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by 0xy 5y ago
How does this differ from UX research or polling, where companies regularly show users unreleased products or poll for ideas they have? What do the employees have to do with it? The company serves the shareholders, not employees.
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by 0xy 5y ago
Considering Twitter exists to serve the interest of its shareholders, and Elon is its largest shareholder, surely his ideas for usage of their assets should be relevant to the company. Companies are beholden to shareholders, by law. Such is
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by 0xy 5y ago
I witnessed someone get fired for wearing a MAGA hat in a Twitter picture at an unnamed tech company. Yes, that was the only reason. He was a good performer. Holding a view that tens of millions of Americans have and you get fired. It'
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by 0xy 5y ago
Which ideas/thoughts should be banned and should result in immediate firing? You're suggesting gun control is okay, what's not okay?
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by 0xy 5y ago
This has to be the sickest and most dystopian crypto project. Their entire business model is decimating the privacy of poor people in exchange for trinkets they sometimes provide (and other times scam). It seems pretty stunning that Sam A
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by 0xy 5y ago
No, consider that they have an entire team dedicated to their WYSIWYG comment text field and it weighs in at over 20mb(!!!) of JavaScript for a text box. Atlassian absolutely doesn't care about performance, it should've been obvio
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by 0xy 5y ago
Yes. It's happened before. After the Boston Marathon bombing there was a "shelter-in-place" order given that prevented anyone from leaving their homes, and subjected residents to military rule (including door-to-door warrantl
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by 0xy 5y ago
All you had to do to 'achieve' this was sacrifice the education of the young, decimate small business, prevent citizens from leaving the country (you know, against the UN Declaration of Human Rights, which Australia signed and vio
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by 0xy 5y ago
I don't think there's anything noble about throwing away millions of dollars (compounding interest when you invest the extra salary) because you're on a single-minded pursuit of a political cult in the name of a company. You
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by 0xy 5y ago
The incompetence of government exceeds the incompetence of the worse large corp I've worked for by orders of magnitude. Managers are pure politicians, there's red tape covering everything and your coworkers are either checked out
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by 0xy 5y ago
Free users of YouTube outnumber YouTube Premium subscribers by an overwhelming number. If no ads isn't worth $10/month, you can bet no ads isn't worth several hundred dollars on each TV purchase. If most YouTube users were Pr
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by 0xy 5y ago
Ads benefit the customer by reducing the price of a 55" 4K TV down to 300 bucks, which is absolutely below the true cost of the device (parts, R&D, support etc). They are selling you a below-cost TV and making it up in ads, same as
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by 0xy 5y ago
The only thing this is evidence is of is a picture existing of people who appear to be dead, the rest is conjecture. Trusting biased ground sources leads to people believing fake propaganda like Snake Island or the Ghost of Kyiv, manufactur
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by 0xy 5y ago
It's a distinction without a difference. The level of negligence required to have it leak from a lab rises to the level of culpability. If you knowingly drive a car with no brakes and kill someone, how is it less bad than driving a fun
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by 0xy 5y ago
Try reading the article, he received well over $50m.
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by 0xy 5y ago
Google and Facebook's accounting departments fell for forged invoices worth over $100m. [1] Yale is far from an outlier. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/25/business/facebook-google-...
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by 0xy 5y ago
I've noticed lots of commentators who seemingly couldn't point to Ukraine on a map before February have suggested that Ukraine's Nazi links are fabricated, when even mainstream media was reporting this before 2022. It include
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by 0xy 5y ago
If it's state-sponsored the number of nations is pretty limited. They attacked Brazilian government infrastructure, which rules out Russia, US, Israel and China who all maintain strong Brazilian relations. That doesn't leave very
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by 0xy 5y ago
What nuance exists when a maintainer of a package distributes malware targeted at people by their nationality? One can assume that the vast majority of the users of this package are innocent people with no government influence.
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by 0xy 5y ago
>It moves around specialty tokens that people speculate are worth that much money. If a particular item can be sold at a particular amount with predictable and transparent liquidity it is objectively worth that amount. Ford doesn't
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by 0xy 5y ago
This argument would make sense if people voted according to their interests, but they don't. For example, San Francisco renters overwhelmingly vote against the development of new housing that would help with housing costs. Black voters
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by 0xy 5y ago
>seo Google's crawler uses automated modern Chrome instances. Suggesting SEO isn't possible with JavaScript or can't index a React or Vue website is very, very outdated advice.
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by 0xy 5y ago
You are an extreme minority, and often any other visitor to a website who "looks like" you are malicious. Why would anyone invest significant engineering time to placate a userbase that's far far smaller than Internet Explore
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by 0xy 5y ago
You claimed F500s do not ever pay that much. The fact an ancient prehistoric company like Verizon is paying garden variety senior developers $300k disputes that statement. I didn't even have to fish very far to find those examples. &gt
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by 0xy 5y ago
The extra cash is not because Firefox is more successful, it's an additional bribe from Google so they can point to an alternative browser when governments come after them for browser anti-trust. Most of their non-Firefox pet projects
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by 0xy 5y ago
The CEO raised her own wage repeatedly while the Firefox market share tanked, during which she directed spending to useless projects that were all eventually shelved and proceeded to plaster Firefox in ads (full page after update) when it b
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by 0xy 5y ago
Verizon, American Express. There's plenty. One of those listed below is even in Arizona. As for the "leveled employees" thing, being at terminal level in any FAANG or similar company isn't exactly rocket science. Do you
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by 0xy 5y ago
>I have yet to hear of a single retention initiative A large number of big tech companies have had unusual retention initiatives, including Robinhood issuing ad-hoc stock grants after a stock drop, Apple issuing $180k stock grants out of
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by 0xy 5y ago
I do not consider a messenger "E2E" encrypted if one of those ends is a random person you did not intend to message. The fact that bug was even possible suggests poor engineering standards.
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by 0xy 5y ago
Secret Chats cannot be MITM'ed and MTProto2 has never had serious security problems despite multiple audits. That's in contrast to WhatsApp, which backs up your private key to the cloud by default. And in contrast to Signal, which

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