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by alaricus 4y ago
Google has an anti-privacy agenda. We need to force Google to give up it's monopoly on Android.
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by alaricus 4y ago
I don't like relying on Microsft. Their track record is bad.
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by alaricus 4y ago
I don't think the Food and Drug Administration has anything to do with Boeing... But seriously, this is not suprising after Boeing killed all those people in 737 crashes. If anything FAA has been too lenient on Boeing.
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by alaricus 4y ago
Ever since Microsoft bought GitHub, I have been telling people to switch to something else (codeberg, gitlab... there are lots of alternatives). I'm glad ARM thinks the same.
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by alaricus 4y ago
Not suprising given Boeing's record with the 737 Max.
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by alaricus 4y ago
The bureucracy around F1 visas is dystopian. I know a lot of folks who got into trouble for obviously innocent things.
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by alaricus 4y ago
The German Green Party is responsible for this crime.
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by alaricus 4y ago
I've been told that I'm a bot because I express views that deviate from the accepted consensus.
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by alaricus 4y ago
I don't have a Twitter account exactly for this reason. No Twitter, you are not getting my phone number.
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by alaricus 4y ago
> Parag says you cannot get a reliable indication of bot/not bot without this internal private data That's convenient isn't it? This report made headlines because it aligns with everyone's experience with Twitter: alm
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by alaricus 4y ago
Has anyone impartial (not on Tesla's payroll) evaluated FSD?
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by alaricus 4y ago
you are right
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by alaricus 4y ago
He has to pay 1 billion to Twitter if he backs down from the deal. This could be a way to get out of paying that.
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by alaricus 4y ago
How do you get 1000 acounts at random? Does twitter have an API for it?
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by alaricus 4y ago
someone watches too many Hollywood movies
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by alaricus 4y ago
India, Turkey, China and others are switching to alternative payments for Russian commodities. Europe is opening Ruble accounts with Gazprombank to keep the gas flowing. These sanctions hurt the monopoly of American financial system more th
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by alaricus 4y ago
I don't think you'll convince anyone that McDonalds is healthy :)
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by alaricus 4y ago
And nothing of value was lost!
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by alaricus 4y ago
> My last office had dogs and kegs. Sounds horrible (I have allergies).
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by alaricus 4y ago
those companies will be replaced by Chinese equivalents before the sun goes down.
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by alaricus 4y ago
Sanctions don't work. The goal of sanctions is not to hurt Russia. The only thing sanctions accomplish is to give a feeling of self-righteousness.
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by alaricus 4y ago
As a manager I have access to restricted table our HR keeps for the correct procedures around firing people in all the jurisdictions we operate in. Short version: it's not difficult to fire anyone, all that changes across countries is
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by alaricus 4y ago
I think WFH revealed very brutally who in an org is useless. Every large org has a lot of people who don't produce anything but still manage to get by using their good social skills. Those folks got hit hard by WFH.
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by alaricus 4y ago
This, this and this again.
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by alaricus 4y ago
This. People who are against working from home are the same ones who measure productivity by measuring activity. They make horrible managers.
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by alaricus 4y ago
Man, we used to waste so much time running from one conference room to the other. Not having to do that saves a lot of time for natural organic conversations.
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by alaricus 4y ago
Forcing people to waste time commuting is unlikely to motivate them.
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by alaricus 4y ago
More than 2 years in and feeling better than I've ever been.
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by alaricus 4y ago
I hope so. Because I'm never going back for a full-time or even a hyrid office setup. I love working from home.
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by alaricus 4y ago
I love everything about this, especially this quote in the readme: "Science isn't about WHY. It's about WHY NOT."

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