2squirrels

6 years agodiscuss

Probably not too difficult to make the app itself. To build the network of drivers to make a consistent enough service to attract users(and then more drivers to expand further) is the tricky part. + insurance and regulation, when they started they didn’t have to deal with it as much until they did, and by then they had resources to do so.

2squirrels

6 years agodiscuss

This is what I was thinking/ further reading the article confirmed. Takes ‘I digress’ into a new dimension. Had to abort midway through.

2squirrels

6 years agodiscuss

Good ol’ cable dying a slow painful death.

2squirrels

6 years agodiscuss

Hashtag nailed_it

2squirrels

6 years agodiscuss

I think that is what is being said. Effexor is not addictive in the ‘traditional’ sense addictive drugs are, but you’re brain and body become dependent on them in ways you don’t realize until you’re trying to come off of them. And because it is a process to find the right medication, you don’t want to be starting and stopping those kinds of medications over and over. A stimulant may be seen as more addictive (due to the potential for abuse / dopamine release), but starting Ritalin then switching to adderall, then say vyvanse, is a less invasive process than starting Effexor then coming off and switching to Wellbutrin etc

2squirrels

6 years agodiscuss

Very well put. My primary care doctor was happy to prescribe at the recommendation of my psychologist. When I spoke to my psychologist initially, I took the approach you mentioned about suspecting I had it based on the symptoms and what others around me had told me.

2squirrels

6 years agodiscuss

I got diagnosed at 29 also and had almost an identical experience to yours and the person above you. I often think of what a difference it would have made to know earlier (in so many ways).

>>Life is too short to waste time fighting against yourself

Str8 facts

2squirrels

6 years agodiscuss

No protections in place and blindly trusted her kid. It is her responsibility to manage her passwords, not Amazon / twitch / whoever else. A shitty situation for sure but if she wants the $ press charges, if she doesn’t want to press charges then she must forego the 20k. Not as simple as that to her, but to everyone else it is.

2squirrels

6 years agodiscuss

My friend used to live in a building like this. It is assumed that everyone else in the building is equally rich and also have their own floor, so they would be able to ride up with you as you would with them. The problem now with air BNB is that you don’t really know who’s supposed to be in the building or not as many of the residents list them when they are away, which is often(either visiting their other properties or travelling recreationally/for work).

These buildings also change hands, whether between family members, or just outright sales, more so if a unit in the building is currently for sale, someone could access the building by showing interest, not even with the real estate agent but just telling the doorman you have a viewing. You wouldn’t have to hack the elevator at all and I doubt this perpetrator did. It would take a pretty vigilant doorman to stop this/determine the identity and purpose of all visitors.

Most of the doormen are there to provide additional services to the residents, like having a cab waiting when they are on their way out and other small conveniences, not so much as gate keepers especially since 99.99% of the people entering are no cause for concern.

2squirrels

6 years agodiscuss

Someone I worked with had a nephew who spent $4000 on I think it was FarmVille in one month. It took them a while but they were able to recover the money because the kid was underage and using the parents credit card.

2squirrels

6 years agodiscuss

It would be interesting if it were possible to create a tool of some sort that distorts your personal data and or floods irrelevant data along with it so it is not so easily collected. For example any time your location is provided it also sends 9 randomized locations, every time you click a google search 9 other random clicks occur on other pages etc, so instead of getting relevant data you are getting a dataset of largely irrelevant data with the goods buried within.

2squirrels

6 years agodiscuss

My trust in zoom is lost regardless of how they handle things from here on out.

2squirrels

6 years agodiscuss

From what I understand it is more of a social engineering attack, deployed after the attacker has gained the personal information required to gain access to an account (which used to be sufficient, but in the Information Age we live in, a postal code / maiden name/date of birth are commonplace on someone’s Facebook profile and friends list).

So the issue is likely a combination of insufficient training for staff and dated methods for verification (for example, allowing people to verify via a PIN number over the phone, but not limiting the number of attempts before being locked out of the account, allowing brute force to be a viable (and successful) attack method.

Some attackers have taken advantage of the fact that some providers don’t have 24/7 support (don’t have the reference just remember reading about it being used to hack prominent crypto figures in social media, T mobile specifically if I can recall correctly) so they start the attack just before support hours end, giving them access to the account and then the down time to execute the attack (usually non-business hours) without the victim being able to do anything about it since they can’t get a hold of anyone once they notice they’ve been compromised (as the physical stores are closed and phone support unavailable until next morning). That is if they even notice as they could be asleep.

2squirrels

6 years agodiscuss

> This is not a fluffy article about meditation

Proceeds to articulate how to meditate successfully and the benefits of doing so(albeit avoiding over-use of the word itself), then suggests you download an app ( by an app I mean their app) to facilitate this

Hm

2squirrels

6 years agodiscuss

I find it crazy (among the other things mentioned too) that taxpayers are subsidizing cheap prison labor for major corporations. Also crazy to me is the cost to house inmates in many states being more than the national average in terms of income[0] considering the poor conditions of these institutions.

[0] https://www.vera.org/publications/price-of-prisons-2015-stat...

2squirrels

6 years agodiscuss

As a beginner myself I wouldn’t even know where to begin to contribute to something like Kubernetes and agree with your point. Those projects have a lot of eyes on them and the talent to follow, what value could I add as a beginner that someone with experience couldn’t do in a heartbeat(or hasn’t already).

2squirrels

6 years agodiscuss

I guess more simply put, as a millennial I don’t really want to pay for something I’ve received for free for the majority of my life and as mentioned in the article, the value to satisfy my curiosity just isn’t there.

2squirrels

6 years agodiscuss

Paywalls drive me absolutely nuts on sites like the New York Times. I get it, they have to make money and physical newspaper sales are dying. Surviving in a digital age, sure. For some reason I am more likely to seek out the information elsewhere for free than to pay for it/ I have no sense of loyalty to those publications or their journalists.

2squirrels

6 years agodiscuss

Agreed. Gawker situation was crazy and vindictive, he not only bankrupted the company but many of the employees personally.

2squirrels

6 years agodiscuss

I feel like that is the norm for small companies. It has certainly been my experience albeit outside of any engineering or development roles so far. They don’t have the resources (their own time, especially a start up, or money to hire) to use on career planning like bigger companies do. Could he have given you some more friendly advice? Probably. Is it his job to: no.

That being said if you don’t feel like your skills are being acknowledged, you’re not learning new skills while on the job (unlikely in a start up but possible) or that the leap to the next step seems to great at your current job, you could just leave when you do feel ready and have learned enough, seeking your next job at the next level above your current. In the interim try to work with your engineering manager As much as possible to learn from them.

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