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by gdilla 2y ago
or they could've... taxed wealth. But the broligarchs who control trump wouldn't be ok with that.
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by gdilla 2y ago
what if your "employer" vanishes you?
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by gdilla 2y ago
It's PR firm press release to get ahead of the mass resignations (or resistance he's meeting inside). He thinks he can get in front of the story of him exerting editorial control.
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Daniel Penny Is Hired by Venture Capital Firm Whose Founder Backed Trump(nytimes.com)
7 points by gdilla 2y ago|1 comments
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by gdilla 2y ago
Well, the broligarchy has their site on Americans, for one.
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by gdilla 2y ago
What is a $1M TC when you'll get jacked on your way to the tech bus for turning America into mad max? You're not rich enough to have your own billionaire bunker.
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by gdilla 2y ago
Lots of bros here who support this for some reason. Wait till they come for your 500K salary.
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by gdilla 2y ago
ok, so the tech bro oligrachs wanna burn everything down, but aren't the old fashioned industrialist billionaires going to be hit hard by this (not to mention all the little businesses who source goods from Mex/Can to make things,
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by gdilla 2y ago
Listen to real djs on YouTube and SoundCloud. Always better than Spotify - long sets all blended by, gasp, a human.
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by gdilla 2y ago
He's privileged sure, not because he had 80K in the bank to burn through, but because he knows it's not the end of him when it's burnt through. He COULD get a job and steady income if he wanted, in at least that 80K range (pr
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by gdilla 2y ago
This will be even more common place in the Musk-Vivek deregulation hellscape
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by gdilla 2y ago
What? Literally that’s the pint. If your goal is to screw over your costumers to maximize profit then the active still applies. Depends on what your goals are.
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by gdilla 2y ago
All i use it for is kitchen timers, occasional weather and traffic check. It's like yelling at your phone, which is slightly better UX than the phone.
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by gdilla 2y ago
QC can be a visual inspection, doesn't just mean a functional test.
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by gdilla 2y ago
What I keep telling hw companies - you NEED quality control.
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by gdilla 2y ago
all the senior engineers i worked with, when i started out 20 years ago, carried around bound books and kept as journals. And they logged things all day, dated entries. They just said it was essential, so I did it.
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by gdilla 2y ago
but they will comply when the law will back the POTUS and not them.
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by gdilla 2y ago
well it's a lot closer to a monarchy than before. All the president has to do is use the official stationary, it seems.
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by gdilla 2y ago
well you can hedge your bets, a form of insurance. people do this with stock too.
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by gdilla 2y ago
because so many people ran cover for him, from paul graham to whos-who of silicon valley.
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by gdilla 2y ago
He just, to his credit, understands his public persona has to be the non-douchy-tech-bro and the media will eat it up. Much like a politician. He doesn't want to be like Elon or Travis K in public (though he probably agrees with them m
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by gdilla 2y ago
Well, if any one had doubts Altman is the classic mold of fuck-it-we-know-better-than-anyone tech bro, this is your proof.
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by gdilla 2y ago
hardly. patents are also optional - if you wanna give away all your IP to the world, no one is stopping you.
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by gdilla 3y ago
for real. enterprising kids had access to porn in the 80s - via dad's stash. i was there.
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by gdilla 3y ago
I can't stand spotify. I need indy artists, DJ mixes, flips and remixes, so Soundcloud is my go-to. Free tier is less annoying too, less ads.
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by gdilla 3y ago
From the wsj especially, seeing as how musk is parroting gop propaganda about illegal immigration non stop. As if illegals weren't entering the country when Trump was president, or any other president for that matter.
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by gdilla 3y ago
wait what? London streets are streams of cars moving very. very. slowly. it's definitely discouraging to have and use a car there but its not like there isn't a ton of traffic.
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U.S. Corporations Are Openly Trying to Destroy Core Public Institutions(vice.com)
41 points by gdilla 3y ago|62 comments
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by gdilla 3y ago
Larger vehicles suck to me, because you feel blinder than necessary. It's a larger car to park, it feels less agile to do a quick maneuver like dodging something on the road or squeezing by an idiot drifting into your lane. I like zipp
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by gdilla 3y ago
This. Your company is not every going to fix you, optimize your life, or be loyal to you. But you can take responsibility of all those things, and never let up. Get better, look for opportunities that satisfy what you value - always.

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