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Doubtful many users of TT would notice or know enough about Oracle etc to care.

Worked with someone that had bought into the cult of Zappos as an HR/Head of People/Whatever the fuck you want to call it these days.

They were gross. The happiness culture is toxic and if you don't buy into it and aren't projecting rays of sunshine 24/7 from all your orifices you're expected to just fuck off.

Can confirm, use Teams daily and theres almost no side chatting in it compared to Slack which seems like a near constant watercooler experience.

Past vs future.

35k murders is a lot of fucking murders.

Agreed, theres way too much focus on death rate for under 40.

My roommates (likely) had it while I quarantined for a few months in a different location early on in this pandemic.

Their experience was extreme fatigue (totally exhausted going up two flights of stairs), moderate cough, and a very high fever they’re both healthy early-30s.

Everything I have read seems to indicate the severity is heavily tied to your viral load. If you get a lot of the virus your body has to fight harder than a small amount. This is part if the reason masks and avoiding indoor spaces seems to help.

Edit: They both recovered but one roommate says it took about eight weeks to feel “normal” again. No apparent long term damage, but we shall see.

SpaceX feels like the next "big thing"... question is when does it IPO. Even if the Mars stuff never pans out they can be a very successful business in telecommunication infra.

I dont think China counts as a centrally planned economy. Its a weird state-capitalism hybrid. The government has a say in corporate affairs but doesn’t set production goals.

Back in college I had networking course that the original professor was replaced with a adjunct fill-in due to a sabbatical.

For some reason we spent what seemed like an unreasonably long time on ALOHA and Slotted ALOHA... and I still don't really understand why we spent so much time on ALOHA considering it was 2008. We even had to write an ALOHA simulator at one point and the exam was 3/5 questions about ALOHA.

Not really sure where this story is going... but that's my experience with ALOHA.

Typical HN kneejerk emotional drivel. Might as well just say “Business people bad, engineers good” and save our eyes from having to read anymore.

Throw January out the window. Answer this question? Is AirBNB a valuable idea? I think the answer is yes. Stocks go up based on future projections.

Even if they have to IPO, declare Chapter 11 in 2020, and reform for 2021 there's still a valuable company in my mind because the product is revolutionary.

Before COVID killed travel I would always favor renting a AirBNB for over a hotel. It was marginally cheaper and offered a better experience usually (in my experience).

I am not into this whole lets destroy people because of their speech thing that seems to permeate the entire modern political dialogue.

FYI: I'm queer.

Technicality. Eich was a victim of cancel culture and he was effectively fired. Anything else is revisionist bs.

> Boring is good.

Until you reach channels and realize that mantra apparently went out the window at some point.

Reminds me of a stripped down version of Hazelcast.

Thats exactly what a hipster coffee drinker would say.

I just leased a car after a decade of car-free living (not doing crowded public transport again until we have a vaccine) ... the headlight situation is 10x worse than I remember. Driving at night is a brutal.

I gave up waiting for this phone two months ago and bought an iPhone 11. Bleh.

> an overhyped app that’s easy to copy

If only I could have a nickel every time someone on HN says something like this.

This site sometimes... smh

And this is where the distinction between minor and adult breaks down. He's 17, he's going to be an adult within 365 days.

I dunno what you do here. The book would absolutely be thrown at him if he were 18. He might get off "lightly" at 17, but should he? He should know better right?

I think he gets tried as an adult. He just yeeted his life.

What's the split price? $Close / 4?

Better to make some progress than no progress?

Hell hath no fury like nerds scorned.

Once you realize the only important thing in baseball is getting on base the means by which you do it doesn't matter and you can't lose if you only ever get on base.

Part of the problem is that SF is just so damn expensive... it's going to self-select for people that can afford to live without the additional burden of a family and that tends to be people <30.

A down market is a problem for people with 401ks or etf only if they’re close to or in retirement. It’s not an issue for most people between 20 and 60.

This is going to end badly for a lot of people at some point.

It’s all fun and games until the market tanks for an extended period of time and people that cannot afford to be are over leveraged in stock.

... what did you think was going to happen by just not paying your bills?