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They have given us fuck all for raises during a period of rampant inflation and now they want to take away the one good thing that covid-19 did for workers.

I don't think you understand what a meritocracy is.

> Seems like a nice sign-in option for iPhone owners but it's a portability disaster. So basically it's like everything that Apple makes

It probably doesn't matter too much, but this is a lossy conversion. For example "Fred McIntosh" -> "MCINTOSH Fred". So the capitalization of the "I" is lost.

16 -> 32 GB of ram is a $400 option... ouch

Apple is so in love with walled gardens. I can't imagine them ever making truly open hardware. Perhaps they are uniquely qualified to make something open because of the amount of e…

A $10K lottery is a horrible idea. Most people know that on average you will lose money by buying lottery tickets. What makes it worth playing (for some people) is the (very small)…

It still looks volatile even on a log chart!

1. Use a freezer to make a tray of ice cubes 2. Use a kettle to boil water 3. Pour the boiling water over the ice and enjoy lukewarm water that required an excess of power to creat…

Or maybe just that people are confident that they will find a bigger sucker to sell to.

The content owner could still request your information from the VPN provider and the VPN provider might provide it (even if they say they won't). I think the main benefit is that t…

Queue up the Ryan Reynolds "But Why?" gif for this one I think.

I don't know how GNAA would feel about that...

They don't sell the $6 bread in the grocery store that the maid shops at and they don't sell $12000 couches where she buys her furniture. She lives in a different world, so it's ve…

Cool visualization, but kind of a useless statistic. The question that matters is: How many years will it take me to pay off my mortgage after my expenses (food, transportation, ho…

It's kind of a poorly stated problem. It would be better if they said: 1000 people were asked the question "Is this car blue?" and 900 answered yes, what is the probability that th…

It's an interesting problem because there are so many factors and even the goal isn't constant from day to day. Goals - get from A to B as quickly as possible - get from A to B as …

This reminded me of a chunk from an [interview with Linus Torvalds]( http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/linux-at-25-qa-w... ) Stephen Cass: You’re a much more experienced …

Yes, but a lot of the big tech companies like Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Google and Microsoft want people to work at their head office location rather than opening up satellite offic…

An Apple move would be building a car without windows and telling me that it's progress.

snapchat baffles me. It's just another instant messaging platform except that they came up with the idea of messages that delete themselves after a time period. The problem is that…

Why should rental be more expensive by definition? A fleet of autonomous vehicles can operate 24/7. Your own personal car gets a trip to work and a trip back home every day and may…

your data allotment is ~128 MB?

Developer productivity is not easily quantifiable though...