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by billy99k 2y ago
You aren't thinking this through. If enough people pirate something (game, movie, etc), the perceived value is $0 which isn't good for creators. Digital goods are almost like currency than physical items.
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"Lemme guess ... he'll fix it all with tariffs? We sat through the entire speech so you don't have to" There goes the objective news.
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"I see no strong American leadership here. I see a weak president throwing a hissy fit because Zelensky wasn't willing to sufficiently kneel down and kiss Trump's ass. Zelensky is the strong leader here." Are you serious
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It's not being 'softer'. It's temporarily stopping it, so they can try to negotiate a peace deal. I swear, the Bush administration of the 2000s and the liberals of today would be best friends.
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Yeah. This is actually pretty common.
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None of the info listed is classified or secret. This article reeks of disinformation.
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I'm hearing conspiracy theories all the time now from many of my liberal friends. I'm wondering how we finally stop all of it.
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It doesn't help that liberal states have also added cage-free to the requirements, artificially increasing the cost by even more.
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No. Most people here work at large corporations like FB and Google and represent the exact opposite of hacker culture.
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"defenses of people trying to avoid their spying" Most people aren't trying to 'avoid their spying'. They want something for free, without ads.
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"Such as no job security, or severance packages, feast and famine cycles?" I've never had job security or severance package beyond a few weeks. The best job security I have is always having multiple clients, so if one drops m
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by billy99k 2y ago
"2 years ago UpWork was surprisingly good for finding projects, these days there is lots of AI stuff coming from freelancers when they apply and I’m not so sure anymore " I get one good client on Upwork a year. 99% of the clients
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by billy99k 2y ago
I found a recruiter that specializes in freelance/contract work in the tech industry. They negotiated my rate for me (which was 30% hire than what I was asking) and got me a very nice long-term contract (going on 7 years now). They sub
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Twitter colluded with the government. This was the point.
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I normally don't like to do homework for random people on HN, but it's roughly 52% at the moment: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5161231-trump-ho...
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It's not only slow, but far behind Grok AI in terms of results. I stopped using it shortly after launch.
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"No one is cheering government waste. " Of course they aren't. This was all hidden from us for the last 4 years (and probably longer). "This is an utterly delusional view." All of these articles and interviews only
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by billy99k 2y ago
I already use AI for my job. If you don't start learning how to integrate it and make your job easier, you will eventually be left behind.
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by billy99k 2y ago
It's a bit ironic that during Covid, we were told by sites like NPR and many in the tech community to trust the government and not question anything. Those that did question it were the victims of campaigns online by this same communit
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The US left don't seem to understand or care about economics and want to force companies to pay gig workers full benefits. The end result is complete job loss.
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by billy99k 2y ago
It wasn't safe when rogue engineers at Amazon colluded with the US government to take down Parler simply because they didn't like the politics they supported. It wasn't safe when the US government worked with Twitter and Face
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by billy99k 2y ago
It did..and we should bring attention to the president (and party) that did it. They are using the same tactics.
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I guess we should now judge people based on their ancestor's occupations now? How far back should we go?
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by billy99k 2y ago
Don't like someone's politics? Just revoke their passport. Sounds like the idea of someone that wants freedom and democracy for all.
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by billy99k 2y ago
I'm a contractor at a mega corp (senior technical role at a large, boring non-technical company). I love it because the company is so inefficient, I can easily get my job done with time to spare and work on other side-projects. I see t
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by billy99k 2y ago
How could you ever trust your physical security with random people from this app?
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by billy99k 2y ago
The company behind DeepSeek is a hedge fund. When they made the announcement, they were able to invest in all of these chip stocks and make millions on the rebound. As we are finding out, it was mostly hype. DeepSeek is not nearly as revolu
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by billy99k 2y ago
"At my annual assessment a few weeks later, my rating went from 'Outstanding performer' to 'Needs to improve.'" I used to think meetings were 'useless' too. When I got more experience, I actually like
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"just glad to be getting vengeance on someone, even if it's you and I. I don't know about you, but he's saving me money and his 'hateful' look is about all of the wasted tax dollars. The Biden administration de
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