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_lqaf

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About _lqaf

I think I'm done.

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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.