>The people that expect you to maintain retardedly formatted passwords with stupid character mixtures, and expiration/re-use rules are obstacles, and I like making them as miserable as they make me.

The person on the other end of the phone had nothing to do with it.

For me, as an early stage startup, my devs are actually doing some customer service. I find it has helped our UI/UX immensly because they have to deal with all the problems directly. I actually think it is a great idea to let your developers spend at least a little bit of time each week (or day) doing customer service. It's amazing how much faster little bugs get fixed and processes get streamlined.

My hope is that the ambient animosity seeps through, via high turn-over, leading to increased personnel costs for the organization.

In general, hopefully this uncooperative behavior adds to the general misery distributed throughout the world, and all just because security goons need to feel like they're smarter than the people subject to their policies.

Consider this, oh reader, should you have the opportunity to alter password policies for a project your working on.

Clearly you haven't done customer support, if you think having to listen to a long string of characters is what's going break them :)

It would help if they just moved near a Caltrain station.

See: what Google is doing in SJ.

There are or were offices at Sunnyvale Caltrain station. They also have shuttles that regularly service Mountain View, Sunnyvale, and Diridon stations; the ride should only be 10-15 minutes. However, I do not think Caltrain has the capacity for tens of thousands of new commuters.

I'm not sure how frequent these stations are but from the overview of the size of the new Apple campus, it's not too easy finding a lot large enough to just drop it down where it's convenient. Not accounting for zoning laws etc.

From someone who stopped eating beef a few years ago, it’s the first fake burger to satisfy my burger craving, and none of the others come close. Maybe if I were still eating real burgers I’d know what I was missing.

Prop 13 severely curbs the ability of local governments in wealthy parts of California to offer improved public services.

Most everything described as “AI” these days involves training data of some kind.

FYI, tons of people have turned down offers from Google, worked there and quit, or never wanted to work there in the first place.

Frequently, the rental car facilities are some distance from the airport, and the airport is just gatekeeping a bus service to the off-site rental facility. I don't think that land that facility lies on is a very scarce resource.

Having a driver meet you with a car at the terminal is a much better experience IMO, whether it's a taxi, a Lyft, or a rental. If the pickup area is too congested, the airport should address that problem directly with a toll to access that area. A targeted ban that happens to help incumbents in a particular industry doesn't seem like the best way.

Driving is work for me - I don't want to pay extra to do work. Also, a lot of the time you need to ride a bus to get between the airport and the rental car place, which is often a slower and generally worse experience that Uber or Lyft.

Any particular reason you want wood? I've found the folding metal frames you can buy on Amazon to be fantastic. Cheap, easy to assemble, super stable, no creaking, minimal profile, lots of under-bed storage, easy to move.

It’s a car, not a plane. Why is the definition from aviation more relevant than the definition from science fiction (which also happens to be closer to the plain English understanding of the phrase)?

Because the technology is more similar to that of aviation than science fiction.

Because it's science fiction. As in, "this is not real." But well, I guess that if Moon landing was fake and wrestling is real, then science fiction is also real ;) (In other words, that the perception matters more than reality)