jeanvaljean2463

Anecdotally, car dealers around me ( East Coast ) that were enforcing prices well above MSRP are now reaching out and offering deep discounts.

    - Stress 
    - Family obligations
    - Not enjoying the work I do anymore
    - Solving the same problems over and over because I can't fix the org that produces them.
    - Solving the above problems in a new technology.
    - Crappy co-workers that I don't want to interact with
    - Giving my best to people and projects that never give back.
    - Making creative solutions that the client doesn't use because the clients are broken beyond my paygrade to solve them.

My only advice/thoughts would be maybe take a step back. Do you TRULY enjoy what you are doing? In my own experience, it's hard to motivate yourself to work on things that you don't truly care about as you get older. Solving other people's problems was fun until I realized the entire world ( including the billionaires that have "made it" ) are mostly just people getting along and aren't necessarily more capable or knowledgeable than me. Some people get lucky with timing, tenaciousness, and talent... it's probably too late for me, but that's okay.

I rely on facts, not belief. Integrity is important and in short supply in our age.

The author of the article you sent made a great point near the end of his article:

<quote> I called it “potentially very interesting” and called for more data to see if it was real. That’s where I still am. </quote>

I completely agree with this, let's disprove it and strike it off the list, but the studies that I have read so far don't seem to do a good job of disproving.

I appreciate the link and am happy to read what people send, keep sharing information! I am always interested and want to get the best information possible to help the people I know if at all possible. Thanks again for taking the time to share with me.

Here's a link to a pre-print that seems like it holds a pretty promising review of existing studies.

https://www.palmerfoundation.com.au/hydroxychloroquine-is-ef...

Not picking a fight as I feel that evidence based analysis is paramount.

There are some good studies that show that HCQ+ ( HCQ with Azithromycin and Zinc ) is quite effective at PREVENTING serious outcomes in many cases as it seems to interfere with portions of the viral replication lifecycle. There haven't been large scale double-blind trials yet, but there should be. The few double-blind trials there have been have focused exclusively on HCQ without the additional viral inhibitors and were done at toxic doses when the virus had largely already replicated and the patients had progressed to a "serious illness" with the accompanied "cytokine storm". Lots of bad information out there, 'politically' deployed with little information behind it.

This isn't and shouldn't be the only treatment available, but we shouldn't discount things because they don't fit with our worldview or because our 'enemies' promote them. Facts are stubborn things. We should strive to do better collectively.

I'll leave speculation of motivations behind on why more types of treatments haven't been tried. We're in a strange time when a lot of the institutions that have failed the public are still being weaponized against people who desperately want the best outcome for folks.

In the U.S. institutions like OSHA, USCSB, NTSB, and the FAA are vilified, but the rules they enforce have been written with blood.

Had no idea it wasn't legit until I started having crazy dermal issues and saw a doctor.

Paid crazy amounts to have a sample tested to see if there was anything I could do to solve it.

I was injured in 2010 by counterfeit toiletries and since have embargoed them completely. I'm happy to buy things from the manufacture and pay shipping, at least I know with a reasonable confidence that what I am getting is going to be the real thing.

Where I live people's bills are going from $100 to over $600 a month. I saw someone's post on Nextdoor saying that their bill was $2700. Ours was $963 up from about $270 with no change in usage. I would be thrilled to pay $100 a month for water.

BLUF: I am a huge advocate of companies being fined on the basis of number of people affected and types of data leaked. This incentive to not be fined will be built into the formal or informal risk matrix that a company utilizes for decision making and these types of breaches will decline in number and severity from boneheaded mistakes. In the current model, the only incentive that exists is public embarrassment, but is quickly forgotten despite the incredible disclosures. ( See Equifax )

I know literally nothing about the internal state of their IT department but I suspect a great deal of it is likely outsourced and probably "least cost". From being a long time traveler ( over 1500 nights in Marriotts over the years ) I've seen their payment processing system go down, people remoting into public kiosks and typing plaintext passwords early in the morning, and (not so) hidden pages on their website that were intended for special promotions. As an example, their system that allows one to log into their "internet TV" account in-room to watch netflix will not purge account information at the end of a stay. I've checked in and seen other folks' Netflix splash pages when using the app. ( I always log them out as a courtesy, but suspect that others might not. )

All that being said, it's easy to point fingers and point out failures in hindsight. Every large company/government organization that I've served has similar failures, often not as public, but usually much more serious. In my own experience there is a usually a core contingent of competent tech workers/developers who are aware of the technical debt and attempt to bring it up to management to solve, but get shut down as "there is no reason to spend money on something that isn't driving revenue/mission". The easiest way to solve this would be to introduce fines tiered for the number, type of data, and period of non-disclosure for companies. ( i.e. Equifax breach should have been a historically large fine in this thought. This, while widespread, is not on quite the same plane, sans the passport numbers. ) I'm not a big believer that the federal government is an effective information technology provider, but this falls in the realm of public good, making it a better fit. Structure the organization in a similar fashion to NTSB or the FTA, where case officers lead investigations with teams who have no axe to grind with any particular organization and are screened for non-bias. ( Just the facts, ma'am ) This is currently a role being filled by industry security companies, but I would argue that there has been sufficient bias demonstrated that it should be removed from private industry and put in a public forum. Similar to how the NTSB operates, if an American company has global presence, regardless of the location or nature of the disclosure, the disclosure would be investigated in a similar fashion forensically. ( NTSB investigates airline crashes of American manufactured aircraft regardless of location in the world. ) With the ubiquitous use of syslog data and packet captures that most companies retain, these investigations should be fairly easy to handle; recognizing that in most cases, like airlines crashes, large scale IT failures such as breaches are usually a culmination of a series of failures and bad decisions over time rather than technically sophisticated attackers.

I hope that we start taking the current problems that face our burgeoning technical society a little more seriously rather than engaging in idle political artillery with little outcome for the public good. You know, public good, the thing that government is supposed to ensure through consent of the governed?

( See comments about said Samsung TVs ) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13581771

Pretty sure that Samsung does very similar things. I've been interested in actually capturing outgoing pcap data for this purpose. Looks like I have a new project to add the pile.