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No one is owed a remote job. Unfortunately, if you work for the state, it is highly likely you don't have the skills and leverage to force the issue as most of the positions are just supporting some sort of bureaucracy and fundamentally have to exist because a lobbyist at one point got a law passed. State jobs, like it or not, are often effectively just political appointments.

Also keep in mind that you can't fire or terminate anyone, ever, in the state, so there's also a chance leadership feels this is the first time they can turnover roles that aren't doing much or meeting their goals. That's a very rare opportunity. If you think "rest-and-vest" is bad in tech, you ain't seen anything when it comes to government. Imagine jobs where no one has accomplished anything in a decade or more.

Of course you immediately jump to some sort of conspiracy though.

How many immigrants do you think grew up the same way? Hint: almost none, as the United States is the only country that enshrines true freedom of speech as an unalienable and fundamental right.

This is probably considered "hate-speech" in this day and age, but immigration, shockingly, has cons as well.

Protect them from what? I assume you're presupposing that "free speech is dangerous" here?

If the actor deployed a 0-day through the update, yes, absolutely, but that goes for any app.

It really depends on what the security team was doing. Saying they fired the security team sounds like bad PR, but who knows. Maybe they were just running scanners and couldn't prove value to a VP.

See an audiologist and ask what they think about the volume limit.

Jesus, California and Nevada draining the "flyover" states? Can't get much more dystopian than that.

How about this -- build some desalination plants on the vast Californian coast. Nevada and Arizona can pitch in and share.

That would lower a stock that’s the backbone of every pension and retirement plan in the US.

Not going to happen.

The whole front range area was pretty incredible pre-marijuana legalization. Definitely changed since then. Your friends are right, Californians have been flooding in for a decade plus in greater and greater numbers, and unsurprisingly they bring the same issues they tried to leave behind. Before, that was mostly contained to the Boulder bubble. (homeless issues, loud yet empty activism, blue-no-matter-who, nimby policies, you know the drill).

Sure, Denver has more of a night life now and fancier restaurants I guess?

So it goes.

You missed the key part about women joining the workforce in the 70s.

I use Microsoft because they tend to have a good security development lifecycle.

Damn, with nepotism like this I need to convert and start going to temple. Holy smokes.

From Wikipedia: “He was the most prominent member of the high-profile hacker think tank the L0pht.”

That’s quite a generous take. There were plenty of excellent hackers in the 90s, but “L0pht” just seemed like the PR friendly one that could go on good morning America.

Can’t tell if this is real or just a 90s security person trying to stay relevant after being fired.

Or perhaps if we had the demographics of Norway our schools would be vastly better in every single category except “diversity”.

Like it or not students are not born genetically equal. Throw in poverty and lack of effective parenting and there’s no hope that endless funding will somehow fix that situation.

1-800-Contacts will auto-renew your existing prescription in some states via a eye exam you can do on your phone. I think optometrists consistently sue them over that sort of tech to try to keep their useless glasses monopoly in an era where they really don't need to exist anymore.

Else order from Canada or the UK. Still cheaper to get a new exam at Costco in most cases.

Is the eye chart in kanji? That’d be tough to translate.

A Native American group? I mean damn, that’s gotta be so rare I’d almost support it.

Or did you mean an American company hiring Americans? That’d be pretty rare too.

Might be tricky if you don’t speak Japanese though. Do they have multilingual optometrists that cater to tourists? I suppose Tokyo is big enough you can probably find one of anything.

Let’s genocide thousands of species so California can grow almonds.

This reminds me of the time I went to the Penzys Spice blog, found pages and pages of insane ramblings, thought they were hacked and was about to reach out to them, then realized the CEO was just crazy.

Yes.

I’d like the smartest kid to get the best education and simultaneously the country to invest in its own people first instead of trying to import anyone and everyone to save on training costs.

Sometimes people are different than you and enjoy different things and it doesn’t inherently mean they’re bad.

Perhaps try adjusting to your new location instead of blaming the locals?

Feds have some of the most useless engineers/bureaucrats in the world. They do have a very, very tiny amount of mission motivated folks who are the best of the best, but that number is a rounding error. Ask anyone who has left.

Not firing folks, low pay, focus on the best work life balance in history, heavy affirmative action, politics, and having to work hard to carry the coasters isn’t an environment that naturally attracts skill and competence. Work 500% harder than the next guy and get the same promotion. No thanks.

The gov and contractors, like it or not, are jobs programs first and foremost. A remarkably effective jobs program if you just measure folks employed and not output.

Anyone who I disagree with is fascis…oh a Russian troll now. Got it.

The entire article is just that Denver is the new California. Move elsewhere.

Yeah, but you can buy a 65 inch OLED for $1200, so it balances out!

We did it! Let's drop interest rates back to 0, housing markets are looking a bit shaky.

Nah, not being, just assuming many Americans will be as a Schedule C goes beyond what the average person can honestly do.

Anyone have a link to the full article? I’d like to read why folks will presumably need to be audited for selling over 600$ on eBay and not having a reasonable way to itemize that.