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Posted by
nipponese on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @12:54PM
from the hfsresearch.com dept.
You’re comparing Apple to Facebook is especially gross.
yeah, it's STRANGE, right? /s
In the U.S. we don’t ethically cleanse in the name of political stability - we ethically cleanse in the name of economic growth.
It’s a shame your country couldn’t get back its technical edge.
Because it worked on Japan in the 80s and 90s and sometimes “Americans” have a hard time telling the two cultures apart.
I have seen first hand how Chinese nationals behave when visiting Taiwan - it’s not pretty.
Shared language and history aside, these two cultures are not in the same solar system when it comes to social norms and curtesies.
The U.S. is not the country conducting amoral behavior with terrorist regimes for oil, that’s China.
We conduct amoral behavior with terrorist regimes for dollars.
It seems really cool, but the entry-level tier just seems too expensive. I can get a single pain-in-the-ass OVH VPS for $7. I just need something better than that for the same price.
That's a really good distinction. I realize this is a little snide, but I imagine when they look in the mirror they still see themselves as Marc Andreessen.
maturity has nothing to do with it. these are recurring expense liabilities with very very distant return horizon.
this is compounded by young, newly rich tech workers (no kids, no mortgage, maybe not even a car) experimenting with being a VC because they've recently reached accredited investor status.
and it's not just ZIRP. every recent IPO or liquidity event creates literally 500 more of these guys.
this is likely to be the most interesting argument I will read today: is substack legit editorial journalism?
certainly there is no organized journalistic outfit behind it, but also, a lot of legit journalists want their substacks to be taken as facts of record.
Indeed we prefer the world where only deep-pocketed entrenched monopolies can do this.
Posted by
nipponese on Sunday April 19, 2026 @03:37AM
from the self-post dept.
on thursday i updated my mac to 26.4.1. I stepped away for lunch and came back to a bricked machine.after a lengthy phone call, apple said bring it in for apple store support.apple checked the machine and the next day told me it would cost $750 to repair.this is not an isolated incident and relegated to...
it didn't make the amount of tax payer money spent on the webpage worse.
I am trying to understand, are you saying marketing always needs to be hand-rolled?
The conclusion was the takeaway. Everyone is getting bumped up a skill notch, not just bozo liars.
check out Chia Network $XCH
It's only slop if it's wrong or irrelevant.
Knowing this is the wrong crowd, I hesitate to even type this, but come on... The pace of evolution on this topic is hard to ignore:
2024 - Utter Trash
2025 - Merely hotdog water
2026 - Aaaaaaaaaactually pretty good...
Every forward-leaning platform is building out an MCP interface, I think we're past the point of "soulless fad."
I guess we're not going to talk about his cryptocurrency?
I saw a gh for a $100 stringer missile last week. I often wonder if I will miss the stable tyranny of American capitalism if we descend back into warring nation states defended by cheap autonomous munitions.
OSes and software engs did not end up using less RAM.
Cool site and Andrej is the man. But the BLS data...
> Taxi Drivers, Shuttle Drivers, and Chauffeurs
> Overall employment of taxi drivers, shuttle drivers, and chauffeurs is projected to grow 9 percent from 2024 to 2034, much faster than the average for all occupations.
...word?
Collapse of the Internet or collapse of the visual world wide web? tbh, I am a little curious to see what comes after clicking a button on a web page.
Posted by
nipponese on Thursday March 12, 2026 @02:57PM
from the twitter.com dept.