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hello_moto··on Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout
Go to Disneyland (in US), you’ll see tons of Hoka
hello_moto··on Why are European countries moving their gold out of North America?
Milei is flailing.

Typical criminal politician move when they’re about to lose power.

hello_moto··on No AI Fridays
Will that knowledge stick? Given that you blasted through many things relatively quick?
hello_moto··on Accenture to acquire Ookla
Great code has never been the requirement of success.

Throughout my career no software that hits $100m annual revenue was born from great code. That’s 2 fortune 100 hi-tech companies with other medium sized companies with revenue close to $1B.

There was one company that had better codebase than the others, unfortunately that company struggles to hit $2M MRR…

Looking back, it was painful to admit that code quality was not how the company succeed: it was overall strategy and luck.

hello_moto··on Amazon Web Services – Four Years and Out
Be careful what you wish for. Amazonians are in a no-hire list in quite a few companies.

The reason is simple: nobody wants to bring in toxic culture.

hello_moto··on Graduates are booing pep talks on AI at college commencements
short-term?

how about 100 years?

> Beginning in Great Britain around 1760, the Industrial Revolution had spread to continental Europe and the United States by about 1840

You know what else happened during that 100-200 years time frame? 2 Wars + Governments decided to step in and rebuild post-war. Governments tax the rich/elite by 90%.

You know what else happened? workers being punished physically and mentally until the formation of Unions.

You skipped a big chunk of The Ruling Class always exploit everybody else like what we're seeing right now: Tech CEOs laying off and not hiring.

History repeats again.

Are our productivity increase for the better? People are still working overtime because of reduced worker's protection today.

hello_moto··on Students boo commencement speaker after she calls AI next industrial revolution
Unions and worker's rights exist because workers were exploited to the max during the Industrial Revolution.
hello_moto··on Students boo commencement speaker after she calls AI next industrial revolution
Many people who pointed out the Industrial Revolution becomes the basis of modern quality of life skip what happened in between the 17xx-18xx until today.

Things like Unions, Wars, etc.

What comes after new technology has always been the elite class owning them all and forcing everybody else to suffer until something managed the distribution of resources slightly better (War forces that).

hello_moto··on Macron says €300B in EU savings sent to the US every year will be invested in EU
All politicians will say what people want to hear.
hello_moto··on Macron says €300B in EU savings sent to the US every year will be invested in EU
> 1 USD buys nearly $1.40 CAD.

Right before Trump (2024), 1.42 CAD at the top. During Trump, barely hits 1.40 CAD, one time it touched 1.37 CAD.

hello_moto··on Lightpanda migrate DOM implementation to Zig
In that blog post, the author said safer than C not Rust.
hello_moto··on Larry Page leaves California to protect $12.5B from proposed wealth tax
Majority weren’t billionaires when they started their successful companies.

Their successful companies (the employees) and the government, policies, and environment around them are the things that make them successful.

Billionaires mostly hoard assets. Important assets that you need (not want, need) to live.

hello_moto··on AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention
The future is we all gonna go to war when there's no more juice to squeeze by the billionaires.

The future is coming in hot. Just look at what's happening lately.

hello_moto··on Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban
US seems the only western nation with high trust issue with its own government.

Aussie, Canada, much of the Europe have no issue.

hello_moto··on Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental
They have less and less resources
hello_moto··on Google boss says AI investment boom has 'elements of irrationality'
Inflation and rich people buying asset class drives everything up
hello_moto··on Google boss says AI investment boom has 'elements of irrationality'
Diversity in property means condos with various configurations, rowhouses, townhouses, multiplex (duplex, quadplex, sixplex).

Where I live, the local government decided to remove zoning thereby allowing more varieties of properties.

Price comes down in the sense that the missing middle provide options between condo to townhouse to detached

hello_moto··on Anthropic’s paper smells like bullshit
Someone reminds me all the time: consider AI as “companions” and “opinions”.

AI (adhd, neurodivergence) entrepreneurs took opinions and made them facts.

It takes certain personalities to lead an AI company.

hello_moto··on Anthropic’s paper smells like bullshit
It’s more likely that there are more western VC propaganda here than CCP.

The HN of Paul Graham era had finished.

This is the HN of Sam Altman and Gary Tan era.

Different VC/capitalist mindset

hello_moto··on Canada loses its measles-free status, with US on track to follow
You don’t need those type to immigrate. You just need to export the ideology which is what happened to Alberta, the Texas of Canada.
hello_moto··on Canada loses its measles-free status, with US on track to follow
Where in the article it suggested the spread due to immigration?

If any, it is due to misinformation and reluctance of those communities (mentioned specifically Alberta rural, y’know, the province that has been burned with misinformation, public health scandal, crazy Premier that has been stoking Separatism while cozying with MAGA that has threatened Canada sovereignty)

hello_moto··on Amazon hopes to replace 600k US workers with robots
"move up the value chain" assuming:

1. the next level opportunity exist

2. proper training (we all know that's pipe dream)

3. fits what these folks are looking for (for some, repetitive jobs == less stress than "creative" jobs).

but what about glut of workers == depress wage?

hello_moto··on Amazon hopes to replace 600k US workers with robots
> How realistic is this plan that is the question.

FTA:

Amazon has considered steps to improve its image as a “good corporate citizen” in preparation for the anticipated backlash around job losses, according to The NYT, reporting that the company considered participating in community projects and avoiding terms like “automation” and “AI.” More vague terms like “advanced technology” were explored instead, and using the term “cobot” for robots that work alongside humans.

hello_moto··on Amazon hopes to replace 600k US workers with robots
Look around you: middle class is shrinking all over the world despite hi-tech advancements.

Adjusting with inflation and everything else, are people better off today than in the 80s?

hello_moto··on Amazon hopes to replace 600k US workers with robots
Automation (and AI) was sold to reduce cost of living but in reality it's all about maximizing profits.
hello_moto··on Amazon hopes to replace 600k US workers with robots
why strange?

we realized that we don't want all the money/profit to circulate around the top 10 tech companies in the world where all of us are out of the equation...

hello_moto··on Ebola outbreak in DR Congo rages, with 61% death rate and funding running dry
All the spending cuts DOGE did wasn’t for Americans. It’s for the rich elite.
hello_moto··on Ebola outbreak in DR Congo rages, with 61% death rate and funding running dry
You have a good point except slightly misguided.

The rich wants more tax breaks so they can gobble up more money and own more assets at US citizens expense.

How’s that sound?

hello_moto··on Microsoft has urged its employees on H-1B and H-4 visas to return immediately
Still stoking the class divide war since …
hello_moto··on Americans Lose Faith That Hard Work Leads to Economic Gains, WSJ-NORC Poll Finds
also tax their other assets...
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