Straight flush, but I guess it's slightly better than getting 1-2-3-4. I'm curious if their TRNG-reading code broke and no error condition prevented aborting the draw.
Convenient trash copy to distract people from the actual class war. $47 TRILLION is what's missing from the pockets of the middle-, lower-, and homeless-classes in America in particular,
stolen from the bottom 90% by the rich 1% from 1975 to 2018 (RAND Corp. figure). https://newrepublic.com/article/159478/rich-people-hilarious...
It's been going on a lot longer than that and likely more.
Congrats at enabling the vulture-like destruction of society. I could've hit it in under 4 at one that offered to let me design my own role in any department, but I chose not to destroy society for money. "Don't be evil." pffft.
It seems to me that the self-esteem movement enlarged egos and arrogance rather than self-reliance or resilience, and so these sort of individuals tend to grow up to be selfish, haughty, entitled people who collapse under any sort of real challenge.
Uh, do think any billionaire like Tim Cook can just drive themselves home, go to the supermarket, and throw legitimate concerns about being kidnapped to the wind?
(Although I did run into TC by himself over by Guy Kawasaki's old Garage Ventures' office in Menlo.)
Her Majesty Laurie only bestows a few CCWs to a handful of business people and her buddies. People can apply for CCWs all they want, but she'll never issue them willingly. She's a bureaucrat and a crook keeping the populace defenseless and maintaining LE job security.
I taught myself for a long time before breezing through a reputable EE/CS program. I always did both software dev and sysadmin. I worked up at numerous big-name shops and universities in multiple fields, starting at 15.5 yo. (I should've lied about my age at 15 to get an IBM Almaden dark matter paid internship job offer, but I was too honest.) I worked on a nuclear reactor simulator, industrial embedded navigation systems, biomedical informatics, HPC, app virtualization startup with a guest driver, email startup, numerous web/internet companies, and sales engineering and consulting.
The most important part is to never get lazy by always keeping skills current, never accepting something is impossible and roll up sleeves to dig deep. Do what other people won't, i.e., confirm/refute root causes with evidence rather than shrugging.
I'm an SRE/SRM in the mid six-figures range, but I've had some experiences like anyone else.
I love it when they give you "homework" that they just forget about. They asked me about numerous technologies, and I went to explain them, but wasn't given a chance. The CTO poo-pooed my résumé like it was difficult to read. He must've felt threatened and so sabotage my shot. They ushered me out the door almost like throwing me out by security; so incredibly rude. I didn't get the job obviously but they later asked me to interview again but I told them to "fuck right off." No, you don't get a second chance to unprofessionally dis me, and I won't work with or for such narcissistic slave-drivers. I didn't care about my rep in this instance because they're clowns who would never amount to anything. Don't be unprofessional, even if someone else is.
A few weeks later, I got a $10k/week consulting contract for a funded startup already in acquihire talks.
Don't settle for BS or bend-over backwards for jerks because it will just get worse. It's not worth your mental health.
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Yes. Separation between church and state (and wealth and mass media and journalism and politics)
Civil marriage and some wills should be replaced with a property and next of kin registered document. This way, any number and type of people can formally-declare what they want to do with property and health, financial, and total power of attorney. Insurance companies and other service products can then determine who is eligible to share benefits based on if someone is listed as a partner or beneficiary, or not. No more titles, relations, or mandates about who is what or how into two boxes: just beneficiaries and partners.
A couple have a kid? No problem.
Two women want to get hitched? Easy.
Three dudes want to live polyamorously and be "married?" Cool. (Obviously, can't let 30 people in a commune share the benefits of one worker.)
A dude and a trans girl? Fine.
The same document solves some problems of inheritance too when it can obviate the need for executors in simple estates.
Telling people who they can love, share their lives with, and depend on goes against individual freedoms.