oldpersonintx

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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
if you are all just going to vote for Biden again anyway, stop complaining
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
Apple is a predatory partner Every partnership Apple enters must result in Apple winning and the other party simply being a subservient cog So, no one wants to do business with them in new markets where Apple doesn't have leverage This
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
Casus Belli is now translated into "America could win". There is no clear Casus Belli with China. Last time the US faced China in combat was Chosin Reservoir...maybe the worst ass-kicking the US has ever received. No way voters ar
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
I found an effective way to reduce my PGE bill to $0....I left CA House in TX is 3x the size of our former CA house, utility bills are 1/3
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
I'm cackling with delight and you can't stop me
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
A reasonable fix is easy: stop using Windows
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by oldpersonintx 3y ago
EVs will crawl out of their trough of disillusionment it will take time though in ten years there will be vastly more EVs than today ICE is still on the way out
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by oldpersonintx 3y ago
Boeing for chips
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by oldpersonintx 3y ago
TIL linux is being replaced by a closed source OS no one uses
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by oldpersonintx 3y ago
Decent products with decent service, no gimmicks and fair pricing is a moat
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by oldpersonintx 3y ago
Google is mortified by the prospect of Gemini veering off away from blanket endorsement for Establishment Democrats
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by oldpersonintx 3y ago
AppleTV and the associated original programming feels like a fail at this point, another attempt by Apple to throw money at markets they don't understand
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by oldpersonintx 3y ago
Southwest airlines will allow obese people to pre-board and even claim a seat next to them even if it means another ticket holder must be ejected from the flight We are prioritizing obese people as some sort of privileged class Meanwhile
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by oldpersonintx 3y ago
Nope, talk to appliance people and they will tell you all of the traditional high end brands are junk now too I specifically did not call them "repair" people BTW since most have lapsed into doing mostly installs...it's not e
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by oldpersonintx 3y ago
Regrettable from a PR perspective but realistically, there are going to be some dud rockets. I assume in a real nuclear war, some number of US ICBMs fail in boost and come down the US, likewise for Russia. These have been sitting in silos f
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by oldpersonintx 3y ago
From the AWS/Azure perspective, their "large" system is an AZ Cloud providers use logical abstractions to draw a line around the "system"...beyond the crush HN has on Oxide, it isn't clear to me how their produ
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by oldpersonintx 3y ago
No one is claiming Sora is a finished product HN gets hung up on damning things that aren't perfect _right now_ You also see this with FSD...it isn't perfect today, so HN writes it off forever Sora is a demo and a teaser of what w
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by oldpersonintx 3y ago
Lots of people will be leaving tech, not by choice. Unlike longterm Googlers, not everyone can afford to not get paid for six months. Also, this isn't a "downturn"...the companies are mostly doing better than ever. This is a
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by oldpersonintx 3y ago
> init.defaultBranch main if you think people who use "master" are doing so because they fervently wish to reconstitute slavery, you may be beyond help even my woke friends who are somewhat rational cringe at this
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by oldpersonintx 3y ago
How many people bought AVP just to make YouTube videos? Anyway, the world's best tech influencers couldn't rescue AVP, it is a certified DUD and I expect Apple and HN to suppress discussion of it. Cook will try to turn the spotlig
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by oldpersonintx 3y ago
Apple's real SOP is to make white males believe in the inevitability of Apple cultural dominance so they feel inclined to buy anything with the logo on it as a signal i.e. you convinced yourself Vision Pro was great before ever using i
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by oldpersonintx 3y ago
25% of job growth in government You sure can buy a lot of nice stats for $1 trillion per quarter in new debt!
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by oldpersonintx 3y ago
The idea that you need a highly personalized custom diet is a lie peddled by everyone who profits from this You do not need to see a doctor prior to eating kale Your doctor is a person who uses WebMD to determine what prescription to write
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by oldpersonintx 3y ago
The end of ZIRP is the tip of the iceberg 1. Consolidation. There will be fewer and more powerful tech companies in the future and they will grow and profit as they shrink their headcount. The belief that profits and growth = jobs will soon
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by oldpersonintx 3y ago
In the US, having kids is for the top 1% who can afford it or the bottom 5% who have always been poor. Want to fix this in the US? Offer stable child-rearing families FREE housing, and I mean in decent neighborhoods. I don't mean a sti
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by oldpersonintx 3y ago
1900 salaried workers with good benefits laid off from Activision 19000 to be hired by Chipotle to make burritos for minimum wage By the labor stats, this is a net gain of 17100 jobs
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by oldpersonintx 3y ago
our LG fridge died within two years they replaced the compressor (only due to a class action suit compelling them to), but I expect it will die prematurely again anyway I keep thermometers in the fridges and check them all the time an indep
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by oldpersonintx 3y ago
that's irrelevant they overhired and now they are fixing it, and that profit margin will rise with the reduction in compensation they're firing because they can
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by oldpersonintx 3y ago
> (Personally, I would never use a proprietary cloud-only offering for version control.) yeah, I have no idea who would want to replace a free, open, well-debugged, featureful, ubiquitous vcs with a closed, immature SaaS offering...if yo
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by oldpersonintx 3y ago
I read the title much differently than HN! My take is, you get to work from home if your job isn't that crucial. Jobs that are driven by cost rather than result. I don't think most remote workers understand that eventually they mu

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