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Stupid expensive for what really?

CedarHillon Four-day week trial: study finds lower stress but no cut in output

Treehouse used to do 4/10s and from what I remember listening to Ryan Carson's podcast with Jason Calacanis, it didn't work out for them. So I don't think this should apply to every workplace. For more mature companies, it makes sense. For startups, I don't think so.

CedarHillon Apple Rumors Point to 31.6-inch 6K Display, All-New 16-inch MacBook Pro for 2019

To be fair, I have both 2018 MBP 15 (work) and 2015 MBP (home), I notice the weight of the 2015 a lot. Performance has been relatively the same - hasn't been mind blowing if I'm honest.

I really do hate the new keyboard to the point where I simply don't do any dev work until I plug in my dongle with my screen/keyboard. It's really that bad. The touch bar has been useless as well and more of an announce sometimes, especially when it would freeze randomly.

CedarHillon A large majority of health news shared on Facebook is fake or misleading

Is anyone surprised by this?

CedarHillon Elon Musk’s Surprise Pick for Tesla CFO Is a Relative Unknown

Thank you for this!

CedarHillon Companies Manipulate Glassdoor by Inflating Rankings and Pressuring Employees

I experienced this at a small cyber security business. They didn't pressure but they REALLY insisted that we review them on GlassDoor in order to get more people to apply for the jobs. In reality, their problem was they were paying ALL the staff compared to the market average.

CedarHillon DNS Flag Day on February 1, 2019: check your domains

Can some ELI5 on this? Not entirely sure what's actually happening.

CedarHillon DOJ: Hackers broke into an SEC database and made millions from inside info

Seems vaguely similar to another Insider Trading case relating to Slavic-descent and Marketwire: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-06/pastor-co...