purple_ferret

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by purple_ferret 7mo ago
We live in a world of Trump-esque "truths" where if you claim something once, nothing subsequent matters. Not surprised to see a guy like Altman adopt the strategy
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by purple_ferret 7mo ago
Braintree had $1.53 trillion TPV in 2023[0], and it's just a subsidiary of Paypal which has tanked to $40 billion market cap despite revenue and profit that are probably lightyears ahead of Stripe. Honestly, I wouldn't touch Strip
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by purple_ferret 10mo ago
A lot of these places already have massive government contracts with their own management structures. So the plan is to also make some of them federal employees, ostensibly helping to oversee those contracts? Seems like a conflict of intere
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US Tech Force(techforce.gov)
228 points by purple_ferret 10mo ago|299 comments
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by purple_ferret 10mo ago
maybe 'creator' in the youtuber sense But most creative people I know aren't really that interested in trying to co-opt someone else's work
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by purple_ferret 1y ago
Curious how this is affecting jewelers. Was blown away at how expensive gold earrings have gotten.
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by purple_ferret 1y ago
Sort of conflicts with the other points though, which basically sum up to "Be a 10X developer or die trying"
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by purple_ferret 1y ago
No chance any commercially available milk is getting hand milked.
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by purple_ferret 2y ago
Proof you don't need to own the .com domain name to make it big?: http://wiz.com/
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HHS Secretary: It Would Be Better If 'Everybody Got Measles'(thedailybeast.com)
27 points by purple_ferret 2y ago|18 comments
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by purple_ferret 2y ago
Here's the tweet that prompted Elon's 'deleted' tweet: >18F, the far left government wide computer office that was recently taken over by allies of @elonmusk, is also the same agency that built Elizabeth Warren's
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by purple_ferret 2y ago
But you don't understand. If the government helps you file your taxes, they'll use the service to collect your personal data, so the communists could use it against you at some point in the future. (this is the right wing argument
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by purple_ferret 2y ago
Elon literally said they would be 'deleted' for being 'far left,' specifically for working on direct file. Yet, people still seem baffled by what's going on and refuse to accept the maliciousness behind his and Trum
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by purple_ferret 2y ago
They key is to work for yourself Start your own business, hustle, and bust ass
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by purple_ferret 2y ago
Some of these agencies have IT infrastructure meant to accommodate thousands of people. Many have convoluted structures to protect data; webs of contractor-led programs that are barely connected. You really think an engineer that will accep
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by purple_ferret 2y ago
>AFAIK, it has never been stated publicly that DOGE or Mr. Musk would get control of this most essential service, responsible for sourcing identity verification, etc. The man has been plotting on Signal with a bunch of cronies. Of cour
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by purple_ferret 2y ago
>Everybody loses. Huh? Trump singlehandedly bringing TikTok back for tens of millions of malleable voters. Sounds like a pretty huge victory for him!
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by purple_ferret 2y ago
We have an archiving institution for stuff like that. Relying on a private business to maintain a catalogue is nonsense.
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by purple_ferret 2y ago
Loom is not for teams who use Microsoft 365. It's for teams that exclusively use Slack, Notion, Miro, Vercel, Mux etc
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by purple_ferret 2y ago
Well, for one, categorizing the people he'd have to work with at Atlassian as "NPC Coworkers"
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by purple_ferret 2y ago
> the usual "crypto will upend global financial systems/crypto will change the world" hype is conspicuously missing That hype is nothing compared to the current hype, the idea that the US Government is going to buy a signi
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by purple_ferret 2y ago
He's clearly implied he has some priorities vis-à-vis the government: 1. Relaxing Regulation for autonomous driving 2. Relaxing Regulation for rocket launches so he can get to Mars while he's still living. 3. Contracts for SpaceX
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by purple_ferret 2y ago
>"Our nation was founded on the basic idea that the people we elect run the government" The irony of these two guys starting off their piece about how they plan to reshape the government with this...
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by purple_ferret 2y ago
I think Doordash realized people in middle America would pay to get Taco Bell and McDonald's delivered while Grubhub never really moved out of big cities.
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by purple_ferret 2y ago
States like New York and California can become Carbon Negative on their own if they wanted to. The Federal government is not needed for liberals to take the lead on this, but the mediocre center left Democrats who run everything in Blue Sta
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by purple_ferret 2y ago
They've been great for US Stock holders, which basically comprises most of the Upper and Upper Middle Class. In fact, so good, people think anything buy 10-20% yearly gains on assets is bad
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by purple_ferret 2y ago
The strength of a union is have a large organization with funds for lawyers and such. Most of those organizations (like the UAW) don't focus on technology positions, so software people are left out in a lurch a bit. NYTimes has savvy,
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by purple_ferret 2y ago
It's very common in union contracts. They way it usually works is there is a probationary period that you can fire someone under for any reason (usually 90 days), but after that, supposedly you're more protected. That said, in pra
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by purple_ferret 2y ago
> I would never have guessed so many full-time employees were necessary to maintain a CMS. Well they also run Cooking and Games, which has gotten pretty big. I imagine they have some hand in audio too. They run their own services, such
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by purple_ferret 2y ago
because if they murder someone, they'll be easily traceable if they leave genetic data behind

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