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Great, let's keep expanding privacy-destroying products and hyper-surveillance in the name of corporate profits!
Have unpopular solution or mitigation strategy, hire consultants, execute, blame the consultants
Geohot should focus his attention on jailbreaking cars now
The entities that own the data centers (the mag7) famously do not pay much in taxes due to their extensive use of tax havens and loopholes
As with all things, the answer is always "it depends" based on what is being optimized
Manual lever machines like the Flair use even less energy. This is silly.
Re:Domain expertise has always been the real moat on Saturday May 30, 2026 @08:00PM (#48341772)
Thanks for adding nothing to the conversation
What's your point? Yandex is quite a competent search engine
Re:MIT: 20% drop in incoming graduate students on Thursday May 14, 2026 @04:01PM (#48140457)
Being amazed at how that's allowed displays a naiveté only one could have if they've never been in the process. What you describe is exactly what being in academia is all about for the last couple generations. Being a grad student sounds prestigious to an outsider, but the system is literally built to exploit their labor.
So that if you ever step out of line with regards to what the government deems "worthy" behavior (whatever the hell that means at any given moment) you can be de-banked and effectively excluded from participating in society
Re:If America's So Rich, How'd It Get So Sad? on Thursday April 23, 2026 @12:35PM (#47877830)
A net worth millionaire nowadays is just a person who bought a single family home at least 10 years ago. A million bucks is not what it used to be.
Re:Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @03:39PM (#47868284)
Maybe it's time the economy shifts from having to prioritize the investors for everything
Re:We accepted surveillance as default on Monday April 20, 2026 @04:30PM (#47840092)
Many of them in this very forum
None of the big artists people want to see ever play at those venues
https://lordslibrary.parliament.uk/select-communications-off...

How convenient that the government doesn't make the numbers public and then have to issue statements like this when journalists do some digging on the matter

Re:You Are Not Your Job on Sunday March 22, 2026 @02:21PM (#47480478)
That's a very privileged thing to say about a career where the tools to replace developers did not exist
Re:OpenRocket on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @03:48PM (#47430557)
Helps to have terrain around your country that makes it one giant fort
Who needs rockets when you have autonomous mini drones
Also known as a monopoly. This should terrify us all.
Re:Heathrow scraps 100ml liquid container limit on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @03:54PM (#46786535)
TSA has always been security theater
Pepper your angus because that's the endgame of all the people playing this game right now
Re:Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deleted on Monday December 15, 2025 @12:22AM (#46270752)
And this is exactly why I never connect my TV to wifi
Re:I ignore the spotlight as a staff engineer on Thursday December 04, 2025 @01:11PM (#46150790)
People are terrible at keeping score for others, because they're usually only paying attention to themselves
Well of course someone dismissing this would be the top comment here
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
Re:OpenAI's H1 2025: $4.3B in income, $13.5B in loss on Thursday October 02, 2025 @08:13PM (#45457182)
The only thing I trust google to do is abandon software and give me a terrible support experience
Re:Open Social on Saturday September 27, 2025 @06:28AM (#45394601)
Private likes are the only way forward on social media if we're to finally decouple free speech from the vindictive outrage mob feedback loop
Re:Microsoft is officially sending employees back to the office on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @01:34AM (#45193713)
This is probably better evidence than any public filing

https://wolfstreet.com/2025/09/01/office-cmbs-delinquency-ra...

Re:The Storm Hits the Art Market on Monday September 08, 2025 @11:55PM (#45177213)
Labubu

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