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by ilamont 10mo ago
It was signaling to Wall Street and the rest of the tech industry. They want to be seen as profit focused and innovation driven.
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by ilamont 10mo ago
> Many countries have no issue with that, serving time is considered enough of a punishment. The idea of (especially mandatory) deporting of criminals is relatively new Paul McCartney would like to have a word with you. Not just Japan. F
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by ilamont 10mo ago
The article suggests Larry thinks his son has demonstrated brilliance as a media executive: Their relationship grew warmer as David Ellison achieved professional success, they said. Larry Ellison has always considered himself wise about Ho
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Inmates could escape jail on drones, warns top prison governor(news.sky.com)
3 points by ilamont 10mo ago|3 comments
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by ilamont 10mo ago
The article mentions he was convicted of falsifying records. Kind of surprised Japan lets foreigners with criminal records stay in the country. And: At shells.com, his personal cloud computing platform, he’s quietly developing an unrelease
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Back-of-the-Envelope Math on Payouts in Bartz vs. Anthropic Settlement(authorsalliance.org)
1 points by ilamont 10mo ago|0 comments
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by ilamont 10mo ago
What was the response?
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by ilamont 10mo ago
> Things got washed out in a bright room compared to a direct-view CRT. You're right about that. A friend's dad was a gearhead and had one of those. It always seemed dim, practically unwatchable during the day and even at night
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by ilamont 10mo ago
> I helped my dad transport the 35" which, from memory, was 150 or 180lbs. It was likely the largest CRT commercially available I helped friends move one of these old monsters out of an apartment in MIT's west campus 15 years a
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by ilamont 10mo ago
Worse still, the war also revealed an alarming side of his own character – a ‘viciousness’ and ‘cruelty’ of which he had, until then, been only dimly aware. He realised that, beneath the veneer of middle-class civility, he had the same ins
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Why U.S. sports tickets have gotten so expensive(nytimes.com)
14 points by ilamont 10mo ago|4 comments
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by ilamont 10mo ago
I am too. Gemini 3.0 fast on old scrawled diary entries in English from 100+ years ago got them 95% right. It also added historical context when I prefaced the images with the identity of the writer, such as summaries of an old military uni
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The Army once considered a nuclear-powered tank built by Chrysler(taskandpurpose.com)
1 points by ilamont 10mo ago|0 comments
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Amazon is prospective tenant for data center developer rocked by stock plunge(businessinsider.com)
1 points by ilamont 10mo ago|0 comments
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Why Not Make All Car Brakes Like Hybrid Car Brakes(bogleheads.org)
3 points by ilamont 10mo ago|0 comments
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by ilamont 10mo ago
From dang's 2022 comment about traffic: The most interesting number is the 1300 submissions because that hasn't grown since 2011 - it just fluctuates. Everything else has been growing more or less linearly for a long time, which
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by ilamont 10mo ago
You should have seen Taiwan in the 1990s. It was a hot mess of older Western romanization systems, historical and dialectical exceptions, competing Taiwanese and pro-China sensibilities, a widely used international standard (pinyin), and lo
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by ilamont 10mo ago
There’s a really good interview with Rob Reiner on Fresh Air, recorded as Spinal Tap 2 was being released a few months back. He talks all about the many movies he’s worked on as well as growing up in the household of a comedian. Well worth
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by ilamont 10mo ago
> I grew up playing a lot of jazz in the late 2000s and there was always a strict canon - big band was seen as kind of cutesy and not worth putting much effort into Rock used to be this way too. It’s hard to believe now, but there was a
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The Antitrust Case Against Airbnb(thesling.org)
4 points by ilamont 10mo ago|0 comments
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“People don’t want to come out and drink anymore. They’d rather sit at home and get drunk, or surf the Internet." There's also the question of what kind of music people want to listen to. Rock music seems to wax and wane according
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UC Berkeley professor used secret camera to catch PhD student sabotaging rival(msn.com)
4 points by ilamont 10mo ago|1 comments
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$27,000 a Year for Health Insurance. How Can We Afford That?(nytimes.com)
24 points by ilamont 10mo ago|49 comments
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India proposes charging OpenAI, Google for AI training; lobbying group protests(techcrunch.com)
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Edelweiss triples prices charged to publishers after acquisition(publishersweekly.com)
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Former Mozaic Payments CEO arrested, charged with defrauding PE investor(reuters.com)
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Lost Vegas: inside America's most flailing destination city(slate.com)
4 points by ilamont 11mo ago|1 comments
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How America's "truck-driver shortage"(freightwaves.com)
49 points by ilamont 11mo ago|80 comments
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Boston's subway system replacing 1890s-era wooden catenary system(mbta.com)
47 points by ilamont 11mo ago|64 comments
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Volkswagen can now build EVs in China, claiming it can cut costs by up to 50%(electrek.co)
4 points by ilamont 11mo ago|1 comments

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