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runamok
·há 11 dias·discuss
Most Americans conveniently forget the whole "nation of immigrants" thing once they are a few generations removed from the situation. Ladder kickers the lot of them.
runamok
·há 25 dias·discuss
I like how the fact that most likely this theoretical company is not a company of 1. What about the employees frankly doing most of the work? Are the customers getting a good product at a fair price? Are their vendors getting paid a fair and sustainable amount? Are the regions they exist in getting paid the correct taxes to repay them for the services and infra they provide? Contrast how Steve Jobs treated most Apple employees when Apple went public vs. how Steve Wozniak did. I do agree a founder that creates something valuable (in both financial and societal ways) is mostly a good thing. But when you look closely enough at how gig workers are treated you start wondering if the billionaires minted at Uber, Amazon, etc. can ever fantasize that they have clean hands.
runamok
·há 2 meses·discuss
The issue at hand is the incredibly wealthy can pay close to nothing in income tax because they often borrow on their collateral vs. sell their holdings. Hence that 1% that PG equates to 20% tax is quite fair. Look at what Buffet says the percentage he pays is: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/warren-buffett-view-taxes-vs-.... Furthermore afaict the state proposals usually have a floor on how much of your wealth is taxed. I'm personally against the one time wealth tax by California for several reason but it only impacts those with a net worth of >= 1 billion.
runamok
·há 2 meses·discuss
By the way, I love that their stock lost ~23% after this decision. I assume the C suite thought this would goose the stock like all the other companies pulling this...
runamok
·há 3 meses·discuss
I mean just the fact that bets are being placed could have tipped off the target and made them prepared.
runamok
·há 4 meses·discuss
Behind the Bastards did a few episodes on this: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236... and they were quite entertaining.
runamok
·há 4 meses·discuss
I think of the corporate death penalty as being more appropriate when leadership knew exactly what was going on and chose profits over people. Exxon, see https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abk0063. Purdue Pharma, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purdue_Pharma. Company gets sold for parts and Cauitebgoes to prison probably for life due to the amount of lives they potentially destroyed. Pretty much all the tobacco companies knew how harmful their product and made a concerted effort to fund their own bogus studies to throw up a smoke screen. Facebook makes billions from (for example) scams and fraudulent ads: https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-is-earning-fortu.... Maybe don't throw their CEO in prison but at least fine them 10x the profit they made vs. the usual .0001%.
runamok
·há 5 meses·discuss
They absolutely will compensate you. Often they will just give you a voucher. I've even been compensated to pay for a rental car to drive myself home when things were REALLY hosed during this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Southwest_Airlines_schedu...
runamok
·há 6 meses·discuss
Aren't they optional in most cases? You can opt-out of vaxing your kids today right? They just won't be welcome in public schools. I guess the other common cohort is health care workers (which seems reasonable) per https://leadingage.org/workforce-vaccine-mandates-state-who-... More than 1 million people died in the US from the COVID pandemic so it seemed reasonable to work hard to get herd immunity but the backfire effect made that counter productive. Hindsight is 20/20 though.
runamok
·há 8 meses·discuss
How about rubbing alcohol?
runamok
·há 9 meses·discuss
Travis seems very devout as evinced by his reference to "Boob-er": https://mashable.com/article/uber-disgusting-examples
runamok
·há 9 meses·discuss
That is because there is not a cost for the disposal of the broken vacuum. Imagine if we paid by the weight of our trash. Some of the right to repair laws are trying to change that by requiring replacement parts be available to purchase. https://www.repair.org/know-your-rights
runamok
·há 9 meses·discuss
The data for long term maintenance can be found but for example the government could mandate it be published for car models to give consumers more insight and be a lever to incentivize designing cars to be more easily maintainable (e.g. not have to remove a truck's cab to replace an oil filter gasket!) https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/car-maintenance/the-cos...
runamok
·há 9 meses·discuss
40% of *growth*, not 40% of total GDP.
runamok
·há 9 meses·discuss
Here is a good podcast on his terribleness: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aEv08Zzunfc Some high points: Incredibly abusive to his employees, stole from Woz, screwed over his employees when Apple went public and Woz covered, refused to admit his daughter Lisa was his for many years. The man had great taste but the way he is worshipped in Silicon Valley is off-putting. Woz is a much better person to wish to emulate in my opinion.
runamok
·há 11 meses·discuss
Sure. My company is demoing Chainguard which is quite pricy for hardened images. Bitnami premium reportedly goes for $50k to $72k per year: https://devoriales.com/post/402/from-free-to-fee-how-broadco...
runamok
·há 11 meses·discuss
In brief you need to switch the registry from (iirc) docker.io/bitnami to docker.io/bitnamilegacy. Note that as of iirc tomorrow those images will no longer be updated. So the moment there is a high or critical cve you better have a plan to use a new image and likely helm chart or send broadcom cash. The old registry will continue to have a "latest" tag but this should not be used for production.
runamok
·há 11 meses·discuss
Does said network egress cost $50k per user?
runamok
·há 3 anos·discuss
The 30% (or whatever it is) cut in the app store?
runamok
·há 6 anos·discuss
I read a comment in a reddit thread and they said the "pro-tip" was to take a picture of the pregnancy test and up the contrast to be able to better interpret results. So a less wasteful idea would be a companion app to help with that process vs. more electronics in a landfill. (Although obvious privacy implications exist).