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Good time to run a fire resistant cladding company (or passivehaus design company) in the LA area -- I can only imagine, at least for those that can afford it, it's a no brainer if you're going to stay in the area

I’m British and that phrasing jumped out at me too. Few year old account, no surprises… Probs a bot.

I’m guessing it’s completely incidental that the CEO of crowdstrike was critical of China earlier this year, and that China is somehow unaffected by this ‘global’ issue!

Thank you for sharing. It reminds me of a similar website I made with my dad at similar age, in the mid 90s.

I hope she enjoyed it, and continues to enjoy it.

I also hope to do similar with my children when they’re at at that age.

That’s the same with a lot of hype in SEO circles. It’s the usual loud voices making a big deal out of it, but when you get down to the actual practicalities, not much changes.

Not least because very little of it is conclusive in terms of what Google do and don’t use, weightings, etc

It’s most valuable because it shows up a lot of googles public statements where they’ve said they don’t even consider certain things, with this implying they very definitely do in some capacity

Don’t care about it until it’s in their backyard

Perhaps surprisingly to the HN community, a lot of what is coming out confirms what decent SEOs have been saying for years (and appears to contradict a lot of what Google have said publicly via their various talking heads)

to be fair to obama, let's not pretend he didn't have an army of super smart planners, strategists and analysts behind him in various corners of the pentagon, the CIA and the NSA that led him to that decision

We had one of these as a house phone at one point when I was a kid!

Very rare I disagree with EFF but here I do. It’s long overdue.

Same. Except my 3 year old watches quite a bit of TV and I frequently use my phone in front of him (the latter I am working on, the former I am not too bothered about within reason)

My first ever job was a placement during university -- like a year in industry.

It was a regular-joe IT support job at an eLearning company (if they still exist).

The FD walked past me one day, having just left what was clearly a deeply uncomfortable meeting.

He stopped in his tracks and asked, quite abruptly, why I didn't ever seem to look busy. I replied - with the arrogance of a cocky 20 year old - that it was because, right now, everything is working as it should. Nothing is broken and people are working and productive, which is because of the work of the IT department.

The company later become insolvent and was dissolved. So it turns out it might have been him who should have been busier, and he was just taking it out on me.

Maybe they use their own generative AI to do their branding

20 years....

Factorio feels like it's the only thing that's really come close since!

Just to update this thread and correct myself. The book is absolutely fine. The problem was we were using it at bedtime with dimmed bedroom lighting. When we turn the bedroom lights back on, the book works fine again!

Backlink farms for universities

Our copy kind of broke for no apparent reason. Light randomly flickers blue. Bit disappointed given the price and intended audience.

There’s a trend of democracy being under attack, and Trump and Brexit are good examples of that

My immediate reaction too — zero surprise of course but it’s ridiculous given recent events

How do you train someone not to do stupid sh*t like that?

What’s saying that employee didn’t go through H&S training?

I get the legalities, it’s just a fringe case to the extreme, and conflation of that case to imply some wider problem.

Reads like a hit piece.

I agree. I'd love to see more details on what the guy felt he was entitled to. I suspect there was a contract signed early on in their dealings that the author of this blog post is not being forthcoming with.

It contains protein and is low sugar (unless you cover it in honey and fruit everyday, but even then, at least you’d be getting some actual nutritional value)

Trading sugar for actual nutrition, yeah… you missed out protein

I also don’t think he meant every day

We get it. You do 2 hours work a day from where you want and are paid a sizeable salary (possibly even overpaid).

There’s not much that is going to persuade you that freelance is ‘better’.

Interest rates go up, getting a mortgage becomes less affordable -> more people in the market for renting (in many areas, there's also a lack of rental housing stock)

Professional landlords have built empires on low interest rates -> interest rates go up -> landlords pass the cost onto renters (or for smaller landlords, exit the market, potentially reducing supply further)

Mechanical turk 'workers' use ChatGPT

>I know quite a number of people doing exactly this for exactly this reason, but they are quite open about it and aren’t faking anything.

Same, I can think of several people I know that fit this category -- they've built enough wealth and WFH/furlough gave them a taste for what they were missing by not having retired early -- so they retired early

I just hope they actually spend some of that wealth rather than keeping it sat in savings account

I also hope they look at young people today and recognise the economic difficulties many are facing: getting on the house ladder, getting stable employment, getting above inflation pay rises

i haven't used irc for about 20 years, but i don't remember having as many problems as i do with slack

#quakenet

Complete waste of time

Still not 100% sure why I pay for Slack, when even Skype has better IM

Might cancel our sub and go to discord