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by nimbius 4y ago
In other words: We blew five billion dollars on Apple Park. its a monument and a testament to the ineffable power and glory of our babel made manifest. You will attend this church of man in blessed reverence or you will find the cold stre
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by nimbius 4y ago
im always chuffed and fascinated when tech companies cloister themselves in the robes of moral arbiter. Twitter does this now, albeit it seems like a cheap excuse to pump user numbers by forcing authentication. Why 18? why not 21? or 23?
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Fed to fight inflation with fastest rate hikes in decades(apnews.com)
3 points by nimbius 4y ago|0 comments
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PayPal shuttering its San Francisco office(techcrunch.com)
52 points by nimbius 5y ago|69 comments
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Twitter admits it overstated users for years ahead of Elon Musk takeover(axios.com)
113 points by nimbius 5y ago|111 comments
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by nimbius 5y ago
i agree with this sentiment. to distil the comments into brand allegiance is an unfortunate mistake, as what most people are honestly trying to express is a seemingly unilateral consensus against the wholesale commodification and privatiza
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by nimbius 5y ago
Youre correct. perhaps a more salient example is in order. https://www.inc.com/suzanne-lucas/tesla-fires-hundreds-of-wo... Tesla arguably chose to fire 1200 people to avoid paying their severances. https://
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by nimbius 5y ago
Like most of Elons strategic vision, its hardly a tactic he came up with on his own. his operating strategy is similar to a few historic figures i can think of. Sears CEO Eddie Lampert was so ruthless in his cost cutting he would pit his o
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by nimbius 5y ago
friendly reminder: do not use facial authentication (or biometrics), ever. in a US court of law, things like blood and biometrics are NOT protected by the fifth amendment. law enforcement can (and have) compelled submission of fingerprints
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by nimbius 5y ago
my favourite addition since the 80s has been the unrelenting, unquestioned, ubiquitous and permanent inclusion of numerous iterations of poorly planned and executed management engine frameworks designed to completely ablate the user from th
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by nimbius 5y ago
summon is the wildest energy. its like handing your keys to a feral racoon on bath salts. i once had to file a claim after a tesla on summon backed out of its parking space and directly over my motorcycle, crushing it against a barrier wal
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by nimbius 5y ago
true story: my coworker gave away her sons comic book collection because she found out one of the batman books portrays the caped crusader in a homosexual relationship, So id say the superhero industry doesnt hate kids per-say, it just has
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by nimbius 5y ago
actually, id argue its much more grandiose than just monopolistic activity. If you want to continue doing capitalism, youll need to switch from physical property to imaginary property as the laws of thermodynamics simply do not permit for
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by nimbius 5y ago
my biggest axe to grind with this company is the outrageous pricetag for everything they sell. With $100 bags, $700 mini boom boxes, and $15 patches You may as well call it Affluent Engineering.
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by nimbius 5y ago
i read the article. the point im making is that the federal government enacted forgiveness for its employees only 2 years after the 2005 reform to make discharging student loans impossible. you can learn more about the 2005 bankruptcy refor
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by nimbius 5y ago
Its an interesting piece of legislation to see, and strongly implies former senator Joe Bidens initial student debt legislation was beginning to have seriously negative repercussions at the federal level for employee retention and hiring no
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by nimbius 5y ago
s/tunnel/grave/ I one hundred percent agree. unless you have proper tools training and equipment for confined space work, trench work, and mine safety you shouldnt be doing this. depending on where you dig you risk exposure
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by nimbius 5y ago
Disclosure: i graduated from a trade school, and promptly got a handful of certifications for heavy diesel mechanical maintenance. The trades have always been there, but i suspect the reason boomers steered their kids to college was twofold
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by nimbius 5y ago
more like 'california considers codifying that which is already known' many of the largest employers like amazon, walmart, and fast food already restrict their employees to <40hrs to conspicuously avoid paying any benefits to e
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by nimbius 5y ago
s/drones/air support/ imho the failures observed caused by manpad in the ukrane theatre were directly attributable to an almost comically poor systems integration on the part of the aggressor and an unwillingness to commit lo
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by nimbius 5y ago
ugh, i tried. i really tried, and i really really wanted to love this but eventually came to find it inherited all the trash neoconservative hot takes, woke culture virtue signaling and micro-aggression bellyaching that twitter has. its a
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by nimbius 5y ago
amen. more public access linux/unix can be found on the tildeverse! https://tildeverse.org/
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by nimbius 5y ago
tell ya what i really wanna see from pinephone: AGPS lockdown. Currently ive learned from HN there are numerous 3GPP protocols that provide direct, clandestine monitoring of the GPS location of the phone. the feature lives unchallenged in
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by nimbius 5y ago
not to sound like a curmudgeon but I for one will be in the cold cold ground before I ever declare macbook as the only viable option. hackers are working hard on really cool daily driver laptops that respect your freedom and work to deliver
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by nimbius 5y ago
"Workers told The Post that wages hadn't kept up with inflation and some managers were unaccountable." so for the record as of late, twenty Starbucks stores have now unionized and around 220 Starbucks stores have sought elect
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by nimbius 5y ago
Trying to steer this thread back on topic. This article is incorrect. Cellular services aren't polling GPS data from the device, they're using imei and subscriber identification triangulation from the towers which the FBI and la
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by nimbius 5y ago
I suspect the answer to this question lives deep in the supply chain in the form of sugar subsidies. Your taxes work to subsidize the production of overwhelming quantities of corn syrup. other flavours of iced tea like watermelon are sour
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by nimbius 5y ago
seems like amazon is trying to have their cake and eat it too. Fuel surcharges only make sense if you own a fleet, but amazon drivers are independent contractors. Similarly, an "inflation" surcharge doesnt make a lot of sense wh
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Netflix subscribers in Russia launch class action for loss of service(theguardian.com)
4 points by nimbius 5y ago|0 comments
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Why there are growing fears the U.S. is headed to a recession(npr.org)
1 points by nimbius 5y ago|0 comments

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