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This statement is true in some US states (California for example) However, it is not universally true.

From the FTC rule finding (1/2023): https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/federal-register-no...

> "About one in five American workers—approximately 30 million people—are bound by a non-compete clause and are thus restricted from pursuing better employment opportunities. A non-compete clause is a contractual term between an employer and a worker that blocks the worker from working for a competing employer, or starting a competing business, typically within a certain geographic area and period of time after the worker’s employment ends. Because non-compete clauses prevent workers from leaving jobs and decrease competition for workers, they lower wages for both workers who are subject to them as well as workers who are not. Non-compete clauses also prevent new businesses from forming, stifling entrepreneurship, and prevent novel innovation which would otherwise occur when workers are able to broadly share their ideas. The Federal Trade Commission proposes preventing employers from entering into non-compete clauses with workers and requiring employers to rescind existing non-compete clauses. The Commission estimates that the proposed rule would increase American workers’ earnings between $250 billion and $296 billion per year. The Commission is asking for the public’s opinion on its proposal to declare that non-compete clauses are an unfair method of competition, and on the possible alternatives to this rule that the Commission has proposed. "

I use cash for so so so much. I will bring a couple of thousand USD on a trip and convert it to the local currency to avoid exactly this hassle. Not just for me but for the merchant as well.

Cash is king-many, many times.

I honestly don't remember the last time I used wikipedia. As a member of a minority community. It doesn't have anything that I care about. My information resources are elsewhere.

I wouldn't be surprised if the number of admins was cut in half again in the next 10 years.

Tell me you don't know the meaning of a word without telling me.

My experience with companies pulling DIY contract addendums out of their ass is that they forget severability clauses. Or that the contract starts falling apart because they have other sections which refer to the severed part which means those sections also fall apart. For example, a damages section that ends up exceeding state law.

DIY contracts are the best to sign because they are such a mess.

... or move to the State of California which has laws that make such contracts illegal. I remember one contract I signed which had an addendum that read:

"section blah blah does not apply to residents of the State of California."

So 49 other state residents are getting a bad deal but California residents are getting a better deal, yet the company is doing just fine. Hmmm Maybe that section isn't needed anywhere?

true! in part the expectation for what was a quality webpage was lower. remember how crude the yahoo home page was!

https://www.occ.treas.gov/ - office of the comptroller of the currency. That is the agency that regulates national banks.

I write blog entries when I have to explain the same thing more than once. I just write the "email" as a blog entry and then just send a link to the blog post.

So I write blog posts as a way to reduce my effort.

There are a lot of things that I am o.k. with being "adequate" at. I am just fine with being "adequate" at driving for example.

Lots of software I write just has to be "adequate" because the consequence of failure is minimal.

This is why I don't buy specialty hardware devices anymore. I jumped off the smart device treadmill with the fitbit.

The only thing in my house that gets access to the internet are my computers and phone. Nothing else. If I turn it on and it complains about no internet - it gets returned as defective.

I have a car charger (Juice Box) that have a smart app to control it. Nope not for me. Last thing I want is a hacked device fucking with my car's charging.

Why? I do this stuff all the time as a manager. It really goes exactly that way. Notice that the reddit commenter started with getting buy-in from the higher-up in their org. He didn't unilaterally start changing process.

This is honestly basic management technique. It is called the "Auntie/Uncle" problem.

Also showed up on hacker news in 2019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19072850

manager-tools.com : a series of superb podcast. Pay for the personal license; $200/year is worth it.

Read "The Alliance" by Reed Hoffman.

My best advice:

- weekly 1:1s - accept that you will not be as knowledgeable about everything (lack of time) - establish expectations at the very beginning - start off with realizing that no one will retire from the current company. Let your directs know that at some point you expect they will move on. This is so liberating.

Sigh.

Rebase is very useful:

* pre-processing step to a merge. The developer can see that the merge to main will be successful.

* when the branch has cherry picked commits from main, those cherry picks will disappear from the feature branch's commit list.

* rebase also includes the ability to combine commits (get rid of all those WIP commits)

* rebase allows reorder of commits.

rebase is so so much more than just rearrange commit pointers in some "bad" ways.

Failure to include functionality just invites my old fallback when a rebase fails badly.

git checkout main;

git checkout -b new_branch;

git diff -R old_branch | git apply;

git add -A ;

git commit

Removing a tool just invites developers to work around the gap.

Lol. I have never been able to use the EZ version. I have always for a variety of reason used the 1040.

It is in the interests of Intuit to make the tax forms seem so so scary.

In reality, most spots get a 0 entered. Very simple math is involved.

Before you made this comment, did you actually try looking at the 1040 form?

* print out the pdfs * fill out * mail

Takes less time and effort than installing magic software and trying to figure out "wizards"

I know that this may be a shock to technical types here.

Back in the stone age, we filed taxes with paper and pen.

For most people, it really isn't that hard to use paper/pen/envelope/stamp method.

I did this method of filing for decades. Take the time to learn the basics and you will never have to worry about random ass programs.

My tax returns were never "simple" but filling out the forms was not hard - it never took me more than an hour or two.

I got an ad :-)

Every woman cofounder needs to be able to demand that their partner step-up. Period.

Every man who has kids needs to be there for the kids even if their spouse is a stay-at-home parent.

I say this as a dad.

I do my damnest to split parenting duties without her having to ask.

This is so important. And the detail in what goes into tracking down the illegal fishers.

Sadly, Susi Pudjiastuti, the Indonesian fisheries minister , is now no longer in charge. https://news.mongabay.com/2019/10/indonesias-ex-fisheries-mi...

Side note:

> I don't see why solar in Arizona would not help Maine

Arizona power companies have essentially made home solar system uneconomical.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/solar-arizona-net-metering_n_...

why? SO is putting up barriers. I for one don't find it useful to jump over them. I don't even bother asking question there any more.

I agree. I experienced the same situation. I don't even ask questions on SO. Too many times I have had questions closed "Too open-ended".

HELLO I make them open ended because I don't want the answerers to be restricted.