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Curious about which is next door to the modern home - is it a modern home with a pool, next to a 1950s home? Or is it a modern home next door to a house with a pool, in a different neighborhood than the 1950s house?

In the past, I've heard that a house's value can maximize at 140% of the value of its neighbors, so a 1950s house in the same neighborhood as the modern house might drag down the modern house's value.

Replace Houston with Redmond and this is almost exactly the story of my 2nd IT job - as a BPOS tech in the late 2000s. BPOS was basically Microsoft Online beta.

They had a group of 8 of us shadowing people on both sides of the aisle. It was like a shadow village - hidden village of the phone.

Modifying the execution permissions in Powershell requires admin permissions. I'm guessing the author has local admin and does not realize it.

I used to live in what could be called "respectable housing for the indigent" - studio apartments in a 1920s building, with radiator heat, college fridge, and only 40A of electricity per unit. I stayed there while getting back on my feet after a failed robotics startup in 2012.

Currently, I live in a luxury apartment about 4 blocks away. A 2013 building, it has AC and gigabit internet, and free wifi on the roof deck

The housing problem is that - while the difference in utility between these units is huge, the rental price difference is just a few hundred per month. Granted that they are the same square footage. "The indigent" cannot afford base-level housing.

It worked for neutrinos.

I used to work downstream from groups like yours. In the data center, we would receive abuse reports and investigate. Look for 100% CPU use, or wide-open ports, or just visit the server on port 80 and see the phishing page. Then pull the nic and email the technical and administrative contacts.

> And why are you assuming that these people are not getting any other help?

To the contrary, I'm wondering how effective is this help, if it fails to wean someone after 20 years. Or, there must be some constant influx of new users.

So, instead of helping these people with their "predisposition", these countries are helping with their habit. How is this admirable?

> Why do you think the millions of investment bankers or consultants or lawyers or medical residents work long hours?

I thought lawyers worked reasonable hours. The medical industry is it's own special situation. Those investment bankers must be bad at math - for overtime-exempt employees, each extra hour worked past 40 reduces your hourly pay rate by 2.5%.

Retail, fast food, office, IT, software development - all jobs pay 150% pay after 40 hours, and 200% pay after 80 hours. At least in WA State, it's the law for non-exempt employees.

Aren't sweat shops illegal?

You did have the opportunity to work somewhere better. Were you suffering out of a solidarity with the less fortunate?

At least you admit this was your plan from the beginning.

If you're having a service or technical issue, try a customer service team before being negative on the internet.

Why did you work so hard when you hated the job and coworkers so much? Why not find a similar role at a place you enjoyed more? Have you talked to a counselor about workaholism?

What if the comment is against the article? Are we using the YouTube algorithm, which counts downvotes as upvotes?

But isn't the point that you require treatment alongside the drug? And yes, supporting addiction over decades is hugely damaging.

Also, please be more empathetic towards your fellow human. Giving up on someone doesn't help.

When I feel burned out, I take a contract position with a BigCo. The pay is still good, the problems are still relevant, and the slower pace is quite restorative. Plus it leaves merely a scar on your resume instead of a gap.

Because these are all the excuses people give when they were fired and couldn't find another job. Especially after 2 years, when the unemployed person has likely given up on the search.

But seriously, if you enjoyed the job so much, why leave? Why not just take a quick vacation and keep enjoying the job?

20 years is enough to quit anything. Something here doesn't add up.

Have there been a lot of new heroin users entering this system over the past 20 years? Or have these governments been supporting the drug addiction of a small handful of people who refuse to kick the habit, despite 20 years of therapy?

Also, who fills the prescriptions? Or do the doctors just prescribe whatever the patient can get from a dealer? How does free healthcare the dealer?

GP's great article is paywalled.

This is an ad for coffee pods, disgised as investment news.

We need somewhere for alien motherships to land and trade their wares. Roswell has too many tourists.

Or gum, or even chew if you're desperate. There are almost as many smokeless tobacco options as there are smokeless cannabis options.

The name is probably a reference to bare metal devices - "Iron-ic", but seems oddly apropos here.

They save a ton of money on labor. It's easy for sales to cover salaries if you have no employees to pay.

Exactly - clients and customers aren't just an evil of capitalism - they're other humans who share the world with us. And they also have a vision of the world they want to live in.

It's fine to go off and do our own thing. But that doesn't mean we'll have any leverage to gain the concern or help of other people. Subsequently calling them out is just rude.

Fountainhead was about glorifying a designer, to the ignorance of all else. I found the book incoherent and boring in high school, and today I'm still unable to find utility in its themes.

> "setting internal structures to fight against each other"

This could be its own chapter in a book about how to cripple a thriving business. Right after the chapter on leveraged buyouts. Motorola, among others, eventually succumbed to this business-cancer.

A fiasco of a heist?

Also, is it schadenfreude to hate hubris?

BMCs like DRAC or iLO are invaluable when you have hundreds or thousands of fresh servers with no OS. The BMC lets you mount an OS or hypervisor ISO in a way reminiscent of DaemonTools et al., and update bios and other firmware from a shared network folder. I'm pretty sure there's even an API to develop against.

America is similar. Most of America's businesses are east of the Mississippi, where 1/2 of the American population lives in 1/3 of the American empire.

And how do you expect to get the siding discussion into the other channel if you can't get their attention?

You're suggesting to start a new channel just for the PR?