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All power to that engineer. From an HR standpoint, Google might be right, in the same way that VW would have been right to fire an employee who disrupted meetings when they built c…

Good for him. The reality of the genocide is getting harder and harder to keep out of our ostensibly "politics-free" tech bubble.

Trees themselves are useful because they support biodiversity such as small mammals, insects, all the useful things along a forest floor. can't do that with asphalt.

Removing parking lots will increase public support for all of the other things you mentioned. It's easier to start with tearing out parking lots and if necessary, cap parking price…

Good point. I would imagine/hope there's some kind of compressed air device that would inflate upon impact with water.

What a joke. May as well add "Only if the traders promise not to do it again" to the headline. > Starting tomorrow, we plan to allow limited buys of these securities,” Robinhood, a…

Right right, I mean the face-value marketing "major principle", the one I was foolish enough to trust for a while.

Sure with broad strokes, it generally sucks when a tech company makes unilateral decisions for its customers, whether that's restricting which stocks you can buy or whether you can…

What a betrayal of their customers. Really going mask-off with what it means for a startup to "democratize" an industry: allowing the little guy to chip in, but never actually comp…

I'm quite excited about this. I think it will lead to a reduction in "brain drain" here in the American South. Always bummed me out that the top college graduates tend to end up mo…

I'm pleasantly surprised that California's firearm law is so strong, that issuing a few concealed carry permits would be even on the radar of the executive team. Contrast that to t…

Oh that's pretty sweet!

I wish I knew which life milestones were important and which ones I don't have to worry about. Or at least a more structured guide to life from someone I admire or trust. I'm a sin…

What is it about the M1 MacBook that would allow this functionality that a regular bluetooth-enabled computer couldn't?

Ha, the other day I was looking into how to report the page, and decided it wasn't worth the effort and probably would never be seen by a human. The power of HN!

Exactly. And going by vaccine timelines, we're still at the very beginning, so I don't blame people for being hesitant to get injected with it.

I know you're being facetious but unironically yes.

Uhh, points at 2020 The CDC advising people to not buy masks in February because "they don't work" comes to mind. The US Gov in general completely letting businesses and individual…

Check out the third image. Clearly calls them Airpod Pro.

The tolerance of counterfeits is really such a bummer. And it's not just Wish. Amazon has their fair share of counterfeits as well. These "Airpods"[0] are cheap knockoffs, but the …

There's a contradiction in your second sentence, I'm not sure what your meaning is. >women have always been in the majority, along the lines of 8-10 men for every two women.

"Fashionable"? Being so dismissive of the push for racial equality is deeply arrogant and small minded.

I don't think that works in practice. If you donate money with the goal of advancing some agenda, and it's officially anonymous, you'll find a way of letting the right people know …

Ha, that's actually no longer the case. Stores like Best Buy do track foot traffic and it's accounted for in KPIs. My manager would have us enter and leave around the security sens…

Those people followed you around because it led to higher sales overall. Or at least that's the idea. Pushy salesmen tend to move more product than laid back cashiers, even if the …