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by throwaway5959 2y ago
Quite a few of them will be dead by 2035. The earliest boomers were born in 1946, that’s 89 years old. They’ll have been collecting benefits for decades by then.
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by throwaway5959 2y ago
They’re also delaying retirement age, which is effectively a benefit cut.
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by throwaway5959 2y ago
https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2023/demo/p60-28... Over 92% of Americans have health insurance. The vast majority DO have access to healthcare.
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by throwaway5959 2y ago
The real lesson here is don’t piss of Tim Sweeney. Dude just can’t let it go.
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by throwaway5959 2y ago
The management class has grown fat in the US. Layoffs at my company haven’t impacted management AT ALL.
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by throwaway5959 2y ago
The Virtual Boy final form.
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by throwaway5959 2y ago
It means a lot to me, because cutting power consumption in half for millions of devices means we can turn off power plants (in aggregate). It’s the same as lightbulbs; I’ll never understand why people bragged about how much power they were
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by throwaway5959 2y ago
Hopefully in the Mac Mini at WWDC.
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by throwaway5959 2y ago
Well now that that’s sorted, maybe we can start fixing real problems with higher Ed.
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by throwaway5959 2y ago
Then people just won’t be able to drive. I think a lot of people don’t see how precarious some people’s lives are now, even with what would have been decent incomes five years ago.
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by throwaway5959 2y ago
Eventually you’re going to see a lot of people just driving without insurance (car insurance is soaring as well as home insurance).
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by throwaway5959 2y ago
So why is their software still being sold in the US?
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by throwaway5959 2y ago
His $55 billion pay package would pay $100k per year for the 14k employees he just laid off for the next 40 years. I’m surprised the stock is still north of $100.
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by throwaway5959 2y ago
Right? Even if they did somehow take over all traditional carmakers, the margins on those businesses suck. It’d just scale a shitty business (making cars).
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by throwaway5959 2y ago
> It will take some time to get there and when it does it will destroy the retirements of those Tesla stockholders most active on Twitter. Well at least there’s that silver lining: a lot less noise in the EV space on YouTube.
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by throwaway5959 2y ago
Because frankly Google and the open web is so bogged down by ads that it’s become unusable. Try visiting any news site or a site like Fandom. Some sites I can’t even read because the ads take up the whole page on mobile and I can’t close th
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by throwaway5959 2y ago
I hope they’re successful. We need more fun gadgets. Phones, tablets and computers are all so boring and functional now.
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by throwaway5959 2y ago
Do you like using computers and phones? If so an independent Taiwan is aligned with your interests. Unless you’re suggesting that the US is the reason why China wants to take over Taiwan, which is a level of contorted logic to blame the US
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by throwaway5959 2y ago
Why is it always the U.S.’s responsibility for this kind of stuff? I’m supportive of an independent Taiwan, but it’d be great if Europe and other parts of the world that benefit from their independence could step up and help out.
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by throwaway5959 2y ago
A waste of talent not of cash.
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by throwaway5959 2y ago
All SWEs at Google are well compensated. Not all of them would be a good fit for maintaining Python.
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by throwaway5959 2y ago
Yes, fire them and hire better help, even if it costs more. Giving people a raise doesn’t automatically make them better.
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by throwaway5959 2y ago
You have that backwards. Better performance/value => higher pay. Why should we pay people more if they suck at their job? They should be fired.
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by throwaway5959 2y ago
Because outside of deploying your app as a web application there aren’t a lot of other ways to get your app onto Android devices aside from… developing Android apps.
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by throwaway5959 2y ago
Just wait until you see how many people don’t read another book for the rest of their lives after high school/college.
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by throwaway5959 2y ago
TurboTax. It’s really that simple. They pay a very small amount in bribes (er lobbying), and they ruin what could be a very good thing for millions of Americans.
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by throwaway5959 2y ago
They were maintaining Python itself, likely very well (as one would expect) compensated. It’d be a waste to have these devs do product development.
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by throwaway5959 2y ago
Sundar take a pay cut yet?
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by throwaway5959 2y ago
They built a prototype (probably in Rails, lol). Thousands of people built Twitter, including many who have never written a line of code in their lives.
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by throwaway5959 2y ago
People have to stop building on Google software/apis. You’re just doing it to yourself at this point if you have any other alternative (obviously Android isn’t included in this).

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