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rashomon··on Alexis Ohanian speaks out against “always-on” work culture
It might also be that maybe he can be selective with the type of companies he funds. Ones that may not be "moon shot" ideas or require an upheaval of an industry. 99/100 companies who think they will unicorn, will not.

He's just choosing not to head for those avenues of founders.

rashomon··on DeleteFB: Selenium script to delete all of your Facebook wall posts
You need to add a requirement that you had Chromedriver installed. I had Chrome, homebrew and Python3 installed originally but without running:

brew cask install chromedriver

The script wouldn't work. Works great now!

rashomon··on First SpaceX Starlink satellites loaded into Falcon fairing
The FCC filing has a lot of good technical details on the deployment and frequency usage. Additionally, Mark Handley has a good primer on it. It may kill actual east-west terrestrial traffic due to latency improvements: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEIUdMiColU

North-South will still be terrestrial.

rashomon··on “Users want control” is a shoulder shrug
I do think there is more of a feeling of attachment to the machinery with manual transmissions.

Germany is a huge exporter of precision-engineering so there might be a cultural sentiment there.

rashomon··on How Spotify and Discover Weekly Earn Me $400/month
In reality, albums were always so artificial. They were either filled with crap fillers, silly interludes or were just pawned off by the record company as a need to sell units.

Singles is where the heart of the artist lie.

rashomon··on Companies Manipulate Glassdoor by Inflating Rankings and Pressuring Employees
It's the same business model as the Better Business Bureau and Yelp. It's a manufactured perspective.

As a devil's advocate, how can a company expect to be viewed impartially if the only folks who review them have tempers raged enough to motivate them to leave a poor review in the first place? How can I, a potential employee, trust said-reviewer wasn't let go due to Silo'd mismanagement, personal issues or a company pivoting?

I'd rather a platform that lays out exactly what the working conditions would be for most folks. Time in/out of office, salary merit increases or profit-sharing, draconian work-attire policy, etc.

rashomon··on Sears has another chance to avoid closing down
So the whole mechanism to these bonuses is for the banks/investors to keep the executives around long enough to not lose the institutional knowledge and to keep the company heading in a general direction during the bankruptcy chartering.
rashomon··on VirtualBox 6.0 released
> Call me a snob, but it reeks of sloppiness.

Snob.

The utility of the application far outweighs the aesthetics.

rashomon··on Ask HN: How did you decide where to live?
[North America] I actually hope to jaunt into a remote position, in 2019, and this specific question has tussled quite a bit in mind. I'd love to hear what other people are considering.

Seeing that I'm in NYC, I think there are a few cultural, political and culinary reasons to choose a city to transition few. Here are a few of my requirements:

-Strong local job economy if in the event I lose my current position (my job is not sought after enough for me to gain remote positions immediately) -Cheap(er) real estate (this isn't hard considering I'm from NYC) -Left/Democrat-leaning locale (the state doesn't have to be blue but where I live should have an unshamed democratic community) -Some clustered seasonality (that removes FL, AZ, AL, and the northern state for their harsh winter)

My top cities I had in mind: -Raleigh or Charlotte (I have some trepidations about what the Republican leadership did recently) - Explosive growth which the city is not accustomed to/for - Traffic will be a nightmare if the rate continues (almost 0 public transport) - Good tech scene (Research Triangle) and quite cheap real-estate - Might be suburban hell/boring

rashomon··on Verizon says to shed 10,400 jobs by mid next year
That would be a fantastic way to ask for a raise.
rashomon··on Leaving NYC for Nashville
Can concur on the shushness and sublimation.

However, PATH is meandering near the border of MTA's hellish confines and looks drunk enough to stumble in. Couple that with the incessant development (there are 4 towers in constructions near Paulus hook) and already stressed PATH infra and you can guess what can happen next.

