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Many of the most prominent American tech leaders these days are of Indian origin. The social stigma to tech is not present in Indian culture, which stems from India having been und…

Cough up the dough, or away your files will go.

They hardly pay taxes in the U.S. so they deserve no protection. In fact, I'd encourage Iran to attack them. You didn't pay? You're delinquent? No I will not protect you, ya gotta …

Gambling = investing. Buying stocks is also gambling. Share buybacks, dividends, fancy words for forking money from workers to some joe schmoe that bought a lottery ticket, i.e., a…

It destroyed Bell Labs https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/realestate/severance-lumo...

But DEI is what made JD Vance who he is today. To quote an article: "The truth is, if it was not for the Yellow Ribbon Program I would not be going to law school." https://www.poli…

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hG4LH6P8Syk at 21:10

Agile had the scrummaster role. The authors of the Agile manifesto said that this role was supposed to rotate in the group of coders and eventually be phased out once the group got…

>We don't accept that kind of risk anymore in the US 3 years of coronavirus in the US seems to disagree with this statement

Seems like BITCOIN has crashed to very low values recently as well: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/harrypotterobamasonic10...

A super-inefficient personalized poison.

Seems like you have a very firm grasp of what can and cannot be done with a person's DNA.

The artist always has the option to put the entire album into 1 track.

You missspelled Baidu and CCP there.

>Even when we get brain computer interfaces, I don't want to live in the embodied internet, because tactile sensation is a huge part of how we experience the world, and clicking a …

Considering that Italy will be hit hard by climate change, I find this a weird opinion to hold for an Italian. Last thing I heard there's no garbage pickup in the capital city in R…

These "anecdotes" make my blood boil.

Time to wake up, ban cryptocurrencies so this never happens again, then go back to sleep!

Time to wake up, ban cryptocurrencies so this never happens again, then go back to sleep!

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/microsoft-digitally-...

Now we're talking.

Time to wake up, ban cryptocurrencies so this never happens again, then go back to sleep!

Time to ban cryptocurrencies so this never happens again!

The argument is let's ban cryptocurrency that'll stop ransomware, which doesn't hold true. All you need is a fake identity or corrupt banking system to siphon off the funds you sto…