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by altacc 1y ago
There's the best and most justifiable reason for doing anything: Dear Leader said so. /s
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by altacc 1y ago
There are many reasons that you could research with a quick search but simply put, it breaks the anonymity of web use and has huge implications for intentional and unintentional surveillance and data misuse. What is asked for here is much m
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by altacc 1y ago
The post mentions the AI boom boosting the numbers. From Fortune[1]: "Analyst estimates from Renaissance Macro Research indicate that so far in 2025, the dollar value contributed to GDP growth by AI data center expenditure surpassed th
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by altacc 1y ago
The graph presented in the article, and I assume the conclusions from it, is all foreign born workforce, regardless of legality, visa or citizenship status.
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by altacc 1y ago
> But perhaps the lesson of Perl is timeless. It asks us to be less precious—and more human—when it comes to programming languages and their design. Only then might we be able to bridge the gap between us and the machines. I'm not c
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by altacc 1y ago
In some countries a credit score is a mysterious value calculated by a private company based on patterns of consumerism and money usage that greatly affects your life. You must earn the score through engaging with other private companies, t
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by altacc 1y ago
> how could it possibly be different? This is the aim of every culture & political system: to remove the ability to even consider that other ways of doing things are possible and that other countries doing things differently are terr
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by altacc 1y ago
I find it amazing that in my lifetime we've gone from "it'll take 13 years to sequence the human genome" to "we can vacuum up some DNA from the air and identify it in time for dinner".
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by altacc 1y ago
I don't think it's exclusive. There is no gate keeping and there seems to be a high ratio of female post creators and commentators. Reddit is 60/40 male dominated, so is also skewered towards male content. Personally I see th
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by altacc 1y ago
It's the facebook version of r/mildlyinteresting on Reddit, which is also very popular. I think it's because this is the kind of thing that fills our days: small oddities and observations that spark our brain but aren't
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by altacc 1y ago
When foreign cultures were discovered by Europeans the default thinking was to assume they were savages without culture, complex society or technology. That has echoed throughout time and still affects our view of history today. The true sa
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by altacc 1y ago
I refer to it as "designed by programmers". It's so prevalent that the Silicon Valley TV show used this as one of it's story lines. When I worked for a consultancy in early internet days I also often repeated "the c
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by altacc 1y ago
Like many CEOs, Steve Jobs' primary skills seemed to be motivation and decision making, which means not always being correct and indeed sometimes confidently incorrect. But crucially gives direction & certainty for a company. He al
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by altacc 1y ago
These are interesting numbers and they're oddly buried towards the bottom of the article. A ~20% mark up for mostly sourcing and manufacturing in the US is less than I'd expected, especially given the 250% price difference. He doe
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by altacc 2y ago
He was elected as president of a constitutional republic. He's acting like an emperor, enacting control through cronyism, threats and targeting of individuals and private companies via executive power. You could counter that he was ele
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by altacc 2y ago
If only politics was limited to affecting those who opted in. But mostly government shouldn't be the whims of one individual, it should be much more considered than that.
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by altacc 2y ago
More likely that prices will go up and wages will stay the same. Factories take a long time to build and businesses know that Trump is erratic and therefore have no idea how long these tariffs will be in place for. So opening a totally new
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by altacc 2y ago
It's not really inconsistent as as far as I'm aware the US is the only country in the world with a universal baseline tariff on all imports. Other countries have tariffs that seek to protect certain industries and balance this wit
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by altacc 2y ago
Except that in 2025 Elon Musk promised FSD in 2017. A lot of marketing delivers grandiose claims but Musk's are extraordinarily grandiose & unrealistic even by marketing's hyperbolic norm.
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by altacc 2y ago
Social media and tech news is full of CEOs praising long hours, start up culture, hustle culture, putting success first or whatever euphemism they prefer. Musk is just on the extreme and in the public eye a lot. He's in the public eye
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by altacc 2y ago
> the work pressure that leads to burnout in SWEs is largely self-imposed Nothing happens in a vacuum and this "self-imposed" work pressure often happens within the a company culture that is either intentionally or accidentally
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by altacc 2y ago
The US' contribution has been incredibly significant and the war would have gone very differently without US support but the idea that the US has contributed most money is false and driven by hubris. There's various ways of tracki
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by altacc 2y ago
They've enshitified enshitification ;)
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by altacc 2y ago
Yep, spreading democracy and freedom is PR. I think there's a historical preference to installing or supporting a dictator rather than a messy democracy. There's several cases where democratic elections delivered a government the
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by altacc 2y ago
Because there's a big difference between the situations and you can't really judge a theoretical situation against an ongoing reality. Ukraine is an active war whereas Taiwan is a stalemate of sabre rattling and diplomatic posing.
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by altacc 2y ago
The difference is that China is on Trump's enemy list, whereas he considers Russia's oligarchs to be potential business partners for his own oligarchy. Trump wants trade barriers to China but wants those with Russia to be removed.
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by altacc 2y ago
EVs should definitely not be rentals, especially in countries with poor charging infrastructure. The use cases between renting and daily ownership are vastly different and EVs simply don't suit most rental use cases. I see quite a lot
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by altacc 2y ago
It's also worth considering that EVs & battery technology are evolving and over time the impacts from build, use and disposal will most probably lessen. If you start with the industrial revolution, the fossil fuel industry had a co
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by altacc 2y ago
Yep, DHTML Zone was the go to place for trippy visuals that'd paralyze your users' browser so that you could make your website look super awesome cool!
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by altacc 2y ago
I've watched it, many people have, and have still firmly concluded it was a purposeful action. It's debatable whether it was a true "I'm a Nazi" move or a "I'm a troll" move but the smirk on the face,

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