burnerburnson

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by burnerburnson 3y ago
You're underselling the problem which is that they profit off your addiction. Time you could be spending creating art, exercising, or learning a useful skill is instead spent watching an endless stream of junk videos hand-picked for yo
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by burnerburnson 3y ago
The average engineer at Boeing makes $120k/year. That's about $50k less than what a new grad with no experience will get from big tech. Boeing doesn't have a culture problem, they have an idiot problem. The idea that you can
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by burnerburnson 3y ago
> errors and unsafe acts will not be punished if the error was unintentional. No sane organization would ever implement this. If someone repeatedly makes mistakes, they're going to get fired even if the mistakes are unintentional. A
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by burnerburnson 3y ago
This is not a gotcha question. It's a smoke test: something that should be really easy to get right. This is like building a calculator that can't get 1+1 correct, and then complaining nobody would ever need a calculator to calcul
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by burnerburnson 3y ago
> Google doesn't want to offend or be racist This is where you're wrong. A non-trivial percentage of Google's workforce does want to be racist and does want to offend. And despite the fact that this group is a minority in
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by burnerburnson 3y ago
We didn't allow them to do anything. They're just not accountable to us. If you've been following Harvard's anti-Semitism drama over the last 4 months, it appears they're not really accountable to anybody. Neither U
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by burnerburnson 3y ago
No, the page title is "How an African streaming service dethroned Netflix." And that was also the title posted here originally. Also, Showmax most definitely does not have more subscribers than Netflix. That is only true if you li
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by burnerburnson 3y ago
That's a much better title than what was posted originally. You should apply for a job as an editor.
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by burnerburnson 3y ago
If the streaming service isn't even popular enough to refer to it by name, it has not dethroned Netflix.
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by burnerburnson 3y ago
Personally I find it depressing. He could have retired years ago to work on a passion project. Why is he still dealing with the soul-sucking internal politics of a mega-corp? Unless he somehow enjoys walking on egg shells all day, it doesn&
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by burnerburnson 3y ago
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by burnerburnson 3y ago
I don't understand the secrecy about firing somehow. If I were an employer, I'd want my remaining employees to know that what the fired person did was unacceptable.
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by burnerburnson 3y ago
I bet you have a hell of a time trying to buy gas. Do you pick Diesel, 85, 87, or 91?
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by burnerburnson 3y ago
The only thing I like about it is that it makes it easy to know whether I should care about this person's opinion. Sure enough, the blog post was completely deranged -- to the point that the author even tried to present it as a given t
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by burnerburnson 3y ago
I'd guess the majority of pedestrians who are at fault for accidents are vagrants who can't or won't pay for any damage they cause. I don't see well-to-do businessmen jumping into the road all that often, but I do see de
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by burnerburnson 3y ago
I regularly pass people on the right and then cut them off getting back into the left lane just so that I don't have to be stuck behind someone I can't see around. The tinted front/rear windows really piss me off because they
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by burnerburnson 3y ago
The end of the article was bizarre. This did not remind me of Trump at all. Most of it is the exact opposite of Trump who is usually criticized for being rash and not picking his words carefully enough.
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by burnerburnson 3y ago
Most socialists only hang out with other socialists. This has tricked them into believing capitalism must soon be coming to an end because everybody they know hates it. It's pure delusion. Capitalism isn't coming to an end any tim
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by burnerburnson 3y ago
What does that have to do with anything? Using Google Ads is not a requirement of having your website be accessible through Google Chrome. It's not analogous to this situation at all.
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by burnerburnson 3y ago
The recent push to relax education standards in the US is only going to make problems like this worse. For example: https://www.oregonlive.com/education/2023/10/oregon-again-sa... I can see it already in my c
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by burnerburnson 3y ago
Google has a union. It costs thousands of dollars per year to join and primarily focuses on political issues like lobbying management not to pursue contracts with the US military. And even if they had a good union, I fail to see how it woul
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by burnerburnson 3y ago
The onion made me watch an unskippable ad before I could watch the video, and then started another ad 30s into the video. Incredible. No wonder they're irrelevant now.
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by burnerburnson 3y ago
Nice. One step closer to finding the enzyme that gives urine its delicious flavor.
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by burnerburnson 3y ago
The fact that you think employers are legally required to give in to employee demands is truly bizarre. Even stranger is the fact that you seem to think such a law would be a good thing if it did exist.
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by burnerburnson 3y ago
How could it be illegal to refuse to bargain? If want to sell my piano for $1000, am I legally required to lower the price if someone tries to bargain with me?
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by burnerburnson 3y ago
My Facebook feed is almost entirely comic strips like Calvin and Hobbes. If they are AI-generated, the AI is doing a really good job. I doubt "Facebook is being overrun" is an accurate description of this situation.
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by burnerburnson 3y ago
No. What an ignorant question to ask. Any halfway decent lawyer would pursue all available avenues to defend their client. Challenging the Constitutionality of a law is not an admission that the client has violated said law.
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by burnerburnson 3y ago
He's trying to say that California's law banning false advertising must be Constitutional because libel is illegal. It's a non-sequitur though. Libel and false advertising are not the same thing.
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by burnerburnson 3y ago
That logic doesn't pass muster. Imagine if a state passed a similar law and then started piling fines on newspapers for misleading reporting. Clearly, the mere fact that the newspaper is a corporation doesn't dissolve its speech r
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by burnerburnson 3y ago
They are state-owned media for an authoritarian government that is hostile to Israel. They are incentivized to make Israel look bad.

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