maximinus_thrax

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by maximinus_thrax 6mo ago
> The author didnt disclose any illegal activities in her book. And she didnt claim whistleblower status. Both statements are factually incorrect. > Wynn-William filed a whistleblower complaint with the Securities and Exchange Commis
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by maximinus_thrax 6mo ago
The legal system makes illegal activities part of the public record.
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by maximinus_thrax 6mo ago
> "non-disparagement" clause Do you believe a civil contract should be able to stop a person from disclosing potential illegal activities?
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by maximinus_thrax 6mo ago
I'm very surprised to see enshittification starting so early. I was expecting at last 3-4 years of VC subsidized gravy train.
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by maximinus_thrax 7mo ago
Great insight, didn't thing about it even anecdotally. I was lurking on Reddit since 2008 and finally created an account in 2012 when someone was really 'wrong on the internet' and had to step in.
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by maximinus_thrax 7mo ago
Not only that, but subreddits like r/AmITheAsshole are full of AI slop. Both in the comments and in the posts. It's a huge karma mining operation for bots.
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by maximinus_thrax 7mo ago
The front line is everywhere, as you know. You are fighting an information war and some of us are here to troll you back.
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by maximinus_thrax 7mo ago
Russia is indeed the exception. As a 3rd world country, anyone would expect it to have a very high birthrate.
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by maximinus_thrax 7mo ago
You're in a very weak position to attempt whataboutism, tovarishch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariupol_theatre_airstrike https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_March_2022_Chernihiv_bombing https
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by maximinus_thrax 7mo ago
Akshually it's the the 2nd (France), 5th (Germany), 6th (Italy), and 9th (Spain) spots. But that's a bad argument, say.. a way of lying with statistics, considering the 1st place has 43% of the market share AND that exporting arms
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by maximinus_thrax 7mo ago
Some other country started by _stealing_ US tech and now they arguably have a higher military tech throughput. Everyone has to start somewhere..
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by maximinus_thrax 7mo ago
Good! Great to hear! EU needs to grow its domestic military industry, the French were right all along.
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by maximinus_thrax 7mo ago
> war zone It's a war zone now? I thought the line you were supposed to say was 'special military operation' zone. Keep it consistent, товарищ
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by maximinus_thrax 7mo ago
Not defending what the DoD is doing right now, I firmly believe the US intervention is unconstitutional, BUT Iran has been 'at war' with the west for a very long time. It's time to redefine the concept of war to be compatible
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by maximinus_thrax 7mo ago
How? This is 100% the ideology of the Russian foreign policy apparatus. Just one example that comes to mind: https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2014/05/11/romania-queries-mo... At least Macron isn't threaten
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by maximinus_thrax 7mo ago
> After Khamenei death Russian Foreign Ministry issued a statement that Russia is "against killing of the leaders of sovereign countries". Somehow they didn't mention nor regular citizens nor rank-and-file soldiers of sove
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by maximinus_thrax 7mo ago
I love the Facebook glasses, they seem to be the swan song of a shitty company. Young people have abandoned Facebook when their parents started hanging out, now it's all boomers and bots posting conspiracy theories. If they think this
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by maximinus_thrax 7mo ago
> The "normies" love it and are far less skeptical. Few of them recognize when it's messing up. This is not a discussion about accuracy. The market disagrees with you. Microsoft tried to shove AI into their user base with
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by maximinus_thrax 7mo ago
> It seems uncontroversial that users will likely want to use AI to find info for them and do things for them Lots of weasel words in there. You're doing a lot of work with "seems", "uncontroversial" and "li
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by maximinus_thrax 7mo ago
> Do websites want to prevent automated tooling, as indicated by everyone putting everything behind Cloudfare and CAPTCHAs since forever, Not if they don't want their rankings to tank. Now you'll need to make your website machi
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by maximinus_thrax 8mo ago
I don't think so, I think it's Stripe's version on an internal tooling team, what I found to be called DevEx/Core Engineering/Dev Productivity/EngProd/Engineering Excellence in companies I worked at. This
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by maximinus_thrax 8mo ago
> The Leverage team builds surprisingly delightful internal products that Stripes can leverage to supercharge their productivity. Why does this sound so insufferable?
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by maximinus_thrax 8mo ago
I am absolutely shocked
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by maximinus_thrax 8mo ago
Yeah, we have so much free speech lately, it's starting to overflow into the negative https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/us-department-homeland-s...
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by maximinus_thrax 8mo ago
Yes, but what kind of life is that?
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by maximinus_thrax 8mo ago
When I first came across this article I legitimately thought it was satire, I was expecting the author to go through some hazing à la soggy biscuit. But it's a serious article.. Oh my.
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by maximinus_thrax 8mo ago
So they're going into the meat-grinder out of spite? What are YOU doing, товарищ? Why aren't you fighting for the motherland's imperial ambitions?
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by maximinus_thrax 9mo ago
I agree "production failure" is inaccurate. The real reasons are 'corruption and incompetence'.
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by maximinus_thrax 9mo ago
I don't really understand why Tesla is part of the MIC. They don't do anything for the military and has no strategic value. In terms of foreign policy, considering the US has soft-power due to Tesla, the company continues to under
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by maximinus_thrax 9mo ago
And yet TSLA sits comfortably at ~$450. If someone knowledgeable can explain this to me, I'd be very grateful.

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