blindriver

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Apple released update limiting AirDrop in China in light of recent protests(twitter.com)
14 points by blindriver 4y ago|3 comments
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by blindriver 4y ago
Sorry to point out, but your father had no special insight into Huawei's espionage at Nortel. I could say the exact same criticisms of my employer, but I wouldn't know anything about espionage going on. Huawei's espionage was
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by blindriver 4y ago
Huawei singlehandedly destroyed Canada's Nortel Networks through espionage and sabotage. The CIA did an analysis and discovered that Huawei was dumping wireless equipment to small wireless providers in areas around US military basis at
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by blindriver 4y ago
You literally have no idea about the immigration policies in other countries. Some countries won't let you become citizens unless it's by blood no matter how long you've lived there (Japan). Many countries will force you to g
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by blindriver 4y ago
Yes, it's scientifically proven to be fake, but let people have some fun, what's the big deal? There are worse crimes than pretending to have the ability to super-taste wine.
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by blindriver 4y ago
So far the mortgage rates skyrocketing corresponds to an equivalent mortgage that is about 35% lower. Meaning that if you could previously afford a $1 million mortgage, you can now only afford about a $650,000 mortgage with the same payment
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by blindriver 4y ago
Good luck to all my ex-Metamates, I hope it's not as deep a cut to the bone like what Elon did with Twitter. I'll be shocked if Twitter doesn't suffer multi-day outages by the end of the year given how deep some of the cuts s
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by blindriver 4y ago
I wonder how this can be brigaded and manipulated. Remember, there are millions of bots out there that can be programmed to do whatever they want. If you can brigade them properly, then it can be manipulated. Maybe that's a part of the
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by blindriver 4y ago
I remember when Bush vs Kerry, they did a comparison between their policies and there was about a 3% difference between them. The Democrats and the Republicans force a false dichotomy. In reality they are the same side of the coin, and we a
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by blindriver 4y ago
Very awesome!!
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by blindriver 4y ago
I think there needs to be a strict law that fixes this. 1) All consumer plastics should be recyclable, and there should only be 1 or 2 different types of plastic allowed. I don't care how expensive this makes it. That Pacific Ocean Pla
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by blindriver 4y ago
I've been a huge fan of RATM since the early 90s, but I don't think that "A brand new band mixing metal and hip hop like no one had done before" is quite true. My understanding is that the music scene in LA had a lot of
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by blindriver 4y ago
What's your evidence that there are bots on here? There's nothing worse than people just throwing out conspiracy theories with nothing to back them. And HN has a lot of internal protection against vote rigging, etc.
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by blindriver 4y ago
It's also wrong. According to the email they received, they are getting paid until Feb 2023, plus one vest of their RSUs from what I heard. There is no legal basis for a lawsuit.
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by blindriver 4y ago
I suspect a large percentage of "surviving" Twitter employees will enjoy working for Musk. I've worked in environments where there was a lot of unproductive, highly paid people and it was very frustrating, especially if you b
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by blindriver 4y ago
Most dot-com stocks went to 0. There's a famous "99 percent club" of stocks that became wallpaper.
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by blindriver 4y ago
The problem is that right now it's not a valley. It's a downhill slope. Once it reaches a valley, I agree that it's probably a good place to buy, but we're not there yet!
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by blindriver 4y ago
I had lunch there a couple of times. The food was fantastic! I'm curious how much damage all this negativity will have on Twitter culture going forward and what it will take to rebuild it. Is it just throwing money at the layoff "
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by blindriver 4y ago
It makes total sense. Twitter was just bought on Friday. All existing shares are now owned by Elon. There are no private shares of Twitter yet, and it won't be ready to distribute by Nov 1, which is Tuesday.
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by blindriver 4y ago
Completely irrelevant. Twitter just got bought. There are no shares anymore and Twitter hasn't had time to go through the process to create and distribute them.
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by blindriver 4y ago
Not Twitter. They all got bought on Friday by Elon. There's no way they would have time to create the necessary legal structure by Tuesday to be able to allocate shares and even to give them to employees.
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by blindriver 4y ago
Twitter is a private company now. There are no more stocks to vest, so the idea that this is to dodge vesting schedules doesn't make any sense whatsoever.