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Comment Re:Maybe the public sector will get some good peop (Score 4, Insightful) 160

They've been starved because they pay garbage rates in comparison to the tech sector itself.

There's a disconnect - tech pays well in the tech sector, especially as you move into the big tech space... those rates reflect the value that those people contribute to those industries. If you want tech outside the tech sector, you look at the value they provide and you probably don't realize (or more practically, can't quantify) the multiplicative effect they have on your entire business, so you pay them like you'd pay a leading warehouse worker, or an experienced accountant, and you wonder why you don't get even medium tier talent.

The problem is tech pays 2-5x those rates in businesses that properly understand and will leverage those skills appropriately. Hence, all those other businesses just end up outsourcing to third parties.

Comment Re:Still holding to my prediction (Score 1) 142

Ever read an S1 filing? They list everything from solar flares to nuclear war as risks. The list of risks in an S1 is stuffed, somewhat intentionally, with everything they can possibly think of in the case that it happens. Public companies are sued, constantly, for general day to day operations because some investor somewhere will scream you didn't tell me that the collapse of society will negatively affect my investment.

I'm not saying any of these things are good nor bad, really - but pointing to someone's comments in the risks section of an S1 filing and saying LOOK AT THIS RISK THEY CALLED OUT is a bit like being aghast that the weather forecast isn't always accurate, and the weather guy warned you.

Comment Re:Twitter deal fallout continues (Score 2) 126

You start by describing a sociopathic pursuit of [X] at the expense of all else as something to be admired, and end with a thinly veiled racist comment about "Protestant work culture" being equated with being white. Google may be stagnating, but you're trying to say the problem is "the people I already hate clearly are the problem at Google", which I don't think has a basis. The article did a great job of analysis on the issue and presented a clear set of thoughts. You .. well, you didn't do that.

I'm not ever sure where to start with this, but the simple reality is that we don't need to work like we did 200 years ago. The entire point of technological and social progress is to make life easier. If working 20 hours a day is required to make twitter work, maybe twitter shouldn't work. It's clearly not surviving the free market in that case.

Comment Re:issues of health/retirement - minimum required? (Score 0) 57

This almost entirely depends on where you live. That would be a comfortable retirement outside of major population centers - but not in them. The "safe" rule, where investing in a moderate ETF strategy is your primary holding, is 2.7% withdraw rate per year - see https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

At 2.7% of $2M, you're looking at just $54k per year. How many places in the US could that cover? Granted your transportation and housing costs are low, but they aren't zero, and you're still paying taxes. You could do it, but you certainly wouldn't be traveling much or enjoying your success much either. Personally, I'd want probably 2-3 times that number, so I could have a reasonable level of travel/fun/etc.

Comment Re:I have a pixel 7 (Score 1) 163

Thanks, I wouldn't have thought to look there. I disabled the voice assistant first thing when setting up a pixel 6, and have been confused about why the power button did absolutely nothing on this phone. Even the power + volume buttons didn't bring up a menu - maybe because the assistant is supposed to capture and relay the button press? The only power down option was to hold it for about 15 seconds until it forcible rebooted.

Comment So the question is. (Score 1) 37

are they really just supporting the CIA spying on all your and everyone's communications?

Just think f all the googleplexes of data storage they are sucking up with such ads.

So here is what to do, get all the junk you can and filter it. If you want to be funny, bounce it to the spys. But do it in a way that you can say...opps! it was a technical error.

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