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I use Uber in SF all the time, and while it's absolutely more expensive than it was during those go-go years, it's actually an even better experience than it was before (specifically on how fast it is to get a driver near you).

I think this is just a problem for tech-y nerds. Almost anyone can just buy into a specific smart home ecosystem (like Hue) and use that for everything. Never had a problem.

Have you used a DAF before? Shares actually do not have to be given to a specific charity when using one, at least not what most people would consider a "charity" when they use it colloquially -- this first charity is there mostly for bookkeeping. You are correct that DAF contributions are considered charitable donations in the year they are made, however.

I think it's because they're making money by selling access to your residential IP to people overseas to circumvent geo-blocking. And that's if you're lucky -- probably the expectation should be they're installing malware.

Great, Canadians get to pay some shady VPN company $10-$20/month just to be able to use services the rest of the western world can for free.

Interesting, this bug was filed before even the first version of Firefox was ever released -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_early_version_history. Impressed that they've kept the bug tracker history working for so long.

can't tell if this is satire or not

> the effects of my work strategy and behavior on my salary and position can be quite pronounced

I think you vastly overestimate the impact you can have on your career at a company of that size.

Seems pretty off, Department of Labor clocks it more around 1.8m https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/...

I think it depends how you look at it. For me, it's a pretty small price to pay to look at Slack here and there, whether over the weekend or on vacation, to get paid significantly more. Rarely do I have to actually put in more than an hour or two during these times, and I can very easily take that time off during the work week.

While I share some of the same frustrations as the author, I have a really hard time getting on board with the tone of most of these kinds of posts. It seems like they've gotten so far into frustration with work that it's crazy to me they wouldn't make a change. Personally if I were feeling even 50% or 25% as frustrated, I'd seek to quit, or at least a leave of absence or another role in the company.

For a free, Anki-native version of this see https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1713698257

or perhaps it's "I'm tired of the incessant climate change propaganda"

if you're still upset about climate change you're probably 30 years late to the party.

owning people was never part of the bill of rights

I don't think it's obvious to everyone why heat records being broken are clearly or unequivocally a problem. These projections we've seen from climate scientists have always been off, why should I trust them about the impact of a warmer climate?

problem is, unlike other issues that can have positive local impacts, the biggest downsides to climate change are global. doesn't really matter that as the US/EU our emissions have been flat for decades now if china and India are shooting up like crazy.

GPS is US government invented, owned, and operated. Reagan made it free for use by anyone.

What's funny is that these bad reviews actually do show up on the RSS feed, so you can read them even after they're removed.

Are you saying that these companies should have zero net head-count growth in 3.5 years, during which their quarterly earnings grown 50-100%?

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/GOOG/alphabet/net-...

I'm not sure exactly who you're referring to, but your average tech worker is not "so damn rich." Even people at FAANGs in the Bay Area or NYC often have roommates until their 30s and only then can they take a huge loan out to purchase a home on a dual income.

Just because there's people that are in an even rougher spot doesn't make tech workers "annoying." Take a look at the income inequality, it may surprise you.

Even if this is the case, 23andMe should have done better here. Why are you letting people log into an account from a brand-new IP with no additional verification? You have their email, you could have at least done 2FA with that. And as other commenters mentioned, CAPTCHA would have also made this slower / more expensive. At my employer, we use both, and so it is not the case that this "could be done on literally any website."

For such a mature business (that is publicly-traded, no less!) it is shameful to allow credential stuffing on the scale of millions of accounts.

You've seen how discussions work in real life right? There's no requirement to stick to some topic at hand, it's a free-flowing dialogue. That's what you're seeing happen in this discussion board too.

and good luck to you getting anything done through European courts!

i honestly can't tell if this is satire or not

how would google counterattack? this is a court case brought by the government.

He's not American, hell he's not even from a western country.

If their calendars are full of meetings, how would being in an office change anything?

Is commenting on HN not a form of self-expression? Looks like the poster has a pretty extensive history of comments and posts.

if my company asks me to come back, this will be my approach. I'll keep doing what I've been doing remotely and if they want to fire me, fine