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by faefox 3y ago
Overlooked? It's the foundation of the modern tech industry. :) Hell, we've all been brainwashed to the point where OSS maintainers having the audacity to ask for a modicum of support for their efforts is met with scorn and ridicu
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by faefox 3y ago
Since these people have presumably not subscribed to Twitter Blue, nor actually verified their phone number, is there a case to be made that this constitutes false endorsement?
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by faefox 3y ago
Lords and peasants, baby.
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by faefox 3y ago
Is anyone else old enough to remember when he promised to put future policy changes to a vote?
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by faefox 3y ago
This is not an improvement. It was valuable to distinguish between media outlets which are direct mouthpieces of the state and those which are not. But as sharemywin observes, this was probably the intended outcome.
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by faefox 3y ago
Because if companies that behaved badly were actually held accountable our economic system would collapse, and the people in power who benefit from it won't allow that to happen.
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by faefox 4y ago
> In an email exchange with an NPR reporter on Wednesday, Musk appeared to be unaware of how much NPR receives in federal support. After being told support amounts to only 1% of the organization’s annual budget, the billionaire wrote: “
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by faefox 4y ago
They were merely the scam du jour until regulators caught up with them. The space has mostly moved on to NFTs though even those have lost their luster at this point. Who knows what's next?
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by faefox 4y ago
“Should be there in an hour,” he called back over his shoulder to Chuck. Then he added, in an afterthought: “Wonder if dang's reached 65,535 karma points. He was due about now.” Chuck didn’t reply, so George swung round in his saddle.
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by faefox 4y ago
Twitter is so transparently Elon's personal playground now and it's sad. Between the "doge" rebrand, stripping the NYT of its verified status and now (and most egregiously IMO) this latest decision, he's just fuckin
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by faefox 4y ago
This is acceptable only if the bike lanes are meaningfully and permanently separated from motor vehicle traffic. Most "bike lanes" are simple stripes painted alongside the road shoulder which cars/delivery trucks/etc. wi
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by faefox 4y ago
No sweat. We the People will bail them out if their bonuses are ever threatened.
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by faefox 4y ago
Or -- hear me out -- support the small business trying to make a living selling a good product at a reasonable price rather than insisting it be open-sourced, stripped for parts by the big-tech machine and inevitably left for dead.
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by faefox 4y ago
All the people having fun are in VRChat or Neos, and most of them are furries. :)
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by faefox 4y ago
NFTs: the thing nobody needed, let alone wanted, but which proved to be a sufficiently effective money laundering (sorry, "speculative") instrument that we all had to have it shoved down our throats for the better part of a year a
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by faefox 4y ago
It takes more energy to drive a car through mud than on pavement. The same principle would apply here.
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by faefox 4y ago
That didn't happen. And if it did, it wasn't that bad. And if it was, that's not a big deal. And if it is, that's not my fault. <-- YOU ARE HERE And if it was, I didn't mean it. And if I did, you deserved it.
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by faefox 4y ago
I can't help but find it interesting how this, perhaps his most shocking public display yet, barely seems to have moved the needle relative to previous Elon discourse here on HN. I guess even his most devoted sycophants are finding it
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by faefox 4y ago
Presumably those people weren't "hardcore" enough for Elon Twitter.
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by faefox 4y ago
Twitter in the age of Elon continues to lurch from one embarrassment to the next.
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by faefox 4y ago
I'm genuinely so grateful that Haiku exists. The fact that a band of enthusiasts has managed to keep the spirit of BeOS alive after all these years is really inspiring. To me it's an echo of what felt like a more hopeful era in co
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by faefox 4y ago
If I were to walk into someone's home or office and see this desk I would immediately make some very unflattering assumptions about that person. Teenage Engineering has officially jumped the shark.
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by faefox 4y ago
I'm curious to know who you would suggest supporting instead.
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by faefox 4y ago
From the second I read the headline I knew that it was going to involve a Kia or Hyundai. It is utterly reprehensible that these companies were selling new cars without immobilizers as recently as last year! No layperson buying a new car
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by faefox 4y ago
In my experience yes, to the extent that I don't intend to write vanilla JS ever again if I can possibly help it. If you've done webdev professionally in the past 5+ years you've almost certainly already been transpiling so t
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by faefox 4y ago
My first "real" job in software was at a startup with unlimited PTO. In my experience what this meant was that the rank-and-file engineers took no time off while management would be out of the office for months at a time.
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by faefox 4y ago
Oh man, VR and metaverse-style concepts were big in the 90s even if the technology obviously wasn't quite there yet. Active Worlds predated Second Life by several years and surprisingly enough is still online to this day.
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by faefox 4y ago
Maybe a fiducial marker?
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by faefox 4y ago
His overall arc feels very reminiscent of Notch (of Minecraft fame). Man attains unfathomable levels of wealth and fame and decides to use their bully pulpit to explain to the world how they're the victims, actually.
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by faefox 4y ago
I really wonder how Tesla breaks out of this tailspin. For a long time the Tesla name carried a lot of cachet but it's so inextricably linked with Musk's public persona - which is growing more radioactive with every tweet.

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