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   by cyclecount 3y ago

   I'm honestly surprised someone this wealthy and connected will actually do time.
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   by cyclecount 3y ago

   Seems like their infrastructure is not holding up today (a good sign that the launch has got a lot of attention?). I cannot load article pages without 2-3 tries.
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   by cyclecount 4y ago

   All of these supersonic passenger craft have solved the issue with the noise. Nobody wants planes sending sonic booms over them, so the routes for these planes will be quite limited.
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   by cyclecount 4y ago

   https://twitter.com/moshik_temkin/status/1637033761794674688 >> The thing that people don't understand about these elite, neoclassical economists from Harvard, MIT, etc. is that while their whole brand
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   by cyclecount 4y ago

   Really feels special to be living through such a historical time. But as a millennial, I've lived through numerous record-braking financial events, from the insane QE after the 2008 bailouts, to the numerous industries that get taxpaye
6. 126.▲
   by cyclecount 4y ago

   I don't believe Proton or Mullvad sell user data; both purposefully avoid collecting user data. I believe NordVPN's open sourcing effort here (whether genuine or not) is motivated by pressure from Proton's open source.
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   Plunge in regional bank stocks triggers spate of trading halts(bloomberg.com)

   89 points by cyclecount 4y ago|92 comments
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   by cyclecount 4y ago

   This line of thinking comes up often on HN but it ignores the central reason for governments to enact borders, a rather modern invention. Governments (at the behest of businesses) enforce borders so that labor cannot effectively organise.
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   by cyclecount 4y ago

   Google is overly cautious in general. https://medium.com/@pravse/the-maze-is-in-the-mouse-980c57cf...
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    What Happened to China's Mars Rover?(nytimes.com)

    3 points by cyclecount 4y ago|0 comments
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    by cyclecount 4y ago

    You read that whole mission statement and your takeaway was their focus was diversity? I think this says more about your biases than about the aims of the Alphabet Workers Union.
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    by cyclecount 4y ago

    This is perfect example of how statistics can mislead. For one, the average in the US is far from the median income. But more importantly, these metrics ignore many other factors in standard of living, such as days off per year or the amo
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    by cyclecount 4y ago

    Where are you seeing unions selling themselves on more diverse workforces and ethical corporate statements? The unions that are trying to bring tech workers together are pointing to examples like France and Germany where, for example, the r
14. 134.▲
    by cyclecount 4y ago

    Americans on the right seem incapable of seeing the difference between the dominant liberal institutions in power today, and "the left" which holds basically no power in the western world today.
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    by cyclecount 4y ago

    There was momentum in tech about 5 years go to unionise; it mostly got squashed and only some front-line workers (retail, contractors, manual testers) made some minor strides towards collective bargaining. But in that same time, the Big Te
16. 136.▲
    by cyclecount 4y ago

    Here's a very succinct explanation of why "reverse racism" is nonsense: https://www.aclrc.com/myth-of-reverse-racism
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    by cyclecount 4y ago

    There really is nothing better than reading books. There are of course great sources of information on the web but it's too easy to be distracted and tricked into reading "junk food" like the author describes.
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    by cyclecount 4y ago

    One things alluded to but not mentioned explicitly: many Googlers (especially in middle management roles) have work at Google all or almost all of their career. If you left university and went straight to Google, you might have a warped pe
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    by cyclecount 7y ago

    I work at Google and I’m voting for Bernie Sanders
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    by cyclecount 13y ago

    My view is that in any place where public transportation is not ubiquitous, the ridership often comprises the poorest people in the city. Much of the public transportation system is used only by those who cannot afford better means of tran
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    by cyclecount 13y ago

    The tech:SF::banking:NYC comparison is false for a number of reasons. Chiefly, no single industry in New York overwhelms the city the way tech overwhelms San Francisco. Finance, fashion, media, and many other industries are very big in NY