alopha

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by alopha 4mo ago
Amazon is does zero quality control on listings, it's just AliExpress which larger margins. At least the reviews at Aliexpress often include exhaustive detail & photos by the terminally skeptical.
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by alopha 4mo ago
Starlink is a cash machine because the costs are externalised to the rest of the company, all in it's a money pit.
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by alopha 4mo ago
There's no promo packet material in spending money on making the product a bit better with up to date imagery so why would anyone bother?
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by alopha 5mo ago
That's a lot of waffle to try and say 'we've got a really scary next model coming too real soon, promise!'
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by alopha 5mo ago
The idea that the spending needs to grow linearly with the growth is a damning indictment of the mindset of the vast ineffectual mess that is the cybersecurity industry.
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by alopha 6mo ago
There's some pretty cool stuff (and startups) out of EPFL!
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by alopha 6mo ago
Now we're down to just an upper house absolutely stuffed with hundreds of washed up political hacks given a comfortable retirement and party donors. And a few priests.
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by alopha 7mo ago
I still don't understand this idea. A different interface every time would be the highest cognitive load imaginable.
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by alopha 7mo ago
I've spent my career designing and building systems to help humans understand data and control computers. While I find this hard to swallow it's also hard to argue with. Tens of thousands of engineers and designers rebuilding slig
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by alopha 7mo ago
Trump was threatening Netflix for having a democrat on the board last week. They seized 10% of Intel. They forced Nvidia to tithe 25% of China revenue into a slush fund. The FCC has been used to censor comedy. The ship has sailed and the on
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by alopha 7mo ago
And just stop buying those cigarettes. This is where cultural differences matter, the US has much less concern about the negative societal impact of products than many countries, particularly its erstwhile allies. It's also precisely w
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by alopha 8mo ago
Tesla's factories have been responsible for deaths, systematic injury issues and wage theft - https://sites.uab.edu/humanrights/2025/03/30/human-rights-co... Pretending BYD is winning because of Chi
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by alopha 8mo ago
Something tells me when the 'something' is a major trade deal with China suddenly it'll be 'oh my god how could you'. The US wants a EU vassal, what they're going to get is an EU that realigned itself to be pol
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by alopha 8mo ago
37Signals tried that with once.com . Given they're now giving those away for free and haven't said a thing about it suggests it was an abject failure. What you're paying for with SaaS is outsourcing - deployment, maintenance,
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by alopha 8mo ago
Everyone knows. But America is has made it very clear it has no allies, this means every middle power is near obligated to re-position themselves to be roughly in the middle between the two super-powers.