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by staunch 4y ago
Yeah, it's a very important point that he has changed, a lot. Elon Musk's trajectory is a lot like Alexander the Great's. He started off as the somewhat scrappy upstart and has become the somewhat corrupted corporate despot.
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by staunch 4y ago
> Do I have proof? No. Do you offer even a single shred of evidence whatsoever? No.
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by staunch 4y ago
They're paying severance, bonus, healthcare, etc which is the only way to do an ethical layoff. CEOs that wait until the last minute to do layoffs and then pay little to no severance are shitty people, and no one should trust to work f
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by staunch 4y ago
It's funny because the crappy modern technical interview (which every company cargo culted from Google) makes it hard for companies to hire in two ways: 1. Even very competent people don't want to do them, because they're hig
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by staunch 4y ago
> It's like there's fire in the house and all of us are discussing how to improve fire extinguisher design. It's more like there's a problem with a new technology and people are discussing how to improve the technol
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by staunch 4y ago
One part of the solution is letting people know the origin of the people they're communicating with. I'd like to see country flags on every piece of content on the internet, HN included. Not enforced by law but just by convention.
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by staunch 4y ago
A good definition of The Cloud is just "servers in a datacenter" so the discussion is best framed as Private Cloud (on-prem or co-located servers) vs Public Cloud (AWS, etc) or some combination. People with expertise in running pr
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by staunch 4y ago
> ...all three countries were quite thoroughly provoked by Nasser. FYI "provoked" is the exact word used by many to rationalize Putin's invasion of Ukraine. One could just as easily say Nasser was provoked to his actions
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by staunch 4y ago
> And because the US didn't get any of the spoils if it would have worked out. That may be true of some people in his administration but I don't think that was Eisenhower's view.
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by staunch 4y ago
Hah yes, of course, I deleted that part somehow.
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by staunch 4y ago
> Ask the British and French what sort of ally the US was during the Suez Crisis. The Suez Crisis is when the British, French, and Israeli governments conspired behind the back of the US to invade Egypt and install a puppet regime. Wit
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by staunch 4y ago
Ah cool, it should be more widely publicized. Maybe I missed it, but I don't recall seeing news about bribery whistleblowers being paid out. Maybe it should be a mandatory part of training programs for global companies. I can't be
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by staunch 4y ago
From what I've heard, many cases of these kinds of bribery schemes are fairly widely known within the companies themselves. The general attitude is that "everyone is doing it" and any harm is so indirect as to not seem partic
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by staunch 4y ago
This is exactly how to handle a layoff: do it 3-6 months earlier than required and give the laid off employees that money as severance. Waving the equity cliff too is very generous and good of them. Everyone should note the companies that d
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L3Harris tried to buy NSO Group, the creator of Pegasus(washingtonpost.com)
4 points by staunch 4y ago|0 comments
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Brex is canceling customer accounts(twitter.com)
11 points by staunch 4y ago|4 comments
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by staunch 4y ago
> Coinbase was also extremely generous with severance. Regardless of what one thinks of Coinbase, their decision to offer employees generous severance deserves massive praise. If you were on the fence about working at Coinbase, current
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by staunch 4y ago
> They do this already. They're called helicopters. This is dangerously close to the infamous HN Dropbox critique[1] :-D And it's likely wrong in the same way. 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
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by staunch 4y ago
Pretty exciting. I consider this a real proof of concept for shuttlepods AKA flying cars. I'm sure there's a lot of work left to do this shows how much is already possible with relatively little effort by a relatively small co
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by staunch 4y ago
Audible: I listen to 2-3 books a month while exercising, cleaning, eating, etc. Often ones I've already listened to. Almost exclusively biographies and other historical non-fiction. My main frustration is that there are so many great b
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by staunch 4y ago
> And I believe we can all agree, regardless of political affiliation, that the fabric of society is itself 'at risk' of collapse. No, we don't all agree. The most we can probably all agree on is that we're in for s
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by staunch 4y ago
At first I thought the fine sounded excessive but after thinking about it, it seems far too low. I'd like to know the the people that were specifically responsible for this scam. Did Jack Dorsey implement and endorse this scam?
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by staunch 4y ago
Generous severance is the ethical test of a CEO during a layoff. It softens the blow of a layoff immeasurably to provide 4-6 months of severance. If a CEO won't do it, the remaining employees should question the CEOs ethics, and ask th
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The Navy’s Big Carrier Groups Are Sitting Ducks(wsj.com)
15 points by staunch 4y ago|9 comments
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by staunch 4y ago
This might've been the article that I read, which seems to disagree: "The inconvenient truth is that our Navy has 12 carrier groups and all are now obsolete. The Chinese have developed an antiship ballistic missile (ASBM), the DF
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by staunch 4y ago
Sure, but that doctrine is old. And has it not been partially obsoleted by China's advances in missile technology? My understanding was that our fleets have sufficient defense for a limited attack but that a full scale missile attack b
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by staunch 4y ago
My understanding is that Russia and China are building hypersonic glide missile so they can penetrate any US missile defense system, which the US doesn't really even have. And neither does Russia or China have an effective missile defe
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by staunch 4y ago
> And if we kill a few hundred or thousand innocent passengers and/or pedestrians along the way... So you're just going to make up numbers to be outraged at? As far as I know, no innocent passengers or pedestrians have been k
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Quick, How Might the Alien Spacecraft Work? (2016)(writings.stephenwolfram.com)
2 points by staunch 4y ago|0 comments
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by staunch 4y ago
Yes, beta testers for hardware and software that is in mass production and many years into development. By this stage in the development of cars they were an extremely rational choice over the alternatives. FSD is not a rational choice over

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