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Comment Re: Burn, baby, burn! (Score 1, Troll) 63

Better a few Boomers lose their shirts than decades or centuries of techno-fascism.

Because only boomers have investments.

Your whining is the same thing that has been said for centuries whenever a new technology or process has come along. I can guarantee you would have been one of those whining when the cotton gin was invented, or cars and airplanes started being made. This is how society advances. If you don't like, you don't have to participate.

Comment Re:Dead site (Score 1) 93

You need rage bait and outrage porn to engage people on the internet

On r/lawncare, it's people's shoes and dogs shitting on the lawn. On r/laundry, it's people either deliberately telling you what piece of clothing is dirty and asking how to clean it, or showing the labels.

I don't have an account, but even I can recognize this astroturfing. It's being deliberately done to get views.

Comment Re:Public domain data is now public domain (Score 1) 90

What delusional world do you live that the taxpayers don't have a right to know where their tax dollars are being spent?

Companies are private entities. They do not operate under the same rules as government. Your example is invalid.

It's called transparency. It's what good government does. When you work for the government you give up some of your privacy becausse you are working for the people.

You must work for Trump to think the people don't have a right to know what their government is doing.

Comment Re:So you don't need engineers. Do ya need custome (Score 1) 164

Loser thinking is dropping everything at the drop of a hat based on nothing more than one article written by somebody nobody has heard of on a fringe website.

Loser thinking is dumping tech stocks because they said they might make a few million dollars less in the next 3 months than they anticipated despite them making money hand over fist.

Comment Re:Of course he is (Score 5, Interesting) 23

What's with the black leather jacket he always wears? Does he think he's the Fonz? Or a Ramone?

Essentially, his wife and daughter made the choice:

Huang staple black jackets have also been talked about in the previous years. In most of the interviews, just like this one, he has seen talking about these jackets and associate them to his wife. He says that these jackets are often bought buy his wife, Lori Huang.

Last year, in an interview with the NYT, he confirmed that he has been dressing up the same for almost 20 years, and "all thanks to my wife and daughter."

For a bit more on the subject:

The tale resurfaced in a recent clip from an interview with Money Focus, where the 62-year-old CEO explained the jacket's true origin. "This is what my wife bought for me, and this is what I'm wearing," Huang said with a grin, patting the familiar leather on his shoulders. It was never intended as a branding strategy. It was a solution to a lifelong problem: he hates shopping and finds most clothes uncomfortable. "I do zero percent of my own shopping," he joked. His wife, Lori Mills Huang, stepped in long ago and has chosen his wardrobe ever since. She has known him since he was seventeen, after all.

Comment Re:Public domain data is now public domain (Score 1) 90

Political appointees should be public, they are accountable. The rest of civil servants are no different to you doing your job at your place of employment.

Civil servants are paid by the tax dollars. The public has a right to know who their tax dollars are going to.

In my state there is a web site where you can look up the salary of those who work for the government. It includes the person's name and their position title.

Comment Wow, what a revelation (Score 1) 61

According to the memo, metrics such as AI adoption rates, token consumption, code changes, and code reviews become "deeply flawed" when they are disconnected from actual results. Turning them into targets, Amazon says, encourages wasteful behavior that clashes with its emphasis on "frugality and simplicity" and can raise both compute bills and software complexity.

It's almost as if they're just now realizing Goodhart's Law exists.

Comment Re:Harm (Score 1) 109

While this is true, being the subject of an experiment to see what happens when you do that is not something most people would choose for themselves. It's not *irrational* to be concerned. Absence of evidence on a largely unexplored question like microplastic infiltration in human bodies is not the moral equivalent of absence of evidence in an extensively studied question like a vaccine-autism link.

Comment Same tactic used to steal bourbon (Score 4, Interesting) 109

In June, over $500,000 worth of bourbon was stolen out from under the nose of a warehouse in Phildelphia. The first paragraph:

The truck looked legitimate. The paperwork appeared routine. And in the middle of a workday, about 1,800 cases of bourbon were loaded onto the truck as if it were just another shipment.

Later in the story, the explanation for how this happened is nearly identical to these tech thefts:

Newman said investigators believe the theft may be tied to a "complex ring" targeting high-value consumer products. The perpetrators appeared to impersonate an existing trucking company, using a company name, phone number and other details to gain trust and secure the load, he said.

"They basically try and look like, sound like ⦠a legitimate trucking company," Newman said. "They spoof the company name, they spoof the trucking dispatcher."

In the company's news release, it said the theft appeared to have been carried out with knowledge of "logistics operations and product movement schedules," suggesting planning and coordination.

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