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MakeThemMoney··on Ask HN: Has HN become too skewed towards AI/LLM?
A four day work week requires a 25% productivity increase to result in zero productivity loss.

100 * 1,20 * 0,8 = 96

100 * 1,25 * 0,8 = 100

MakeThemMoney··on Kobold letters: HTML emails are a risk
Thank you!

- Browser 0-day vendor

MakeThemMoney··on Ask HN: How much does an MBA help in building a business
The MBA is not for building a business, it's for having the credentials to get a comfy management job at an established corporation.
MakeThemMoney··on Ask HN: Going from CTO to Developer?
Because titles are important to some, and can be used as an incentive to lure people in.
MakeThemMoney··on SAS Grounds 18 Airbus A320neo because a component needs inspection
And someone else did a good job not sweeping it under the rug
MakeThemMoney··on SD Express cards from Samsung promise faster-than-SATA speeds for microSD
Either it works and you have them in a nice convenient place, or it doesn't and you don't have to worry about it anymore. It's a win win.
MakeThemMoney··on Ask HN: Why is the crypto booming again?
> El Salvador’s Bitcoin Stack Now in Profit by Over $50M

That's less than 8 dollars per capita. Hardly enough to solve a financial crisis.

MakeThemMoney··on Ask HN: Why is the crypto booming again?
> I keep seeing news about El Salvador getting out of a national financial crisis with bitcoin

First time I see this. Could you share some links?

MakeThemMoney··on Why do east Asian firms value drinking?
By that logic, the ones who don't drink should be handed the most secretive, important projects.
MakeThemMoney··on The Fed is behind the Capital One/Discover merger
As they should. They credit card cartel should have never been allowed to make users of other, cheaper payment methods subsidize their benefits.
MakeThemMoney··on Google cut a deal with Reddit for AI training data
Or course! Same way we get paid by for the ideas we discuss here
MakeThemMoney··on Tell HN: GitHub is blocking search unless you are logged in
I just create a new account every time I want to search for something
MakeThemMoney··on Booking.com hackers increase attacks on customers
How do Uber drivers know who to pick up?
MakeThemMoney··on Ask HN: Your [paid]Subscriptions
I pay for Netflix, a local gym, a maintenance contract for my boiler and a membership in my local public library
MakeThemMoney··on Ask HN: What subscriptions do you pay for?
Netflix €16/m (Until they stop tolerating my password sharing)

Gym €38/m

Boiler maintenance €13/m

Public library €5/m (Just to support them)

MakeThemMoney··on Unity Software with a 'company reset' walks away from film VFX and the Wētā Deal
Is it really in favour of nepotism? I see nepotism in this case as incidental. They could have restructured the company for the lulz, and still get the same result.
MakeThemMoney··on Hackers spent 2 years looting secrets of chipmaker NXP before being detected
Compliant with what?
MakeThemMoney··on Tell HN: Your account can be deleted anytime, for any reason
Is an account "content" for Apple?
MakeThemMoney··on Seven signs of ethical collapse (2012)
Mine does
MakeThemMoney··on Tell HN: Google Voice numbers expire if only used to receive messages (e.g. 2FA)
They should charge a subscription fee--like Skype--for those numbers
MakeThemMoney··on If you buy a Cybertruck, Tesla says you can't sell it for a year
Think of the children! I mean, the buyers!
MakeThemMoney··on Micron Introduces 128 GB DDR5-8000 RDIMMs with Monolithic 32 GB Die
> Heard

Don't they sound the same?

MakeThemMoney··on Booking.com makes a fortune – so why is it leaving its bills to hotels unpaid?
> Criticism of Perl may even result in dismissal, according to an anonymous source

That statement is absurd. You can't dismiss an employee in the Netherlands for such a stupid reason. I used to work in their HQ as a developer, and complaining about Perl was always water cooler talk.

MakeThemMoney··on Booking.com makes a fortune – so why is it leaving its bills to hotels unpaid?
The hotels are responsible
MakeThemMoney··on Booking.com makes a fortune – so why is it leaving its bills to hotels unpaid?
Why not both? Fine the company (i.e. investors), jail the executives.
MakeThemMoney··on Booking.com makes a fortune – so why is it leaving its bills to hotels unpaid?
A multi-billion dollar corporation is withholding payments from smaller businesses. Is that not enough reason to publish such an article?