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by rnk 4y ago
It's not that there is only some moral goodness in building a business from scratch. I hate the idea of rich people just using their wealth and connections to succeed, basically using their connections to get undeserved access to capit
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by rnk 4y ago
The question is what notifications won't show up? Maybe a 'you have email' or 'you have a meeting in 10 minutes'. Only the meeting notification is useful to me out of the thousands of times websites asked. Thanks fo
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by rnk 4y ago
Please provide citations of this? Everything on earth provides better service to the rich, including crypto. Us banks had so many disasters that at least we have working protections for deposits. Whereas crypto has no rules and is in the mi
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by rnk 4y ago
In my experience they never try very hard to determine obviousness. I have maybe half a dozen software patents while working at big faang type companies. The patent office never rejects them no matter how abstruse, impossible to understand
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by rnk 4y ago
No one mentioned Seattle's own huge tunnel machine that infamously broke down partway into the job. It was a little larger, at 17.5 meters vs 11.91 meters for this latest UK tunnel machine. It broke down about 1000 feet into the 10k lo
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by rnk 4y ago
It's working for me now 24 hours later. The results are interesting, thanks for putting this up there.
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by rnk 4y ago
I think they got overloaded or too many queries on their backend. No results for several different zip codes in my big city.
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by rnk 4y ago
I thought the original comment was referring to all tech workers, ie not independently wealthy as the lower classes. But it's also true that below principal level at companies there is different treatment. Just like a cto gets treated
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by rnk 4y ago
I don't think it's that simple. Google needs devs, it's a competitive market. Controlling or limiting the dev supply is definitely a benefit for big tech, but it's a separate benefit. I think competitive pressure on sala
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by rnk 4y ago
Until/unless faang salaries & hiring come back. This doesn't mean all fangs aren't paying. We just don't know.
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by rnk 4y ago
What happened next? Did they say log in? Don't some countries, maybe the us say they will keep your laptop for "study" if you don't log in and let them snoop?
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by rnk 4y ago
All the naive investors who keep making investments in crypto will lose their money, like they have on current round of failing crypto 'banks'. It's both the fact that existing finance is hard to access for poor people, and i
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by rnk 4y ago
You should advertise on youtube then ;-) Lately it seems every youtube video I watch has endless steams of scammy "How do I invest to get good returns". "You should invest with fred johnson crypto, I made 100k off a 10k inves
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by rnk 4y ago
There is the basic use case of getting something like weather sensors broadcasting conditions over time. That could be useful. The way I think this will be used if it ever got market traction is to spy on you. Today if I don't put my t
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by rnk 4y ago
The ars technica article said it was windows focused, but the same techniques should work on other OS. If you had network monitoring how hard would it be to see this firmware-kit trying to talk to the internet. Is it sophisticated enough to
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by rnk 4y ago
Antitrust enforcement is so scattershot, varying over time and depending on current us administration. It's like an entire higher level of abstraction over the problem. And in practice we have extremely little antitrust enforcement in
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by rnk 4y ago
The really rich often have too much political influence on elections, they push to get their taxes reduced effectively. This happens in the us where the terrible supreme court ruling said money was speech, basically making it so rich people
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by rnk 4y ago
I think you missed the point of the new restrictions. Stopping those practices that are harmful to users is a good thing. Ending endless spying, aka corporate surveillance, that can be a good thing. When Apple made their changes, Apple conc
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by rnk 4y ago
Okay, thanks for explaining. I get the idea, but I'm skeptical of the practical use of fission, because we haven't shown that in the last 40 or so years we can create reasonable new power fission generation systems. They always se
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by rnk 4y ago
Would it be useless for trying to run an x86 os, with binaries? I really do need to occasionally run something on x86 based linux but I could probably avoid it most of the time.
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by rnk 4y ago
They can tax and fine them unsustainable fees, prohibit them from being used there. Thus they can control them. If Apple found that onerous they could choose not to be in business there.
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by rnk 4y ago
I saw a list of companies that paid the same regardless of location. There were even a few bay area companies that didn't cut your pay when you moved away, I wish I had that handy.
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by rnk 4y ago
I don't have an apple arm device, I was waiting until I could run x86 vms reasonably efficiently, because I need that all the time. Up to now it seemed the answer was it's too slow if you want to use an x86 basically in a normal w
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by rnk 4y ago
I'm stupid, so you'll have to elaborate on that. Are you saying that fusion power is close? Are you saying that fission nuclear power is infinite energy because we have so much uranium? Probably the former?
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by rnk 4y ago
If you add the libertarian and republican votes in texas they have dropped a bit over time, if the dems can run the right candidates and get their voters to vote (and overcome voter suppression) they can win.
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by rnk 4y ago
Texas keeps making voting harder though, for the people out of power. Their nefarious plans to do things like only allow one place to drop off your ballots in each count will suppress ballot dropoff in Dallas & Houston - it's of co
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by rnk 4y ago
Low taxes and flat planes of land that you can keep building new housing on, cheap, that makes it easy to keep growing out. Good for them I guess. But providing infrastructure for that expansion does cost something eventually, thus the stru
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by rnk 4y ago
The real thing they're trying to tax is some part of the massive impact that AI and other automation will have on the economy and lives of people who will lose jobs. It's just going to be harder and harder to have a decent lifesty
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by rnk 4y ago
What did they do to suppress it? Everyone who read anything about politics, trump etc heard about them and could find them in a second via a web search. This stuff was widely available.
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by rnk 4y ago
What in the world are you talking about?

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