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Comment #38969756
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Comment #38960678
Yeah, they play this game enough that I simply question fucking everything. They will explain every single line item in a way that I can map back to a timeline, or they will take i…
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Comment #38953727
Worse that old network gear is technically incompetent business partners. Speaking in very general terms, let's just say that we've had to maintain an extremely locked down machine…
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Comment #38934766
> The loss of ad revenue isn’t a consequence of downtime or losing staff Firing the Trust and Safety team had a huge impact on advertising - that's why big brands find Xitter so to…
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Comment #38934410
There's a reason for that. If civilian PTSD were more widely acknowledged, insurance would be paying out more and people would want employers to do something about high-stress jobs…
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Comment #38933906
Necessary but not sufficient. Also, don't confuse empathy and sympathy - you need to extinguish the latter, but the former is incredibly important to your ability to play suckers.
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Comment #38933854
Funny, I read this just recently. https://adrianco.medium.com/signs-that-its-time-to-leave-a-c...
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Comment #38930659
That was his excuse for eviscerating (not paying for) T&S. Since that decision cannot have been wrong, community notes must be working as intended.
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Comment #38929830
> their histrionics won’t change Boeing’s incumbency You seem to entirely miss the possibility that this has nothing to do with "punishing" anyone, and that people simply don't wan…
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Comment #38927385
> the killer Kagi feature is being able to uprank/downrank/pin/block domains Yes! This alone is worth the subscription to me. And I despise and avoid software subscriptions, Kagi i…
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Comment #38920728
To save time: https://www.theonion.com/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-bla...
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Comment #38919557
I don't know that they could. We're talking about Boeing, they're the sort of MBA hive that's embarrassed to have to employ engineers.
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Comment #38881442
Do we know it doesn't cheat? We know the range estimates used to (?) be gamed[1], I don't see why this part wouldn't be, too. [1] https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-repor…
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Comment #38880032
Other folks have mentioned several other reasons, I'll just mention screen tech. My first monitor (bought in '93) was a 640x480 pixel 13" CRT screen. (And that was expensive - the …
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Comment #38856877
If we're going to blame the victims, at least do it right - the mistake was submitting sensitive information to a gross, sketchy outfit like 23andMe. Much like Uber, self-enshitifi…
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Comment #38815647
The examples were chosen by the author to make a point precisely because they are well known. But every single copyright holder with their works online (which includes you and me) …
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Comment #38815538
I can't tell if this is typical hn pedantry or genuine misunderstanding, so I'll point out that I was not referring to "some entity named Simone", I was referring to the particular…
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Comment #38806261
When does Simone become something else?
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Comment #38805820
Yep, me too. I worked at Sybase at the time, and installed it to use a beta PowerBuilder to (try to) build some internal tools. Granted, I in my early 20s and far less experienced …
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Comment #38804521
...you just found one and talked to him.