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Wow, that sounds great. You can reach me at email mlr@mm.st

Well, CCP owns both, so...

Yet...

What do they enable?

Is what they enable worth $40.000 to the enthusiasts?

Thanks, I will check that.

I tried to get her out and visit her family (in a different country), but she is isolating more and more. I will try to be more persistent.

I probably wouldn't. I am getting more concerned recently only because I got the vibe somehow from her during new year that I was somehow involved in some of that shady stuff, which those conspiracy groups claim is going on under our noses. I work in IT for a bank currently and am doing pretty well as a consultant. Somehow she cannot really "compute" that.

Man, I remember when I lived in China and we would have the wifes of our engineers sitting out in the stairwell crying because the husbands worked so much and were never home. They certainly did work a lot. Some of them I could never beat at being early in the office and leaving late and I find myself quite good at that I would say.

Not sure. She has one of those fiber boxes with branded router provided by the operator. I should try to access it next time I visit her - it might have some sort of parental control.

I was into Bitcoin all the way back in the days, when they were free (I believe I read about it here on HN) and we had faucets and all that up until they were worth around $300. I had great hopes for the technology and was mostly just following stuff on r/bitcoin while also trying to built little proof of concept projects on the side, that could maybe turn into some useful gadget like a payment processing device or similar things.

I got out because it turned into exactly a religion. There was no room for questioning the technology or considerations about whether this was really as useful as we thought it would be.

My Mother is being sucked into this whole QAnon, Covid, 5G conspiracy universe. I dont know what to do about it. She is sounding more and more unhinged every time I talk to her. I am thinking about somehow getting her IP blocked by YouTube, but I am not entirely sure about how the best way would be. Maybe I could run LOIC against YouTube from my laptop next time I visit her, but I am not sure it is enough to get one blocked.

Of course..

Okay, yes actually never really considered that as someone who never had a single sick day in my life. It might be....

Reminds me of that time when I went to an Apple store to have them check my failing MacBook Pro screen. After waiting an hour for some fat dude to come along with an iPad in which he apparently had some sort of store service app installed, he concluded that the price for getting the screen fixed was $800.

Went to an independent shop and had the problem fixed for $100.

Fuck Apple.

I dont quite remember the meeting room names in Mathilda 3 over at the Apple on Mathilda Ave, but if the MA03 (in the screenshot) refers to "Mathilda 3", then this story is totally believable.

I worked at Apple and it was absolutely horrible. I remember sitting on the train and actually thinking about killing myself. Reasons were many, but mostly I just didn't fit in there, I think.

I felt like people there were also a bunch of whiny little bitches to be honest. Always having some problem with a hand or a back or some family problem or whatever which demanded that they take days off. There were a few people whom I felt were probably talking some shit behind my back, but I couldn't really believe it until I read this story. It was just a horrible horrible place and I can also recognize that thing about having a predecessor, who was apparently a "bad person" and thus had to be terminated.

Every other day I would have people telling me how great a place it was and how lucky we were to be working in a place so big while still having that startup feeling. I have worked at startups and I always just imagined to myself that 40 year old "dude" who refuses to grow up. That is Apple..

Never again.

I got dragged through the whole white boarding experience also for the first time and it was fun enough, but in hindsight, they should just have asked me if I would suck Steve Jobs dick, if he came in that door. The answer to that question alone would have provided them with enough information about whether I would have been a good hire or not.

I am 45 and have never every experienced a work place like that. Always had positive feedback and never had any problems with colleagues.

Why would ad agencies reject an app?? You are not allowed to advertise Tinder clones??

People have lost trust in the system.

Its pretty much the worst thing that can happen to systems that are not supported by laws of nature. Fictional structures implode once trust is gone. Financial systems, ideologies, religions.. Gone..

No law in nature dictate any of the made up structure we submit ourselves to. They only work because people trust them. Trust lost, system down.

Your comment proves his point.

Cultural enrichment at its finest

The social order you speak of is a fictional construct that you choose to subscribe to.

Why pay $10 to have my ass tracked, when I can have my ass tracked for free

Haha... Sure..

I foresee see blitz build up of troops within the next week in eastern Fujian.

Young programmers are only idolized because they are the only ones you can convince to build your sausage app for pennies.

Nothing much has changed: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/10/24/something-rotten-i...

Are we witnessing the greatest fraud in history?

Man, Silicon Valley really is the sweat shop of the IT world. Why anyone would strive to go live and work there, is beyond me.

I built Android phones for a living for many years and I could probably root a device very quickly and get it up and running just like in the old days, but I seriously cannot be bothered anymore. Only viable alternative for me right now is an Apple device. I wish there was an alternative that just worked out of the box - and I even work for Apple these days...

Yeah, I hear those potatoes are the shit over in Palo Alto along with pink BMW's for 16th birthdays.