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To those that care, it is well past that point.

I'm not sure if the remaining people will care even if Facebook put a dollar amount on your profile to show you how much money they made off of you in the last 7 days.

I did this a year or so ago. I knew it was complete when I got an email from Paypal saying my Facebook account was unlinked. Funny thing...I don't remember linking my Paypal account.

I'm going to guess an ongoing pandemic might have delayed it just a bit

If you are generally curious about why this is something that is required, I suggest "Trigger Warning with Killer Mike" on Netflix. Specifically the first episode which deals with Mike trying to get to a concert only using black products and services.

Long story short: The average lifespan of the dollar is approximately 28 days in Asian communities, 19 days in Jewish communities, 17 days in white communities — and just six hours in Black communities. Meaning after that time, that dollar has to go into another community for a product or service.

> Don't give people medical advice unless you're their personal doctor.

How about if you've already gotten covid, and are eligible to go get vaccinated, go get vaccinated.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/faq.html

You would be the first person that I've heard say hey I already got it, therefore I'm not getting vaccinated.

Even if you've gotten covid, go get vaccinated

Still haven't gotten vaccinated and need to know where to go?

https://www.vaccines.gov/

>indestructible radioactive hybrid terror pigs

This movie better be directed by Robert Rodriguez when this ends up going straight to Shudder for release

I'll save you some trouble. This lost all credibility when 3/4 of the way down the poster starts talking about how the 2020 election was stolen.

> You think this will be corrected by market forces when it is a financial and political pincher movement pushed by the same cabal that stole the 2020 election & hid COVID Truth?

Most of our division doesn't want to go back. We put together a group to survey all teams and start planning for a post-covid workplace. For tax purposes we have to be in office 20% of the time, which sucks, but better than 100% of the time in office I guess.

Or you can look to see that it is scheduled for the afternoon so you deliver in the morning.

You don't even have to say bombs, the article lists a great example. They are tracking protests. I think I would like to be aware if where I normally deliver mail I'm walking into a protest that might get violent.

> Under what conditions are you allowed to use it and it not be abuse?

If your plan wasn't to return it from the start, then it isn't abuse. This seems pretty simple. In your original example your "friend" was planning on using GPUs to test and then return them. At no point was he planning on keeping this purchase.

Now, I will say if you're friend bought 3 GPU's with the plan to keep one and returned two I would say that's not abuse, but there are certainly better ways to try before you buy.

No, that isn't the point of that at all. 10% isn't so you can use a card and then give it back. 10% is so the staff can package it up, send it back to the manufacturer so they can resell it. Or so they can mark it as "refurbished" and recoup some of the lost value of a new card.

Yes? That is abusing the policy. Sounds like he was trying to start a business and wanted to do QA. Then you need to pay for that.

This is clearly unethical, but maybe not illegal.

Ah, no wonder they decided they didn't want to pay their bill for vaccines anymore.

Interesting. Last time something like this happened, that I remember, was about a decade ago in Egypt. The government demanded the internet be turned off during a civil war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_Egypt#2011_Interne...

Right, it is understandable that a large company would want you to get going quickly. But yeah, without investing in code quality tools, or something to keep code bases similar, it won't be a fast transition.

I work in a secure facility, when not WFH due to the pandemic. Each jack is numbered, and my computer is tied to that number. If I plug into another jack, I won't connect. I have to get IT to move it for me because it requires them to make some changes to switches. We're not union, but have the same rules.

It feels like you're trying to blame the union for pretty standard practices at established companies.

Why do you have to come at me like this? This is a feeling I go through all the time. It's partly imposter syndrome, but partly that you're probably holding yourself to a higher standard than others.

> I'd been assigned a medium complexity task

Who decided that it was medium? A manger? Some lead? You? You can't really compare what is easy and what is hard when it comes to software. I worked on a project that timelines started to slide when I came on board. Not because I didn't know what I was doing, I had just moved from one project to another. It was because the manager didn't account for the time it would take for me to learn the code base. He assumed that developers were cogs in a machine that can be replaced with no downtime. That doesn't work.

> I've realized I'm not a senior software engineer as I thought and now I don't know what to do next.

There are two pieces of advice I can give you here;

1. Nobody else knows what they're doing either. We're all making it up.

2. You're going to fail at something, a lot, before you get good at it. Go dunk a basketball and get back to me if you think you should just coach(manage) because you couldn't dunk

>A third option would be to take a break from work and try to learn to write good code

You're already at a place paying you to write code. Why take a break to do it for free?

> At my current company programmers aren't even allowed to move our own computer between desks because only union people are allowed to do that

This is also likely an insurance limitation as well. Where I work most employees are insured for basic injuries on site. Only those required to move equipment have the add on that they might move equipment weighing 50 lbs or more.

So if I move a desk that weighs 51 pounds and throw out my back, getting work to pay for it might be difficult because I should have gotten facilities to do it as they have the heavy weight add on.

You'd be surprised how little it would take. I know in Kansas that if a rep worked 365 days a year at $88/day they would take home $31,562/yr. So $50k would be almost double their salary.

Looks like Nevada is $150.71/day or about $55k/year.

We really need to pay these people more so they don't need to supplement their pay through lobbying.

And it looks like the company lobbying for this got this bill wrote up fairly cheap too.

> Las Vegas Review-Journal reports Blockchains, LLC gave $50,000 to a political action committee, Home Means Nevada, which managed Sisolak’s transition into office in January 2019. Campaign finance records also show the company donated $10,000 to Sisolak and his Republican opponent Adam Laxalt’s campaign in 2018.

> Records also show the company’s owner, Jeffrey Berns, personally gave $50,000 to the Nevada Democratic Party in 2019 and various donations ranging from $1,000 to $5,000 to various state lawmakers from both parties.

I know that AMP isn't going away, but man I won't miss it. Android and AMP just never seem to get along. The number of times I've clicked a link to watch some video that won't load because of AMP is too high.

I mean I have a teapot on my stove. It's orbiting the sun. So you're correct.

*I know what reference you're making, I just like to be a pain. :)

I've said it before, and I'll say it again.

People always think unions are for benefits, pay, and safety. Tech needs a union that can fight for ethical coding. Workers need a way to band together and say no, we cannot in good faith work on a project.

It's also a TV show now as well.

We do this very thing at my work. When you have a million and one guidelines around what can and can't be installed on a device. Especially on one that has access to the internet, it is easy to say here is this container that has no access to the internet. That seems to make infosec happy. Also, makes local testing difficult if you need access to a web based API.

The other issue you do have is the issue of configuring them for each application, but luckily most teams have had at least one or two people take up the role of maintaining the images and the startup scripts.

I used some of the lumens that I got through keybase. Mostly because I was buying something online and saw crypto as a payment option.

But out of all the people I know with crypto, they treat them like potions in Skyrim. One day, I'll need all of these different coins. Until then I'll just hold them in my wallet.