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by bjornnn 13d ago
the disingenuous paternalistic altruism of the intellectual and financial and political elite has a way of rapidly metastatizing into unabashed nihilistic egocentrism when their wealth and power surge far past their points of diminishing re
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by bjornnn 13d ago
you got it, boss!
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by bjornnn 13d ago
we all know how passionate the hackernews community have always been about the integrity of european progressive activist groups, it's practically all anyone talks about on here
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by bjornnn 15d ago
both ed zitron and dan luu are professional bloggers who earn their living from selling ai sensationalism, zitron using paywalls and luu using patreon. whether the sensationalism is positive or negative, either way it is a very clear confli
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by bjornnn 17d ago
if only we could have held onto our casinos in cuba, things would have been totally completely different
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by bjornnn 26d ago
destructive book scanning is pretty standard, it's the only way to efficiently get a good flat scan of the pages without a tremendous amount of human labor to correct distortion on every individual page. i'm curious about what spe
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by bjornnn 1mo ago
even when foundational patents expire, licensing agreements and copyright and trademark and other things remain legally enforceable. chinese companies actually did start investing in mips at one point but ended up getting sued. people tried
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by bjornnn 1mo ago
the significance and allure of risc-v, the reason china is investing heavily in it right now, has little to do with the technical details of how it works under the hood, it's the fact that it is an open standard not encumbered by intel
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by bjornnn 2mo ago
are you asking these questions sincerely or is this just your passive-aggressive way of saying that netbsd is dead and nobody uses it? and why does everything have to be compared to linux? isn't the whole reason we developed free and o
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by bjornnn 7mo ago
was it really necessary to blur the image of ai women wearing crop tops? is this saudi arabia?
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by bjornnn 7mo ago
was it really necessary to blur the image of the "mildly revealing clothing" i.e. women wearing crop tops? is this saudi arabia?
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by bjornnn 1y ago
America's railroad boom isn't a great example, it got us the worst rail infrastructure in the world, built by private monopolies solely for maximum short-term profit, i.e. moving freight and not passengers, and now American indus
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by bjornnn 1y ago
This would only be applicable to in-vitro fertilization, in which case there's no point in trying to remove the extra chromosome when you could just find another sperm donor that doesn't have Down Syndrome.
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by bjornnn 2y ago
The reason for Google's massive success has nothing to do with the business acumen or the innovative ideas of its founders - it's because a) in the 1990s, antitrust law in the US was pretty much dead and Google came in at just the
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by bjornnn 2y ago
These kinds of articles pop up all the time, along with all the "Web 3" ideas, and all of them seem to view the past with a sort of rose-tinted nostalgia, forgetting that the corporate business world of the 80s, 90s, and early 200
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by bjornnn 2y ago
I think the fact that Steve Ballmer could be considered a good CEO by anyone today is just another reminder of the fact that our society has lost all understanding of what a sustainable business model is and our modern conception of capital
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by bjornnn 2y ago
If anyone is an authority on who is and isn't an underrated CEO, it's world famous titan of industry Dan Luu. Who hasn't heard of Dan Luu?
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by bjornnn 2y ago
Was it really a vicious attack? He wanted to come here and tell me about his law firm and what he does and asks me what I think about it, so I gave him exactly what he asked for. And I'm not an immigrant, I was born in the US and have
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by bjornnn 2y ago
The U.S. has misused the law to exploit migrant laborers from Western Europe in the past, such as Irish immigrant workers building railroads a hundred years ago. The difference is, those Irish railroad workers were eventually able to ascend
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by bjornnn 2y ago
The person is not here to help others, he is here to promote himself and his business. Do you really think a professional multi-millionaire attorney with his own law firm came here in the middle of a work day just to socialize?
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by bjornnn 2y ago
Ah yes, those poor immigration attorneys just trying to get through life one day at a time on their six figure income, having to endure the unimaginable agony of reading the occasional snarky internet comment. Let me play you a song on the
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by bjornnn 2y ago
Stop.
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by bjornnn 2y ago
>How many more decades before the unions do their job? You're ignoring over a hundred years worth of history of the American labor movement being relentlessly battered into the ground by private power and its enormous influence over