This is true. Working remotely is great and productive.
My advice though is to not work remotely if you are the only person in the company working that way.
Remote working requires a remote-friendly culture and office based businesses don’t have it.
Via Andres Soolo
Electric vehicles have been touted since well before internal combustion engines were common. A fleet of electric cabs were proposed for London in the 1880s.
So what happened? Why did it take so long for electric vehicles to become a thing.
Forget conspiracy theories and “roads not taken” type historical speculation. The reasons were always technical. The main reason being energy density. Nothing comes close to petrol in terms of joules per cubic metre. Certainly not a lead-acid battery in 1912. A century later and we are only now in a place where batteries can compete.
Petroleum sucks but when looked at from the point of view of what it made possible, it was and remains a miracle substance.
Originally shared by BackintheUSA
Electric Car and Charging Station, 1912
FACT: you are not smart enough to not use two-factor authentication on your primary email.
If you are targeted by a spear-phishing operation, you will fail.
If you lose control of your primary email address, you will also lose control (via lost password recovery) of all your online accounts and probably of your phone and other devices as well.
You don’t need to be famous or important to be a target of a spear-phishing operation. Thanks to countless data leaks over the past decade, your identity has already been leaked to hackers. It’s not a question of if but when.
Use two-factor authentication.
This is good.
Originally shared by mathew murphy
Originally shared by David McKeever
Tektronix 4014 computer terminal, 1974.
“Okay, then if I’m not me, who the hell am l?”
—Arnold in Total Recall
Anton Troynikov
@atroyn
Things that happen in Silicon Valley and also the Soviet Union:
– waiting years to receive a car you ordered, to find that it’s of poor workmanship and quality
– promises of colonizing the solar system while you toil in drudgery day in, day out
– living five adults to a two room apartment
– being told you are constructing utopia while the system crumbles around you
– ‘totally not illegal taxi’ taxis by private citizens moonlighting to make ends meet
– everything slaved to the needs of the military-industrial complex
– mandatory workplace political education
– productivity largely falsified to satisfy appearance of sponsoring elites
– deviation from mainstream narrative carries heavy social and political consequences
– networked computers exist but they’re really bad
– Henry Kissinger visits sometimes for some reason
– elite power struggles result in massive collateral damage, sometimes purges
– failures are bizarrely upheld as triumphs
– otherwise extremely intelligent people just turning the crank because it’s the only way to get ahead
– the plight of the working class is discussed mainly by people who do no work
– the United States as a whole is depicted as evil by default
– the currency most people are talking about is fake and worthless
– the economy is centrally planned, using opaque algorithms not fully understood by their users
Give me back my fucking cubicle.
Also: manager who wants my attention right now? Fuck off.
Concentration is a mathematical inevitability of a scale free network. The connections that allow a million shops from a thousand cities to compete on a global market are the same connections that mean they can all be replaced by a single shop operating from a single city.
The internet allows this to happen frictionlessly and rapidly but it’s no different to the consequences of normal competition under capitalism. Long term, competition always tends toward monopoly.
John Hardy Developer 