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You think the company buying up all the books, cutting off the bindings, and feeding them through a scanner isn't also distilling other models?

The author couldn't even get through the first two sentences without being wrong. Credit card rewards are not funded by interest and this idea that credit card companies don't want…

It's not executing untrusted code, it's calling git when you have a malicious version of git on your system

git clone a repo, cd into the directory, git checkout ..., and you're compromised

In this case, if you just run a git command yourself it executes the file as well.

You can leave out cursor and it would do the same thing.

Tech companies use RSUs to game the accounting system and then have to do stock buybacks to keep the outstanding shares in line.

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What analysis has shown that people are not doing this? All I have seen is that there aren't a significant number of convictions, but that doesn't really hold wait if you aren't ac…

That was a day or two ago.

He canceled elections and is serving past his term. He clearly doesn't have to answer to the people of Ukraine anymore.

If Putin is removed from power, it won't be with somebody more friendly to the west.

The crazy thing is, it's not that long ago that Irish and Italian immigrants were not discriminated against. They didn't even consider Italian immigrants to be white.

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Ballmer, the person who pushed for and created the entire Microsoft Enterprise focus, is not an idea guy that understood what made Microsoft successful? This idea that Ballmer was …

I think it was actually a good idea. I think they correctly predicted the Android market and saw Windows Phone was a good way to differentiate their phones from everybody else. If …

They decided they want to actually get paid for their work and changed their pricing structure so large companies need to pay for their software and apparently that's terrible and …

I would love it if I could have different natural scrolling settings for mouse and trackpad, but that's apparently too much to ask for despite it being supported by every other os.…

So far, everything should have just been a blog post

How would that change after this merger?

We wouldn't because the issue always was iphone users never willing to use an app outside of imessage. What good is a messaging platform if more than 1/2 your network won't use it?…

Because it would be leaked anyways

User agent strings are all fake and should just be removed. Browsers modify them to game what servers send them, Microsoft had a great blog post about it when they released edge sh…

They have an electrified version of pretty much every car they sell.

Except we do know why because they have written blog posts about it. They would rather make 100 hybrids than 10 BEV's. They think it's better environmentally and they haven't said …