TheBobinator

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by TheBobinator 7y ago
This is what I miss about the internet from 15 years ago. You looked for a recipe back then you'd get a bunch of simple websites with concise instructions that made a fair amount of sense. People wrote it like an old cookbook. Wanted
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by TheBobinator 7y ago
All Fines are bribes; the entire concept of a fine in of itself is fundementally a corruption of the law. If you want to stay pro-business, sentancing the executive management to public service, or probation, or anti-corruption workshops li
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by TheBobinator 7y ago
Intel owns their own manufacturing process so they can crank out more volume than TSMC can on the smaller process nodes. TSMC Has a roadmap to 3nm by 2023, Intel is looking at 7nm by 2021. Unless Intel manufactures on TSMC's line, AMD
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by TheBobinator 7y ago
Google is interested in building an AI that is designed to turn people into its products. What do you do with a product when you're done with it? What do these people become? All you need to do is search google for weight loss advice
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by TheBobinator 7y ago
Today, It's possible to purchase a VR Headset and be in a different reality and that's on Gen 1 hardware; Gen 2, with varifocal lenses, will change the way we compute and live radically. For a modest expense, you can purchase a su
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by TheBobinator 7y ago
This story is an example of why "mainstream media" (The big 4 outlets) need to have all of their major and minor publications banned from this site going forward or be reduced to being allowed to post 1 or 2 articles per week, top
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by TheBobinator 7y ago
Citylab is owned by The Atlantic media Group. The Atlantic was sold in 2017 to the Emerson Collective. The Emerson collective is a philanthropic endeavour of Laurene Powell Jobs, wife of late Steve Jobs. Literally this article was published
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by TheBobinator 7y ago
You are woefully incorrect. The real cuplerate is that when a bank creates a loan it creates a loan check, and through a confluence of politics and leverage, businesses are motivated to use other people's money to make investments and
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by TheBobinator 7y ago
The idea you don't need to trust society and the government is very attractive when ridiculous abuse has been done to you and you've had to manage the fall-out.
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by TheBobinator 7y ago
When information you are recieving has been "anonymized", how do you tell it is accurate? If you are the person collecting and storing said sensative information, you will know what is and is not accurate, but nobody else knows.
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by TheBobinator 7y ago
It's funny an article published behind a paywall about facebook and google partnering to track your pr0n use has a message that says, as soon as the page loads, you're in private mode". NYT has become such a tabloid. Study is
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by TheBobinator 7y ago
There are three themes driving ageism in tech. First, upper management and investorship doesn't understand engineering or technology. Accountants understand cost and risk, they do not understand oppertunity or business process. MBA&#
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by TheBobinator 7y ago
There is a way to handle this, but you aren't going to like it. Since there is absolutely no penalty for filing copyright claims, you just get together with other large youtube channels and begin filing claims against Disney, CBS, NBC,
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by TheBobinator 7y ago
Students treat college as a jobs training program and as an investment of their time to get into a better life. However, both the government and the schools do not treat college this way. If the government was wisely investing, they'd
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by TheBobinator 7y ago
I'm going to say 2 things here that are going to be unpopular for the HN Community, but they need to be said. First, Non-Competes and Binding Arbitration are legal abhorrations that need to be avoided at all costs. Management is sayin
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by TheBobinator 7y ago
Go look at Amazon's 8k and 10k filings; If memory serves it wasn't until 2015 or 2016 they turned a profit after almost 2 decades. It's been illegal, under racketeering laws, to sell at a loss in order to capture a market fo
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by TheBobinator 8y ago
This comes across as far, far more self-destructive than just a social credit scoring system, it really comes across as children playing with fire they don't understand. All Fractional reserve lending systems replace capital with debt
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by TheBobinator 8y ago
Who's protesting? Microsoft's employee's. Why are they protesting? Because the company mission statement has changed, and they are being drug into a morass of political entanglements they want nothing to do with. What is thei
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by TheBobinator 8y ago
Here's your understanding. Maybe you don't work in the US, or come from the US, but are a microsoft employee. Maybe you you do not fully agree with the united states military policies or with their use of technology to further US
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by TheBobinator 8y ago
I prefer moulded ear inserts and wearing actual hearing protection headsets. It gets the message across to your co-workers that their noise is bothering you when you put those on.
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by TheBobinator 8y ago
The first real recourse is not to invest your money or time in such an institution in the first place. It is foolhearty to ignore researching your busniess partners and I don't, for a minute, think these people failed to do so; they&#
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by TheBobinator 8y ago
There are systems of operating that are ridiculously profitable; I know the engineering executive of a Forge Shop that implimented a Scanlon plan some 50 years ago. Company is employee owned with the original company ownership serving as c
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by TheBobinator 8y ago
Who's going to give you the money to buy foods that have not been engineered to addict you, mess with your mental state, or otherwise screw with your health? Who's going to tell you where the good foods are at, that have not been
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by TheBobinator 8y ago
When someone confuses a temporary work permit used to bring in scarce foreign labor to fill gaps in the labor market, with a permanent work permit that brings geniuses to the united states to live their lives, ignoring everything that goes
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by TheBobinator 8y ago
Who pays the abritration company? The employer. Does the arbitration company make money when the employer doesn't? Nope. Will the arbitration company force bribe money (Fine, Civil Suite) to make the problem go away? Nope. Will the
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by TheBobinator 8y ago
The EU has been a deal with the devil; foreigners flooding in, fertility rates dropping, business owners having their businesses traded off for political favors, chunks of the lower classes of society abandoned, government debt. That list
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by TheBobinator 8y ago
It is however easy to imagine "royalty employment": 1 executive employing 20 "clergymen" who don't work a lot but keep the executive happy, and who's needs are then maintained by 200 "peasants".
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by TheBobinator 8y ago
Firstly, identity politics and group politics are a lie, and they keep you from being all you can be. Please ignore them. You are clearly too intelligent to waste your time with such garbage. Jordan Peterson does a good job prooving that
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by TheBobinator 8y ago
That entire post sounds an awful lot like the kind of 3-year old tantrum someone at Microsoft would have if employee's decided to negotiate for themselves, or to work together through collective bargaining. Also, condoning grift is unb
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by TheBobinator 8y ago
There are 3 fundemental problems with open source. First, documentation. There's no more or less standard way to document systems and the kinds of people who think to spend 9 months building Widgets are usually doing it as a learning

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