I will work on an improvement to that extension so that it can block these scans if they attempt them in firefox.

The iOS App store is a monopoly that is breaking down in Europe. I expect the landscape will continue to evolve globally and it will fall in other markets as well.

What seems craziest to me of that era is that Microsoft didn't just buy Sega to enter the market and instead made a huge bet on Halo. Seamus Blackley should be better known for what they pulled off in Redmond.

They lost the ability to go into a store for support, lost phone support, and get deprioritized but they use it for personal use and don't care.

I use my phone to run a business. I will spend the premium to have the best service I can afford to run my company. I pay for the top plan on Verizon as a result.

Choice is good. An MVNO is not for everyone but it is a much lower cost option for those who want the downsides.

If you need multiple copies you can work with a VAR (Value Added Reseller) to get better pricing.

CDW.com is the big name in VAR's but they have enormous turnover in staff. I try to build relationships with smaller VAR's. I like these guys: https://greenbeetech.com/ it's a small company with two guys running it who have decades of VAR experience (former CDW people).

Navigating the process of compliantly licensing Microsoft as you scale up is quite a job. Having a good partner to help your organization stay compliant is very valuable.

Selling into the government is not just organizing the data to make the sales process more approachable but it's knowing the process for each sale.

I have a consulting business in the space (https://www.govsoft.us) and won't blind bid on opportunities. We only work on a bid where we know some of the stakeholders.

I know your pain.

Once you learn how to do everything in an editor and they stop supporting it you need to either reinvest time into learning a new editor or in supporting the obsolete one.

I’ve chosen the latter for now mostly because there doesn’t seem to be a clear winner in the market and I hate to keep investing time in learning new workflows every couple of years to do the same task when I can just keep a VM operating to support an obsolete editor.

The public sector pension scandal is insane.

As others have noted, we are printing cash and all assets valued in our currency are likely to be impacted.

Unlike gold, real estate should be able to generate cash and not cost you cash to hold.

They aren’t making more land. With rising sea levels there will likely be less land.

Midwest is a great place to invest. So is the south east.

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If it works why muck it up?

People forget how dependent we have become on computerized automation.

Government will just leak more important info.

I think a shift toward identity as a service is underway for the market to solve this. Auth0 and the like are offering a solution.