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lizardactivist··on Tim Cook to take 50% pay hit after shareholder feedback
So now he has to make ends meet on, like, two million dollars a month? TWO!
lizardactivist··on U.S. stock market returns – a history from the 1870s to 2022
Start investing and pumping money into the market, guys! This time it's safe, market will never go down again and noone will lose money! Promise! /s

It's funny how they talk of money and market value being erased as if the money is definitely subtracted from balance without being added somewhere else, literally deleted from existance.

When the market crashes for you and others, there's always someone in the high echelons of the game who ends up getting richer.

lizardactivist··on C++ at the End of 2022
I haven't kept up with C++ for over a decade, but the little glimpses I catch of it makes me think that though it has received good and useful stuff, it has also grown needlessly complex.
lizardactivist··on German Bundestag Passes Whistleblower Protection Act
Maybe my wording is bad; the EU should offer protection to US citizens who expose crimes committed by the US government in the EU. And preferably committed elsewhere in the world, since it's in the world's best interest to know.
lizardactivist··on German Bundestag Passes Whistleblower Protection Act
Idea: extend the act to provide full protection for US Americans who expose espionage, sabotage (and possibly worse things) carried out in EU countries.
lizardactivist··on Worst interview questions for software developers
I think this is a cultural thing as well.

I am reminded of how Daniel Stenberg (author of curl) interviewed with Mozilla, and mentioned it was several interviews taking place over several days. Obviously questions like these made up the bulk of the interviews, because they could not seriously have any doubts of his skill as a software developer.

Several interviews stretching over several days; accused serial killers have had to endure less before going to trial.

lizardactivist··on Ripes: Visual computer architecture simulator, assembly code editor for RISC-V
Wow.. there's just one principal author who has written almost all of it. Very impressive!
lizardactivist··on Epstein's sex trafficking was aided by JPMorgan, US Virgin Islands lawsuit says
I wonder how many more people we don't know about have been killed to keep this mess contained.

Ghislaine's peculiarly friendly and apologizing comments about accused rapist and former U.S President Bill Clinton suggests who she suspects may be behind some of it. Coincidentally there's frequently talk about how several of his past associates seem to have been shot and killed.

lizardactivist··on We Live in the Age of the Bullshitter
Cultural problem.
lizardactivist··on JPMorgan to spend $1B on rental homes in the US to become a megalandlord
I can't imagine a company like that would make a good landlord.
lizardactivist··on Stripe is holding over $400k of mine with no explanation
It's helpful if you want to avoid the problem OP and many, many others are experiencing.
lizardactivist··on Stripe is holding over $400k of mine with no explanation
When your money or revenue is put into an account with a US American payment provider, then the money is theirs, not yours. Any and all reasons and excuses to keep them are fair.
lizardactivist··on Active ball joint mechanism with 3 DoF based on spherical gear meshings (2021)
No.
lizardactivist··on Active ball joint mechanism with 3 DoF based on spherical gear meshings (2021)
Just looking through the paper makes my head spin. The Japanese are undoubtedly the most skilled engineers in the world.
lizardactivist··on The Cameral Glass on the Google Pixel 7 Shatters Spontaneously
Can you also unlock this model by pressing your nose (or someone else's) on the finger print reader, like you could on the Pixel 6?
lizardactivist··on US Government demands direct police access to European biometric data [pdf]
Say no and hang up. If they start something, respond in kind, and ask our allied countries to stand united.

The US needs the world far, far more than the world needs the US, and it's time the world realizes this. Forcing this nation of war-criminals and foreign policy bullies in line is long overdue.

lizardactivist··on Rogue antibody and mystery pathogen behind AstraZeneca blood clots: study
It seems myocarditis from the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines are a much, much bigger problem.
lizardactivist··on Non-ECC memory corrupted my hard drive image [video]
I'm curious what the actual manufacturing costs for ECC DRAM is compared to regular DRAM. Is it considerably more expensive, or just the usual over-charge because it's better?
lizardactivist··on iPhone 14 Pro faced 'unprecedented' setback leading to removal of new GPU
Oh dear. I hope humanity and civilization can recover from this "unprecedented" turn of events.
lizardactivist··on Milk and dairy products: good or bad for human health? (2016)
The dairy industry wants us to think that humans are weak and frail, with crumbling bones and teeth, and we can only be strong and healthy if we live in symbiosis with the bovine and drink their mothers milk.

A bit dramatized for effect, but that's about how milk was pitched when I was growing up.

Personally these days I think it's a tough idea to sell.

lizardactivist··on Freeform: a new app designed for creative collaboration
When you send things using your gmail address, you still retain the IP rights to your material and property attached inside, but you also give Google a perpetual, unrestricted, non-exclusive right to that material, should it be looked at and deemed interesting.

The same thing probably applies to stuff made in this app by Apple.

lizardactivist··on Staging is dead: The rise of preview environments
Good indicator of hyperbole FUD and marketing attempt: article headline begins with "<x> is dead"
lizardactivist··on Freeform: a new app designed for creative collaboration
It also feeds your ideas, sketches, and notes directly to Apple. Don't put any secrets into this app!

Buried somewhere in the EULA I suspect there is a paragraph giving Apple perpetual, unlimited, non-exclusive rights to anything that would be looked at and deemed interesting.

lizardactivist··on Inflation changed the meaning of a $100K salary
The Euro and US Dollar exchange rates are about equal, but I think today €50k in Europe gives you greater financial security and higher quality of life than $100k in the US.
lizardactivist··on Big Plastic’s Faltering $1.5B Global Cleanup Effort
I doubt it was even sincere to begin with. There's no money in that.

Last I heard about Exxon Mobil and others they were figuring out new ways of selling more plastics in Africa. That's where the money is at, and that's all that matters to these corporations.

lizardactivist··on ‘Porch pirates’ stole an estimated 260M packages in 2021
I don't mean to diminish the problem, but that sounds like a massively inflated number.
lizardactivist··on Fungal toxins are widespread in European wheat
So what's the solution, spray and quench the soil and ground water with more and more dangerous fungicides?
lizardactivist··on Don't Use Stripe
Don't use US American payment providers if you can avoid it.

It's a national sport over there to figure out new ways of getting people's money, whether it's peculiar made-up fees, or like in your case plain robbery under the ironical guise of crime prevention.

lizardactivist··on Soyuz module on International Space Station is leaking something
Quite a lot of glee and mockery in the replies to that tweet.
lizardactivist··on Handwritten complaint to the court by alleged CIA Vault 7 leaker
Only a terrorist state would subject someone to treatment like that.
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