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“They go out of business”… is that way to say they rebrand themselves and blend in with the crowd? As that seems highly likely with a theoretically crowded but not regulated airline market.

Nah, many people willfully and gleefully put blinders on when presented a thin veneer of a statement if it supports what they want to be true.

As you point out, Elon’s stats don’t even pass a cursory snuff test in regards to what he’s trying to imply, but his champions don’t bat an eye.

So you’re clarifying that for 0.1% of HN the legality is not an issue as if those in war zones were wondering?

Wouldn’t intentional interference be very illegal to do at random? Sure, hard to get caught but isn’t it illegal?

SAR groups are often unpaid volunteers and at a minimum will be eating some of their weekend off to respond… unless those loggers are unpaid prison labor what you say is false.

Yo there’s literally articles regularly published on the names and pay of all local city employees in my city with specific call outs to the top paid ones.

While it seems you are implying that is not cool, it’s actually unremarkable and common government transparency.

Is all that matters in the world short term stock prices?

This hacker news post is refreshing but unexpected. When I’ve one googled reviews of one drive, i’ve usually found the top results are threads of IT folks raving about how great one drive is compared to shared drives.

I have always been puzzled by the threads since it’s a mess with a bad UI with bad default locations for the various programs.

Why is a cashier testing money for cocaine residue? What country is requiring gimmicky pointless stuff like that?

lol no, as an American it’s always made me think that they weren’t utterly incompetent over there. With how it looks like TikTok might be reinstate here, it’s unclear I can say the same about us.

Also, American social media companies and all others need far more regulation. But that is really a separate topic.

If russia were to try to buy meta, that deal should be blocked. If china were to try to buy meta that deal should be blocked.

Personally I think Twitter is a great example of why tik tok should be banned.

It’s a clear example of how leadership can skew the algorithm to try to influence things.

Now, in twitters case they are wildly obvious about it and everyone is starting to think they’re a joke.

Tik tok isn’t run by a buffoon so anything they do would be far more subtle

Twitter is also showing why these type of companies need far more regulation applied. But that doesn’t mean it’s bad to take other actions in the meantime.

Is tik tok even banned in your country? Since your perspective is choosing between two foreign powers controlling social media, sounds like an entirely different thing than in the US.

I find this line of argument particularly uncompelling and offensive - it’s like saying the arresting of a Soviet spy per a valid warrant by the courts is against the constitutionally rights and is also hypocritical given how the US protests against people being disappeared.

Uncompelling! The particulars matter!

By your reasoning, I have a right to hear the speech on instagram and X, correct?

Well tough cookies for me, meta and X are bith restricting my freedom of assembly. Will you go to bat for me?

They’ve imposed arbitrary restrictions on my access to speech simply because I refuse to sign up. And The government is okay with them restricting me from these public squares, outrageous!

Will you be angry on my behalf, like you are with the restriction on tik tok?

If these are truly public squares, it’s outrageous that I need to essentially show ID and give away a ton of rights to X and meta just to access the public square. Why are we not mad about that as well?

Of course the users don’t want it. Asking a fanbase if the thing they are a fan of should be banned and ignoring all other groups doesn’t make much sense. Nothing would be banned.

Well FB is American. Even though I and many people agree FB is also a problem, I think it’s pretty clear why those in Washington are more okay with an American company that they have some power over and also should ostensibly care for America versus a company that is ostensibly beholden to an adversary. (To be clear, I don’t think FB cares about America.)

I don’t really see why it’s hard to see the reasoning behind the ban even if one disagrees with it.

Take it to an extreme, imagine there were zero American social media companies in our modern world where most people get there news from social media. That obviously would be a huge security risk, having one’s population’s news being controlled exclusively by foreign states.

but your 2. implies China has control rather than the US.

Isn’t that what the government has been saying?

They also allow the scammiest ads for products that are 100% obvious frauds - pure distilled snake oil. It really brings meta’s image to the dirt. They’re like an online super market tabloid these days.

Why is the landing gear out in all photos?

deflation is good?

Is wage the only cause of inflation we care about? Guess so.

Not true about the pie not growing.

The pie did grow, so it’s a benefit to society. It just didn’t grow enough that giving the employees a larger slice didn’t slightly shrink the owner’s pie. However, The owners pie shrunk less than it would have had the pie not grown due to increased efficiency.

I wonder how these studies captures the way the workers have more money that immediately flows back into the economy, benefiting everyone.

California and in particular SF, there’s been substantial reporting on police inaction. It’s been improving but for a while there were regular stories or police watching people do felonies and not bothering to do a single thing.

That’s such a western world take.

“ How do you sleep at night knowing that you attack people based on which job they do to provide for their family”

If a line of reasoning can equally justify all the people who pushed opioids onto Americans, then it’s not a good one.

What’s your companies general location? Do you have an office where tech talent wants to work? Location is an important part of a competitive employment offer.

And I highly doubt linear algebra is a day to day requirement for a typical worker. Sounds like a case of expecting chauffeurs to know how to build a drive train from scratch.

It’s not a standard monetary dispute - one party is under duress and holding a potential time bomb that the other party needs to defuse, but is arguing over.

It’s unclear who caused it exactly, but sol-ark does not seem to be at fault unless one thinks exclusivity contracts are illegal or wrong.

It seems deye either willfully or negligently ignore their contract they made with sol ark. Or their middle men in other countries did. Deye then punished the end users for deye’s lapses.

Where does solark get blame unless the exclusivity contract is what one objects to.

Not that poster, but the heavy handedness of the state makes the US government look like a picnic when it comes to a lot of things with regards to civil society.

So many people here were angsty about Covid lockdowns here, but those were nothing compared to in China. Similarly if one doesn’t like the president or an official in the US, one is free to go around denigrating them as much as they please - not a wise choice in China.

One needs to police their own tongue and accept draconian rules.

Likewise breakfast yogurt could be either yoplait “yogurt” or plain unsweetened actual yogurt, or anything in between.

One is basically gelatinized sugar and the other is pretty healthy. If one’s classification doesn’t easily distinguish those two, that’s absurd.

Since the company the article is about is a new fintech, I’d say users should be comparing to online banks and not the old guard retail banks.

I.e. Marcus, Amex, citizen access, etc. note those are tied to very reputable businesses too.

Then there’s the hundred or more high yield online banks that are more unknown like live oak bank and others.

Choosing either of those two group to compare to, which since gotta was an unknown online bank seems far more appropriate than a legacy retail bank, and yotta’s interest rate is bad.