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tpmxon A 6 channel GPS receiver from 1993

But it literally says: "Sold for: US $12.00"?

tpmxon Astra, low on cash, defaults on loan

That brand name was long taken in the space context.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astra_(satellite)

tpmxon Offshore wind has a cable problem

tpmxon Historic strike called off after Klarna agrees collective bargaining agreement

Where do you think the money that doesn't go to salaries go? What an odd question.

tpmxon Offshore wind has a cable problem

For what exactly?

tpmxon Why the young should go to the office

"Apart from dating, there is no better education in human behaviour"

My office experiences have been vastly different, but I kind of agree with the basic idea.

tpmxon Historic strike called off after Klarna agrees collective bargaining agreement

a) eh, that's not a pleasant conversation, b) Yeah don't listen to sossepropaganda (that's a technical term).

tpmxon Offshore wind has a cable problem

I responded to an insult. And I was being factual. Please reflect on your own behavior.

And no, no there is no BBC-like distinction here. Ørsted is company run by the Danish government, period. The link above should be proof enough to any thinking person.

tpmxon Offshore wind has a cable problem

> Ørsted is not a state company.

Except it is and you are wrong.

tpmxon Historic strike called off after Klarna agrees collective bargaining agreement

(I'm Swedish.)

I think a CBA could make sense for Klarna, but not necessarily for Spotify.

Separately: A company with a CBA is a red flag to me. I think that CBAs and unions is what have kept tech salaries artificially low here, compared to e.g. US tech salaries.

tpmxon Offshore wind has a cable problem

The Danish government owns 50.1% of Ørsted. (See: https://orsted.com/en/investors/shares - "Danish State (majority stakeholder)) It's effectively a state company. So, when you think Ørsted, instead think Denmark.

Again, for the very slow crowd: here is the ownership graph again: https://orsted.com/en/investors/shares

tpmxon Michael Moore was once the youngest elected official in the U.S.

Please own your mistake.

tpmxon The secret history of Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and OpenAI

For Altman, it’s not about money, either.

Yeah sure. If he doesn't end up being a billionaire in a decade I'll eat my shoes on a livefeed. I'll post the link here.

tpmxon Michael Moore was once the youngest elected official in the U.S.

A few minutes ago you thanked me for my correction. This is disgusting behavior on your behalf.

The current state of the thread is archived here: https://archive.ph/wip/l9ael

and here: https://web.archive.org/web/20231104164635/https://news.ycom...

tpmxon Michael Moore was once the youngest elected official in the U.S.

Please stop whatever the fuck you think you're doing.

tpmxon Shinzo Abe's Assassination

> Just don't try to claim that your club is actually less blood-soaked than the others.

I'm in Sweden. Religion here has sort of faded into the background. Very few people are religious. We observe the religion here more or less as as a cultural thing. It's something we do at births, school exam celebrations and burials but not much else.

Bload soaked club? Yes, a few hundred years ago.

tpmxon A 6 channel GPS receiver from 1993

I mean, both GPS and WiFi was super exciting stuff in the early 2000s. There was a GPS magazine for GPS terminal enthusiasts (!). It's still sort of around: https://www.gpsworld.com/.

tpmxon White House unveils AI.gov in a historic move towards comprehensive AI oversight

lol

tpmxon Michael Moore was once the youngest elected official in the U.S.

You have taken this photo from https://www.michaelmoore.com/p/i-was-elected-50-years-ago-to...

... where he says: "50 years ago today, I became the youngest-ever elected official in the state of Michigan, the first 18-year-old to do so."

US is larger than Michigan, I think.

tpmxon Microsoft has 16,000 fewer employees than at start of year

Paging u/mschuster91 - the "fucking beancounters" guy who simply has no patience for details.

What went wrong here?

tpmxon Paste without formatting on macOS

I've doing Menu | Edit | Paste and Match Style like I guess you're supposed to do?

tpmxon Shinzo Abe's Assassination

Irish, right?

tpmxon Shinzo Abe's Assassination

> Religion, sigh.

So, no, not all religions are violent and/or harmful.

I've been an devout atheist since about the age of 10. That doesn't stop me from seeing that:

a) some religions are relatively harmless and mostly helpful to their believers

b) some religions are very destructive to everyone

I don't think we should go much further from here.

tpmxon Netflix's Show-Stopping Restoration of Hollywood's Iconic Egyptian Theater

OK, now they have completely lost it.

tpmxon The Hong Kong Activist Who Called Washington's Bluff

That's very weak. I expect more from the US.

The issue “dragged,” one State Department official involved told us, “and it lingered, and then the inevitable happened.” Wong was arrested in September 2020 and then remanded in custody in late November. Last year, he pled guilty to charges of subversion under the national-security law.

tpmxon The Hong Kong Activist Who Called Washington's Bluff

https://archive.ph/f6dNK

tpmxon Maersk to cut 10k jobs as shipping demand drops

3PL = third party logistics (I found via Googling)

tpmxon Lua is a viable alternative for JSON

Lack of code execution is a strong feature in data transfer formats/encodings. (Did I misunderstand you?)

tpmxon A 6 channel GPS receiver from 1993

It sold for just $12 yesterday. (Some more shots here, too.)

https://www.ebay.com/itm/274506300217

tpmxon Maersk to cut 10k jobs as shipping demand drops

Relatively stable around 80k for 2018 and 2019.

It appears they have executed a strategy to become a vertically integrated end-to-end logistics company rather than just a container shipping company. Profits during the pandemic allowed them to accelerate the change.

https://qz.com/2103412/maersk-is-no-longer-just-a-shipping-c...

(Have a look at that quarterly profit graph...)