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by pembrook 8mo ago
> [on windows 11] my network samba shares stay connected and mounted through restarts. I could never make this work reliably on macOS. It’s wild to me that Apple has allowed SMB on MacOS to be so broken/slow and poorly implemented
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by pembrook 8mo ago
This is also why your countries social welfare systems are teetering on fiscal insolvency and deficits are ballooning. Your inefficient and non-competitive private sector isn't growing fast enough to fund your growing demand for free s
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by pembrook 8mo ago
I just posted the hard evidence (the actual numbers). The company is going to produce 5-6X the revenue with a similar number of employees as they had 6-7 years ago before the overhiring boom. But I guess we'll just have to defer to t
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by pembrook 8mo ago
First, I posted the numbers below, it's not ZIRP overhiring in this case. But even if it was...I'm struggling to understand how "overhiring" is a bad thing for the actual workers who were overhired. So too many people go
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by pembrook 8mo ago
If we're being generous we could say mayyybe 20% of the layoffs are accountable to overhiring during ZIRP. Block was doing $4B in revenue with 4K employees in 2019 before the pandemic. They're now doing $24B in revenue with 10K em
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by pembrook 8mo ago
The whole thing reads to me like he's not deflecting blame at all, he's explicitly saying he's putting the employees through this. > just a piss poor excuse for bad management and short-sighted vision I mean, the guy has
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by pembrook 8mo ago
Please seek help.
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by pembrook 8mo ago
As we can see from this user who has fallen ill with Epstein Brain, the real victims of social media algorithms are actually adults. He is currently prepping to overthrow his local Pizzeria while the rest of us argue as if social media even
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by pembrook 8mo ago
> Capitalist social media is exactly as dangerous as alcohol and tobacco. Most actual studies done on this topic find very little evidence this is true. It's a run-of-the-mill moral panic. People breathlessly repeating memes about
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by pembrook 8mo ago
Spain 1) Catalan Referendum Website Seizures (2017) Spanish courts ordered ISPs to block dozens of pro-independence domains and mirror sites during the referendum. Civil Guard units physically entered data centers to seize servers tied to t
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by pembrook 8mo ago
> has largely been unchanged for 150 years. I really don't understand the recent outrage over these and other laws. We have been fine The last 150 years of Germany have...ahem...not been what I would call "fine." It woul
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by pembrook 8mo ago
Amazed to see so many government bootlickers on "hacker" news these days. Gone are the days of the misfits and pirates and the innovators. "Tie me up and tell me what I'm allowed to do daddy government, I will agree no m
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by pembrook 8mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Censorship_in_Europe
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by pembrook 8mo ago
Yea every other use case beyond feeding the hysterical Epstein conspiracy machine has been totally worthless. All the consumers and companies paying real money for this tech must just be stupid. On the other hand, providing more fuel for sw
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by pembrook 8mo ago
We're not talking about Airbus or centuries old commodified industrial companies. Airbus sells airplanes, not AI software tools. But if you did build a core innovation in aerospace that went viral I'm sure Airbus would be interest
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by pembrook 8mo ago
That’s not what will happen. You will not be seeing Chanel at the local discounter. And for non-luxury brands this law will simply increase costs for companies operating in the EU and therefore cause people to spend more on clothes.
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by pembrook 8mo ago
Are you arguing against yourself to provide an example of why this law is bad…or do you actually want to force people to eat rotten/spoiled food? You seem to provide a great example of why Eurocrats regulating a highly efficient market
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by pembrook 8mo ago
This was a huge part of the platform that the US overwhelmingly voted for in the last election. People wanted this. Yes, I'm sure he believes his own bullshit, but ironically, its bullshit that the US actually needed to pull (tax incre
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by pembrook 8mo ago
The US has needed to raise taxes for decades given the level of spending the federal government does and constant "relief" packages that everyone now expects the minute there's a downturn. The runaway deficit is a massive p
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by pembrook 8mo ago
Typically I'm a DIY type who loves tinkering and building... HOWEVER, I have learned the hard way to never apply that spirit to email. In Europe you see this stuff all the time with old school "IT" (what old industrial compan
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by pembrook 8mo ago
It wouldn't do that. But even if it did do that, this would not be a good thing. The majority of leverage (debt) in the stock market is not people making wild bets, its just basic functions from institutions. But even if we narrow the
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by pembrook 9mo ago
Social media is a marketplace business. Both parties are your customer.
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by pembrook 9mo ago
I too hate Microsoft teams but it can always get worse, you have no idea.
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by pembrook 9mo ago
Yea, if you have to waste an extra 15 minutes per day due to bad UX who cares, it’s much better that you get the self-satisfied feeling of sticking it to “the man” (American big tech). I mean it only adds up to 90 days of your life wasted o
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by pembrook 9mo ago
This reads like an Onion headline. Gosh, I hope the media never unearths the documents on my company. They’ll learn that keeping my customers coming back was also my top priority. The horror! If they dig a little deeper they might uncover a
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by pembrook 9mo ago
Definitely agree, this is the classic left/right contradiction that has always existed. In the past, center-left and center-right coalitions were able to find win-win compromises out of this contradiction. But now that everyone has mov
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by pembrook 9mo ago
EU inc is worthless without alignment on a single capital market for fundraising and ultimately going public, sane/interoperable labor laws for hiring, and a single language market over the long term. The last piece is extremely import
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by pembrook 9mo ago
I don't think anybody expected EU politicians to create the software companies When we speak of the failure of EU politicians, it has been in removing the barriers in their own market to even develop successful technology companies g
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by pembrook 9mo ago
You may believe this, but the classification of what qualifies as 'social media' won't be up to you when you hand over this level of power to government. If Reddit is social media so is this site, they are literally the same
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by pembrook 9mo ago
Your rebuttal is based on the assumption that social media is uniquely manipulative, addictive and designed by a secret evil cabal of geniuses with top hats. This is a media narrative and a popular meme, but it is not reality when looking a

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