitalized. This usually happens because of:

a) missing employer contribution to the fund on every paycheck b) mismanagement of the fund

The second point can be very varied and only limited by imagination, from embezzlement to government action. I've seen laws passed in the past passed about being able to take a loan on certain public pension funds without interest, which shows the complete lack of understanding about how these pensions are supposed to work and the actuarial math behind it.