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Last I remember hearing was about massive breach that exposed like 90% of the women were bots operated by Ashley Madison. I thought they were gone after that.
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I'm not a huge TenCent fan but this is a wildly misleading title.
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> You do need to innovate still, but that is now an intricate art of balance between not wrecking the ship and still being relevant. Is _that_ boring? I don’t know. I want to try it closer to my retirement. It's probably experience
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About 5 years ago, I had a conversation with my CTO that amounted to this. He told me paraphrasing, "I'm a one trick pony. I take companies from this size to this size and when I'm done, I move on to the next. I'm very g
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Agreed, I use Corsair or Logi peripherals now.
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Marboro Green with 200 hundred additional chemical additives for your enjoyment.
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After they tried slipping a bitcoin miner in their mouse software that paid you in Razer Points, I was done with Razer. This seems on brand.
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> They may temporarily cash their good name for profit but what are they going to do when consumers catch on. The folks who gobble these companies up and streamline them for maximum profit don't care about the future. They only want
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Or maybe you don't cripple the future of the company to pay your self-destructive CEO $56 billion.
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The poster child for when free money stops being free.
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It also dovetails nicely with the old, "If you don't spend all your budget, you lose it next year" management strategy. I can't count the number of times over my career where I heard a boss say, "we need to spend th
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by jeffwask 3y ago
Charles Stross predicted a lot of this in his 2011 novel, Rule 34. He actually extended it to what happens when the corner store can do advanced 3d printing. CSAM, Snuff, Deepfake porn, 3D printed child sex dolls... the floodgates on this s
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Stop and Shop (in New England) had hand scanners you could do this with 15 years ago. I have been shocked that the technology didn't spread. It was so easy to scan and bag then just plug the scanner in at checkout and pay.
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Honestly, he has been on a tear alienating the primary pool of Tesla buyers and appealing to a group that denies climate change and would never buy an electric car. I used to hear praise of Musk constantly from other folks in software 10 ye
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It feels like this is one of the last generation spanning projects left. I have doubts that our immediate gratification society can still envision and execute on projects of this scale.
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They have been majoring in stupid for a while now.
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Same thing as Twitter, they think the power of these sites is the tech. It's not. It's the community and when you turn that into an EBTIDA growth engine it's going to rebel.
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Two executives combined my over $300 million or better than a third of the total operating revenue and they "can't" pay moderators.
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This seems like a runaway or short IPO and I'm a very active Reddit user. I saw a statistic yesterday that $300 million of their $800 million in total revenue went to compensate 2 executives and spez alone accounts for more total compe
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There are groups pursuing a number of legal actions in the arena to fight this practice. Up until recently, it's been mostly subscription games that get shutdown which is a murky grey area but game companies have started doing this wit
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Sweet. There's already a team pursuing a class action over the shutdown of The Crew. Here's another opportunity to pursue.
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As long as Forkknife continues to print money, they can afford the battle.
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There are some reports that phones with e-sims are less likely to be impacted versus phones with hardware sims.
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I'm 50% hack and 50% BGP but my gut says cyberattack.
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> but I worry about what happens when a useful industry becomes politically unpopular. In a society driven by supply and demand capitalism, I can't fathom this scenario. Even popular stuff we currently prohibit, drugs, prostitution,
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We need to start heavily regulating unchecked industrial resource usage of public utilities like power and water. There needs to be a penalty/incentive for conservation.
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Everybody wants a deal like Texas gave out: https://www.tpr.org/technology-entrepreneurship/2023-09-06/t... Please sir here's millions of dollars so you won't tank our grid. These things should require c
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I found the borrowing from Zelda (Sounds, Fonts) to be more concerning than the Pokemon similarities. Like you mentioned, there are a ton of capture game clones that are similar. The Zelda lifts are the area where I feel they may be flying
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To be fair, a 1.4% reduction in force isn't going to weaken YouTube. That's just some light spring cleaning. It's only newsworthy in the current zeitgeist.
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Dead platform continues to flail, news at 11.

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