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Do interviewers still ask LC questions?

It's been a while since I last interviewed.

No.

> Tell that to Pieter Levels, who's made a fortune off travel planning software as a one-man shop.

A "fortune".

He has a lot of little projects, what % of his revenue is his travel site/app? And how much?

> In Minneapolis they want to dismantle the existing police force and replace it with another. A big reason for wanting to do this is to get rid of the problem cops.

So throw out the whole bunch because of a few bad apples? And what happens when the replacements have problem cops? Do it over again?

"Democratize".

lol. It's now a weasel word used by start-ups. Merits an eye roll before moving along.

I'm not trying to be a troll with this, but is that true?

I don't mean the fact that Iraq and Afghanistan were failed missions. But I've heard that 90% of the money spent on those wars went to Americans in some way or another, military contractors, suppliers, etc. all the way down the line to people like me in tech who may work on software used by the military.

Journalism is a punch-line now.

In my mind it used to be a respectable profession, but now it's just partisans against partisans. Even for issues that aren't on their face overly political.

Ah ok, definitely in agreement. Not a good move on their part.

Agreed. Obviously I won't be using GoDaddy. And I'm not a pro-lifer, I don't agree with the law.

> If you like Section 230 as it is, don't test it.

What do you mean?

Section 230 means GoDaddy isn't liable for hosting this site or a site by the Taliban.

Are you saying GoDaddy is testing 230? Or that if 230 is repealed there will be more actions like these from other hosting providers?

Agreed. My company (Pinterest) recently opened "new offices" for engineering talent, but they were in Mexico City and elsewhere.

The idea that we'll be competing with other US-based workers is wrong.

In the long run our remote-work "more freedom" fantasy will come to an end.

protonmail?

And that's crazy to me.

I would have figured that with the CCP having ~1.5 billion people to choose from, that they could move a few million Han into Tibet (current pop. according to google: 3,648,100).

Even just 1-2 mil could potentially accomplish the CCP's goals?

> It seems to be working for now - they've had 619 emmy nominations

I canceled my Netflix sub. Maybe this is why? Netflix became desperate to be legitimized by "big Hollywood"/"big entertainment". It used to be the new thing that didn't need to conform with its titles.

I also stopped Netflix at some point early in the pandemic. More and more I was seeing good shows go away and nothing decent replacing it. Then they had all these weird shows (Cuties?) coming around that left a bad impression.

Ultimately my canceling of Netflix went along with canceling big tech as my disillusion has grown across the board: * Amazon (this was hard to cancel, my prime subscription is still paid for the next 6 months) * Facebook (still use the messenger app to chat w/ friends though) * Google (search and Chrome - but still use gmail of course and at work)

I'm going to cancel something from Apple to do a full de-fanging of FAANG :)

Actually here's what I'll cancel: Apple Arcade. Everything they release now is just a "+" game from a non-Apple-Arcade title. "Somegame+" where it means no ads and maybe a little extra content. Originals on Apple Arcade are now harder to find and everything in my new/recommended/trending/etc is a "plus title".