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by krn 7y ago
> No offence, but is this satire? It seems like a Silicon Valley episode to me. As an EU citizen from a country with an average personal income of less than 1000€ / month, I don't see any problem with not working for a company
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by krn 7y ago
Amazon or any other corporation will only change parts of its business to become more sustainable if that directly (through lower spending) or indirectly (through improved public image) increases its profitability. Unless, of course, it&#x2
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by krn 7y ago
> Which makes protests like this one even more important and noteworthy, as those people protesting are risking a lot more compared to the "privileged" professions I mentioned above. The profession doesn't matter at all, b
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by krn 7y ago
That should come from the top, not from the bottom of the company. It's not the responsibility of a lower level employee to define what his company stands for. Everyone is free to work for a company that matches his values.
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by krn 7y ago
> The person who spammed the internal email list soliciting participants for this is no longer at the company. I could understand this from the AMZN shareholders point of view: as an employee of the company you are paid to defend private
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by krn 7y ago
I pointed this out 11 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19122206
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by krn 7y ago
Mullvad has been open-source for a long time now[1], and unlike ProtonVPN it doesn't ask for an email address or any other personally identifiable information. [1] https://github.com/mullvad/mullvadvpn-app
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by krn 7y ago
But isn't Firefox Quantum a result of a successful rewrite of Firefox Gecko?
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by krn 7y ago
> Easyjet for example is very strict against crawlers and will block most of them(and us). It seems that easyJet has outsourced its anti-scraping protection to the company called "Distil Networks"[1]. I wonder how could they bl
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by krn 7y ago
> I haven't heard of Debian, Ubuntu, or RHEL update that would bork the system in a long while. All of these distros are more than capable of running containers. Fedora CoreOS is designed to have the smallest possible attack surface
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by krn 7y ago
> We will eventually update markings and beacons on the roads to make it easier for the cars, implement networks in which the cars can talk to each other In fact, the new generations of Volkswagen Golf, Škoda Octavia, Seat Leon, and Audi
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by krn 7y ago
This reminded me of the documentary of the last Red Car journey from Downtown to Long Beach in April 1961[1]. [1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=ebboO52In1w
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by krn 7y ago
Just to be clear: I don't find such pricing models customer friendly, and this is just an example of how some companies manage to find their path in such a "brutal low-margin industry". Since shared hosting – just like VPN –
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by krn 7y ago
> Based on having run a similar (now mostly defunct) company in the past, I would guess that 80% of their customers are on the $5/mo plan. The founders of NordVPN have recently invested in Hostinger[1], which has successfully adopte
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by krn 7y ago
What's wrong with simply sharing personal observations based on the decades of related personal experience? Anyone who has some training in science has learned to always be looking for patterns.
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by krn 7y ago
> Sorry, which bits are incredibly rude and grotesque? I wouldn't say this is how I would like somebody to be remembered after his early death: > Gerv’s faith did not have ambiguity at least none that I ever saw. Gerv was crisp.
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by krn 7y ago
> Won't that give you the letters in alphabetical order, which may not be correct? But that's what "lexicographical" means? > In mathematics, the lexicographical order is a generalization of the way words are alpha
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by krn 7y ago
> Unless I'm missing some details, this actually sounds like age discrimination. Wouldn't it be the same as not hiring a 30-year-old basketball player who is performing at the same level as a 25-year-old player?
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by krn 7y ago
> Let me give you and example of what I got at Google: [...] Solving this problem optimally with only what you remember from undergrad algo courses is impossible. You either need to have a knack for these types of challenges or solve eno
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by krn 7y ago
Richard Alpert (before becoming Ram Dass) on LSD experience in the interview from the 1960s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P3TrGCMHNU And Timothy Leary in the interview from 1966: https://www.youtube.com/
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by krn 7y ago
"When you go out into the woods, and you look at trees, you see all these different trees. And some of them are bent, and some of them are straight, and some of them are evergreens, and some of them are whatever. And you look at the tr
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by krn 7y ago
> It’s one of the most complex system one can develop The same could probably be said about the internal combustion engine, but it might soon be replaced by electric batteries, which provide a much more elegant solution. I believe that &
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by krn 7y ago
> "Buy or pirate" is a false dichotomy when there are good public and University libraries available; which is true for most big cities in the US. It's worth pointing out, that many of the book pirates are from outside the
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Azerbaijan's secret to long life? Mountain air(cnn.com)
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New book claims Albert Camus was murdered by the KGB(theguardian.com)
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by krn 7y ago
> We finally found the right path 36 months ago, but we haven’t found a relevant business model. The best use case for such technology is a B2C fashion app targeting 16-36 women with an extremely well-designed UX, that doesn't force
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Germany expels 2 Russian diplomats after linking Moscow to murder(nbcnews.com)
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by krn 7y ago
Where I am coming from[1]: > CNEX, a microchip company backed by Microsoft and Dell, has filed new allegations in a Texas lawsuit accusing Chinese tech giant Huawei and one of its executives of stealing trade secrets. > It's the
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by krn 7y ago
How likely it is that Huawei got access to the technology behind Samsung's Exynos[1] to speed up the development of their own ARM chips? At least that's what happened with Samsung's foldable screen technology[2]. [1] https:&
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by krn 7y ago
I believe that IKEA is climate negative by design: it's H&M / Primark of furniture world. Because just like fast fashion, fast furniture encourages extreme levels of production and consumption of short-lasting goods, which a

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