Kylekramer

Paycheck to paycheck surveys are just vibes, last time these companies ran this survey 36% of people making over $250k said they were living paycheck to paycheck: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/03/wealthier-americans-live-pay...

It is cool for young people to doom over money and spend all day looking at much richer people on on social media. Main character syndrome.

Casinos do fine. Robinhood probably won't be the next Vanguard but they've essentially created the casual betting market version of investing.

Feels like this is an entirely unrelated topic, but they aren't extremely different:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slur

1a : an insulting or disparaging remark or innuendo

And to the point, in NYC media circles, it is nearly the equivalent of an actual slur which is why I called it that. Just one writers want to use as opposed to one they think it is inappropriate to use.

Cause I have worked in NYC media and know that Vice writers use "landlord" as an insult?

The impetus for this piece was someone wrote a tweet that got very popular implying Google is somehow trying to cover for "landlords" by calling them "property owners". Vice writers are upset about that and would prefer to use "landlord" cause in their culture it has a negative connotation.

I object to "articles" that are essentially just popular tweets puffed up. Don't think that is good journalism and don't think it needs much more detail.

This is an article nearly entirely built around a viral Tweet regarding "landlord" cause Vice writers live in a strange world where that is essentially a slur they want to use, and then found two edge cases to make it an "article".

This is where the weird negativity around billionaires taking loans is odd, even as someone who doesn't particularly like Musk. Sure, if their stock holdings keeps increasing in value, they can handle the loans easily and come out ahead on the deal. But that isn't a given, so what is the issue?

Reed Hastings would currently being losing a lot under this scheme.

This piece is mostly a response to how people here thought the author was too paranoid about being honest in an exit interview. And the answer is unionization?

I 100% agree you should be a mercenary at work. Look out for number 1, HR isn't your friend, etc. But being so paranoid you can't even speak your mind in a nearly zero stakes situation of talking to your company before you leave speaks to a very negative outlook on work that seems honestly exhausting.

And more to point, if you are a good mercenary, unionization only harms you.

Buzzfeed's purpose was to make money. Buzzfeed News was a semi-successful attempt to take money from advertisers who preferred high minded NYT/WSJ type audiences by gaining the reputation of "no, no, you see Buzzfeed News is the serious part, it actually does good stuff!".

It didn't work because the financial cards are stacked against print media, there is basically NYT and then tech billionaire charity cases like The Post and The Atlantic.

So this is a bit silly, but I got today's Wordle with a somewhat lewd slang for a female body part for the second word.

Tried replicating in the NYT version, and said it wasn't in the word list.

They've shown whether an app has ads for over five years: https://www.androidpolice.com/2016/04/28/the-play-store-star...

People will hack their ovens to run cleaning cycles without locking for pizza making purpose.

This reminds me of the Key and Peele robber sketch when the heist plan is to get a job at the bank, work there 30 years, and get a regular paycheck so the bank is giving you the loot without ever suspecting it.

Technically "fair", yes. When you lost by over 40 points, it is also pointless.

You can't win the game, work the ref.

Online pollsters mostly "pay" their respondents, and did just as poorly as phone pollsters this go around.

Existence of Tier 3 reduces Tier 2's value more than money taken from Tier 3.

NYT's sales pitch to advertisers is access to the intellectual/monetary elite. Saying "here, you can access only the less spendy ones" isn't going to be good.

Yup, that is the idea. Obviously it would be less useful than standard headphones for a HN reader, but the mass market may disagree.

For example, to use the parent cliche, my sister got my father AirPods this Christmas despite me saying it is probably a bad idea. And it has gone unused because he doesn't grok Bluetooth even in the simplified AirPod way (also, his iPhone is too old to support it natively). But if I gave him a pair of headphones and said "press this button, it will play Van Morrison and Sly Stone", he would use it in a heartbeat.

I've idly thought that Spotify should get into hardware. Headphones and/or speaker, purchase it connected to your account, and one touch button to a stream of music you like.

Obviously a million times easier said than done, but has to be a better margin business than where they currently are and would be good lock in.

Sounds like a pretty big loss for Rebecca Lawson, person of CA.

I have to imagine that Vox Media is not going to allow people to write for them for free for a number of reasons, and the community the website developed is probably a main reason why they wrote there.

Lot of people are confusing "following standard procedures" with "immune from consequences". To be honest, looks like the employee got a few sympathetic people to sign off on an inappropriate use of a tool. According to the Verge, there are two other people who are also being disciplined.

Raises hand.

"Hey, I think we shouldn't cancel this project."

"Not your decision."

End scene.

There actually really isn't a "large percentage" difference in generations on global warming: https://twitter.com/aedwardslevy/status/1191047875511357440

Bloc is harder to categorize given it is a party mostly to promote one province's preferred policies. In general, their positions are fairly left wing because Quebec itself is quite left, but has a few oddball positions that skew right.

Platform (en francais, bien sur) is mostly leftish positions with an emphasis on making sure Quebec gets their cut: https://www.blocquebecois.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Pla...

Would have given Liberals a more convincing victory given that the Canada left is split into three to four parties while right just has one.

The pizza joint hired the teen, I contracted the pizza joint to get me a pizza. The teen did it a shitty way that is hard to be expected.

Randstad hired the people, Google contracted Randstad to do a job. Randstad's people did it in a shitty way that is hard to expected.

It's a pretty fresh analogy.

If I order a pizza and the stoned teenager from the local joint runs over a pedestrian, am I ethically responsible? I didn't tell them to not hit people when getting my meat lovers to me and did say I wanted it ASAP.

It tries and fails to address it. I could barely count the number of zeros I would have to put in front of the 1 in the percentage of Facebook's photo data this meme covers. And a good portion of their dataset will have EXIF timestamps. Training an algorithm on the meme only would be insane waste of their data set.

The crux of the story was a person testing east coast chargers had enough range when he parked for the night, had the cold sap their range, and then was unable to make it back to the charger to point he needed a tow. It was at the end because it was a recounted story with a climax.

Maybe you just need to defend mega corporations less and not assume other people are dumb.