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What matters isn't the specific brand or even what they're selling, it's that it's The Cool New Thing. The tech bro demo in SF loves high tech electrical stuff, and Lucid, Rivian, …

Esp for a "property-and-casualty insurance agent" role, which presumably is high volume, high stress, and is about screwing people out of insurance payments.

Most of the OKCupid data is out there on archive.org or similar sites. It's out there if you're willing to do a little searching. Match tried to squash it cuz it's unflattering and…

They're not going to be able to guess that, or be especially concerned with the range -- if bullets are coming by they're getting down or hauling ass. You aim for the center of mas…

> no one is coming to save you Thought that was about working extra hard to make money and CYA, but really it's about finding your own happiness, regardless of what it may be in a …

aka "the online marketing bots are only picked up by the algorithm so often"

> At this point I don't believe it is present. Why rob banks for $10k when you can whip up fervor on social media for millions? Criminal activity is there, basically, cuz people wa…

> Unless the hacker ethos has died, and we're back to the 1980 where middle managers in business suits are the cool guys. Those hackers got cool and became the guys in the suits. D…

See also: The Russian Firehose Model of Propaganda https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE198.html

is that the extend or extinguish part?

Arguably, that's Zelensky's main strength: he's a comedian and did tours; he's a showman, a diplomat, a talker. His primary role viz-a-viz the war is going around talking, doing me…

> Eh, this is good for crypto. Only if you stockpile lots of GPUs and generators

I'll join the group of folks saying "same". 60 minutes at the gym, doing some light running, 3-5km, plus some weights isn't crazy. More about change of scenery, getting out, and te…

An awful lot of oligarchs and other powerplayers, including a few who were affiliated with the Siloviki, have "committed suicide" or "had heart attacks" in recent months. Honestly …

Cuz that worked so well in Kharkiv, right? By that logic Russia should be taking back that area any day now...

11000 people lose their jobs -- "let's make more shows about it!" to quote an old guy: "first as tragedy, then as farce"

> because in truth those worker endured much more violent management, there is little space to spin it in a funny way. what? no one got beat over flair, and having worked in a lot …

I'm sure General Mattis and Kissinger being involved didn't hurt either.

His publicist will care, and they probably charge him way, way more per month than $20. SK will hem and haw but 6 months from now his team will quietly reinstate the account.

for the ships I'd imagine it's for obfuscating how much they're dumping for environmental regulation reasons. they leak shit and oil everywhere they go, basically. probably true fo…

Treaties require that no waste can be dumped there by anyone.

My thought was more like gmail getting hit by (likely) the Chinese in an attempt to get David Petraeus' email accounts, esp. the emails where he was sharing things he shouldn't w/ …

> Is there a website or service that lists cost ranges for enterprise SaaS products? Probably not. Have had good success in the past posting random stuff on reddit, like "I'm payin…

Still a lot of Musk fanboys. And it's still a large, complex, big-name Tech company; experience with working on problems at that scale could open doors later, regardless of who is …