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MomoXenosaga··on Intel discloses $7B operating loss for chip-making unit
They became like Mongolia: China's bitch.
MomoXenosaga··on Stability AI reportedly ran out of cash to pay its cloud GPU bills
Rookie numbers. How much did Uber lose? Wirecard?
MomoXenosaga··on Weak rules allow ultra-processed foods like Lunchables on school menus (2023)
Children don't get to decide what they want to eat otherwise it would be pancakes and french fries every day.
MomoXenosaga··on Financial systems take a holiday
In my country on a public holiday everyone is free to spend money so all the stores and restaurants are open all day. What are people supposed to do on a holiday if not consume product?
MomoXenosaga··on Financial systems take a holiday
Money never sleeps.
MomoXenosaga··on Children need risk, fear, and excitement in play
People feel like their children deserve things in life which requires financial stability. Poor people having kids is seen as asshole behaviour.

Just having your children learning to swim costs 1000 euro!

MomoXenosaga··on Children need risk, fear, and excitement in play
I won't ride a bicycle in the UK because the British despise anything that isn't a car. People will literally cheer if a cyclist is mowed down.
MomoXenosaga··on Nintendo is suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu
Keep in mind that it's not about winning or losing in court. Most people don't have the money to fight. So they give up as soon as they get a letter from a lawyer.

Justice costs money.

MomoXenosaga··on WinRAR 7.0
WinRAR is still recommended in piracy circles.
MomoXenosaga··on Apple to wind down electric car effort after decadelong odyssey
My mom drives a small Citroen C1 and never opened the hood. Cars are already pretty damn reliable.

As I understand it it's usually the software that goes bad they have the whole engine thing down to a science.

MomoXenosaga··on Rise of fast-fashion Shein, Temu roils global air cargo industry
Its just Primark taken a step further.
MomoXenosaga··on Rise of fast-fashion Shein, Temu roils global air cargo industry
It's only an issue because Shein is Chinese.

Nobody cares what Western companies do in Kenia or Bangladesh but the knives come out for China moving up the value chain.

MomoXenosaga··on Boeing missing key elements of safety culture: FAA report
Short term profits. Literally nobody gives a shit anymore what happens to a company ten years in the future.

Outsourcing and building the Max fast led to good numbers at the annual shareholder meeting. Arguably it still does because what is anyone going to do? Buy Airbus? They have waiting lists too.

MomoXenosaga··on The creator economy can't rely on Patreon
Sponsors want something in return. Reminds me of Rembrandt who got into trouble because he didn't beautify his clients enough and went for art instead...
MomoXenosaga··on Senior Boeing employee on why he won't fly a MAX: Just Get me Off This Plane
Airbus has factories in the US and employs a lot of Americans.
MomoXenosaga··on Senior Boeing employee on why he won't fly a MAX: Just Get me Off This Plane
Planes fell out of the sky all the time in the 1930s-60s and it didn't deter the rich, famous and powerful.

Because if you wanted to travel from Amsterdam to Batavia by ship it would take weeks...

MomoXenosaga··on The Real-World Locations of 14 Sci-Fi Dystopias (2014)
The technology in Gattaca is already among us. Parents screen their DNA to find out if they have any hereditary diseases.

It's estimated that there won't be anyone with Down syndrome in a few decades.

MomoXenosaga··on Tech has graduated from the Star Trek era to the Douglas Adams age
I specifically use extensions to nuke web design and make the internet readable- which is the point of a blog.
MomoXenosaga··on Tech has graduated from the Star Trek era to the Douglas Adams age
Whenever someone on HN starts whining how the internet used to be better I just mutter "pop ups".

Someone invented ad blockers for a reason 25 or so years ago.

MomoXenosaga··on Falls are a leading cause of bone breaks, brain injuries for U.S. seniors
I almost fell in the bathroom. Bought myself a fall bathroom rug the next day. The last thing I want is the embarrassment of EMTs wheeling my naked body into an ambulance.

It was a painful reminder that I'm starting to get old.

MomoXenosaga··on Bitmagnet Allows People to Run Their Own Decentralized Torrent Indexer Locally
Considering many countries block torrent sites I wouldn't chance it.
MomoXenosaga··on How China Built BYD
Yes let's hope Trump doesn't win.
MomoXenosaga··on How China Built BYD
Musk has many goals. He also does drugs and gets involved into politics. There's only 24 hours in a day.
MomoXenosaga··on Strike at the Knee: Review of the Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943
Stalin was also pushing for the allies to do something constructive.
MomoXenosaga··on Strike at the Knee: Review of the Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943
Nazis don't want peace their entire ideology hinges on perpetual struggle.
MomoXenosaga··on Residents' lives still in limbo a year after East Palestine toxic derailment
Railways rarely go through wealthy neighbourhoods. As the expression goes "born on the wrong side of the tracks".
MomoXenosaga··on Detroit's abandoned tunnel systems open door to another world
This is what anti city people don't get. My mom grew up in a small religious village and left for the big city because she wanted a life.
MomoXenosaga··on Peter Thiel Backs Doping-Friendly Olympics Rival – The 'Enhanced Games'
I don't think we should legalize 15 year old girls being pressured to ruin their bodies with drugs so that they can win a gold medal for their country.
MomoXenosaga··on 'Stupid,' 'shameful:' Tech workers on Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan's rant
Yes it's politics and working with computers and man-children all day is poor training. Stick to your lane tech billionaires you couldn't win an election if you were the last person alive.
MomoXenosaga··on The Failed Saint: On George Orwell's India
This is a kind of racism.

Brown people have every capability to be just as cruel, heartless and devilishly cunning as white people.

We don't know who invented slavery and we'll never know but when European explorers arrived they did not introduce the concept. Nor did they introduce war, superstition, poverty, starvation or inequality. There's no such thing as the "noble savage".

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