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_hcuq··on Tesla Pulling Out of Supercharger Leases After Firing Entire Supercharger Team
Yeah, they shouldn't bother. Elon needs no help in destroying his own reputation.
_hcuq··on VMware outsourcing their support
I junked a VMWare based infrastructure upgrade plan last week because of this kind of thing. Life is too short.
_hcuq··on After shooting, MSU promised safety. It delivered surveillance
"You have 20 seconds to comply...."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzlt7IbTp6M

_hcuq··on Is social media behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness?
Don't know about teenagers, but quite a few people close to me, 50 to 60 yrs old have have gone more than a little mad due to social media. Paranoia, conspiracy, and chronic anxiety. They were all quite sane 10 years ago.
_hcuq··on What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane
True. But you can still contrast the Boeing of 40 yrs ago vs today.....
_hcuq··on 20 Years in the Making, GnuCOBOL Is Ready for Industry
COBOL is my next career move. I'm tired of these modern languages.
_hcuq··on SuperMemo does not work for kids
Anybody use SuperMemo for languages?
_hcuq··on Testing how hard it is to cheat with ChatGPT in interviews
Exactly. I would never interview for a job, be humiliated by a moron.

Luckily I have the contacts and experience to never have to.

_hcuq··on Governor of Amazonas wants to charge Amazon royalties for use of the brand
Money is always created out of nothing.
_hcuq··on Polish trains lock up when serviced in third-party workshops
The corruption would be if this is not punished. By for example Newag getting a massive fine.
_hcuq··on U.S. agency declares 21 species now extinct
Nope. Nobody can make that case. So let's just have say 10 species.
_hcuq··on SpaceX Starship Super Heavy Project at the Boca Chica Launch Site
People hate him because he's a d*ck.
_hcuq··on Tell HN: 3G sunsetting is remotely killing every Subaru Outback battery
Didn't replace my nice and reliable 2011 Outback with another Outback due to the way Subaru handles this issue.
_hcuq··on They can and will ruin everything you love
Bandcamp was literally about paying for stuff.
_hcuq··on Undermining Democracy: The EU Commission's Controversial Push for Surveillance
The boy cries wolf once again. WTF is he referring to?
_hcuq··on Undermining Democracy: The EU Commission's Controversial Push for Surveillance
Yep. In conspiracy circles they like to demonise the EU. They don't know what it is or how it operates and can't be bothered to find out.
_hcuq··on Undermining Democracy: The EU Commission's Controversial Push for Surveillance
Yep. Just the usual hysteria.
_hcuq··on The world needs computational social science
The internet was subsidized....
_hcuq··on Lego abandons effort to make bricks from recycled plastic bottles
Single use plastic is the big problem. Not Lego.
_hcuq··on Striking auto workers want a 40% pay increase–the same rate their CEOs’ pay grew
The CEO's of the banks that went bankrupt in 2008 carried on "earning" 10´s of millions of dollars for years after they were bailed out by the government.

Is that performance related pay?

Or is it Crony Capitalism?

_hcuq··on Lithium discovery in US volcano could be biggest deposit ever found
Those who can't get lithium will just use oil. Which will be cheap if electrification happens.
_hcuq··on DSLs are a waste of time
Oops, there goes the first 10 years of my career, where I used DSLs almost exclusively.
_hcuq··on War games: Battlefield strategy and the game of chess
The Mackinder heartland theory is self evidently incorrect. Russia has controlled the heartland for hundreds of years. But has never been the global hegemon.
_hcuq··on Hundreds of thousands trafficked to work as online scammers in SE Asia, says UN
If there is profit in holding people prisoner, then there is an incentive to falsely imprison people. Or give them overly long sentences.
_hcuq··on Amazon acquires Fig
No, it's an aquahire. They're joining Amazon...
_hcuq··on Changing its name tanked X's downloads in App Store and Play Store
Yeah. Should have called it XXX. 3 x's are better than one....
_hcuq··on Banned journalism housed in virtual Minecraft architecture (2022)
They believe it anyway though.
_hcuq··on Banned journalism housed in virtual Minecraft architecture (2022)
Yes, but nobody has violated Russian sovereignty.
_hcuq··on Banned journalism housed in virtual Minecraft architecture (2022)
Putin flew nuclear bombers within 50 miles of the US coast. And they weren't shot down....

And there are no nuclear weapons installations in Ukraine.

_hcuq··on Banned journalism housed in virtual Minecraft architecture (2022)
"Would the United States welcome Chinese and Russian nuclear capable installations in Mexico or Cuba?"

Puin was flying nuclear bombers down the California coast in 2014, 50 miles offshore.... nobody overreacted.

If you are referring to the Romanian ABM site, Putin could have just put an ABM site in Cuba, or in international waters off the coast of the USA...

The Romanian site doesn't have nuclear weapons....

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