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Yeah, me too, but at least I wasn't writing Medium articles about how cool it was that I was generating revenue to be funneled directly into conversion therapy youth camps.

At least we aren't quite to the point of HN articles praising the cutting edge technology being implemented at Raytheon and Northrop Grumman

Came here for this.

Imagine being so dead inside you feel perfectly fine, even proud of working for Chic-fil-A, lol

Won't someone please think of Verizon's margins?!

I don't think your estimations take into account the massive gains from AI denoising techniques such as https://youtu.be/YjjTPV2pXY0

You'd think, right?

If a tweet takes 30 seconds to conceive, type, and submit, Elon Musk has spent 45 hours of his life tweeting -- no way to estimate how much time spent reading, which is usually a higher proportion for non-egomaniacs. Judging by the way he talks, he could have used that time a little more productively by reading a couple books. Conveniently, also much harder to tank your stock price while doing.

Well, the ice cream shop has Israeli clientele, while the hospitals mainly service people the Israelis have marked for death.

I love how this blatant neoliberal propaganda piece attempts to brand the gig economy and perpetual licensing of streaming content in lieu of CDs and other physical media ownership as "communal" (certainly they didn't mean anything by that wording?) when it's clearly a natural progression of the rent-seeking motive that capitalism is literally based on. "All the bad parts of %ideology% aren't real %ideology%!" Gee, where have we heard that before.

Also great to see them deliberately misuse "private property" when discussing ownership of personal property.

Just imagine if that labor went to something that created wealth instead of leeched it.

The birds just don't see them and fly into parts at full speed, more frequently if there are disorientingly bright lights at the installation.

Wind turbines do not kill significant numbers of birds, that is a fossil fuel lobby talking point. Communications towers kill about 20x as many birds: https://www.fws.gov/birds/bird-enthusiasts/threats-to-birds/...

Apologies to the author when she inevitably has a stress-induced heart attack or stroke (or hell, maybe she just gets hit by a bus) and regrets wasting her prime.

The present is all you have. Sorry that you bought in to the propaganda.

Just like you don't get to decide if I download it for free or not, lol.

But for your information, I can and do run userscripts, custom ROMs, jailbroken firmware etc to change the exact sort of thing you spent the second half of your post talking about. You sound like you have a very boring consumerist relationship to technology and the opposite of a hacker ethos.

Because it's literally rent-seeking and leeches wealth from the economy, jacking up prices while contributing nothing?

I love this argument that doesn't attempt to address the fact that these jobs are necessary to the economy and must exist, but jumps straight to the assertion that whoever does them just deserves to be poor.

How generous of the company that made $10b in net profit last year and receives $6b+ of taxpayer funded subsidies every year to spend $400m to offer their workers the unheard of ability to pursue 2 degrees from 3 colleges!

So it's all on the end user to go to extra steps to avoid browser hijackers, and the company allowing the garbage ads is completely absolved of blame?

>Complaining about it here won't help anyone.

Unnecessarily douchey thing to post. A nonzero amount of people will read the comments and decide against opening the article/open it in an archival service instead and bypass the malicious ads.

It looks like garbage.

Thank you for your deep insight, detailed analysis and surfeit of evidence, Mr. Throwaway Account, sir!

then another question: why even bother building in a hard drive large enough to store hundreds of documents? certainly a circular buffer 1/1000th the capacity would be cheaper?

this makes no sense no matter how many one line hand-waves you make

What a disgusting travesty that a single person would ever pay $5,000 to fly anywhere in 2018, no doubt to go do pointless busywork and "negotiation" that telephones already obsoleted the need to travel for a hundred years ago.

All while people starve in the streets, having bankrupted themselves paying for healthcare, while impoverished teachers buy school supplies with their own money. God damned sickening.

Humor is commonly used by Humons to attempt to connect with one another and distract themselves from the inherent absurdity of their lives; you need not necessarily interpret their communication entirely literally when you have a suspicion that they may be employing Humor.

Right, but what else is the NSA ostensibly carrying out all this domestic espionage for if not to preempt domestic terrorism (which by and large has been dominated by mass shootings in recent years, it's been a bit since we had e.g. a bombing), which by all accounts is at its highest point in recent memory?

Thanks for that reputable source -- but I'm still missing your implication. Do you mean to say that the NSA is primarily concerned with foreign intelligence rather than combating domestic terrorism? Then why so much domestic spying, the entire point of this conversation thread?

Furthermore, are you trying to tell me you think they've done a good job in their counterintelligence work? Honestly, given what we have observed in the Middle East for decades and what happened in 2016?

They have not justified the existence of these programs -- if they were efficacious they would still be wrong, in my opinion, but luckily for me my opinion never has to enter into it because as it stands it's just a double whammy of a 1) massively unethical 2) giant waste of money.

So yeah, even if #2 wasn't in play I'd still be against it.

"In its annual report filed to the SEC in February 2018, Amazon estimated that not only would the company not be paying anything in 2017 federal income taxes, but it would be getting a $137 million tax refund."

http://services.corporate-ir.net/SEC.Enhanced/SecCapsule.asp...

Nice argument.

Mass shootings have tripled since 2011.

You've missed the point entirely, on purpose I imagine. The impact of Citizens United is primarily with regard to corporate lobbying, not campaign contributions. Super PACs, the biggest travesty to come out of Citizens United, explicitly CANNOT contribute to election campaigns or specific parties.