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Agree. I just bought a house outside of the bay area. :) OTHO, if I didn't live there I probably couldn't have saved for the house...

Yep. I recently lived in a Greystar property in San Rafael. The garage gate broke and was tied open with a rope for several months. The front security gate latch broke and my key card didn't work on half of the doors. The mailboxes' latch broke and post office repeatedly notified management and stopped delivering mail for weeks at a time on several separate occasions. Same with the package room. There was no on site security -- you can guess how that turned out in the bay area.

When I moved in, the place was riddled with broken stuff. The toilet, sink, dish washer, and washing machine were broken. It took months of email and "support tickets", to get that stuff fixed, I fixed the toilet myself, and let the small stuff slide. Management was almost unreachable and seemed disorganized at the local level. It was totally surreal.

All for the bargain price of 3400/mo. Luckily it was a short lease. This was mid 2020, so I was happy not to be downtown for while, and San Rafael was wonderful, but I was out of that place as soon as the short lease was up. It took them six months to figure out how to cash my final check.

When looking for my next rental, Greystar managament was an instant deal breaker, and I would recommend avoiding at all cost.

So according to these sources, Canadian truckers don't have to be vaccinated. They just have to quarantine if they have symptomatic COVID.

The first link says "On Wednesday evening, a Canadian Border Services Agency spokesperson said truckers would remain exempt from vaccination, testing and quarantine rules — a reversal from what the government had said publicly just hours before."

My top hit on the search is a primary government source stating that: "A Canadian truck driver who is not fully vaccinated can't be denied entry into Canada—Canadian citizens, persons registered as Indians under the Indian Act and permanent residents may enter Canada by right. [...] Any individual who is symptomatic upon arrival to Canada will be directed to a Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) official and will be directed to isolate for 10 days from the time they enter Canada. As of January 15, 2022, unvaccinated or partially vaccinated foreign national truck drivers, coming to Canada from the US by land, will be directed back to the United States."

I must be the only person here who doesn't already know about these trucking protests; I'm having trouble establishing the basic facts of what is in dispute. Who exactly is required to be vaccinated?

It seems like the fraction of truckers who engaged in cross-border trucking with the US were subject to a Canadian federal vaccination mandate, which applied to some workers in the transportation sector as well as many federal workers, but this requirement was dropped a couple of weeks ago for cross border trucking.[1]

Are the truckers still protesting even though the requirement for cross border truckers to be vaccinated was dropped? Do they have some further demand?

Is anyone here able to kindly cite a (non-editorial) journalistic source which summarizes these events?

[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canadian-truckers-sta...

Honestly, where does anyone even get it in 2022 USA without paying $200 for a permission slip, and then $500/fill? It's like trying to buy "research chemicals" in the 90's :/

I don't know what the "75th Percentile Forward Multiple" is, but if it's down %52, it's down more than "the stock market"; the S&P is down about %6.5, NASDAQ is down a bit less than %12.

Perhaps this article is not meant to be understood by a mere programmer like myself. Could someone kindly explain what I should be worried about?

Applying for 20-30 jobs a day seems like a lot to me (US, dev), so I'm curious if the process is different for you somehow in ways I can’t figure out. I think it would be hard to find an open position, figure out whether I'm qualified, edit my resume to target the role, write a mission/personal statement, and or cover letter, depending on which are required, fill out the various forms etc. fast enough for that to be possible.

I have been advised that employers notice when candidates are spamming their resume without making a visible effort to demonstrate that they have studied the particular company offering the position, and that they are particularly well qualified for, and enthusiastic about, _this_ position, and understand and meet it's particular requirements. I have been taught to expect a very low response rate otherwise.

Also, even if I could work that fast, it would be hard to find that many positions to apply for in any limited geographic area, so by implication I would probably need to be willing to relocate to absolutely anywhere, sight unseen and alone.

I would not have time to consider or prepare for any code screening or technical interviewing in the particular tooling required, so I would feel like I would setting myself up to YOLO the interviews.

It's hard to imagine myself realistically keeping this up for weeks at a time, while also handling any interviews or prep, which in combination I would expect to need to spend 10's of hours on per interview.

Honestly, I would really like to know if my views or assumptions are incorrect, and whether I'm being too lazy, too perfectionistic, or too pessimistic?

LOL, flagged first time in 8 years for quoting the article. It plainly has a conspiratorial tone:

"A harbinger of our brave new world order has been revealed yet again"

"There are those who can’t stand that you can get into your privately-owned vehicle at any time of the day or night and drive virtually anywhere you please."

"These budding authoritarians view that and all other forms of personal freedom as threats to their power."

How am I supposed to take this content seriously. :/

Why do boomers think turbochargers are some kind of conspiracy?

When I was younger my dad's friends thought my Mitsubishi Eclipse was spearheading an invasion of crypto-imperial Japan, and now the "New World Order" is trying to take away their gigantic, heavy ass cast-iron engines? A turbo six Charger would still be fast enough to kill you and several bystanders. If it's superior handling and gas mileage upset you, you could always weld a couple of boat anchors to the front bumper. :)

"A clock, counting down the time until your probable death."

Damn, that kind of puts things in perspective. Is this a new idea?

If you think "crypto" is short for cryptocurrency, you're probably exactly the kind of person who should stay away from cryptocurrency.

Interestingly, I think I recognize the background tile on the page as a member (or slight modification of a member) of my favorite wallpaper package propaganda-debian. In any case, author is clearly a connoisseur of textures.

We're not _all_ unsuccessful entrepreneurs, I for one am an unemployed programmer!

When I was an intern there was this old dude who had an ancient computer with the same Debian on it for like 7 years. He never got excited about new stuff, and just didn't want to break anything. I thought that was kind of funny and un-hip, back then, but now I'm like that. It's like Dad OS. :)

Are plumbers licensed? Should I assume that just anyone can become a plumber?

Licensed trades have gatekeepers, e.g., my high-school friend couldn't be an electrician because he couldn't get a union internship. They were full and he didn't know anyone important. Also, I believe that the licensing required the completion of course work.

I have never had a job that didn't require college and also paid more than rent. It seems a strong assumption that there are ready alternatives which pay a subsistence or higher wage. Of course it is also a strong assumption that higher education will necessarily result in a subsistance or higher wage, but my point is that it seems unfounded to simply assume that there is a reliable practicable alternative just because there used to be. As far as I know, I don't know anyone who didn't go to college and can reliably pay rent by themselves, and I know lots of people who didn't go to college.

Are cryptocurrency trades/flows balanced with cash? Are there likely solutions that approach this problem as one of money laundering?

thanks. thought they meant "server message block" at first and i'm like do i have to?

I wish they would unpack their buisiness jargon acronyms. What are SOHO, ROBO and SMB in this context?

hypothesis: security failure by a service provider is evidence of winning at externalizing costs.

strategy: find SaaS corps responsible for catastrophic cyber-attacks and buy them on the the dip?

Climate change is a collective action problem; the fact that people don't want to solve it with voluntary donations doesn't imply that they think the problem is unimportant.

It would be equally reasonable to propose that roads or police or militaries should be funded solely with voluntary donations, and then use support for that proposal as a measure of public sentiment towards the necessity of those functions. Of course, these functions are used as canonical justifications for the existence of the state in the first place.