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Analogous statement: Evian use 1.25 million litres of water per employee per year. When can we expect other non-bottled-water corporations to rise to this level of water usage?

There is a real problem here to be solved. Whenever I speak to someone who's planning to vote Reform (UK hard-right party) their views are primarily shaped by seeing AI slop videos…

$1 removing the slash, $11,999 knowing where to remove the slash from

We're a smallish startup currently paying $150k+ a year for Salesforce Marketing Cloud (SFMC) to send email marketing and trigger email. The cost of this pains me, and it doesn't h…

Substack?

If your competitor is dumping (selling for an unsustainably low price) then competing your way to bankruptcy is not the right option

What's the author trying to say here? It's good that the law isn't the only line between good and evil. A bit of stigma is a bottom-up way for people to shape society. If nobody in…

Payment links still seem to be working. Just the dashboard?

Crypto isn't bad because it failed to make early adopters rich — it did make them rich. It's bad because it has horrible externalities in scams, war crimes / sanctions evasion, org…

I'm upvoting because it's useful to see and debate this viewpoint — shared by many engineers I know I do think it's a bad take though. Not all new trends are the same: the metavers…

What a lovely article. There's a strong correlation between the energy you put out into the world and what you get back. I often think that as I end up confirming a grumpy/aggressi…

Interesting to see more of this thinking on Hacker News Perhaps one of the secondary effects of AI replacing developers will be mobilising a group of smart, motivated people to the…

A platform where bots-pretend-to-be-humans and another where humans-pretend-to-be-bots. A match made in heaven!

Is this correct — HGVs can go faster on dual carriageways than motorways? "UK speed limits for heavy vehicles are also more complex than most car drivers realise. Articulated truck…

The idea is to discover new things you didn’t know you wanted to know - not consume more of the same

I've used Hacker News, lobste.rs and similar to stay up to date with tech developments for years There's less interest here in developments in AI tooling and practical application …

The 'Aerospace Corporation' job ad! "These are excellent opportunities for men ... An equal opportunity employer"

For fully remote workers, that few minutes chat before the meeting starts is one of the few opportunities for unstructured chat with their colleagues

In my own reasonableness spot check, what measures as 37dB on my phone is showing as 49dB on my laptop

Congratulations on building a nice-looking app that addresses a legitimate need. I'd like to see some proof that this is able to accurately measure noise level across a range of de…

One thing we know is that few of the people debating this have actually read Plato's Symposium A thing you can right now do is read it (1-2 hours): https://www.gutenberg.org/files/…

Yes, it's potentially a case of a country taken in by their own propaganda We do a lot of important and meaningful work around the world to support democracy, peace and stability. …

The real motivation isn't geopolitical, but signalling to domestic voters that Trump is truly 'America first' and will sabotage any other country if it gets American voters an extr…