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Re:Optimal Stopping on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @08:47AM (#26711112)
Can't stop, won't stop, Rocafella Records cause, We get down baby, we get down baby
Re:Kraken Is Down on Thursday January 07, 2021 @02:51PM (#25676336)
What's Kraken?
Re:Citi’s $900M Misfire Happened During Software Switch on Thursday August 27, 2020 @08:19AM (#24292895)
Somewhere in your company hiring queue is a resume with:

Strengths: Architecting risk management systems

Weaknesses: Sometimes I click on things to see what happens

Re:Citi’s $900M Misfire Happened During Software Switch on Thursday August 27, 2020 @08:15AM (#24292872)
From the blameful-postmortem:

Q. Why did we click `Send $900M?` A. Not sure. Tom felt all clicky-clicky, so he clicked it.

Q. Why did we hire Tom? A. Also not sure. [Action Item: Fire Tom]

Re:Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person (2016) on Monday August 24, 2020 @10:27AM (#24260990)
Also top of mind- "Why you will revive an article from 4 years ago..."
The only known countermeasure is a Bedazzler vest.
Re:How I made $3,300 on a short niche philosophy book on Friday June 12, 2020 @03:04PM (#23502507)
This reminds me of that time I made $200 on a short comment in HackerNews by pretending I was doing an hour of coding.
Suppose Zoom exits China (1.39B potential users) in response. This would almost certainly constitute a breach of fiduciary duty.

Censorship is legal. Failing to act in the best interest of shareholders is not.

Perhaps legislators should stick to writing laws?

Re:Advice to new managers: don't joke about firing people on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @11:39AM (#23478311)
Never joke about firing people.

It's much better to joke about running out of funding. Knowing that everyone will lose their jobs together builds a sense of community and shared mission.

I'm hoping Amazon goes public soon.