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ianmobbs

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    Comment #25514931

    If you could book your doctor’s appointment via Twitter, but couldn’t cancel, I’d sure as hell be angry about it.

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    Comment #25514902

    Any response to the comments pointing out this is illegal in CA? Isn’t the Baremetrics office in SF?

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    Comment #25337944

    Are you really saying that it's harder to be a techie than LGBT in San Francisco?

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    Comment #25296484

    > The complaint also alleges that Facebook sought to channel jobs to temporary visa holders at the expense of U.S. workers by failing to advertise those vacancies on its careers we…

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    Comment #25262504

    This could be huge for the ecosystem. For example, there are ways to use third-party iMessage clients (e.g. through Matrix) that require you to keep a server running on your local …

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    Comment #25191396

    "Employee slacking" is not illegal, but wage theft is.

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    Comment #25143672

    Ah missed that, thanks

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    Comment #25143132

    I've been following Purism for a month or so, and I love the idea of the Librem 5, but is the phone really going to be worth $2,000?

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    Comment #25142751

    I actually noticed this the other day. I set a 10 minute time limit on Instagram, and while I'll get the "5 minutes left" reminder, it won't kick me out of the app the way it does …

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    Comment #25131228

    You get the experience you curate for self. If the people you followed were toxic, it’s not Twitter’s fault you didn’t unfollow them!

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    Comment #25075828

    We had 70 engineers at in a Slack channel work trying to figure out the issue before someone found a Twitter thread about it

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    Comment #25053125

    Did you read the article? The Times now employs more people than it ever has and is doing better financially than ever.

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    Comment #25049221

    If you read the actual lines, he said he's moving away from software and into the arts

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    Comment #25037000

    Contact tracing should not be the the responsibility of the individual, it should be the responsibility of the government (with cooperation of the individual of course). This is ho…

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    Comment #25020648

    Exactly this - but this is why conservatives routinely defund education.

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    Comment #24921178

    An energy investor who doesn't support the GND? What a surprise

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    Comment #24911334

    > Our US compensation will be tied to pay ranges of high-cost areas such as SF and NY, regardless of where employees live This is exactly how it should be, kudos to Reddit. Major t…

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    Comment #24795694

    > Still I wonder if it has failure modes that humans lack Almost certainly :)

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    Comment #24794856

    LIDAR maps out the world around you in three dimensions, so with that data, there's no way it would mistake "a 'Stop' sign hidden within a fast food commercial [...] only flashing …

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    Comment #24792492

    Through legislation. Market forces don’t care about the environment, just profitability. That’s where the government is supposed to come in...

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    Comment #24770381

    Most folks expenses aren't dropping by 20%. I've been remote since March, but my rent/life/expenses (key) hasn't changed. If anything, I'm paying more now for utilities and food si…

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    Comment #24768540

    We'll see! There are so many problems with wireless charging that I don't see it becoming truly mainstream. Not being able to use your phone while charging is the most visible one …

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    Comment #24768448

    MagSafe is really cool, but I'm incredibly disappointed they're sticking with lightning...