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throwaway128128··on Tell HN: Eid Mubarak
You sleep less during Ramadan?
throwaway128128··on San Jose police union executive director charged with smuggling fentanyl into US
Convicted of drug dealing... and yet she's on paid leave. Taxpayer funded vacation.
throwaway128128··on When Google paid websites to promote Firefox
Explorer didn't need "slowing down". It was in maintenance mode and being developed it on a shoestring budget around the days of IE6-IE7. Microsoft apparently decided that the web browser circa 2006 was essentially a finished product because they had "won" - IE had no serious mass market competition on Windows.
throwaway128128··on Windows needs to stop showing tabloid news
The path of least resistance for middle of the road Internet users is to become dumb as fuck. Our society has no standards for critical thinking or epistemology.
throwaway128128··on SEC charges crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun and his companies for fraud
Good. Justin Sun is a serial bullshitter, one of the most egregious self-promoting token pumpers out there.

Check out this article if you want a profile on this narcissist: https://www.theverge.com/21459906/bittorrent-tron-acquisitio...

throwaway128128··on Vanishing phone customer support is driving us all insane
Not just private industry. Seattle PD literally doesn't pick their phones up. Do a Google search for "seattle pd non emergency" and you'll see that everyone in the city is having this problem. Sometimes they just turn off the phone tree entirely. And no, don't talk about "defunding" - Seattle PD is lavishly funded. They just like to throw temper tantrums when they're held accountable.
throwaway128128··on Google tells employees that fewer of them will get promotions to senior roles
"The L6 distinction refers to the first layer of staff that’s considered senior and typically includes people with about a decade of experience."

That's not true? Isn't "senior SWE" the title for L5 at Google?

throwaway128128··on Ask HN: Why Hacker News?
Fast load times, lots of decent articles, very skimmable. Gets pompous sometimes though.
throwaway128128··on GenZ Android owners are bullied for not having an iPhone, but refuse to switch
I was bulled in the mid 90's for having a Mac.
throwaway128128··on Recovery at California's most beleaguered reservoir
I dunno, I see more pontoon boats in the 2023 shots. Seems like a downgrade.
throwaway128128··on The Average American Man Is Too Fat for Universal’s New Mario Kart Ride
Lol, your average American is 200 pounds of muscle. Right
throwaway128128··on Tether ownership and company weaknesses revealed in documents
Keeping the Tether delusion going is an existential matter for everyone with a stake in crypto.
throwaway128128··on Smoking is associated with lower cognitive function in older adults
Tucker was right that smoking "frees your mind".
throwaway128128··on Video shows 8-car pileup after a Tesla allegedly using FSD stopped in tunnel
The left turn signal into nothingness prior to the stop is a definite tell of FSD.
throwaway128128··on “My PGP key is compromised, and at least many of my bitcoins stolen”
"Gigathread" would become a "bongthread" in Tonal.
throwaway128128··on “My PGP key is compromised, and at least many of my bitcoins stolen”
Wow, the Tonal Bitcoin guy got hacked!
throwaway128128··on Google’s water use is soaring, consume more than 25% of water used in The Dalles
The Dalles is miniscule...
throwaway128128··on Google tells employees more of them will be at risk for low performance ratings
It's called "rank and yank", a philosophy invented by Jack Welch at GE and wielded heartlessly Microsoft for decades.
throwaway128128··on Twitter will not allow free promotion of certain social media platforms
Another asterisk on Free** Speech Absolutism.
throwaway128128··on Twitter has re-suspended ElonJet account
Elon invokes his kids as a trump card to shut down criticism (e.g. why he isn't unbanning Alex Jones).
throwaway128128··on Why do you guys hate school so much?
There's a coordinated, well-funded FUD campaign sponsored by the neofeudalists to undermine public schooling. The messages are everywhere within a certain podcasting bubble. I think the author might be adjacent to said bubble, which is why they probably feel confused at the intensity of the vitriol.
throwaway128128··on Anyone in the SEO Industry Talking about Google's Decline?
The verbosity of all these SEO'd sites is just maddening. A recipe page is 90% a FAQ with vapid questions like "Is brown rice nourishing?" "Can I use filtered water with rice?" "Will the rice satisfy my family?" with multiple paragraph answers for each.
throwaway128128··on As Gen X and Boomers Age, They Confront Living Alone
Denmark's got a great solution: https://journal.theaou.org/news-and-reviews/the-popularity-o...

Too bad such a thing would be deemed "socialist" in the US.

throwaway128128··on FTX’s ownership of a U.S. bank raises questions
Alameda traded using insider advanced knowledge of what coins FTX would list and delist. "The scale at which Alameda has been frontrunning FTX listings is "much, much greater" than what we've seen before in crypto"

https://decrypt.co/114708/alameda-research-18-tokens-insider...

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