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Faraday cages are passive and not illegal. Jamming is.

Fair. Not sure what it’s like getting tech talks approved through comms these days, but this would be fascinating to hear about at a SF or SouthBay Systems meetup.

This sounds fascinating. Can you say anything about the application?

Autoscaling? Data center cooling and power use?

Dairy cows don’t taste good. They’re used for the bottom of the barrel low grade ground meat. Think dog food.

AI slop.

- it’s not just X, it’s Y

- emdashes everywhere

upside down pot from the kitchen. wooden spoon. you sitting next to them on the floor, engaged and interested, paying attention to them.

[on a salary of 70k] “I am not building up a nest egg from my salary”

You are robbing from your future to live in the present.

This might be ok for you specifically as you are making a gamble on your ownership of the startup paying off. Perhaps you have a family safety net. Or Perhaps you are ok with taking the risk that you don’t have enough money in your older years.

It’s not really ok for standard employees to live that way. The USA social contract is that each person must self-fund their own retirement. Deferring that savings to “later” has truly staggering costs in compound-interest-years lost.

This is called “revenge bedtime procrastination” in the literature.

The reply above’s point is that you’ve don’t have data to say that your phone usage is not affecting your sleep. In fact you have anecdotally the opposite data, an implication that it does affect your sleep.

The regulations referenced are prohibitive zoning regulations. These dictate that you are only allowed to build single family homes on the property you own, and that the homes must be very low density, have huge setbacks from the property lines, etc.

The regulation changes are not related to the quality or safety of a dwelling.

This illegal collusion and wage suppression in our industry still occurs, it’s just kept better under wraps now as the executives have learned how to not write things down and use signal disappearing messages.

Nobody cares.

Seriously, customers don’t care about the internal nuance of how things are organized. They care that a very foundational piece of a cloud service provider will suddenly be not available.