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I don't know what the reason is, but I would love to read a truly satisfactory explanation for this.

There's too many of us. And most of the good land has been taken and/or ruined.


In my case, not so much as a harsh word between us--

and yet:

Still pretty happy to be rid of her.


Maybe they wanted an easy way to tell people no.

Either way -- in tech (and for some reason more so than in other industries) -- when it comes to hiring, it's head games all up and down. And generally to an extent far more than can really be called "necessary".


If you look at another perspective though, of people whose economies are collapsing, or people living under authoritarian regimes, it serves a need.

Or in a broader sense: "De-regulated money transfer of any kind" -- for which the costs and risks of a cryptocurrency transaction are an acceptable tradeoff.

But for vanilla payments -- apparently they aren't (and never will be).


So the question was: "What problem does X solve?"

And your answer is: "Well, problem Y. Except it doesn't solve it."

Or am I missing something?


Decentralized might solve problem Y. Bitcoin which is a subset of decentralized currency doesn't solve Y. Other currencies might, depending on how their value is anchored.


This article indicts Amazon of the following cruelties:

It seems we were reading different articles, then. In any case your synopsis provides a very skewed representation of what the article actually said.


Am I being too difficult?

Nothing of the sort. Hopefully you'll stick to your guns.


I did and it wasn’t a problem after all. I also asked for better salary, free phone and be allowed to use Linux in their windows only environment and they accepted.


Because it's a perfect language. And hence there's no need to improve (or whine and moan) about it. Which is what language conferences are normally for.


TODO: write a counter-compiler that recognizes resumes based on the stylistic "improvements" suggested by this tool - and mark them for rejection accordingly.


Why? The whole interview process is a dumb game full of bullshitting and half-truths. What does it matter if a robot helped you come up with them?


To be honest, looking at resumes now is a bit like ‘find the bullshit’ from a hiring perspective.


except start-up cost

Which is, well, hugely significant when you think about it.


Even if you could afford to run enough ferries to make a dent, which you can’t, they simply don’t have the bandwidth.

Some people tried to make the math work for the L shutdown and even if you had a line of ferries just following each other as close as safely possible it wouldn’t be nearly enough. Subways are incredibly efficient at moving large numbers of people.


Cities should have a planning timeframe for infrastructure improvements with a horizon longer than a couple years.


Well, yeah. And they should probably be having discussions based on something beside snarky retorts and popcorn-throwing too, I guess.

But I guess those discussions will need to happen elsewhere.


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