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“Burying COVID victims accounted for an increase in home prices due to less land!”

“Cremating COVID victims increased global temperatures by 0.2C”

That’s because you don’t understand what deprecated means.

Deprecated means “still supported but its use is discouraged.” It does not mean “no longer supported.”

Tesla has lost market share in Europe and North America. To give a company $600B market cap and up 5x while it is losing market cap is pretty astounding to me.

This is the same BS that Uber said about themselves. Only in the last few months have you found themselves dismantling everything except ridesharing and food delivery.

In fact, if someone is falling off a building and you shoot them dead midair, that’s also murder.

And yet I don’t know a single person who has been infected yet. It’s crazy how skewed the infections are towards communities.

They still haven’t definitively determined if it’s asymptomatic, pre-symptomatic, or both that spread the disease.

Most parents of school kids are younger than the 60. That age group has less than 0.2% death rate.

That’s if no one else is behind. This is different. Everyone is behind. This is more akin to being in school during a war. Some countries missed entire years of school and we’re fine.

Of course you will see negative impacts this year. Online education sucks. But assuming kids are back in school September 2022, will there be lasting effects? No. If there are gaps, they will be addressed because all kids will have suffered the same thing, it’s not like the one kid who got mono and missed 3 months of school by herself.

He said generations worth of damage. Come on. It might hurt a kid for her SAT if it was this or next year but to think she would have long term damage from a couple of shitty years of school, that’s preposterous. Kids are made of sterner stuff than this.

Places like UK did a hard lockdown for 6 weeks and kept schools open. It completely worked. Yes, kids can transmit the virus, but it appears that as long as the ADULTS limit their interaction with other adults, kids have only a limited way of encountering infections.

You don’t need to manage your credit cards. The only reason why you need to is because the credit card companies have developed a flawed system that makes transactions very easy without any security. But they designed it this way so that payments are frictionless.

If this is the system they want, they should deal with the consequences. The burden of fraud, etc should rest on their shoulders, and it currently does. The more burden they put on our shoulders, the less it is for them. It’s like boiling a frog. When they implement PIN numbers, then they will be able to completely put the burden of liability on our shoulders. They want the convenience of quick payments with none of the liabilities.

What you’re talking about is presumably hundreds of virtual credit card numbers being distributed, which is even more of a burden for us. And then figuring out which number to cancel etc.

Credit card companies currently have a lot of incentive to catch fraud early because if you need to cancel a card, you will switch it to another card from another company, presumably.

Let them handle it.

With fraud protection that is mandated by the government, and that most credit card companies provide, virtual credit cards are not necessary.

All that does is push the burden of fraud management into consumers when it is clearly the fault of merchants, processors and credit card companies.

By implementing things like virtual cards or even PIN numbers, they are doing this to limit their own liabilities and push the burden onto consumers. Currently, consumers don’t need protection. The protection from credit card fraud is largely excellent, at least in the US.

We as consumers should not let this erode away by these articles trying to convince us that credit card fraud is our problem, not the credit card companies’.

If you can block those ip addresses, you can also redirect those ip addresses to other ip addresses.

The fact is that you’re wrong. There is an thorough internal review process. It’s not just a rubber stamp. So please stop spreading misinformation. What Dr. Gebru went through was standard.

She was not fired. She offered to resign if her demands were not met.

The only difference is that the timeline was not of her choosing. She knew exactly what she was gambling for when she wrote those words. Why would Google want someone around who doesn’t want to work at Google? Better to accept their resignation and let them go immediately. It happens all the time. I once gave 2 weeks notice and my boss said I might as well leave immediately since there was no point in hanging around (I was consulting and on the bench). It happens.

“No way in hell”?? Sounds like you know nothing about how business works. Plenty of companies use their stock price to buy other companies, regardless of what you think the value is.

Zoom missed a good opportunity to buy slack. They could have used their inflated stock price to purchase it snd consolidate into a WFH platform. The only weakness is probably the Zoom CEO who probably wouldn’t know how to run both businesses. But I think that would have been a better match than salesforce

I’ve never worked in a company in Silicon Valley (I’m up to over 10 now over 20 years) where racism would just be silently tolerated. Never. I would certainly speak up against a manager who was casually racist or wouldn’t promote a good black engineer, knowing full well I might have to quit.

I’m sure racism exists but that type of overt racism that this article suggests, in the middle of SF especially in tech, is hard to believe.

So I take the accounts of some sort of systemic racism within Coinbase with a lot of skepticism. Especially the account of the support people who were forced to move to Portland. It sounds like all except one person was forced to move to Portland and both white and black people were asked. There’s a lot missing in that accusation which makes me think they are twisting things out of proportion.

I would love a more detailed account or talking with others. Could there be racists working in Coinbase? Sure. But this article doesn’t cover enough for me to not be skeptical without getting both sides of the story.

If everyone bought YouTube Premium, would content providers make money anymore? Or would all the money go to google?

NK is barely surviving. They don’t have enough ammunition and fuel for a full blown war. They don’t care about religion or doctrine. They are not trying to spread communism. They have no delusions they can take the Korean Peninsula.

Without anything motivating themselves besides just trying to survive, the motivation of everyone to fight is very low. That doesn’t make for a good dedicated army. Most NK soldiers would surrender as soon as they could.

Same reason why the Korean War ended. China wouldn’t like a US-friendly country so close to its borders. NK is a great buffer zone and a great way to keep US distracted over South Korea. If NK gets overtaken it means Korea would extend all the way to china’s borders which they would not accept.

“If only I never bought a phone...”

Meanwhile, she self-admittedly said she broke all her rules regarding the phone. Also her child grew up into a teenager. Kids don’t stay the same forever.

Why would NK generals ever agree to a war? They are on the top of the food chain in NK. If they went to war they would lose instantly. Better to just sabrerattle and get some benefits rather than start a war for no reason. There is no ideology or religion behind NK unlike groups like ISIS. If Kim Jong Un tried to push for a war, he would be deposed in a second and replaced by someone who “gets it”.

They missed such a good opportunity to call it the “Unearthly Large Telescope”!

By definition, the median IQ is 100.

Yes I meant AB5, my mistake.

Prop 22 was not the way to do it. I’m glad that terrible law was correctly voted down by California. It is clear that people want flexibility. The fact that Prop 22 had to have over 100 exclusions because it broke so many other industries reeks of bad code smell. It was a badly written law and badly written laws need to be reversed. In the end, drivers got better protections and guarantees but remained flexible and independent.

I’m still on Windows 7 and probably won’t move off unless my computer dies. I don’t engage in high risk behavior so my chances of getting a virus through web sites is low but I am a little worried about malware through ads. But I would rather risk it than switch