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You seem concerned with a “moral failures” aspect of debt, which doesn’t make for an interesting discussion. If you’re not interested in the complex system of algorithmic finance a…

> And you can opt out. Don’t use credit at all. Nope. Whether you use credit or not, the credit bureaus collect information about you and share that with all manner of other compan…

Yep. It’s all a secret. You are measured by an invisible system that you can’t opt-out of, can’t question… oh and just in case you thought you could learn from experience, here com…

A reasonable take if you ignore how this system reinforces existing inequality + the ways this system is used outside its original scope. Also you have to admit it’s kind of fucked…

This is absolutely sensible and also impossible for the patchwork of systems that an individual has to navigate. These systems would have to talk to eachother, and they don’t. That…

Yeah. I’m a bit confused on how an article on layoffs misses the massive increase in cost of capital. The entire market has changed.

The existence of parents addicted to heroin doesn’t make having another kid to get a lighter sentence any less fucked up, rich or poor

You really should read Bad Blood. Theranos misdiagnosed cancer patients.

A woman, all women, absolutely ought to have the right to choose when and if they become pregnant. Even women who are charged with crimes. But if you’re her child 12 or so years fr…

As the article notes, US and Mex have bilateral extradition so it’s doubtful she intended to stay there to escape prison. She was likely going on to another country after that.

Who built the API and who pays to maintain it? These are not public goods in the traditional sense. The incentives must align or else the benefit is only maintained through benign …

It was always odd to me that entire businesses relied on what was essentially the goodwill of a corporation. I think the same about things like microG in the Android world. They ju…

> It is not very healthy for the baby in the womb. Sucks to be a parasite I guess

That you don’t think the possibility of governments prosecuting vulnerable women seeking health care in the US using surveillance capitalist tools is a story says more about you th…

I hope they work for you. They did not for me, unfortunately. The text was too fuzzy to not give me a headache and something about it gave me motion sickness.

Agreed. The “risk” here is that you won’t get to stay with the same company your whole life and collect a pension. The “risk” is also that you’ll need to retrain yourself to match …

Not used to seeing it but surely even the youngest in our cohort are aware that we’ve been here twice before. Tech is a big risk, big reward business. Charge ye Teslas while ye may…

If your friend told you they lost $10,000 in the stock market today, would you feel bad for them? What if they then told you that they're up $500,000 over the past year? How about …

These layoff articles are incomplete without mentioning how many they hired and when. This brings Microsoft back to their staffing levels of when exactly? March 2021?

Edit: the-ebook-reader.com is a much better source for information about about this change. https://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2023/01/13/amazon-has-disa... Is there a source for th…

> Amazon doesn't allow "personal documents" sent via email to have covers This doesn’t appear to be true. I have several non Amazon epubs that I sent using the web interface, all w…

>You still can't load or read epubs directly on Kindles To the average reader, does this have an negative impact?

Onyx violates GPL2 by refusing to release source code. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23735962

It’s already getting that way with things like grammarly. It makes me sad. I know my colleagues who speak English as an additional language use it and find it helpful, but I much p…