On the whole, JC is better than BK for a myriad of reasons.

rashomon··on We are Google employees – Google must drop Dragonfly
If that one employer made it public that they chose not to deal with MRAP repair, I would wholly choose to do business with them and spread the word that they have are a responsible corporate citizen like wildfire.
rashomon··on Migrating away from Google Maps and cutting costs
Any way you could copy the text in here or are there more relevant graphics?
rashomon··on Family traumatized after Nest system hacked by stranger
How is poor password security "hacking"? If you choose to use the same password on all of your devices then that is solely on you.
rashomon··on More Than One in Four Home-Sellers Dropped Their Price Last Month
They absolutely do like tourist-heavy cities like Barcelona or London but a temporary drop in a white-hot housing market isn't a good sign to buy. Houses are still ludicrously expensive.
rashomon··on Hetzner removes traffic limitation for dedicated servers
Why aren't they offering a /56. People offering /64 are doing the same things while thinking of IPv4 exhaustion
rashomon··on Starting an ISP: Deploying Fiber
In the article, he's referring to people complaining about a 2-minute increase in their commute time for something that can absolutely benefit the community.

The short-sightedness is astounding.

rashomon··on Starting an ISP: Deploying Fiber
The cost for micro trenching can be upwards of $200k a building in Manhattan. I would assume dealing with sunken homes, collapsed PoE's and NIMBY folks would make it prohibitively expensive.

But I have no idea why they stopped.

rashomon··on Starting an ISP: Deploying Fiber
If only they were on the other side of Denmark. I wanted to bring some fiber to a small German island called Insel Fohr.
rashomon··on Starting an ISP: Deploying Fiber
Absolutely true. I have property about 30 miles north of WB and Frontier told me they can't get a technician out to replace my service until January.

It would be faster for me to crawl on the ground to the nearest PoP and plugin to a GPON port then it would be for me to wait for them.

rashomon··on Apple and Google Face Growing Revolt Over App Store ‘Tax’
It's the same for restaurants in low-volume areas. That under-4-star death knell is a killer for sales.

On the other hand, I love perusing those 3-star restaurants as I find so many hidden gems covered in the tears of LLC owners and bored hostesses.

If I were a lesser man, I totally am, I would write a book concerning that social theory called the Star Divide.

rashomon··on Bitcoin, Ether Sink as ‘Sense of Panic’ Grips Crypto Investors
As someone who does have a large investment in it. I'm genuinely happy that's happening.

Way too much marketing + pump-n-dumpness occurring for anyone to make some real solutions out of the blockchain. Maybe now that the fervor has resided, the quiet minds can get to work.

rashomon··on Toys ‘R’ Us Didn’t Have to Die
Any source on that theory? I think you have something solid there. George Carlin put it quite eloquently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvgN5gCuLac

We're definitely seeing a resurgence to simplicity after advertisers had performed scorched-earth on frontal cortex lobes.

rashomon··on What I’ve Been Doing Since Quitting My Job
I followed him down the Sia rabbit hole and found he was the only person this side of the hemisphere to get a Sia node running off a Synology NAS (and who could explain it in Layman's terms).

One of the smarter ones out there.

rashomon··on Walmart will begin offering to subsidize college tuition for its U.S. workers
I just feel this will pump more money into the schools that are administration-heavy (most of them) whilst not allowing the market to thin the herd.
rashomon··on Charging electric scooters is a cut-throat business
It's better than City Bike which forces you to 30-minute sessions and to pre-established locking stations.
rashomon··on US Births Dip to 30-yr Low; Fertility Rate Sinks Further Below Replacement Level
Right in that bucket and don't think I'll ever afford being able to rear a child from a financial position of "comfort". Savings to the hilt but it's a cash flow problem.

I also don't want to leave my wife and I without a child but all I envision are bars of my own making.

rashomon··on Hacking a $30 IoT camera to do more than it’s worth
I'm not a conspiracy nut but there is something to say about how attractive Xiaomi's offerings are. For everything from phones, TVs, and other electronics; you would be crazy not to purchase it.

In there lies a hidden threat. Possible from a tiger nation state.

rashomon··on 1.1.1.1: Fast, privacy-first consumer DNS service
Maybe an advertisement re-direct for NXDOMAINS?
rashomon··on Deal would bring Google jets, millions of dollars to San Jose airport
I hate to point you back to OP's link but if you read the headline, it's in response to the exploits that have taken place at the New York Times and others.

http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_22515730/malware-warn...

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