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by ralph84 6y ago
Feminism stigmatized keeping a house functioning. “Barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen” became a slur thrown at women who had the nerve to not serve a corporate master.
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by ralph84 6y ago
Is it? Career politicians have political debts to be paid, which override what's best for their constituents.
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by ralph84 6y ago
But Red Hat ended up being the exception that proved the rule that selling support for open source isn't a very lucrative business. There was room for one player in that space and Red Hat was it. Now with cloud providers selling suppor
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by ralph84 6y ago
Silicon Valley won't even leave behind interesting urban ruins.
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by ralph84 6y ago
China treats workers like shit and the environment like shit. The US wouldn’t win a race to the bottom and shouldn’t try. Instead companies who manufacture in China should be taxed at much higher rates to account for the negative externalit
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by ralph84 6y ago
Only a very small fraction of the housing supply is up for sale at any given point in time. Prices are set at the margin.
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by ralph84 6y ago
People call for putting way more than 50,000+ people out of work all of the time (eliminating the oil and gas industry as an example). If the belief is those people are engaged in harmful activity, why wouldn't you want them to stop AS
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by ralph84 6y ago
It's been sad watching Silicon Valley evolve from Apple's 1984 Super Bowl commercial to this.
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by ralph84 6y ago
The article vastly underestimates the desire of large enterprises to deal with only a handful of IT vendors. Sure, no enterprise wants monopoly pricing, but they also don’t want dozens upon dozens of different IT vendors to deal with.
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by ralph84 6y ago
The software engineers at YouTube may disagree with you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube_headquarters_shooting
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by ralph84 6y ago
If it’s vital to so much of the economy it shouldn’t have a problem charging profitable rates.
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by ralph84 6y ago
5nm certainly helped, but what really made M1 is the team Apple has assembled. Apple’s fat margins allowed them to attract and retain the best engineers with top of market total comp. Meanwhile Intel viewed engineering as a cost center to b
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by ralph84 6y ago
Yeah well back when YouTube started censoring videos suggesting a connection between vitamin D deficiency and covid it became pretty clear times are not particularly changed from Galieo’s.
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by ralph84 6y ago
What makes you think Amazon and Microsoft don't take customers out to lunch (pre-covid)?
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by ralph84 6y ago
It's much more efficient to bribe politicians directly than to funnel funds through unreliable potential voters.
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by ralph84 6y ago
> Its market capitalization has exceeded $80 billion at its peak Well that aged well
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by ralph84 6y ago
Nothing is ever rolled back. 19 years after 9/11 we're still doing the security theater dance at the airport.
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by ralph84 6y ago
There is a pretty long list of Americans who've faced consequences for what they've said. Calling it "America's big problem" is hyperbole, and certainly not justification for overturning a founding principle of the
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by ralph84 6y ago
But as of now Microsoft only licenses Windows 10 for ARM to OEMs, so as an end-user it's not possible to have a legal copy running in a VM.
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by ralph84 6y ago
Same here on a gigabit connection. Usually Apple update downloads are pretty snappy, so it seems like their CDN isn't working as it should.
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by ralph84 6y ago
My middle school had a pay phone in the lobby. After-school activities had a variable end time so when I needed my mom to pick me up I’d call her collect. She never accepted the charges, but knew it was time to head over to the school.
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by ralph84 6y ago
GitLab's DMCA policy is not substantially different from GitHub's. Finding an example of YouTube-dl on GitLab doesn't mean GitLab doesn't comply with the DMCA, it just means RIAA hasn't sent them a DMCA notice yet.
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by ralph84 6y ago
If Twitter wants to be a publisher, fine. Just stop sheltering them under Section 230. Make them fully liable for what they publish.
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by ralph84 6y ago
The minute they took money from US VCs they agreed to play by US rules.
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by ralph84 6y ago
GitHub's DMCA policy[0] is very clear on how to reinstate content. It's not extremely difficult, but you do have to send GitHub a properly-formed counter notice, and you do have to be prepared that the sender of the original DMCA
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by ralph84 6y ago
The sale price is less than 2X revenue. All of the margin in flash memory has been sucked up by cloud providers and Apple.
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by ralph84 6y ago
At least they didn't force a U2 album on you this time
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by ralph84 6y ago
> the actual costs of trashing it are externalized Does it really cost that much to bury things in the ground? And how much of that cost is externalized? Where I live garbage collection is done by for-profit companies that charge for it.
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Wipro Infosys Tata Cognizant HCL
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by ralph84 6y ago
With time dilation it could have been 7 days depending on the observer and their reference frame.

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