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This made me think that I can’t be the only one who so desperately wants a sandbox game akin to Sim Earth where you manipulate plate tectonics among other Earthly things.

They do. The amount of magic involved to make it work is amazing from an engineering perspective.

Yup.

I hopped back on Facebook in 2012, and it quickly became the nexus of my online life. I started to get wrapped into how I maintained my presence, the kinds of witty things that would make it as posts, the banners and profile pics, and I was always hoping to see a double digit number in the red notification bubble. It all peaked in early 2017 where I was wrapped up in some political ideological battle and I just said "fuck it" and left. Deleted it and didn't think about it.

There were a couple hours at first where I thought I was losing a connection to the world and my friends, but that cold feeling vanished a day later. I felt like I had gotten time back, I felt free.

For all of that, I still putt around on Twitter but that scratches a different itch and I never seem to be consumed by it.

I might be alone in this sentiment, but is anyone else out there with a history working with Boeing or in the industry feel slightly irritated with the armchair hot takes seen in the comments sections?

I live in a building with a quite a few nurses that work at that hospital. It kind of scares me that one of them open mouth coughed in the elevator with me the other night. Probably nothing more than a tired nurse and a dry throat, but still kind of weird to read about a thing that is a block away from where you live.

I just left a company that used an in-house cloud object storage product for their cloud DVR service. It was an amazing piece of tech that was hamstrung by some of the most irritating "features" of Cassandra. We spent more time cleaning up than anything else. I am looking forward to seeing how people use this at scale.

This was one of those things that always ruined time travel movies for me. If I went back in time a few hours, would I be floating in the upper atmosphere? Go back few years, am I just floating in space? Does this mean that I can only really travel back to the previous galactic rotation and hope to Sagan that the galaxy both doesn't drift and the both the Sun and our arm of the galaxy are both in the same place?

I used to be in the anti sticker camp, but then someone nearly walked off with my identical MacBook Pro at Newark. After that, I've gone through three laptops and each one ends up caked in stickers from various customers and conferences. I don't have to risk someone picking up my MacBook unless they have the same arrangement IP video tech and Seattle sports stickers.

I fucking love whiteboards.

So much so that I had my office desk partially covered in a whiteboard sheet[1] and used that with fine tip dry erase pens in lieu of of and paper. The collaboration that took place was off the charts.

[1] amazon.com/dp/B00NC1D5YM

So a blimp?

The Charleston build out just felt rushed. From the IT perspective, it felt that everything was half assed, where the thought they could just stamp Everett in South Carolina. I have memories of managers flying back to Renton to just get mundane things for the South Carolina flight line when they probably should have been installed during construction.

When I left in 2010, it became somewhat of an internal joke that you were never fired from Boeing, just sent to Charleston.

From the tone of the article and what I would expect to see from some of the comments here eventually, you would think that Seattle united in fighting its corporate fascist oppressors by taxing it fairly to cover the problems the capitalist class creates and in response, Amazon is moving far and away from the scene of the crime; both straw structured arguments are patently false.

There has always been a vocal minority in Seattle that has bemoaned any kind of growth and change in the city, and the recent cause that they latched on was all of disruptions Amazon was claimed to be at fault for, or how the "tech bros" ruined the city. These were probably the same people who hated that the Microsoft of a decade or two prior washed the city over with a tech scene, they probably complained that Boeing made noisy jets for the military industrial complex and those "av bros" were destroying neighborhoods with hundred and hundreds of months of established character. This is a west coast city that I have lived most of my life in and around, it has always been changing and growing, and I along with my wife, friends, and family, love it for the opportunities and ever evolving landscape.

Then there is the argument that Amazon is taking its toys and going to play ball elsewhere, used as proof that somehow Amazon wasn't going to work with the city to begin with. Amazon is probably at the top of the current curve of growth, and some of their recent announcements in jobs and locations show somewhat of a diminished drive to expand. Additionally, to pick up and leave, or to leave the region all together is pretty expensive and disruptive to operations. Bellevue is right across the lake. It offers a city government that wants to grow as fast as possible and as dense as possible, and willing to work with anyone. The recent announcement that the local transit authority was on schedule with the light rail expansion in Bellevue lines up with Amazon and a few other companies looking to expand in the city. Bellevue is looking to be a great place to be "in Seattle" without having to be in Seattle.

This. The problem wasn’t too much austerity, it was that the pendulum seemed to always swing to extremes. Banking policy was always painted as a binary choice of excessive welfare financing or heartless spending cuts.

I always liked the idea of a two tier Euro, like 1:3, and I feel like that could have helped Southern Europe and nudged their fiscal policies closer inline with the ECB.

They also could have just pulled the bandaid off of Greece in 08, booted them from the union, took a loss on the debt, threw aid, and laid it out as an example for Spain and Italy to get their shit in order.

In an alternate world where the New Territories had their lease renewed, they probably would remained semi autonomous and any kind of full on independence would agitate China. I don't think they would have sought to isolate other nations over recognizing HK as PRC territory as the UK wields a bit of weight, but you probably would have seen some measures put forth that would have at least required private entities operating in China to treat HK as an extension of Chinese territory, much like what goes on today with Taiwan.