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"[Okta] is one of the things that I can put in my toolkit to say, ‘Hey, we're gonna move faster because we have this identity component nailed.

Scott Howitt, CISO, MGM Resorts International"

That's a testimony from Okta's website.

https://mgmresorts.okta.com/app/mgmresortsprod_neocaseemploy...

Back in 2003 or so, my boss showed up at my desk at work, and looked like he was about to blow a gasket. There was a hack that was on the news, and it was getting featured in news stories all over the world.

He basically said he was going to fire me if it turned out it was my fault. (I built the servers that held the data that was compromised.)

Within a day, it turned out that it wasn't all the data, it was just one person, who had a lot of famous friends.

What had happened was that someone had accessed her account. The way that they did it was by guessing her password. Her password was the same as her dog's name, and she was a celebrity known to be seen at events with her dog.

There were around 40 people there, about ten of them competing. It was held at an arcade that was downstairs in the La Jolla mall in San Diego.

This was the first worldwide Street Fighter II tournament, that later evolved into the EVO tournament.

I met Ed Boon at the premier of Mortal Kombat II.

Talking to him was one of the things that basically convinced me to stop trying to work in videogames. Up until I met him, my dream was to make videogames.

I wish I'd taken pictures, the entire cast of Mortal Kombat II was there. This was at the AMOA show in Anaheim California, where companies that run vending routes meet up with companies that sell things like arcade games and pinballs and jukeboxes and vending machines.

Of course.

The profit from selling a leveraged investment is based on the delta between what you pay to borrow the money and how quickly the asset goes up. Doesn't matter it that's a house, a stock, bonds, whatever.

Housing is particularly attractive for these bets, because it's so easy to qualify for a big loan and because the rates have been so low.

Once mortgage rates exceed about six percent, the incentive to invest in real estate will be much lower.

The Atari 2600 soldiered on until 1985 or 1987, and it was remarkable how good the games were after the industry blew up.

Here's Pac Man on the Atari 2600 from 1982: https://youtu.be/nCPpgt0s70U?t=157

Here's Pac Man Jr on the exact same hardware, from a year later: https://youtu.be/r8-y4o7VX3I?t=71

They managed to figure out scrolling, increased the number of mazes by 400% and reduced the flickering significantly.

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34752972/1982-jul-30-bob-laz...

If you make about $100 an hour, a six hour coding challenge costs you about $600.

If a potential employer asked you to spend $600 to fly out and see them, on your dime, would you do it?

I would do it IF I desperately needed a job. I did it back during the dot com crash; I needed a job badly and I was willing to roll the dice.

In 2020? Oh hell no. There's a million companies who are hiring, and an employer would have to be exceptionally special for me to waste $600 on the chance they'll hire me.

And I look like a complete Square.

I think my Mom is typical: because of Prop 13, she can't move. Her property taxes on a new home would be 20X as much.

Due to this, she's kinda 'stuck.' She lives in a house that's larger than what she needs, but she can't justify moving. I think she'd love to "cash out" some of that equity, but she can't.

This is how we got reverse mortgages (which are horrible.)

I think California is far more tolerable if you don't have kids. Without kids, you don't need a big place. A couple could live comfortably in California in a home that's 1000'.

But once you have kids, you need to live in a zip code with good schools, and you need SPACE.

That gets expensive.

This is ridiculous. California is filled with homeless people because:

1) there's a nationwide opioid crisis

2) if you're going to be homeless, might as well move to where the weather is nice

In a recent survey in Los Angeles, somewhere around 90% of the homeless reported a substance abuse problem.

This is impacting Seattle and Portland too; it's a lot easier to be homeless in Portland than Phoenix.

Yes, that's true. In the declassified document from 2008, they explicitly said it was unfeasible.

In the patent from ten years later, they explain how they did it.

Here is a cut and paste from the Navy's patent (https://patents.google.com/patent/US10322827B2/):

"The JASON report considers relatively low EM energy fluxes, when compared with those generated by the physical mechanisms described in the inventor's aforementioned published paper (on the order of 1033 W/m2, and beyond). This exceptionally high EM power intensity induces spontaneous particle pair production (avalanche) out of the vacuum of free space, thereby, ensuring complete polarization of the local Vacuum energy state, thus resulting in modification of the local spacetime energy density. It is because of this fact, that the JASON report's conclusions must be revisited, are incorrect, and are directly in conflict with the current invention."

In my Reddit post, I get into more detail, in regards to the relationship between JASON and the US Navy. (JASON was a program started by DARPA, who created the Internet.)

Check out my Reddit post, I go into greater detail on how these work.

