joncrane

>Why not "a person who went to a school you've never heard of, but has a job they enjoy deeply and that gives them purpose"?

Because when a person has a lot of money, it vastly increases the scope of available activities that they enjoy and give them purpose.

>I'd rather some scrappy startup have all my data than my bank or my insurance provider

Facebook was once a scrappy startup.

As was Google.

It was a "loud minority" type of thing. The average person simply stopped drinking, which was fine.

In today's market, 10% of the drinkers consume 90% of the alcohol. So the efforts of the 10% and the people serving the 10%, and the efforts of law enforcement to stop them, resulted in many very high profile, violent events, which made it seem like it wasn't worth the effort.

Full disclosure, I'm an alcoholic in recovery and I'd be fine with alcohol being illegal. My main beef is that the laws are not internally consistent: THC is by far a milder drug than alcohol but alcohol is legal while THC is still mostly illegal in the US (federally).

Either legalize THC completely or ban alcohol if you want to be consistent.

Also worth noting, THC (at less than 0.3% which is plenty for gummies) and many very very close, but naturally occurring (in infinitesimal amounts) are technically legal federally and companies like 3CHI are exploiting those loopholes. You can buy a vape containing things like HHC, THC-P, THC-O, etc which is virtually indistinguishable from Delta-9 THC, so obviously the days of THC being illegal are numbered.

Seems there's a bit of a "thin white line" phenomenon going on. It also happens in the US but perhaps not quite as strong.

No, it's the workers' fault for merely existing in a time of perceived economic downturn!

Isn't that what "Star Wars" was?

Roads are less complicated and "break down" much less often than buses. They are inherently "better maintained."

The number and type of people who complain when roads are bad means the government pays more attention to that than buses.

The flying equivalent to a car coasting.

Here's the thing: it's actually hard to get for all the wrong reasons.

For example, if you've consumed cannabis in the past 12 months? Forget about it.

Source: my interim access to Public Trust (several tiers below the type of information in these leaks) was revoked and final adjudication took 5 months because in November I admitted to partaking 4 months previous to filling out my first form.

I've had two companies where HR made things better, but much of that was because I became personal friends with at least one person in HR.

A lot of HR professionals genuinely want the employees to be happy and healthy and all that. A lot of HR professionals are stymied in their efforts by other executives that either prioritize money or came up in hardship and think everybody should experience the same hardship.

To be clear both of the companies in question were small US Federal government contractors. Since pay is pretty standard across the sector, the way many choose to distinguish themselves is though benefits, culture, and things like that.

I think that's a bit of an unfair characterization. I would replace "Want to live in fear" with "Human brains are wired to pay more attention to facts which may present a danger to our safety, and modern news media exploits this to win the attention economy game."

Human brains are also wired to pay more attention to anecdotal data than statistics.

Same! GMTA!

They leave the blue lights on almost all the time in Washington DC as well.

This might be my favorite thing I've seen on HN ever. Outstanding work. I hope you're able to find remote work from Tehran in such a tumultuous time.

Maybe also a silent reminder that many police officers will abuse every inch of power they're given?

I love how CFTC called out the CEO as characterizing the evasion of regulation as a "biz decision."

Thank you. I navigated through the modals, came back here for the non-paywalled version, STILL clicked on your link, THEN read your comment just to realize this is something that was filed to be "first!"

We'll have to wait for a more detailed analysis. Though Matt Levine did write about this on Thursday so I look forward to his email this afternoon.

I think the final example is an important piece. Ms Fry, the Morgan Stanley exec, realizes that her position is tenuous, in that it would be nigh on impossible to replace her current gig money-wise while living in Indiana. I think a lot of people have made adjustments based on an assumption of stability in employment. I think employers are fine with this because it gives the employer more leverage in the relationship.

Are you comfortable naming those companies here?

I have no doubt. I was just bringing up your choice of language.

You would have been a hero. It's disappointing when an amazing idea, thrillingly fast and good execution, and the dream of being like a more ethical JP Morgan to the startup world falls through. I can imagine what it might have been like, the ideas and feelings you had must have been even stronger.

I kind of feel like "Shame it wasn't needed, it would have been fun!" was kind of misaligned with the "I was acting in good faith unlike the other vultures" vibe he was trying to sell.

"Man I wasted a lot of effort but thank goodness it wasn't needed after all!" is the thing that would have rung true to the "good faith" vibe.

However, if SVB had EVEN longer, say, 10-15 years, they would have been fine, right?

This is what I was curious about. Presumably ATC wasn't calling out vectors, they were doing it through their own navigation. So did ATC basically give them free movement within a certain box and certain altitude? It looks like they did the moves at about 10,000 feet.

Kodak is another great example.

Do you have an up-to-date LinkedIn profile? Are you making sure to flesh out all your past job accomplishments/technologies used and including the right "buzzzwords?"

While I do write code, I'm more of a Cloud Architect and I get multiple recruiters contacting me each week. When it's heavy, I get multiple messages per day.

The majority of the positions are remote and while I reject most of the offers due to various reasons, if I were desperate for any job, I think I could get one within a few weeks.

It's my understanding that software developers/engineers are in even higher demand than Cloud Architects, so that's why I'm a little confused.

It was actually banned almost immediately after convincingly winning its inaugural race, at the hands of the legendary Niki Lauda.

Addendum: I just tried Bing maps and it's the same.

So I have used Authy, which apparently is somehow protocol compatible with Google Authenticator, and you can back up your tokens with a password. I got a new phone, installed the app, entered the password, and all my tokens were there.

A link to a prior tweet speculates that the owner of the car is a city employee.

This is definitely true for me. I take my car to the track, and my spare wheel/tire combos are stacked right next to where I park the car. When I take short trips around my town with my track wheels on, the TPMS light never illuminates. But about 30 minutes into my drive to the track, it comes on. It turns off again after I park in the garage again.