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811.
by rchaud 2y ago
May as well have emailed no-reply@buy-more-iphones.apple.com
812.
by rchaud 2y ago
It's "uneventful" because I wasn't personally affected by it. /s
813.
by rchaud 2y ago
For him this is, if you'll excuse the pun, par for the course.
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by rchaud 2y ago
> it will be absorbed into a more Asia-dominated culture in much he was Asian culture was subsumed into western for the past couple of hundred years. Was Asian culture dominated by the west to any significant degree? Perhaps in countries
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by rchaud 2y ago
I'd say you're half right. Heads do roll in authoritarian regimes.
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by rchaud 2y ago
Apple CEO Tim Cook made a personal $1 million "donation" to the Trump inauguration in January 2025: > Cook, a proud Alabama native, believes the inauguration is a great American tradition, and is donating to the inauguration in
817.
by rchaud 2y ago
They've also bumped up their fees enormously, it's 10% + processing fee now, previously it was $1 flat + processing.
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by rchaud 2y ago
Web app works fine. I'm an Android user, I sell through Gumroad and it's never occurred to me to download a native app that offers no functionality beyond what's already on the website. Sale notifications go to my email, as t
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by rchaud 2y ago
> They don't sell anything physical, only digital. Depends on the seller. I have a self-published physical magazine I distribute through Gumroad: https://www.glidermag.com/
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by rchaud 2y ago
It's an ecommerce platform.
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by rchaud 2y ago
Theft is a moral concept, but the legitimacy of a justice department to comment on it rests on its record of enforcing the legal limits consistently in its own remit. That is openly not the case anymore, voiding the legitimacy it may otherw
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by rchaud 2y ago
What NK hackers are alleged to have done here is fraud, something that the US head of state has been convicted of, by courts in his own country. NK on the other hand, has not been tried nor convicted. What possible legitimacy does the US ev
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by rchaud 2y ago
Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, Mark Cuban....they're not like this. Granted it's a pathetically short list.
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by rchaud 2y ago
These are but pricey bug bounties. This will lead to a more efficient and secure cryptocurrency market, as participants will insist on better financial controls, threatening to flee to the regulated fiat markets if their needs are not met.
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by rchaud 2y ago
> Hackers then send the ether to “mixers”—crypto platforms that co-mingle tokens from various users, obscuring their ownership. After that, the ether is swapped for bitcoin and then converted into tether, a token whose value is linked to
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by rchaud 2y ago
Sure, no tricks required, other than: - selecting 1 out 100 possible Linux variants, an effortless task for the average computer user - creating a hard drive partition, mere child's play - creating a USB image, booting from that USB, i
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by rchaud 2y ago
This is the equivalent of the "mentally ill lone wolf" rationales given for American mass shootings. What possible difference would a psychological test make when an pre-existing felony conviction is not enough to keep him from vo
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by rchaud 2y ago
Just say "all employees" then. Lots of companies use contractors who don't have employee benefits, do they count as "Googlers" or whatever the stupid stand-in moniker is?
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by rchaud 2y ago
The PS2 era didn't have the infinite cash machine that is GTA online. They're milking it for as long as they can. It also doesn't make sense to release something for latest-gen consoles when a huge chunk of the market are sti
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by rchaud 2y ago
Nintendo is the Apple of videogames, especialy with the vertical integration and pricing. Their games were always incredibly expensive. 30 years ago, I remember being stunned to hear that my friend's SNES copy of Mortal Kombat II was G
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by rchaud 2y ago
Can't the person register their device on the Nintendo website, with a serial number and date of purchase? That's often needed for electronics repairs. That alone should be enough to determine whether the person is a scalper or tr
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by rchaud 2y ago
Nothing to do with 2008. JP Morgan and the other banks made fees by selling mortgage-backed securities where the real credit risk was obscured by packaging good mortgages with bad. JP Morgan spending $175m for hot air isn't something t
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by rchaud 2y ago
If they're in the S&P 500, you can assume that they do. McKinsey's influence isn't just via consultants either, plenty of execs are former McKinsey people. Sundar Pichai and Sheryl Sandberg being two big names.
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by rchaud 2y ago
That's like saying war is bad for the construction industry because there won't be any demand for real estate development. War is extremely lucrative because there will be "reconstruction" contracts once the dust settles
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by rchaud 2y ago
I liken AI hype to crypto hype. There will be always be some wide-eyed techno-optimist rube waxing poetic about how AI will open the door towards a 4-day workweek, just like how crypto will strengthen civil society by reducing the influence
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by rchaud 2y ago
If McKinsey took the blame, businesses would stop working with them. They haven't. McKinsey has too much influence on Wall St, the SEC, FTC and Capitol Hill tor companies to ignore them. Corporate execs come and go, but McKinsey's
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by rchaud 2y ago
So? Everybody at McKinsey knows how the company earns its fees. Everybody there knows what they signed up for and it wasn't to help companies grow their opex costs. They knew it when execs were excited about "offshoring expensive
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by rchaud 2y ago
The website is India-based, so they may be talking about the consulting offices in India.
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by rchaud 2y ago
Due process exists. The ability to compel a government to respect it does not exist.
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by rchaud 2y ago
A messaging app wouldn't have saved them. Messaging apps didn't make money, enterprise subscriptions to the BES ecosystem did. The Whatsapp comparison doesn't make sense. Blackberry was a profitable B2B communications company

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