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cromantic | 5 years ago | on: Google Takeout: Export a copy of your data in Google services

Options are GDPR which applies to European Union residents and CCPA which applies to Californians. Is there anything for people within the US who are residents of the other 49 states?

cromantic | 5 years ago | on: I Still Use Vim

How can someone learn how to use/how to tweak Vim to its full capabilities? Coming from someone who does minimal tweaking on their environment beyond theming, I enjoy using Vim but always feel like I'm barely scratching the surface.

cromantic | 5 years ago | on: 20yo Robinhood Customer Commits Suicide After Seeing $730K Negative Balance

I've done it, takes less than a minute and is akin to accepting a EULA (which of course no one reads). On the flip side, TD Ameritrade had me go through a somewhat lengthy process and required a 2,000 deposit. They even shipped me a technical booklet on options trading. I wouldn't be surprised if they shorten that process though. Robinhood spawned an entire generation of 18-35 year old high risk & low info options traders. Everyone else probably wants a piece of that.

cromantic | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

>https://thiscatdoesnotexist.com/

What hath God wrought? https://i.imgur.com/Fq6Vh5Y.jpg

cromantic | 5 years ago | on: Bye, Amazon

I applaud this move from Tim. It takes gumption to walk away from a VP-level FAANG salary for anything, especially personal morals. I have only one small thing to add as an ex-Amazon employee:

>Amazon Web Services (the “Cloud Computing” arm of the company), where I worked, is a different story. It treats its workers humanely, strives for work/life balance, struggles to move the diversity needle (and mostly fails, but so does everyone else), and is by and large an ethical organization. I genuinely admire its leadership.

This was not and (as far as I keep in contact with old coworkers) is not the case for people working in the data centers operations department. I imagine that area shares similarities with the average warehouse environment. There is a quick turnover (a year on average), a dependence on contracted workers, demanding physical labor, untrustworthy managers, and most of all, the dehumanizing metrics. I remember most of us had dreams to transition to cloud support and get away from the lonely and stressful life as a data center tech.

I think the only people feeling okay at Amazon are corporate and/or AWS software engineers. The rest are feeling the full effects of Amazon's corporate culture. Which is to say, the full rod of Bezos' sadistic corporate philosophy.

cromantic | 6 years ago | on: The Cult of Hideo Kojima

There's more than two. I'd throw in Todd Howard and John Carmack. Usually it's done like becoming notable in any other field: innovation.