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by erentz 1y ago
Companies should buy back their stock if their stock is undervalued. This anti stock buyback meme is silly. It’s like people who are anti shorting stock. Companies list on the stock exchange in order to sell their own stock to raise capital
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by erentz 1y ago
I don’t understand how Mozilla hasn’t built up a sufficient endowment at this stage to just continue indefinitely paying good developers to build the best open browser they can. Its mission should be pretty straightforward and boring.
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by erentz 1y ago
Anecdotally. Folks I know at MSFT seem to just be a lot more stressed and working a lot harder to make up for less staff, rather than seeing any magical gains from the AI being forced down their throats.
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by erentz 1y ago
Google AI the other day told me that tinnitus is listed as a potential adverse reaction of Saphnelo. Only it damn well isn’t. Anywhere. Not even patient reports. The problem with AI is if it’s right 90% of the time but I have to do all the
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by erentz 2y ago
I really think too many people inside America do not properly understand how much the world now thinks it’s at risk from the US. The world sees what has happened as us turning into an autocracy that is now adversarial to democratic countrie
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by erentz 2y ago
Surrendering is not known to be a good negotiating position. They were building into a good position with russia very depleted and economically on the ropes. Despite hold ups in US aid over the Biden admin. Pressing more aid and strengtheni
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Why Techdirt Is Now a Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It or Not)(techdirt.com)
61 points by erentz 2y ago|12 comments
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by erentz 2y ago
Not sure why everyone pointing this out is being downvoted. But we reduced revenue (taxes) while keeping spending the same. So debt goes up. On top of that some emergency situations have also contributed (GFC, COVID) and then and in the Ira
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A Letter to the American People(18f.org)
1081 points by erentz 2y ago|535 comments
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by erentz 2y ago
So I just found this a few pages down at rank 129, where its ended up in only 3 hours, despite garnering 250 points in that time. That's abnormal for such a popular post. What gives?
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The Dark Truth About Bots [video](youtube.com)
2 points by erentz 2y ago|0 comments
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by erentz 2y ago
Benn Jordan did a good video that covered the bots and bias on X recently. Don't know if it or the papers were submitted here before (anyone feel free to submit it not): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ5XN_mJE8Y
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Federal Workers Sue to Disconnect Doge Server(wired.com)
38 points by erentz 2y ago|2 comments
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TikTok's algorithm exhibited pro-Republican bias during 2024 presidential race(psypost.org)
136 points by erentz 2y ago|102 comments
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by erentz 2y ago
For me there is the distinction between regular politics and politics that is influenced or touched by technology and its leaders. Regular politics can be discussed elsewhere, that makes sense. But stories involving technology in the govern
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by erentz 2y ago
I found it interesting because it was made two months ago. I think a lot of people who would’ve watched it two months ago wouldn’t believe it. And yet the past two weeks and flipped it from a “conspiracy pin board” to, actually they really
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Dark Gothic MAGA: How Tech Billionaires Plan to Destroy America [video](youtube.com)
20 points by erentz 2y ago|2 comments
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by erentz 2y ago
I have noticed anything related to Elon Musk, DOGE, and Trump is flagged or very quickly I check back and it has somehow wound up several pages downranked no matter how recent or how many upvotes it was getting. Even articles that are tech
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by erentz 2y ago
Looking this up, is this [1] the bill? Cuz it turns out this bill was sponsored by a Republican and passed during a Republican controlled House in 2023, by a supermajority 352 - 65. People always blame Democrats for things that Republicans
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by erentz 2y ago
First, people say things like they can't not use Facebook because it has marketplace, etc. shows there has clearly been an issue of not enforcing any kind of anti-trust laws for the past 20 years since US v Microsoft in the browser war
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by erentz 2y ago
What are they saying then? I am interpreting them in the context of this discussion which is on Hezbollah’s attacks on Israel and Israel’s response. You seem to imply they are pointing to internal matters to Israel, not Hezbollahs aims. In
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by erentz 2y ago
The parent is suggesting a single state solution and giving this is the context of Hezbollah, the right of return. (Hezbollah is not in Palestine.) Nobody on this planet would make that deal with groups who have the goal of destroying your
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by erentz 2y ago
Israel is simply not going to decide to cease to exist. People living in Israel are not going to up and leave. They’re not going to say “sure take my house” any more than you would. This kind of thing is entirely magical thinking that can o
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by erentz 2y ago
Which came first in your mind? Are you trying to go back to 1948 here? I mean why stop there we could say this is all stems from the assassination of Franz Ferdinand leading to the invasion of and break up of the Ottomon empire. But we have
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by erentz 2y ago
Hezbollah has launched over 10,000 rockets at Israel since Oct 7 last year. While under the watch of the UN. But apparently Israel is supposed to just do nothing about it and accept it going on for as long as Hezbollah likes. Absolutely no
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by erentz 2y ago
That would be a nightmare to implement well and stifle innovation. Just put a proper cost on CO2 emissions, water usage, and land. That will naturally drive people to utilize those resources more efficiently.
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by erentz 2y ago
Nuclear waste is tiny. It’s been stored onsite safely for half a century and never killed anyone. Why fix what ain’t broke. Something can’t be used 60 years over usable life. Think about it. What happened is that nuclear plants were given 4
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by erentz 2y ago
> A huge portion of Democratic voters wanted the candidate replaced Those democrats should’ve joined the party, found a good candidate and done the job of fielding them. But they didn’t, because they just like to complain not do the actu
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by erentz 2y ago
It’s more like 10x worse than 9/11. Israel is a fairly small country of 9m people. So much of the population was connected to those killed. If you scale it to the US it would be as if 41,000 Americans were killed. Our response would be
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by erentz 2y ago
Just note, since this is commonly elided by Unusual Whales et al: For anyone thinking they want to copy-trade members of congress because you believe they have an information advantage, be aware that information advantage is long gone by th

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