oldjokes

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by oldjokes 7y ago
Dude. A bunch of billionaires just got away with completely tanking the economy and getting bailed out for it. Zero people ever even talked about the possibility of anyone going to jail. Everyone got their bonuses. Nobody suffered any conse
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by oldjokes 7y ago
I have worked at two startups now where we made the fatal mistake of being profitable. If you make this mistake then the investors will swoop in and demand you spend more on marketing and AWS infrastructure, because we're scaling up to
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by oldjokes 7y ago
One does not follow from the other. Many countries are vastly reducing carbon while not investing in nuclear at all. We're already at the point where the carbon impact of energy production is negligible in many areas, there are much bi
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by oldjokes 7y ago
Replace "cities" with "any organization that is not tech first" and you'll still find hundreds of win 7/vista/xp machines that have never been patched, and ad-hoc network closet/cloud hybrid rigged so
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by oldjokes 7y ago
Anything short of admitting "we fundamentally screwed up, and are rethinking the poor decision to pair this engine with this airframe" as well as "we are reviewing all our design processes and how the FAA oversees every step
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by oldjokes 7y ago
They are truly innovative in the sense that they finally exposed the fact that much of tech startup funding is just a ponzi scheme by pushing it all the way to the IPO with no plan to ever make money. That's a new thing, usually only m
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by oldjokes 7y ago
I hope after the utter trainwreck that is Foxconn in Wisconsin every local government is being more skeptical of these corporate welfare deals. I'm really tired of seeing fancy corporate lawyers outfox local politicians over and over a
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by oldjokes 7y ago
I wonder how severe the backlash is going to be, not just for Google but all the tech giants. Our anti-trust laws were mostly written around monopolies abusing pricing power to rip off consumers, but with the intersection of data and hostin
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by oldjokes 7y ago
I wonder what "use" means here. Is it now illegal for them to log your traffic at all? I think that would be the ideal way to phrase the law, you can't even write to a logfile/dbms much less do anything with that data un
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by oldjokes 7y ago
We could slice 10% (maybe less) off the military budget and pay for college for everyone, forever. This "who pays" nonsense is just that: nonsense. I'm sure the Navy would find a way to make do with a mere nine aircraft carri
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by oldjokes 7y ago
Absolutely. I am excited by the prospect of hospitals shutting down and doctors being unable to find a job, it's long overdue for them to finally come back down to earth. I can't imagine a quicker way to reform healthcare than tha
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by oldjokes 7y ago
This is a totally valid move in my opinion, as well as just circumventing the trainwreck of a healthcare system to seek treatment overseas. If congress continues to be negligent in its duties then this is really the only viable path forward
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by oldjokes 7y ago
You can download all your data and see what they have on you here. Be warned that this is an extremely upsetting experience for many people. https://takeout.google.com/?pli=1 You can then delete your google account under &q
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by oldjokes 7y ago
Is this really a valid test anymore with 50%+ of outstanding shares being held by index funds? Who actually controls the companies when shareholders don't really exist like they used to? What does shareholder primacy even mean anymore?
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by oldjokes 7y ago
"Median pay for a Bachelor's degree is below 1990 levels" This is really something. 30 years, and we're moving backwards. This is completely unacceptable, we need to rethink the foundations of our society if we're f
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by oldjokes 7y ago
This is the most arrogant and condescending comment I think I've ever read on HN, you spend so many words dancing around it, just call web developers stupid and lazy instead of wasting so much space. It's not good enough to for me
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by oldjokes 7y ago
To be fair to Google every company in every industry is doing this more and more. It's one of the first things that happens when a merger or private equity takeover happens- aggressively purge full time and move to temp workers for all
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by oldjokes 7y ago
I really like garlic, I'll even chew up a clove raw occasionally. But good god man, 15-20 is wayyy too much, you can't eat that and be allowed in any social scene outside of north jersey.
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Deutsche Bank Says Software to Detect Money Laundering Had a Bug(nytimes.com)
157 points by oldjokes 7y ago|108 comments
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by oldjokes 7y ago
I don't think this 99% figure is true based on my personal experiences, but even if it was accurate a few months ago it's not anymore. People sure as hell are paying attention to which plane they fly on now, because they have to.
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by oldjokes 7y ago
This is completely wrong, and there is plenty of data that says so. Especially when you start talking about business and frequent travelers, they are notoriously picky and will cancel flights based on a plane class or even when a specific a
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Google Changes Abortion Ad Policy(nytimes.com)
1 points by oldjokes 7y ago|0 comments
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by oldjokes 7y ago
One of the reasons I didn't buy a Tesla was because I didn't want Elon tweeting about my actions if something happened and I died on the road. The salesman laughed at me when I said this. While I acknowledge this is extremely unli
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by oldjokes 7y ago
I think airline cabins are absolutely the best example of a class warfare issue, especially since so many other industries are trying to copy the cabin stratification model. If that's not a good example of different classes rubbing up
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by oldjokes 7y ago
Yeah, getting out and volunteering at a local animal shelter changed my life in numerous ways. I cringe at people my age who still live self-centered ladder climbing lives, always trying to optimize whatever metric, because I used to be tha
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by oldjokes 7y ago
No you are totally right, I'm sort of aware of their power. I'm just pointing out how obnoxious it is that we just stratified online websites into the elites and the commoners and invented terms for them to make people feel as spe
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by oldjokes 7y ago
I love how we're all just using this invented marketing term "influencer" as if it's actually a real thing (it is not a real thing). It is slightly less obnoxious than just calling it "first class" vs. "co
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by oldjokes 7y ago
If you follow some links it wont take you long to find your favorite celebrity's personal cell phone number. I think that's kind of a story.
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by oldjokes 7y ago
Right, in theory that's what we've always been told about how it works, but that is not what is actually happening. There has been almost zero correlation between unemployment and wage pressure for 20+ years now. In all industries
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by oldjokes 7y ago
The really weird thing about wage stagnation is that there are millions of jobs going unfilled, companies are so desperate for people that they can't find anyone and are just dumping cash into stock buybacks instead of raising wages. S

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