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You really should try reading the economist for several weeks. They are pretty dry (not sensational) and filled with analysis. They also do a much better job than most American mainstream publications about giving space/content to the rest of the world. It's a pretty dense magazine and I don't think the "masses" read it.

>I found that the more I delivered and the happier I made senior people, the more I could ignore the rules and process and friction and get stuff done.

Yeah, I agree with this. My strategy has been to figure out what my boss wants to do, figure out what I want to do, and figure out what my job duties actually are. Then focus on the intersection of the first two and doing the minimal work necessary for the third. This means trying to get around process for your boss's pet project or to work on what you want while making your internal customers go through as many hoops as your organizational structure allows when they want you to do your job duties.

This probably comes off a bit cynical and I do have some pride in doing a good job, but this is kind of my basic corporate strategy.

It's so funny to me that people treat businesses and government so differently.

Want results from your start up? Find someone to invest in it.

Want results from a government program? Well, we need to cut out all the wasteful spending.

Your story is really strange and your takeaway is the exact opposite of what it should be.

Alice just jumped to the conclusion that Bob was a criminal? How is that okay? The answer to your story isn't for Bob to reveal potentially embarrassing personal information in a job interview but for Alice not to assume that everyone with a gap in their resume is a criminal.

I was looking at this tonight and I think Google lets you set up "alias emails" in the admin. So if you have multiple users for just yourself, you could collapse those into a 1 user with multiple aliases. That should help with your cost under Google.

Just to add to this, it sounds like OP didn't contact Affirm until after they already started the charge back. I definitely don't think it is appropriate to do a charge back before contacting the vendor that got the payment, which is Affirm.

This is kind of OP's fault, right? I don't think it was appropriate to initiate a charge back on a payment to affirm since they provided their service to OP, that is they already paid for whatever OP was buying. I have a feeling that timing between OP opening the chargeback and the shipping of the item was actually coincidental.

I'd think if you paid affirm and the merchant hadn't shipped the item, then your recourse would be to go to Affirm, not your credit card you used to pay affirm.

The price from O'Reilly is 50/month or 500/year.

I think there is a lot of content there, but I'm also finding it hard to stomach their pricing. $100/year was a no brainer (or whatever the membership fee for ACM was). I would probably do $200 or maybe even $300/ year.

But $500!! Maybe I'll try talking my employer into paying for it.

How is it deceptive when it clearly states that is what it is doing?

Would earthquake monitoring systems pick up a nuclear blast?

I've always wondered what it would be like to work for Slack. Do they use email internally? Or do the handle all their comms through slack?

I think the sense of entitlement is on the hiring manager's side if they want multiple applicants to burn through 6-8 hours of free time to take an assessment of their skills. Then those same hiring managers are the ones complaining about how they can't find employees.

I googled it. Clinton replied "it's clever" in response to reading a satirical op ed in the ny times on the topic.

Please stop spreading misinformation.

>Accepting an infinite number of immigrants would turn the entire country into a slum

I mean, this sounds pretty immigrant-phobic to me. When you picture "war refugees" do you only think of people who cannot get a job? There are doctors and software engineers fleeing war right now too.

UK unemployment rate is only 4%. That's considered "full employment" in the US. It seems like you could use the extra workers.