You would have to go to outer space to measure the distance between my politics and many people I've worked with. It didn't use to matter. But now with tech companies shedding integer percents of their staffs I think it's going to matter very much. Where you stand will control where you sit.
My Spanish class textbook comes with... an audio CD. Thankfully in my Giant Tub of Technology Past I've still got a CD/DVD player and adapter cable. I can't remember the last time I ripped a CD. Before 2010, almost certainly.
Imagine living in a place where if mom gets cancer, you don't have to fear that that means the family might become homeless.
Every box of pills has a price embossed on the side. That's the maximum price the government allows that medicine to sell for. No Jan 1 surprises ha ha give us 5x more if you want to live ha ha ha. There's a cap, literally carved into the box.
Mexico graduates twice the number of doctors per capita per year than US. Unsurprisingly, there it's simple to get medical attention, specialist attention and often same day, and pay less than $100 USD for it. Not a copay. Total cost, cash on the barrel head.
As a self employed in California with a child and wife with a working uterus, our health insurance cost $2,300 a month. In Mexico our insurance costs $550/month. And it's real insurance, just for catastrophic stuff. Regular healthcare is cash visits and generics.
Five years ago we made a choice to exit a system that was actively trying to bankrupt and then kill us when we became no longer profitable. Visiting fam in US for the holidays, and comparing notes, only reinforced our decision to uproot and start over.
local humor: I needed to show proof of residency in Mexico City. I didn't have a gas bill handy so instead I showed them my bus pass with worn edges, and a text from Telcel that I was out of data.
The hard part isn't being your own boss. It's being your own employee.
The xz thing really spooked you, huh? A good pinch point is at the installer, eg pip, brew, whatever. Grade repos by "supply chain safety" and make it an explicit act to use an unsafe one, just like "unstable". Not much of a speed bump but would make postmortem and proactive scanning easier.
Random thought about the "blood tax", ie the tradition in Europe where the aristocracy paid low or no taxes but were expected to lead regiments in battle. It was a thing well into the 20th century. Fair or not, that means the country's leadership all had undiagnosed PTSD. Which explains a lot.
Red leather yellow leather red leather yellow leather...
Finally I've graduated to "wait you're the guy who" and while it's kinda fun it's not what I expected.
You know what would be nice? If great power also came with an instruction manual.
Turn public goods into private industries. Turn retirement savings into a casino. Turn mutual aid into the nightmare of health insurance. Turn the trades into corporate training. Crush the unions. And make sure they blame themselves or the poor person next door for their misfortune.
The answer to "why don't Americans riot?" isn't that they are weak, apathetic, etc. It's because the powers that be carefully studied the powers that were. That's why police are paid very well and protected. That's why the media were merged so all "local" stations spout the same message.
"Please write the most unbelievable plottwisty script about the implosion of a large AI startup, in the style of Kara Swisher".
Hey, don't kink shame.
Prediction: the office of US Vice President will devolve into a reserved woman's slot for both parties. A man running against an incumbent woman is bad optics, and it's a bone thrown to women voters without actually giving them power. Veep will be essentially an elected First Lady.
I always imagine these being played duo like that pottery scene in Ghost.
Different clippers (don't want to spread anything) same kind (because my nails are thick hobbit nails). Just get a big one with leverage if you need it. Mr Tweezer is a decent brand.
I would love to know how many people have already blocked someone creeping on my DMs, or how often they engage in flamewars.
Probably the best thing you can do is give people from all backgrounds the tools to calibrate their trust instincts. Not the cheap social pressure shit like "Sally and 10 more friends like this post" but real info (that you have!) about overall reputation and specific p2p interaction.
The remarkable / terrible thing about heyday Facebook was how it was a data machine at 10^9 scale but with a 10^2 interface. It really did feel like it was only you and Dunbar's number of your closest friends. That's why the outrage is so strong whenever the matrix underneath shows through.
People who have primarily experience in high-trust environments still understand the difference between high *risk* and low risk. People from low-trust backgrounds understand the value of high-trust links... possibly more than people who take them for granted.
Hmm. The divide between people who count the change and those who don't is huge, but not impossible.
In the case of X logo and x button... I call that making a tapo.
Feeling that ephemeral bubbly state where I know a book is asking to be written. Next up the feverish plotting phase, the kinda fun tweaking and research, the inevitable wtf reorg/rewrite, the extremely tedious polish, the timorous launch, then the five years' waiting to know if people give a shit.
"...I would think by the year 2020 it would be fairly universal practice for the expert in the field of application to do the actual program preparation rather than have experts in computers (and ignorant of the field of application) do the progam preparation."
-Richard Hamming, 1990-ish
Is this... a round robin?
