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pie420··on Dell's sudden 5-day RTO order leaves parents scrambling to find childcare
you don't think it's physically possible to drop your kids off at school early? The school doors are locked until 8:39am and there are zombies and werewolves patrolling outside making entering the building early, or waiting outside physically impossible?

Like it get that remote work is wayyyyyyyyy better and RTO sucks, but let's not make up lies

pie420··on The unstoppable rise of phone theft
There are thousands of watch shops that are not "official rolex" repair shops, but are very high quality and will never do a background check lol. And a rolex really only NEEDS a service every 10 years or so.
pie420··on You Probably Don't Need That Green AG1 Smoothie
because most people agree that eating fruits and vegetables is non-debatably "good for you" and most of the ingredients in AG1 are just vitamins and dehydrated fruits and vegetable powders.
pie420··on This is my dead grandmother's Special Day
best of luck. it really hurts and always will, but one day the grief will recede and you'll be left with all of the warm memories of your father. it may take years to process the grief, it took me about 3, but it gets better.
pie420··on The Netherlands has returned some stolen artifacts to Indonesia
Lots of native american tribes committed genocide and destroyed other tribes. If Tribe A made some artifacts, and then was genocided out of existence by Tribe B, which was then conquered by the Tribe C (USA). Would you want Tribe B to have ownership of the artifacts of tribe B?
pie420··on 'Three New York Cities' Worth of Power: AI Is Stressing the Grid
each ship lost was maybe $10-20 million and years exploring were performed by a couple of ships operated by dozens of skilled workers with a very clear path to profitability and timeline (succesful journey to india/americas, and in under 2-3 years).

That's orders of magnitude less than the thousands of employees and billions of dollars being deployed with no clear business model or profitability in sight.

pie420··on Why did reporters for years end their stories by writing "-30-"? (2007)
wow what a great article -30-
pie420··on Tech Jobs Have Dried Up–-and Aren't Coming Back Soon
what problems that are solvable with software are out there? Most problems society faces today is too much entertainment, too much technology, not enough peace quiet and solitude, low quality subscription slop.

Most problems in society today require less tech, less software, and better quality hardware.

pie420··on Meta AI: "The Future of AI Is Open Source and Decentralized"
IBM Social Media Head: "The Future of Social Media is OPEN SOURCE and DECENTRALIZED"

This must be a sign that Meta is not confident in their AI offerings.

pie420··on Apple mobile processors are now made in America by TSMC
TSMC is governed by the Taiwanese government, which is a puppet government controlled by the US government and military. TSMC answers to the US directly, as without US support, Taiwan falls to China almost instantly. Nobody besides the US can prevent a blockade of Taiwan
pie420··on Apple mobile processors are now made in America by TSMC
Taiwan and TSMC are already USGov assets... why would they need to sell...
pie420··on Why Scrum is stressing you out
they give managers visibility, deliverables, stuff to fill their calendars with, and automates their job into easy, if inefficient daily meetings.
pie420··on Why Scrum is stressing you out
There is very little chance that what you are working on has never been done before. Most likely, you are writing simple code to do simple things. These things can be broken down into simple tasks, and these simple tasks can be estimated.

Unless you are working on ChatGPT-6, i assure you, you can definitely estimate how long things will take. your estimates will not be perfect, but they will be good approximations for guiding development.

Even OpenAI by now probably is pretty good at estimating how long the next ChatGPT version will take to develop, since they've done it 4-5 times already.

Alway always distrust someone who says "we are doing things that have never been done before". At the very bleeding edge (OpenAI, SpaceX), you are iterating on something that has been done many times before, but with a small innovation.

pie420··on Boom Supersonic's XB-1 prototype aces 2nd test flight
SpaceX, Boeing, Northrop, Lockheed are all owned by the US government. The government just allows the american public to invest in these companies.
pie420··on Is 'No tax on tips' a distraction from the fight to end sub-minimum wages?
"Let me also state that, residing in a European city, I do tip my (cheap) barber every time I go because I feel they do an outstanding job at 20% less the price than most competitors, and that work deserves praise in the form of a tip."

Do you also tip your local bike shop or computer store when they sell you a computer or bike that is outstanding and costs 20% less than most competitors? Do you tip your car salesman? Do you tip your bus driver when he/she is 20% faster?

pie420··on Starliner Is Such a Disaster That Boeing May Cancel the Entire Project
Can we cancel Boeing as a company? Fire all of the C-suite, break up space, commercial airline, and defense businesses into separate corporations
pie420··on Meta cancels high-end mixed reality headset after Apple Vision Pro struggles
aww man i was looking forward to consuming even more content and seeing even more relevant ads in virtual reality!
pie420··on A pedantic review of the Las Vegas loop
every company manual should only tell employees to evacuate immediately in the event of a fire and to notify the fire department, and a map of exit routes, and meeting points. That's all you need.
pie420··on Show HN: Double – Design and invest in your own stock index
seems like a lot of work, man-hours, and funding just to give people lots of different ways to get slightly worse returns than SPY
pie420··on Korea EV explosion prompts charging rethink, sparks safety fears
dozens of ICE cars catch on fire every day, nobody cares. 1 EV catches fire and everyone loses their minds.
pie420··on Alcohol Consumption Patterns and Mortality Among Older Adults
ah, so you want researchers to not focus purely on providing high quality data so that you can make an informed decision about the sweet spot, but rather you want researchers to inject their own thoughts and opinions into their research and to suggest behaviors. what an interesting take
pie420··on Alcohol Consumption Patterns and Mortality Among Older Adults
That should be obvious to anyone over the age of 6
pie420··on NASA is about to make its most important safety decision in nearly a generation
This is ridiculous boeing apologism. the starliner craft is broken, and only semi-operable on it's maiden voyage. the spacex craft has flown succesfully multiple times without any incident, and they have data from multiple trips which was used to analyze and improve the flight. boeing does not have that.

There is a very clear safer option, and to pretend there isn't is enlightened centrism.

pie420··on NASA says Boeing Starliner astronauts may fly home on SpaceX in 2025
not performance, performance to cost ratio
pie420··on NASA says Boeing Starliner astronauts may fly home on SpaceX in 2025
NASA has been held hostage to monopoly pricing it's entire history until SpaceX came along lol. Sometimes you have to let the rot die away and let something new take its place. Boeing needs to be broken up, shaken down, and cut to a lean modern family of companies.
pie420··on Apple is America's semiconductor problem
units sold dont matter when the competition is selling $100 smartphones at a loss. The fact that one company is making 85% of the profits in an entire industry as massive as SMARTPHONES should be terrifying, but i guess we don't care about monopolism for some reason
pie420··on Twitter kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to South Bay
yeah, SF is only 800k people, it is pretty small, and the sunset, richmond, parkside, excelcior, and visitation valley neighborhoods are basically single-family subrubs.

Realistically, SF is only a city in it's north-east quadrant. the rest are cute, sleepy suburbs. And I say that as someone who lives in one of those neighborhoods.

pie420··on Twitter kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to South Bay
they will just work remote
pie420··on Twitter kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to South Bay
"very good remote work options"

You realize Teams is pre-installed on like every windows machine, right? that's literally all you need for remote work. And most people agree that remote works is preferable/more more productive

pie420··on Goldman Sachs: AI Is overhyped, expensive, and unreliable
Goldman Sachs has no reason to disseminate valuable market insights and analysis for free. All financial thinkpieces by investment firms should be disregarded as economic manipulation and propaganda
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