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by ein0p 2y ago
As an ex-googler, can confirm. McKinsey guy (Pichai) is running the company straight into the ground. This is masked by the kpis and the stock price (same as with Boeing, up to a point), but don’t yall be surprised when wheels start falling
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by ein0p 2y ago
What a fall from grace. An unstoppable company with a jaw dropping lineup of products, pride of the nation, destroyed by bean counters and MBAs within just 15 years or so. One would hope lessons would be learned, but one would then also be
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by ein0p 2y ago
Are you a part of the Sackler family? Otherwise I don’t see how you could have misinterpreted what I said. Tell me, how many rich people went to jail for the fraud that caused the 2008 financial crisis? See what I mean now?
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by ein0p 2y ago
Next up: Lucid.
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by ein0p 2y ago
I’m sure it was a lot more than just two people
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by ein0p 2y ago
They’ve knowingly killed a ton of people. That’s not a “political point”, and it’s really well established
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by ein0p 2y ago
There will be people like Sacklers until we start putting them away and throwing away the key. We do need to put rich people in jail at least every now and again, if for no other reason than to demonstrate we're not a banana republic.
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by ein0p 2y ago
The Gigachad move would be to land it, but of course that’s not even theoretically possible or worthwhile
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by ein0p 2y ago
You’ll be deep into 12 digits if inflation continues. And that’s if we somehow manage to avoid stagnation
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by ein0p 2y ago
It’s also rather poor. When was the last time you’ve seen a poor US politician? Frickin’ Bernie Sanders has three times as many houses as I do.
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by ein0p 2y ago
The Danes, 3 years from now: “How come meat is 3x the price now? We gotta vote those bastards out.”
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by ein0p 2y ago
There are all sorts of other forms of indirect (and at times direct) bribery practiced in the US. You wouldn’t get anyone competent to “serve the public” if their official salaries were their entire compensation. So your options are either
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by ein0p 2y ago
What do you mean “in other countries”? That’s exactly how it is here in the US as well, just slightly more indirectly, in the form of “campaign donations” and “do nothing” six figure “jobs” after the official’s term ends.
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by ein0p 2y ago
I mostly use screws for metal and plastic, so I use metric hex as well. Therein lies one disadvantage of the metric system: M3 is often too large, M2 is too small, and M2.5 is not super common. I use 2.5, so it’s only a minor annoyance.
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by ein0p 2y ago
Where do you get the data for such a thing? Last time I looked into this (not to trade per se, but to see if I can come up with anything clever using machine learning) the complexity of the data landscape made my head hurt. As did the cost
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by ein0p 2y ago
I can’t tell if “Chinese fentanyl precursors” are real or yet another CIA psyop aimed at manufacturing our consent to send our kids to die in a trench. The reason being, precursors for fentanyl aren’t that complicated to make, and cartels c
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by ein0p 2y ago
GP is suggesting that not all exploit researchers are “western” or western aligned. Some of them are even nation state funded, and they’re often quite good.
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by ein0p 2y ago
He’s a Russian citizen now. He could have gone to Ecuador after he got citizenship, and possibly even before, but I think because he’s not a moron he correctly assumed that he’d end up at a CIA black site within a week of leaving Russia.
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by ein0p 2y ago
The Belmarsh thing wasn’t voluntary in the least
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by ein0p 2y ago
Is Snowden a “mouthpiece for Russia”? I don’t think he is. I don’t see why Assange would be either. I just don’t see how he’d be able to continue his work _anywhere_ in the West. We have so much “freedom” these days that we imprison foreign
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by ein0p 2y ago
Customary units are given in fractions of an inch. Eg half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth etc. So you’re dealing with simple fractions. That is why I buy tape measures that also have metric scale - to sidestep all that bullshit entirely when a
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by ein0p 2y ago
So much trouble over creating, funding, and arming “freedom fighters”/“moderate rebels” to (unsuccessfully) take down Assad. I think I concur with Google TAG here. I think exposing and fixing zero days is better than not doing so, simp
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by ein0p 2y ago
Nerds should talk to non-nerds from time to time. I am a nerd, and this is even cringe to me. I imagine a non-nerd would die from cringe immediately upon seeing this
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by ein0p 2y ago
Per the official position of the US State Department, Taiwan is a territory of China.
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by ein0p 2y ago
Even pre-LLMs, I’d basically rewrite papers using simpler language when I was a co-author. The baseline was never very good, I’m afraid. For some reason researchers love using ten-dollar words even though their overuse makes the paper read
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by ein0p 2y ago
Because you need to be able to run numbers in your head for a lot of practical tasks, and inability to do napkin math can cost you very dearly
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by ein0p 2y ago
Israel controls US foreign policy lock stock and barrel, and increasingly its domestic policy as well. If there ever was a threat to national security, this is it.
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by ein0p 2y ago
For the same reason they’ve been torturing Assange for the past decade. They view us as little more than taxable cattle that should not ask any questions, let alone embarrass or challenge the ruling class.
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by ein0p 2y ago
Useful info, thanks. There’s really no reason for my MBP to be charged 100% - I rarely unplug it
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by ein0p 2y ago
I think (though I might be wrong) charging of Apple hardware detects usage patterns and it would already not charge the battery to 100% if you’re frequently plugged in.

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