situational87

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by situational87 7y ago
Yes but instead of worrying about the theoretical EMP that has never happened and will never happen how about we worry about the fact that we keep crashing into merchant ships like on the regular? Engineering priorities and all that.
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by situational87 7y ago
I'm having trouble visualizing exactly how this works from the text, but it sounds like a total nightmare. Some sort of complicated list of steps for transferring control screens between different stations on the ship, and it's no
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Apple Is Locking Batteries to Specific iPhones(vice.com)
2 points by situational87 7y ago|1 comments
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by situational87 7y ago
The current factory farm system and the nearly infinite levels of suffering we put animals through is a weird aberration we will look back on in hundreds of years as completely insane. It's like a macabre torture machine most people ju
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by situational87 7y ago
I think you got pretty lucky, I have been screwed out of my options twice now by shitty founders. God help you if the startup is successful and profitable, that just means they will get the really good lawyers to claw back equity by any mea
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by situational87 7y ago
Yeah if it's suddenly possible and legal for employers to start withdrawing from their employees accounts via direct deposit or something else then we have much bigger problems. Your bank doesn't represent you, where did you get t
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China lets yuan break 7-per-dollar level for first time in over a decade(reuters.com)
178 points by situational87 7y ago|149 comments
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Funerals are livestreamed and families are grateful(arstechnica.com)
2 points by situational87 7y ago|0 comments
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by situational87 7y ago
Why is the FTC actively jumping through hoops to explain how consumers are getting screwed by their own actions? Does the DOJ need to investigate the FTC? What on earth are they doing? Do they realize we can see them?
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by situational87 7y ago
$31 million is a laughably small amount of money to set aside for direct settlements in the biggest hack in all of history. Add three zeroes to that, probably still not enough. I spent three days figuring out this nightmarish credit reporti
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by situational87 7y ago
Why not? They can spend their money however they want, but Wall Street demands endless share buybacks over everything else. Do you think there is any downside to just transferring wealth to the (already rich) shareholders over and over and
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by situational87 7y ago
They increased their spending on R&D by $500 million since last year. They then spent $17 BILLION on share buybacks in the last quarter. It's not a tech company anymore it's just a financial engineering scheme for large shareh
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by situational87 7y ago
Nobody paid $600 for Office. A few large companies did, maybe, but nobody else. That's kind of the whole point of subscription software, right? To cut back on the insane 90%+ piracy rates of the good old days?
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by situational87 7y ago
Sure looks like we're heading towards an inevitable kessler syndrome, nobody seems to be in charge or care that much anymore. I have a hunch that we're about two months away from news of the first satellite control hack, it's
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The Lithium Mine Buildup Is Outpacing the Electric-Car Boom(bloomberg.com)
148 points by situational87 7y ago|235 comments
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by situational87 7y ago
Your question sort of misses the bigger problem: if you're a developer over a certain age (35? 40?) you're completely unemployable in many areas. If you expect to hang on for 10 years you are also expected to move up to management
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by situational87 7y ago
There is some incredibly obnoxious script on this page that won't let you resize the text. First time I've seen that. I often feel like the web couldn't possibly get any worse, and every day it finds a new way to surprise me
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by situational87 7y ago
The thing about subscription software is that it's brand new. If you're under 40 you probably don't even realize this, but it's a weird new invention to us old timers, and a massive shift in the economics of technology t
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by situational87 7y ago
I think I've been reading the same article about how AI and the singularity is just around the "five year corner" for like at least 20 years now. I worked very briefly with some folks who do ML engineering and they were disil
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Another Person Has Died After Rationing Insulin(nymag.com)
39 points by situational87 7y ago|4 comments
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by situational87 7y ago
Of all the sci fi I have ever read I continue to be amazed at how perfectly Orwell could see the future. Forget this island, someone needs to research the question as to whether or not he was a legitimate time traveler.