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Vacuumed my secure lockup about once a month. At one point someone just brought in a vacuum so we didn't have to keep bothering to walk down the hall and borrow one from cleaning f…

Everything is a parents issue. If you are depending on the police to keep your kid from doing drugs, you have failed as a parent. I promise you, your kid can locate drugs better th…

It mostly just seems like the EU is becoming China. Soon they will have to firewall off most of the internet. After that comes VPNs. At least the EU is unlikely to agree on voting …

That's a parent issue, the same as if their kid has a secret stash of cocaine or enjoys dancing in traffic. No technical measure can fix stupid.

Software engineers. None of us work for YC, we are based in Texas. No oil/gas, nor defense, nothing like that. Years ago I had a recruiter that wanted to hawk me and I asked for 18…

None of my peers went to any school of note, nor did I. A fair bit of community college, some lower ranked state unis, and one guy did a bootcamp. All well above 200k.

My strong photographer opinion is that you should buy the oldest action camera that meets any resolution/framerate needs and treat it almost like a disposable. Buy on sales or used…

Similar arguments have been made about Git UIs and automated tools, and of course most people who depend on such things also depend on others to bail them out in difficult situatio…

> without corporations hiring people to undermine wages there would be pressure to pay higher wages for low skill low education workers Supply and demand. If you increase labor sup…

Aside from less than a quarter point (0.24) from Covid, wages have in fact risen with inflation and that small difference is also likely to disppear soon. https://usafacts.org/answ…

"If I see you on social media, I'm grounding you for two weeks with no phone." You can't fix a behavior issue with tech, just like you can't fix your computer by being good.

I'm a parent of two, one of whom is a baby. I rock a Sony zv-e10ii. Image quality is real. That glasses camera is teeny tiny. At the most basic layer, it's going to look like a bad…

Buy a proper camera. Your memories will be a lot higher quality and you'll go from creepy guy uploading toddler footage for Zuck to watch to someone who loves their kid enough to r…

Just drop the gl. Seems to get the point across.

Microsoft chose to run a shoddy bounty program. The researcher tried to do the right thing. Microsoft could have prevented this. They were warned. It's their own fault. The exploit…

So which is it? Do people need structure to occupy their time or will they provide it themselves? Does school not count as "generous allowances to experiment"? Why not? Under your …

Language is consumed by people, not machines. You don't have to speak like a lawyer. There is no intersex person waiting to jump out and yell accusatory things at you because you d…

Venezuela has bulk freed their political prisoners and is on track to hold elections. And I think you will find Ukraine lacks the necessary satellite constellations to enable very …

Out of $188B of authorized aid for Ukraine, $109B has been disbursed incl 2025/2026 deliveries, with an additional $72B continuing to be disbursed per original timeline. https://ww…

Then taking down the Maduro regime and the Iranians who are both Russian allies, arming Ukraine, and enabling out-of-theater sinking of Russian ships?

That tweet is from yesterday. Iran tweets about taking down an American jet basically daily. By their count we are down 40 f-35s, 4 aircraft carriers and thousands of MQ-9s.

Steam doesn't prevent me from running other games on my pc.

Your experience is the opposite of mine. I can't wait to play with my 3 year old and 1 year old. I get so mad at work when I have an odd late meeting because it is keeping me from …

4Chan has blocked the entire UK IP range. They do not host any infrastructure there. They are bound by UK law exactly as much as they are bound by Venutian or Mars law.

4chan's lawyer, who has been engaging with this well since the beginning, has clearly advised his clients, who have no intent of ever going to the UK, to not go there. In addition,…