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by muchtest 3y ago
Reminds me of the scene with the Mortgage Brokers in The Big Short - "They're not confessing, they're bragging"
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How we hack Hacker News and consistently hit the front page(indiehackers.com)
414 points by muchtest 3y ago|126 comments
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by muchtest 4y ago
On Nordstream explosion "Russia denies responsibility for the explosions. But few doubt that the Kremlin did it." I can stop reading at this line to know that this isn't journalism, it's opinion at best and propaganda at
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by muchtest 4y ago
The legal class is the big winner in these things - win or lose. Lawyers get paid
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by muchtest 4y ago
“There will either be Russian land, or a scorched desert,” Major General Valery Vasiliev is reported to have told his troops. Energoatom claims that Ukrainian intelligence services are aware of the fact that Russian forces had rigged the si
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by muchtest 4y ago
There are two narratives being told - one to the top brass to increase investment and one to gen population of not to worry we're going to win so don't be a defeatist/pacifist/collaborator.
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by muchtest 4y ago
I've heard this dangerous narrative down playing dangers of nuclear war from people who have never experienced a total war before & are leaning into narratives spread by the military-industrial complex. However many failures the R
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Hopin cuts 29% of its staff, just months after its last layoffs(techcrunch.com)
5 points by muchtest 4y ago|0 comments
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by muchtest 4y ago
I agree - but the decisions on the recruiting process is not on the team, assuming this is a mid-large sized company - that decision could be made miles away from the people interviewing you. You can write them off based on this, but it&#x2
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by muchtest 4y ago
I've seen that happen when they are either 1 - Uncertain about something about you (I imagine technical aptitude), and want to rule out their concern 2 - There are 2 close candidates Either way you should confirm that it is the final
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SWVL plans to lay off 32% of its team two months after going public [By SPAC](techcrunch.com)
2 points by muchtest 4y ago|0 comments
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by muchtest 4y ago
I'm saying it's a broad term - forget Russian news. Go ask take a Fox watcher and a CNN watcher to point out what they interpret as "Fake News" and you'll get 100s of differences.
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by muchtest 4y ago
You're splitting hairs when you say down ranking is not censorship - you know full well the impact to a websites traffic once it gets out of the top 3 results let along the 1st page of results. The fact you started censoring "Russ
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by muchtest 4y ago
Your last statement directly contradicts your tweet on March 10th. "Like so many others I am sickened by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the gigantic humanitarian crisis it continues to create. #StandWithUkraine At DuckDuckGo, we&#x27
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by muchtest 4y ago
This is a quote from you “[W]hen you search, you expect unbiased results, but that’s not what you get on Google,” @matthewde_silva quotes @yegg" Seems you're backtracked on being unbiased with the recent announcement of DuckDuckGo
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by muchtest 4y ago
DuckDuckGo showed face when they start down ranking "fake news".
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by muchtest 4y ago
"The assailant fled up to the street and has not been caught, the police said. He was described as a dark-skinned man, heavyset with a beard, wearing a dark sweatshirt, an orange T-shirt, gray sweatpants and white sneakers." In on
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by muchtest 4y ago
Depending on the political leaning of the writer - different types of Mass Shootings are lumped together. Buffalo was a terrorist event, no one lumps in 9/11 with plane crash figures and writes an article saying "We have high poin
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by muchtest 4y ago
It annoys me when they compare countries and don't consider income tax - you don't pay with pre tax income... If you earn 150k in High Tax Euro Country you're losing 50% of that. In low tax US state you're closer to 33%
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by muchtest 4y ago
Blaze it
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by muchtest 4y ago
Yet
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by muchtest 4y ago
Seeing more of this Revisionism of WW2 since the cooling of US-Russia relations (adding to the long time downplaying of Chinese suffering in WW2 vs European suffering) 1 - While Russia was the biggest component, it was the Soviet army - whi
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by muchtest 5y ago
April Fools?
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by muchtest 5y ago
"The fact that the regular replacement of leaders has turned out to be democracy’s strongest feature underscores" That also assumes power is concentrated in the Leader as much as it is in Russia/China. In the West the Preside
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by muchtest 5y ago
Serious question - Is putting PoW in front of media a violation of Geneva Convention?
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by muchtest 5y ago
I looked up this fellows Wikipedia, which reads a bit like a marketing blurb, and came across a business I recognised - TransperantBusiness. The reason I recognised it was they were blasting ads on LinkedIn on investing into their pre-IPO c
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by muchtest 5y ago
Pornhub, Onlyfans and Twitch blocked in Russia - surely this is a positive thing for Russia.