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The CEO then went on to explain, “We raised base salaries in Japan by 10 percent in April 2023,” adding, “Since then, we have continued to review our compensation system to ensure …

Debit cards have to pay too many people. The acquiring bank, the receiving bank, the network, all take their fees. Stripe and their minimum $.30 per transactions leave no room for …

I am a donor and the EFF post feels performative and political. They still post to Flickr!

Maybe most people here are social platform agnostic and thus EFF's limply constructed reasoning does not make make much sense for a brand trying to maximise their audience. Unless …

>The math hasn’t worked out for a while now. Have the costs to post to X grown too high? The salary of someone with the technical know-how to work the social media platform is too …

Satoshi Nakamoto was likely created in response to the December 2005 raid of e-Gold in Florida by U.S. Secret Service/FBI, and other similar incidents. e-Gold was the largest Digit…

Biggest take away - 90 million acres in the US go to corn/ethanol production. 31 acres of corn for ethanol to match the energy production of just 1 acre of solar panels. Revenue co…

We are living thru the 'doctors prescribing cigarettes' era of lucrative fear-mongering.

Youtube has this model with Preimum. If Chrome rolled out Chrome Premium, (and copied the Brave BAT model of paying sites you give attention to), I'd be happy to pay.

You'd love Brave browser then.

electrek.co recent Tesla headline summary with sentiment: (negative) Tesla to stop selling Full Self-Driving package, moves to subscription-only (negative) Elon Musk says Tesla 'al…

So Seth Weintraub sold $TSLA at $35 a share in Jan 2020. Today $467. Then Seth missed out on gains of 1,200%. And Fred selling in Sep, 2024 missed out on 100% gains.

Firstly, I’m not a developer — but I am a very technical, over-50, product person and entrepreneur. This project started shortly after Claude Code launched. I had already worked on…

Scan their other posts - you might notice some bait. https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=autoblog.com

Consumer reports put VW 18th out of 22 in reliability, yet some how this article states: "Volkswagen emerged as a dominant force in the reliability rankings, with the Golf Sportsva…

While I'm not sure that is true, it's fun to watch the bets that were made, unfold. And who's going to take spot #3?

If it comes to pass that traffic jams are in large part due to poor human choices, that will bode poorly for the general populace to continue to be allowed to drive. Flying used to…

Maybe we are meant to vote on it. I vote $299.

Maybe it had the "I bought this long after I knew Hitler was a fascist" bumper sticker?

I was doing the math on leasing an EV and really seems to work. With the EV deprecation, you are actually coming out ahead of buying in many cases. A friend did this with a Kia a f…

Picked up a 10 year old Fiat 500e with 50k miles for $5k as my daughters first car. She and my wife love it. Way more power than the gas model, and a super fun drive. Thank you "Pl…

Why would the mobile provider want to catch it? If these guys are paying MobileX for 256 sims per bank * 64 sim banks = 16,384 sims and say $20 per plan = $327,680 per month of com…

The Secret Service is being overly alarmist, but to a hammer, everything looks like a nail. “We need to do forensics on 100,000 cell phones, essentially all the phone calls, all th…

When taking a break from tending my agents, I like to eat lunch, some exercise or check on other work and emails.

Somewhat tangential - devious unsolvable captchas use to infuriate phone scammers. https://youtu.be/TOzEnwl7LkA?si=ZG5DJXAjUDCNaAuL