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Comment Re:I'd say the sooner Trump is impeached the bette (Score 0) 284

so we can unfuck all the things he's fucked.

But the reality is, Trump is a symptom, not a disease. He was elected by the people.

People didn't vote *FOR* Trump. They voted *AGAINST* Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris.

When Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are your idea of good presidential candidates, you get Trump. Until Democrats pull their head out of their ass, we're fucked.

Comment Re:its too late (Score 1) 33

Things like the GDPR got us these stupid cookie warnings on every website which are useless.

Sorry, but that is wrong. You can fully comply with the GDPR without cookie warnings. The GDPR does not mandate cookie notices. Cookie notices are malicious compliance by the surveillance-driven adtech industry.

If you are not tracking people, you don't need a cookie notice. Period.
If you are only using first-party cookies for functional reasons, you don't need a cookie notice. Period.
If you are using third-party cookies to track people and share their data with others, then you must have their consent to do so. Even then, the law does not mandate a cookie notice.

So, how do you comply with EU law, without a cookie notice, if your aim isn't malicious compliance?

(a) Do not not track people. (b) If people want to be tracked they have to go to your website's settings and turn on third-party tracking. (c) Done! No cookie notice necessary.

Comment Re:I'm no nuclear engineer (Score 5, Insightful) 113

First, you need to translate this:

The California-based startup announced in October that prospective customers had signed non-binding letters of intent

Startup = Scam company looking to make some quick money for the CEO and then disappear.

Non-binding letters of intent = Never going to happen.

Comment Re:996 (Score 1) 82

Basically you don't have time for anything so at some point if you have an errand you need to run you end up having to pay somebody else to do it even if it's something as simple and stupid as this.

In my younger days I was working two full time jobs. That's 16 hours a day, 6 days a week. If you would have offered me a service to deliver cash to me I would have said "That's fucking stupid".

Comment Re:"Some results could be sponsored" (Score 1) 26

.... some results might be sponsored, but Mozilla says neither it nor advertisers will know who’s seeing them.

Then what is the point? Why would you pay to advertise if you don't know who is seeing your ads? That makes no sense.

You are in the ad business or you aren't. You have to pick one.

Comment Re:This is just the news media (Score 2) 151

It's the same old scam from the first "dot-com boom" of the 90s. You are expected to work 27 hours a day, 8 days a week. And then the company shuts down and you are left with nothing, while the founder/CEO sails away on his golden parachute to start a new scam.

"But this time it will be different." -- the song of the sucker.

Comment Re:Seems healthy. (Score 1) 26

I get the unpleasant impression that we are doing a corporate reenactment of that period in European history where basically everyone was ruled by Habsburgs who were incestuous and incompetent in equal measure.

Nah, it's simpler than that. This is just good old fashioned gaming the stock market.
- Announce a big project or big investment that makes people think your company is doing great things
- Stock price goes up
- Profit!
- A year later, people have forgotten that you never actually built the big project you announced
- Lather, Rinse, Repeat

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