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The leaked termination notices are indicating that the fired employees will get post termination pay. See, for example, https://twitter.com/Timcast/status/1588586560986882048/photo...
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https://archive.ph/gQvwd
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Some people just seem to have more hours in their day. It's quite impressive what Musk can do.
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One billionaire replaced another billionaire at the helm of a major company, and proceeded to restructure the company. That happens all the time, and no one hears about it or cares. The only reason this is front page news is the anticipated
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The only way to protect democracy is by silencing your political opponents.
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https://archive.ph/oMWfz
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So what if they call themselves an aptitude test? Believing what it says on the label is naive. I prefer to think of it as Jordan Peterson would say: it's a dragon guarding the treasure you wish to obtain. Your goal is to find a way to
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Not just the rich. I was an immigrant kid, and knew plenty of other immigrant kids. None of our families had much money, but we all had a do-or-die attitude about education and the SAT. You can bet we all knew about prep options, scholarshi
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I don't know when all of this happened to you, but these days there's no excuse. I just googled for "how to increase my sat score" and the first result was this collegeboard.org page[1] called "How to Improve Your S
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Ask HN: What not-profit-seeking project are you tinkering with this week?
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I think those people might be looking for a community of creators who enjoy showing things off to each other. Ideally, the command line calculator in python would be accompanied by a blog post explaining either why the project is important,
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Kim's whole business is doing paid promotions to her Instagram followers-- typically $250k-$500k per promotion. Turns out that's illegal for securities, unless you disclose how much you got paid. If she'd added a footnote to
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I think that's fair. Still feels like it's not the real problem, though. GP says "most people feel they are getting screwed" -- I don't think improving Amazon's tax compliance (to quote another commenter who re
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The top 0.1%? You are never going to beat them, and you know it. They will ignore or sidestep your laws, and most of the time they'll get away with it. This will, occasionally, produce a left-wing movement and sweep some politicians in
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Since your comment is only tangential to the story, it feels like this is something you just wanted to get off your chest. But now that we're here, let's explore it further: what kinds of changes would satisfy you? If it's ab
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I agree that we should have both ISPs and major social networks as common carriers. Based on talking with Republican friends, I think the difference is that social networks are well-known censors. If Xfinity was known to censor as aggressiv
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Are you sure? There are lots of people with six-figure salaries, people who are increasingly single and childless. They can afford a hobby or two, and becoming a Star Citizen whale is still cheaper than taking up skiing or hobby flying.
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I have a 980, too, and it's great. It plays most stuff on Steam without any problems. I'm only considering an upgrade because I want to play Flight Simulator and Cyberpunk on max graphics. I'll be getting a 3080-- they'r
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Very few of these 13 year old accounts are going to have valid card data on file, though. Any cards that were valid back then have long since expired. Seems to me that they're just spamming a bunch of people for no reason?
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I've been trying, in vain, to figure out whether it's true or not. The article doesn't say what Meta did to earn such a large fine. A reuters article on the same subject spoke of "child users between the ages of 13 and 1
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You seem to be using the term "antivaxxer" pretty broadly. I read their COVID section and didn't see any claims that the vaccines don't work, or that you shouldn't take one. Rather, they seem to be against vaccine m
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The property tax on your average home would be so high, only a teacher could afford it.
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Remember Abigail Fisher's case against UT in 2016? Thomas, Alito, and Roberts wanted to strike down UT's race-based admissions policy then. Kennedy and Ginsburg, two of the pro-affirmative action voices from that case, have been r
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This is the most important comment in this thread. If this kind of abuse bothers you, you should donate to IJ. They do amazing work in protecting people you've never heard of, from abuses that never make the news. And they win. A lot.
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On top of that, 99% of people have zero chance of understanding all the "fine print" that gets put in front of them, even if they devoted all of their time to reading it.
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I loved the in-depth technical discussion in this video. If you're into this sort of thing, I highly recommend this pokemon/missingno discussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNsEsZbXE-4
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Starting a company in a regulated field is hard. With unregulated fields like most internet companies, you "just do it" -- as long as you pay your taxes, the government will pretty much leave you alone. In a regulated field, the h
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Glenn Greenwald believed in the story, and was later proven right. I don't blame other media outlets for waiting for additional confirmation, but I do blame Twitter for inventing a totally new policy for censoring this one story. In a
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No, it was censored. Twitter prevented anyone from tweeting links to the story, and prevented people from sharing the story via private message.[1] They also banned the @nypost twitter account for posting it and refusing to take it down.[2]
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> Replace "lab leak theory" with whatever topic you think has been unfairly censored, and the reason it was censored (or any other action taken against it) is not because of the content of that topic, I ABSOLUTELY ASSURE YOU. P

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