venturecruelty

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by venturecruelty 10mo ago
Legislation is how we hold the powerful to account, ideally. It turns out, when people have billions of dollars, sometimes you have to stand up as a society and tell them "no".
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by venturecruelty 10mo ago
No, obviously... What?
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by venturecruelty 10mo ago
How do you square that with "use AI and get this feature done in three days or have your 'performance reviewed' with HR in the room"? Because I'm having trouble bridging that gap. Edit: help, the new org said the sa
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by venturecruelty 10mo ago
Lmao no, my job is to make the line go up and make my boss happy. It was ever thus.
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by venturecruelty 10mo ago
Call it what it actually is: societal abuse from wealthy oligarchs with their masks removed. One man bought up all the RAM on planet Earth, and everyone's like "lol I guess computers are just expensive now".
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by venturecruelty 10mo ago
Not that America's car culture isn't a dangerous problem, but I'm pretty sure highway deaths don't explain this...
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by venturecruelty 10mo ago
You people are exactly what you claim to be fighting against. Grow up. Or, come out and profess your love for the taste of boot leather.
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by venturecruelty 10mo ago
Well, consider how awful it is to be poor in the United States, and it makes sense why people work so hard to avoid it.
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by venturecruelty 10mo ago
>Never expose your server IP directly to the internet, vps or baremetal.
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by venturecruelty 10mo ago
Article's been edited: >Edit: A few people on HN have pointed out that this article sounds a little LLM generated. That’s because it’s largely a transcript of me panicking and talking to Claude. Sorry if it reads poorly, the inciden
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by venturecruelty 10mo ago
Yeah, mom and I sat down one afternoon and we changed all of her passwords to long, secure ones, generated by 1Password. It was a nice time! It also helped her remember all of the different services she needs to access, and now they're
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by venturecruelty 10mo ago
Not for anyone who doesn't have a financial stake in said fraud, no.
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by venturecruelty 10mo ago
I still can't believe that there are so many people out here popping boxen and all they do is solve drug sudokus with the hardware. Hacks are so lame now.
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by venturecruelty 10mo ago
How is that different from any regular election year?
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by venturecruelty 10mo ago
That makes collusion okay. QED.
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by venturecruelty 10mo ago
Thanks, I'll pay my rent with this information when I get laid off.
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by venturecruelty 10mo ago
You can also just pay your workers in scrip and then hire Pinkertons to kill them if they get uppity about it. It's hard not to become cynical when people seem almost willfully ignorant of the despicable history of capital in this coun
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by venturecruelty 10mo ago
>Because if you read the other comments, there are perfectly reasonable explanations that don't involve graft. Jumping to "bribe" every time there's bad behavior is just lazy thinking and means you don't actually
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by venturecruelty 10mo ago
Don't you see, someone just has to say "this is not a bribe", and, like magic, they can finagle their way out of their corruption. "Bribery" has a very narrow definition, which conveniently doesn't apply to the
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by venturecruelty 10mo ago
Block GCP, AWS, Azure, and various datacenter prefixen, and you're pretty much golden. There are scant few legitimate reasons a human being's traffic would originate from those hosts.
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by venturecruelty 10mo ago
Everyone who has prayed for rain: thank you, your services are no longer required.
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by venturecruelty 10mo ago
Weeping and gnashing of teeth because RAM is expensive, and then you learn that people buy 128 GB for their desktops so they can ask a chatbot how to scrape HTML. Amazing.
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by venturecruelty 10mo ago
Please absolutely do not use that ragebaiter to draw conclusions about poor people.
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by venturecruelty 10mo ago
Because their TC is $400,000 and they need it to justify their Bay Area mortgage. Come on, folks, follow the money.
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by venturecruelty 10mo ago
There is if you want to blame the victim and/or work for Apple.
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by venturecruelty 10mo ago
Waiting for all the weeping and gnashing of teeth because holding companies accountable might mean programmers have to actually care.
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by venturecruelty 10mo ago
It's company scrip for Boomers.
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by venturecruelty 10mo ago
We are the petro-state, and they're our aging leaders.
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by venturecruelty 10mo ago
Which is most of us. I'm paid well, and I feel fortunate for the privilege. But even my bills (healthcare, housing, etc.) are bonkers lately, and I live in a sleepy suburb. My health insurance will be much worse next year, and I probab
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"We can't end slavery! The cotton industry would collapse!"

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