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My personal career epiphany was moving from a tech giant to a late-stage, pre-IPO startup. The amount of freedom and range of challenges I dealt with were exhilarating. Did it pay as much? Not in the beginning, but I was given the room to grow.

Coming from a military background, I can confidently say that promotions at that level are more the end of a political process than a true assessment of skills...

especially a used bookstore.

My company contracts with a security training site. All the videos requires Flash.

<sigh>

Yeah but who do I get to look at their EULA?

EULAs all the way down...

There was this cartoon about a guy graduating top of his class in a CS program and the hoopla of him being hired at a "Big Tech" firm. Then he discover that his role was basically to keep someone on a web page for a half second longer...

I always refer to my Toronto colleagues ( I am in Seattle ) as Southerners...

Your local QFC is really a Kroger btw

Pretty soon you're talking about real money

Yeah, but people still want to live there vs. Youngstown or Cleveland

Agreed, I already cancelled my business travel two weeks before our state issued its first guidance on WFH. OpenTable's data showed the significant drop in reservations weeks before official orders as well.

Open the stores and nobody comes?

Consider also that alot of retirees don't stay in Illinois as well. So other states are benefiting from the discretionary spending funded by Illinois taxpayers

Thoughts and prayers

doesn't take a month to pull a business license search and check employee records.

The implementation of disaster federalism

I am currently sitting in an Aeron chair from one of the dot com bust furniture auctions... I had a friend who rescued servers just abandoned in their racks when one company just folded mid-day, the last remaining guy just walked out of the office. Crazy times.

But think of the ad revenue you can drive off this data set!

Cynically, since the morbidity is mostly in the elderly parts of the population vs. the younger ( a la 1918 ), I can see the Lt. Gov of Texas's attitude of " let the olds make their sacrifice" be the driving principle...

"But another 200 city residents are now dying at home each day, compared to 20 to 25 such deaths before the pandemic, said Aja Worthy-Davis, a spokeswoman for the medical examiner’s office. "

and have 6% representation in the Senate...

Where is that XKCD about new standards...

Ah yes: https://xkcd.com/927/

Similar arguments made by Paul Kennedy in his seminal work Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (1987):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_and_Fall_of_the_Great...

Excellent, I found my time sink for today. Another IDE!

one way to fix the Social Security funding shortfalls...

So your suggestion is...

It has been horribly fascinating watching the (coordinated?) campaign to downplay either the fatality rate or just write off a percentage off the population dying as the "cost of doing business".