Nothing other than stock investments and divided’s. After working 40+ hours a week at my day job, trying to spend some time with my wife and 2 year old daughter, and maintain my “fixer upper” house I have 0 left for these “side hustles”.

Ive came to the conclusion you can do three things well at any one time. So if u have work and family then that's two, and the problem with spending the third task on a tech side hustle is you risk burn out

That is so true! Each time I intend splitting this 3rd part into smaller projects, I end up focusing on one only, and indeed lack of sleep breaks me.

That’s why I prefer side hustle “experiments”. If anything looks promising work it a bit further, then perhaps bet a bit more on it (money or time).

any particular fund you can recommend?

I don’t invest in funds, I only buy individual stocks. I also exclusively trade tech stocks, because that is the industry I know. I pretty much take all the financial advice you would get from an advisor and toss it out the window. My current positions are in AMD, CRM, TEAM, NET, SQ, CRWD, DOCN, and AAPL.

Put it all in VTI and you will do better then almost all investors in the long run!

They need to get out from under Dell’s thumb. Until then no new CEO will bring significant changes.

I'm not sure I agree with that. I've been there now over 8 years and the only difference since Dell bought emc is they are cross selling. In terms of product development, staffing, benefits etc they have no influence. This is in opposition to EMC, who had a lot of benefits and nice things like free coffee cut to match with dell.

You contradict, and invalidate yourself, in your own argument.

> they (the local pub) would have a much harder time selling something unique

> Scale ...becomes the default choice

Scale and monopoly removes choice and uniqueness.

There are people that love Starbucks, there are also people that love their local coffee shop.

I don’t those two thing are contradictory, it’s just that you are assuming you don’t get uniqueness inside a monopolistic platform, which is only partially true. The platform is fixed, but you get uniqueness inside the platform, with the content and contacts you follow. Facebook, reddit, etc. are not the same experience for all users. Comparing a network, where each vantage point is unique with Starbucks, which has maybe 50 products, is not an apt analogy.

The ocean has far more effect on co2 than trees. The lush rain forests in South America are C02 neutral, because there is so much life in the rain forest it uses up all the oxygen it produces. The idea that the rain forest are the “lungs” of the earth is just a myth, the oceans are.

Yes, but trees are good at short term carbon capture. And getting back more productive space for our ecosystems is also an important goal.

Sure, it's nothing of what we'll have to sequester, but - as I already mentioned - currently it's quite a low hanging fruit.

> That depends.

Do you care if you actually own your games? Or are OK with google owning the games, they just allow you to play them?

FTFY

You don’t own your games on any platform anymore unless you are buying physical console games. It’s more a question of do you trust the store.

I trust steam to continue existing and providing access for a very long time. I do not expect that stadia will still exist in 10 years. If the service ends up failing, they aren’t going to have gaming hardware sitting around for you to use it.

Personally, I don't as I struggle to remember the last time I replayed a game but I can understand how some people would be put off by this.

I very rarely replay any games I buy so frankly no it doesn't matter much to me.

> start playing games YOU own

Except YOU don’t own them, google does, which exactly why I would never get stadia.

This doesn’t seem materially different than Steam+DRM. I do like getting games from GOG or itch.io when I can, though.

Rarely is it someone diving into something questionable. It is typically either 1) a slow culture change, and one day find yourself sitting at your desk doing horrible things. 2) naivety and person is unaware going into the situation, but now they are in it. It is super easy to sit back from afar after the culture change, after the info is public, to say “I would never work there/do that”.

Certainly. To be clear, I'm not describing "how horrible" people are who originally joined it. I'm saying that today, with what we know and the problems we see growing around the world, especially the rise of authoritarianism, we have some reserves about working for a company like Palantir.

I think you're giving engineers too much credit. I know a people who work at Palantir despite fully knowing what they do, and I know a lot of other engineers who, in 2020, would love to work there.

You assume 1999 is their birth year...could be a graduation year.

Or a random year. I like using random dates in usernames.

Hover has been great for me.

I don’t need to read this to know the answer. It’s because that is when they are used. It’s like having a lawn mower sit for 2 years and then acting all bewildered when you go to turn the engine over “Why did it break today!”