In layman's terms, a vaccuum has been created around the skin of the craft. That vaccuum allows the craft to travel at speeds far beyond an SR-71. And, interestingly, allows them to travel underwater!

The US Navy patent doesn't describe a temperature differential, but it's possible that the absence of air (or water) around the skin of the craft is causing a temperature differential and the 'halo' that you see in the videos that were confirmed "authentic" by the Pentagon.

Check out the Navy's patent here : https://patents.google.com/patent/US20170313446A1/

a quote from it:

"An artificially generated high energy/high frequency electromagnetic field (such as the fields an HEEMFG can produce) can fulfill all three conditions simultaneously (especially in an accelerated vibration/rotation mode), when strongly interacting with the local vacuum energy state. These interactions are induced by the coupling of hyper-frequency axial rotation (spin) and hyper-frequency vibration (harmonic oscillations/abrupt pulsations) of electrically charged systems (high energy electromagnetic field generators), placed on the outside of the craft in strategic locations. [0024]

In this manner, local vacuum polarization, namely the coherence of vacuum fluctuations within the immediate proximity of the craft's surface (outside vacuum boundary) is achieved, allowing for ‘smooth sailing’ through the negative pressure (repulsive gravity) of the ‘void’ (the void within the vacuum). It may be stated that the void ‘sucks in’ the craft."

Personally, I believe that the "UFO" seen by the Navy pilot Commander David Fravor was a Navy craft. I don't think it was extraterrestrial in origin.

Hence, "secret space programs."

In 2008, a CIA analyst named "Ron Pandolfi" signed off on the declassification of the technology in a documented that he signed, here : https://fas.org/irp/agency/dod/jason/gravwaves.pdf

Pandolfi testified before the senate in 1998 in regards to the Chinese stealing U.S. technology:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campf...

The US patent office rejected the Navy's patents initially, then signed off on them after the Navy protested that China was working on something similar. Details here : https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/28729/docs-show-navy-g...

"Given what we know about secret space programs developed by the US Navy and Air Force respectively, electromagnetic propulsion systems have been used for decades in several crafts that operate both in space and underwater. The reason why Dr. Pais chose not to mark the patent applications secret was that senior Navy officials have decided the time had come for the disclosure of advanced electromagnetic propulsion technologies that were already in operation, rather than merely innovative proposals for future development as suggested in the patent application."

On Rogan's forum, I posted an explanation of how these Navy "UFOs" work. I've included a history of their progress and citations:

https://old.reddit.com/r/JoeRogan/comments/dfehjt/an_explana...

According to Bezos, Amazon is a means to an end, and that "end" is putting man in space.

If Bezos said something that spooked investors, that would be bad for Amazon, and what's bad for Amazon is bad for Bezos' long term goal:

Colonization of space.

Three week ago, Jeff Bezos said the following:

"But, Bezos said, if the Earth's population and energy consumption keeps expanding as it has, we will reach a point where every corner of the planet would need to be covered in solar panels to provide people with the quality of life the developed world has come to expect. "We will run out of energy on Earth," he said. "This is just arithmetic, it's going to happen ... If we move out into the universe, for all practical purposes, we have unlimited resources."

https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/10/tech/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-b...

1) let's fire all the DBAs

2) let's fire half the operations team, and outsource the rest

3) let's have the devs do the operational work

What could go wrong?!

I agree with this comment. Personally, I got my start doing sys admin work, and after doing it for years I became pretty decent at writing scripts in Python and Ruby, and I picked up some Java and JavaScript along the way.

In my experience, a lot of people who don't have a lot of experience tend to fall in one camp or the other: either they're operations people who can't code, or coders who don't follow best practices when it comes to operational work.

But here's the problem that I keep seeing:

Management, the ones writing the checks and doing the hiring, all they know about DevOps is what they've read in books and seen in seminars. Due to this, they have a bad habit of dismissing people who don't speak the DevOps "language."

For instance, I did a job interview a few months back, and everything in the job description was in my wheelhouse. I was a great fit. But the hiring manager kept trying to coerce me into talking about my 'vision for DevOps.' Clearly, he had read a book or attended a seminar, and he wanted me to have some type of religious experience with him.

But that's not my thing. I am too busy actually doing the work to read a 200 page book about mission statements.

According to them, Bezos feels the same way. Amazon is basically a means-to-an-end, and that "end" is to get humanity into outer space, as an insurance policy in the event of a catastrophe on earth.

Tech jobs in San Diego pay terrible, but Qualcomm is something else. There's a Chili's a block away from Qualcomm, on Mira Mesa Blvd, and I think you could make more money waiting tables there.

No joke, I've had recruiters hit me up for jobs at Qualcomm that paid about 50% more than minimum wage and required a college degree and five years of experience.