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by throwaway5959 2y ago
I never said I would work for a place like that again. Just trying to explain why he may feel frustrated.
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by throwaway5959 2y ago
The average American has never been materially wealthier. Even the poorest Americans that are housed have a fridge, a TV, a cell phone, many have a car (or two) and a majority of Americans own their own home/condo.
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by throwaway5959 2y ago
That’s just conspiracy nonsense, why would they bother with EVs and not just ban gas cars altogether then?
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by throwaway5959 2y ago
On a long enough time horizon those that won’t drive electric won’t be driving. It’ll just cost us all a ton more the longer we wait to transition.
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by throwaway5959 2y ago
This seems like a problem with a lot of places now, not just rental cars. Employees just don’t give a shit anymore, if anything they hate their jobs and customers.
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by throwaway5959 2y ago
Work for a terrible engineering organization (public, private, doesn’t matter) and you’ll understand. Especially where technical leadership can’t rely on engineers to do anything but code with very strict guardrails.
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by throwaway5959 2y ago
Pray tell, what do you think communism is?
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by throwaway5959 2y ago
Maybe it’s because you need to take a breath while typing.
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by throwaway5959 2y ago
Our previous car was totaled in an accident and it was a choice between an ICE vehicle or an EV. Chill out.
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by throwaway5959 2y ago
None of this stuff is going to work. Why do you think no one is curtailing their behavior in a meaningful way? Even EVs (I drive one) are becoming a joke here in the US. Asking the most basic of sacrifices seems to be beyond the pale, so do
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by throwaway5959 2y ago
Can it not be plugged in and operated with a very long cable? That’s what I do with my Quest 3.
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by throwaway5959 2y ago
No I wouldn’t because I’m good at what I do (at least reasonably so) and I have an emergency fund. There is no safety net in the US for those between 18-65 for the most part.
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by throwaway5959 2y ago
I’ll never understand why developers there make less than the US. It’s not like they aren’t providing similar scale/leverage to a business.
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by throwaway5959 2y ago
Why does this guy keep getting so much attention on Hacker News? Isn’t this the same guy that tried to shame MKBHD (an actual small business owner/founder)? He’s clearly just engagement farming, probably for his “course”.
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by throwaway5959 2y ago
Stick a fork in it. It’s done.
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by throwaway5959 2y ago
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai received $226 million in total compensation in 2022. That’s enough to give over 22 thousand 40 hour a week employees a $5/hour wage increase. Instead they’re lowering pay via eliminating a minimum wage. Like
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by throwaway5959 2y ago
The charging network being open to everyone will mitigate a massive advantage they had in terms of selling cars.
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by throwaway5959 2y ago
Munro is transparently biased at this point.
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by throwaway5959 2y ago
Don’t even know how to respond to this because no facts were presented.
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by throwaway5959 2y ago
Tesla is no longer a leader in innovation, their vehicles couldn’t even do V2L/V2G until the CyberTruck.
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by throwaway5959 2y ago
There’s no guarantee that giving him $50 billion won’t still end up in him losing interest anyhow. This approach seems like giving a hostage taker a ransom.
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by throwaway5959 2y ago
How on Earth can the board justify that level of compensation now? They just laid off >10% of their staff.
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by throwaway5959 2y ago
Are they under any obligation to?
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by throwaway5959 2y ago
Sorry.
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by throwaway5959 2y ago
Thing is, we should defend MKBHD. He didn’t do anything wrong. He did his job.
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by throwaway5959 2y ago
What advanced nation isn’t suffering from most of those?
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by throwaway5959 2y ago
So you didn’t purchase ticket insurance, you got the tickets you paid for (which they can allow you to sell, at their discretion) and you filed a chargeback… why is that Ticketmaster’s problem? Like it sucks, to be sure, and Ticketmaster is
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by throwaway5959 2y ago
It’s the mentality. Many of the people that don’t tip aren’t really doing it because they disagree with tipping, they’re doing it because they cheap.
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by throwaway5959 2y ago
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6306276?hl=en#:~:t... . “Revenue from YouTube Premium membership fees is distributed to video creators based on how much members watch your content. As with our advertising
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by throwaway5959 2y ago
Why are people unwilling to pay creators (in attention or dollars) for making the content they watch? It’s the same with piracy. It was one thing when the content was simply unavailable, now most content is available via a streaming service

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