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by pie420 3y ago
Monaco, Syria, North Korea, Lithuania don't need 10 person teams. It's this napkin math that causes tech companies to inflate. I'm sure Spotify execs did the same math and told HR "Hire 10 people per country, thx".
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by pie420 3y ago
In other news, water is wet
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by pie420 3y ago
The final frontier
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by pie420 3y ago
And yet Camus was expelled from the french communist party because he didn't agree with the white-washing of french colonialism of Algeria by the Popular Front.
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by pie420 3y ago
"the lower classes speak a mutant hybrid of Arabic-French-English" Very interesting, since English is a sort of mutant hybrid of Norse-Germanic-French. I wonder how long before a unique "Algerian" language emerges. I won
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by pie420 3y ago
Don't engage with trolls.
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by pie420 3y ago
Hacker News was never anything more than a subreddit for elitist silicon valley VCs and FAANG programmers with 35 hours of free time per week.
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by pie420 3y ago
This is by design. All the tech giants realized search-by-speech is mostly unprofitable compared to search-by-type because you can't really sell ads auraly compared to visually. Every search done by speech is lost ad revenue. Expect to
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by pie420 3y ago
Please change the search results so that when I search "X + reddit" all of the search results are reddit, not just the first two.
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by pie420 3y ago
You have to keep going. You must endure and let your brain process, and learn to relax and exist in a non-stimulated state. Facebook and Tik-tok have fried our brains so much that sitting in silence for 30 minutes is painful because we are
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by pie420 3y ago
Funny, because Get Lucky is the pop-iest, worst song on RAM. Possibly the worst take you can have on the album
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by pie420 3y ago
that's the thing. something that would take 4+ hours and $100 or more can now be done for free in under an hour.
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by pie420 4y ago
This is exactly what happens when you replace engineers with bean counters.
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by pie420 4y ago
You deserve that and much worse for still using Facebook in 2023.
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by pie420 4y ago
they get paid by Labels to promote certain songs and artists, similar to how labels pay radio to play only certain songs. Everything, from Amazon, to Spotify, to the Google Play Store wants you to click on promoted bullshit, not search for
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by pie420 4y ago
You realize even Stalin's USSR allowed controlled opposition and occaisional articles critical of the government in order to give the illusion of freedom and dissent, right? Propaganda has evolved into a much more sophisticated beast s
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by pie420 4y ago
and Virgin Galactic's first 50 launches were failures and VG's first 20 years of existence were a colossal failure. Maybe if a company can't make things work after two decades, it should be dissolved? Or should we let them ex
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by pie420 4y ago
Horse Company CEO in 1903 declares "THERE MAY NOT BE ENOUGH GASOLINE TO GASIFY THE GLOBE"
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by pie420 4y ago
CEO's don't care about employees, but they do care about their CEO buddies who own engine parts manufacturers, and supply chain companies that they are heavily invested in.
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by pie420 4y ago
we could name it skynet or something
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by pie420 4y ago
no, those will be layed off first
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by pie420 4y ago
And what will he do about the hundreds of "RealStephenKing" "OfficialStephenKing" "StephenKingTwitter" accounts that will spring up and start scamming people and linking them to fake websites? How much will tha
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by pie420 4y ago
The model X is also probably one of the most profitable and iconic cars in the modern era.
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by pie420 4y ago
^this commenter is an example of a pro-russian troll and /or bot
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by pie420 4y ago
if only european leaders invested in LNG terminals and capacity to import non-russian oil and natural gas. Lithuania and Poland did, the rest of europe did not.
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by pie420 4y ago
If only Europe was on good terms with Canada and America and had LNG terminals to import natural gas from it's allies and other middle eastern countries who are happy to sell natural gas to europe instead of solely relying on russian i
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by pie420 4y ago
It just highlights the parlous state of the current economic structure even more then
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by pie420 4y ago
"If it fails to gather adoption and it dies (like many startups do) we get blamed for killing products." That doesn't explain the mess of 8 different messaging apps each year. If Hangouts was still the de facto android messag
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by pie420 4y ago
because there is only so much you can grow the main cash cow. would you rather have a company that makes 1 billion a year on 90% profit margin, or a company that makes 2 billion a year on 60% profit margin but is diversified?
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by pie420 4y ago
that doesn't answer his question on why it should be that way. Courts have said many things over the years, doesn't make it any less of an appeal to authority logical fallacy.

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