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In my experience at Maxis (2021-2024), EA 202X was quite a nice place to work

They might be willing to offer 1.4x. If you tell them you want at least 1.2x, they're probably not doing 1.4x. If you ask them what the range is and they tell you a range, you can …

The last AMD chipset that supported Intel CPUs[1] was around the time of this fine. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_690_chipset_series

To me it feels like the original fine may have influenced by that. It would have discouraged Intel from offering these rebates to OEMs, giving AMD a chance to slowly get back into …

There were many people over many studies that were responsible for mRNA vaccines and you don't hear them agreeing. Robert Malone had a small contribution early on. He's probably st…

We still need there to be suitable alternatives, so there needs to be some regulation at least, to encourage competition and/or to prevent companies from reaching a point where the…

There's three independent issues here affecting users and developers: 1. People are tracked in ways they don't understand without their knowledge or consent. 2. Apple requires that…

> non-productive for society Why? I feel like a lot of people want to do things that are productive for society, that we have too little of right now. Things like producing art of …

Are you suggesting that it's not possible to revise and enforce tax laws? I can see the argument that, if a country attempts to close the gap with taxes, they will just lose a grea…

This is a problem because companies can use this ID to correlate private user data, without anyone's knowledge or consent. There are companies that specialise in sharing user infor…

I feel like I'm not understanding your comment. Is it that you don't want IRS employees sitting around doing nothing? Because if this resulted in losing $34B in revenue, it doesn't…

My gut instinct is that the mob might be a (potentially significant) factor here. I could be wrong, but this is their bread an butter after all: bribe politician to get large-scale…

All this talk of regulating Google, Facebook, Twitter. What about Visa and Mastercard? How is acceptable for so much power to rest in the hands of such a small number of companies?…

Changing the UX for URLs in a browser that has overwhelming market share is going to change how people think about and assess the identity of websites they visit. Over time, it cou…

Semi-unrelated but, plenty of corporations see these fallacies as the best (and sometimes only) tools. In large markets money, political connections, and entrenched position are ki…

Because HN readers aren't idiots. We know that it is good and right for sales tax to be charged on sales. And, that the sale occurring on the internet does not make it an essential…