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breitlingon Shein owner fined $1.9M for failing to notify 39M users of data breach

Shein is also accused of using forced labor [0] and there have been many instances of workers leaving notes in clothing pleading for help [1]

[0]https://impakter.com/how-fast-fashion-giant-reacted-to-help-...

[1]https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/shien-tikt...

breitlingon Micron picks Syracuse for computer chip plant that would bring up to 9k jobs

>An over expensive cesspool of the house owning NIMBY class with terrible traffic and disregard for driving rules

It's actually even worse than that now. With the massive influx of immigrants recently, there are now 2+ families sharing one apartment. It's turning into the worst of the ghettos in many areas. Traffic is worse than ever. GO trains are fuller than ever.

Many people are escaping to Alberta. No respite in sight

breitlingon Kazakhstan’s president: We’re moving full speed ahead toward reform

ok. Go easy in the kool-aid.

breitlingon Amazon built a new unit to fix its engineering culture

> legacy Java

I'm starting to feel very old

Is Java considered legacy now?

breitlingon Head-On Crash: 2009 Chevrolet Malibu vs. 1959 Bel Air (2009)

A big thank you to all the engineers who made my car safer. Feels good after watching this

breitlingon Zoho became a $1B company without external investment

The founder and CEO, Sridhar Vembu, is very much publically aligned with right wing extremists in India, where he lives.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.thewire.in/article/economy/ac...

Vote with your wallet and your conscience

breitlingon At $249 per day, prison stays leave ex-inmates deep in debt

>All but two states have so-called “pay-to-stay” laws that make prisoners pay for their time behind bars

What? Had no idea about this whatsoever and I consider myself a well-read person. Damn.

breitlingon Apple becomes first tech giant to explicitly ban caste discrimination

From what I hear from my Indian friends, this behaviour is quite ingrained. Like other racism, it will be challenging to prove.

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Couldn't agree more. This woke bullshit is getting out of hand.

breitlingon SpaceX said to fire employees involved in letter rebuking Elon Musk

Plus a little thing called Tesla

breitlingon Ask HN: What to get for my brother's 50th birthday?

Only caveat with this is that it could potentially be a hindrance for someone getting life insurance.

I recently applied to a couple companies and they all asked me if I had flown an airplane in the last 12 months.

breitlingon The rise and fall of Cathie Wood, controversial Wall Street investor

Please don't forget Archegos. They lost $20 Billion in two days. Lol

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-04-08/how-bill-...

breitlingon Eight hundred employees resign after WhiteHat Jr asks them to work from office

Haven't heard from Pradeep in a while. Do you know how all those cases progressed?

breitlingon The Coca-Cola Company Suspends Its Business in Russia

LoL...

Your bias is glaringly obvious here. You mention Palestinian munitions, but completely leave out Israeli phosphorous bombs [0], organ harvesting [1], illegally occupying land, etc, etc,

0. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-22310544

1. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/dec/21/israeli-pathol...

breitlingon Doctors call out Spotify for letting Joe Rogan spread ‘false and harmful’ claims

I could see what they are trying to say because I hear the same thing all around me.

I'm in Ontario, Canada. There are regions with 90% vaccinations rate (Toronto) and still the hospitals are full and we are in lockdown. As laymen, people do question whether anyone knows what they're doing.

Toronto has been one of the most compliant cities for masking, social distancing, and vaccines. Even then we are not spared.

breitlingon In Karachi, hot weather is normal but 44°C feels like you’re going to die

Unfortunately, this seems to be the new norm.

Even in Canada, we are breaking records for heat. Temperatures have reached 49 C / 120 F

Despite that, I believe Canada will be a major recipient of these climate refugees when places just get too hot to live in.

That'll also be an option reserved for the privileged.

breitlingon San Francisco recorded a 753 percent rise in car burglaries compared to May 2020

That is still a crazy number

breitlingon Nobody has found a use case for blockchain

We are using blockchain for identity verification in Canada (verified.me)

7 banks and 4 telecom companies are nodes on the network. They provide the identity details of a person.

Very interesting use case. Take a look

breitlingon 80% of tech could be built outside IT by 2024, thanks to low-code tools

Reminds me of the exchange between Katie Couric and Sarah Palin along the same lines:

COURIC: And when it comes to establishing your world view, I was curious, what newspapers and magazines did you regularly read before you were tapped for this — to stay informed and to understand the world?

PALIN: I’ve read most of them again with a great appreciation for the press, for the media —

COURIC: But what ones specifically? I’m curious.

PALIN: Um, all of them, any of them that have been in front of me over all these years.

COURIC: Can you name any of them?

PALIN: I have a vast variety of sources where we get our news.

breitlingon Ask HN: Where would you incorporate in 2021?

Yes that's a fair point

breitlingon Ask HN: Where would you incorporate in 2021?

You may have Dubai confused with some of their neighbors. In Dubai Women can drive a car, don't have to wear a veil, and they can move around freely

breitlingon South African variant can break through Pfizer vaccine, Israeli study says

It irks me that we call it the South African variant or the UK variant, but it was sooooo off limits to say China virus.

breitlingon A record label bringing Iranian music to the world

Oh man, that was some video. Thanks for sharing.

breitlingon Volkswagen will not change name of U.S. operations: sources

They really are learning from Elon

breitlingon Canada's parliament votes to label China's persecution of Uighurs as genocide

Don't forget, Justin said he admires China

breitlingon Fueling Reddit’s Future

Not OP, but...why should I need an app to browse a website?

breitlingon Jack Ma Is Missing

I don't think we should get involved at all, but was just arguing that we do care what other countries do within their borders. That's all

breitlingon Jack Ma Is Missing

Lol... Really?

We have delivered "democracy" to many countries, whether they want it or not.

Evidently, it seems it absolutely is our business how countries conduct themselves within their borders.

breitlingon Bitcoin value surges past $30k

When i read news like this, I think of the guy who bought a pizza for 10,000 Bitcoin in the early days.

Hope he had thousands of more bitcoins for himself.

breitlingon Bitcoin value surges past $30k

Yep. That's a slippery slope