I think it's mainly that was is messy and hard to report on in the moment. There's propaganda coming in from all angles, of course, muddying the water further.

FWIW Washington Post reported on Russian success in Lysychansk just this morning.

Slack huddles have poor ergonomics what with their use of global keyboard shortcuts. I avoid them whenever possible.

Have you tried async standups via something like Geekbot? https://geekbot.com/

I haven't been in a position to proscribe process, I'm just a consumer. We have tried leaving messages in Slack but that process always ends in a matter of days from disinterest.

If it’s async, it’s not a standup, it’s something different, and far far better.

What do you call that? “A-sync-up”?

The lack of a detached floating window for huddles compared to Slack calls is a big regression in functionality for me.

It's too bad we don't know the names of the other companies that bid for the rights, not the amounts. They might be just as bad as the winners.

Further, people are too quick to dismiss the culpability of engineers in the design and implementation of these technologies. It was programmed by software engineer; people like many of us on HN. This should serve as a cautionary tale for us and not just written off with the familiar "they were just doing their jobs" meme.

To me it sounds like a 70 year old talking the way they think 19 year olds talk.

We can split the difference; a 35 year old emulating a 19 year old.

> Soon your bill will be linked to how much you make. So if you're in the top half of income earners, then you'll be charged more.

That's already the case where I'm at (not California). The electric bill often comes with inserts explaining how I could save money if my income is below some threshold. Same goes for my other utility bills.

I'd be interested in reading more about this. A lot of the cost of medicine is overhead interfacing with insurance providers and all the layers of profit therein, but I don't know exactly how much.

Have you read the relevant research on the subject?

We're using Bitwarden for this, on the free two-person organization. It works pretty well when we remember to save passwords to shared folders.

In addition to all that you said about key management -- if you do manage to leak your keys and you chose a bad passphrase good luck proving to anyone that any correctly signed transactions were fraudulent/performed by someone else.