s3r3nity

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by s3r3nity 25d ago
Or, you know, design trade-offs like every other hardware ever made. I don't want to feel like I'm wearing one of those customer support head mics. I'm ok with shorter stem, and never had a problem.
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by s3r3nity 3mo ago
Then…don’t? You are free to not do so, while others (like myself) can choose the opposite.
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by s3r3nity 6mo ago
>One of the things I have disliked about the Iranian conflict is that their propaganda/messaging has been, by quite a margin, more reliable than what the US/Israel have been putting out. Kek. Tell me you live in a bubble withou
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by s3r3nity 7mo ago
Did they stop teaching "actions speak louder than words" in schools, or something?
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Yet another Valve lawsuit on loot boxes(windowscentral.com)
2 points by s3r3nity 7mo ago|0 comments
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by s3r3nity 8mo ago
Nah I’m good, and we’re pretty good overall. See how I can have a different opinion and not get arrested? Whereas if you ask someone in China if they’re communist, they’re not allowed to say “No.”
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by s3r3nity 8mo ago
> The US government is now more authoritarian than the Chinese government Nah we’re not playing this game. Try asking the CCP officials in person about Uyghur internment camps, or Tiananmen Square, and see if your family isn’t all arrest
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by s3r3nity 9mo ago
The last World Cup used slave labor to build their stadium in the desert, in a country that banned beer/alcohol consumption - the latter of which was relaxed eventually due to heavy lobbying (and possibly corruption.) Relax.
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by s3r3nity 10mo ago
Can't tell if this is sarcasm or not. These don't magically appear - people have to create / store / distribute those things, and/or develop the science / engineering to do so.
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by s3r3nity 11mo ago
lol if you think $ was the barrier there, I have a few bridges to sell you too…
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SpaceX's 11th Starship flight a resounding success(npr.org)
32 points by s3r3nity 1y ago|1 comments
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by s3r3nity 1y ago
With so many recent leadership hires / acquire hires with Facebook Growth Team backgrounds, ya’ll are naive if you think OpenAI _isn’t_ using this business data for their own means…and/or intends to lean more heavily into this dir
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by s3r3nity 1y ago
So was WeWork
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by s3r3nity 1y ago
“… FTC when it challenged Microsoft's proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard, a convoluted process that didn't formally end until May of 2025—almost two years after the deal closed.” This process needs to be faster for these
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Zohran Mamdani to phase out Gifted & Talented program in NYC elementary schools(nypost.com)
3 points by s3r3nity 1y ago|1 comments
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Google forcing some remote workers to come back 3 days a week(cnbc.com)
7 points by s3r3nity 1y ago|6 comments
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by s3r3nity 1y ago
This reminds me of the fascinating story of how Shakespeare's first folio was assembled, in that many of the plays were assembled from folks who had copies that were annotated - either as reading notes or with random family musings lik
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by s3r3nity 2y ago
No, boomers and NGO's who raided the coffers blew it and left us with $36 trillion in debt, along with $1.2 trillion on _just the interest payments_ - which is more than the US spends on Defense. Now we can't build anything, and t
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by s3r3nity 2y ago
It’s more of a “yes, and…” comment. Namely, both are relevant, but previously only one side was highlighted.
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by s3r3nity 2y ago
Biggest issue with Democrats is learning that "People are born with different abilities." Biggest issue with Republicans is learning that "People are born with different abilities."
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by s3r3nity 2y ago
These tend to work through in stages: fastest ones to accept were already looking, and next up are those that are on the fence, and so on... The 8-month buyout offer is significantly better than the one-time offer from Clinton in the 90&#x2
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by s3r3nity 2y ago
Their Blessed Homeland vs. Our Barbarous Wastes
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by s3r3nity 2y ago
>But at the same time we -- meaning Trump and the GOP Senate -- just appointed the least qualified candidate in the history of the US... I'm old enough to remember when Biden nominated someone with no aviation experience to lead the
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by s3r3nity 2y ago
>A government full of cronies sucks... >A meritocratic...government sounds like a dystopian novel. So nepotism + networking = bad, but meritocracy also = bad...? >...we can at least hope to get our own cronies in at some point. OR
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by s3r3nity 2y ago
The cheating element is only _part_ of it, and the dominant regime at the time downplayed / ignored the DEI elements because that was supported by their ideology...like a sacred cow. Litigating "disparate impact" cases across
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by s3r3nity 2y ago
> Also lots of ads prey on people with worse impulse control who bankroll the rest of us who don't click ads. This reminds me of the Mark Twain adage of "Telling a man he can't have steak just because a baby can't che
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by s3r3nity 2y ago
+1. Folks pushing for equity haven't read (or too young to have read) "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut, and it shows. Instead of handicapping those who are ahead, we should intervene with those who are falling behind. Ins
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Eppo (A-B Testing & Experimentation Platform) closes Series-B financing(techcrunch.com)
9 points by s3r3nity 2y ago|0 comments
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by s3r3nity 2y ago
Nintendo perfected this type of tech with the 3DS back in 2011 (!!). In retrospect, that shit was so far ahead of its time. Looking Glass has some impressive displays, but honestly every time I pick up my 3DS again I wonder why it didn&#x27
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Expedia Group fired their CTO, Rathi Murthy(phocuswire.com)
59 points by s3r3nity 2y ago|30 comments

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