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CDRdude commented on TSMC expected to announce $100B investment in U.S. wsj.com/tech/trump-chip-m... · Posted by u/perihelions

preisschild · 6 months ago

> Imagine at the end of the American Civil War, a confederate army retreated to an island like Cuba or Hawaii, they took it over and have been calling themselves the real America ever since.

In reality while the confederate states were part of the United States, the Republic of China (Taiwan) was never part of the Peoples Republic of China (communist China), its the reverse.

CDRdude · 6 months ago

Analogies don’t have to be 100% perfect. The Confederate analogy gets the point across just fine.

CDRdude commented on Apple files emergency motion to become defendant in US vs. Google [pdf] storage.courtlistener.com... · Posted by u/zdw

tivert · 7 months ago

>> Plaintiffs proposed a remedial term unique to Apple that would forbid any “contract between Google and Apple in which there would be anything exchanged of value.”

> Wow

That seems a little broad. Wouldn't it forbid Google from buying Macbooks for employees, for instance?

CDRdude · 7 months ago

There’s a joke in there about the value of Macbooks.

CDRdude commented on Bankruptcy judge rejects sale of Infowars to The Onion nytimes.com/2024/12/10/bu... · Posted by u/jbegley

michaelt · 9 months ago

In theory, a Second-price sealed-bid auction will produce the same price as an Open ascending-bid auction. Every bidder will offer the true value of the item to them, and the item will go to the highest bidder at the second-highest price.

But some people might think, due to human nature, that one auction or the other gets higher prices. Maybe an open bid auction gets lower bids, because interested people start lower knowing they can bid again, then back out when they see there's a lot of competition. Maybe sealed-bid auctions work better for large organisations, as getting board approval and CFO sign-off on a multi-million-dollar expenditure takes a few days. Or maybe an open bid auction gets bidders het up and excited because they're in second place and surely no matter what you've bid, you'd always bid 5% more to win - right?

None of which is backed by theory, but if it feels true to the judge - who's to say?

IMHO the main value of buying infowars, to The Onion, was the publicity and headlines. Those are harvested now. If the auction was repeated I can't imagine The Onion upping their bid.

CDRdude · 9 months ago

The article suggests that this is is a first price sealed bid auction instead of a second price sealed bid auction. Skipping over the more complex nature of the Onion bid, the linked articles states "The total value of The Onion’s bid was $7 million" and "First United American Companies had a higher bid, offering $3.5 million in cash".

CDRdude commented on NASA investigation finds Boeing hindering Americans' return to moon flyingmag.com/modern/nasa... · Posted by u/hobermallow

bratwurst3000 · a year ago

excuse me but what is third shift welding? is this the security lvl of the welding job?thank you

CDRdude · a year ago

Third shift is the overnight shift at a 24-hour workplace. Usually that means midnight to 8 AM.

CDRdude commented on I organized a 20-acre game of Capture the Flag ntnbr.com/61/... · Posted by u/ntnbr

abeppu · a year ago

I think a giant gap in this is that the list of rules doesn't account for non-players in the game area. This planned over a large public park which presumably other people use. Do you play around people? Do you avoid them with a minimum radius out of respect, or do you weave by them if it helps prevent someone from getting your flag? Participants loved the game, but how did non-participants in the park at the same time feel about it? Did they feel uncomfortable using the park with the game on all sides?

If you and your friends play soccer in an open area of the park, probably all agree that other people should avoid setting up their picnic in the area of play. Parents and dog-owners should keep their kids and pets from entering. If you and your friends declare the whole park to be the area of play, including the playground, children's garden, bathroom, splash pad and parking lot as shown in the finished map, I think this ceases to be a reasonable expectation, but what the norms should be is ambiguous.

CDRdude · a year ago

I think there is a very good chance this game was played at night when there would be few or no people in the park. They do not mention time of day in the post, but most urban capture the flag games are played at night.

CDRdude commented on Tens of thousands protest in Germany against the rise of the far right npr.org/2024/01/21/122588... · Posted by u/geox

aurareturn · 2 years ago

  And when people are unhappy, you can sell them an enemy.

In the US, the enemy being sold to the public is China. It's China this. China that. China is stealing your future. China is stealing our technology. Both parties are happy to throw China under the bus to win some votes and hide their deficiencies.

CDRdude · 2 years ago

There’s not just one enemy being sold to the public. We are a nation of consumers and we have varied taste. Other enemies include Democrats, elites, Russia, the trans agenda, Republicans, billionaires, immigrants, fascists, and antifa.

CDRdude commented on Fired comedian ordered to get day job back after jokes ruled 'simply funny' vice.com/en/article/m7b4n... · Posted by u/danso

CDRdude · 2 years ago

In my country, we have decided that there are some reasons that employers can't fire people for any reason, and that we have protected groups. For example, my employer can't fire me because of my religion or my skin color and I approve of that. I tend to think the other protected categories are good too. I'm pretty okay with making discrimination illegal.

CDRdude commented on Spotify will reduce total headcount by approximately 17% newsroom.spotify.com/2023... · Posted by u/filleokus

qzx_pierri · 2 years ago

I suspect you didn't cancel your subscription because of Joe Rogan being given a deal at Spotify.

I think you cancelled your subscription so you could TELL people you cancelled your subscription as a result of Joe Rogan being given a deal at Spotify.

CDRdude · 2 years ago

Is that a useful distinction? In both cases, the event that eventually resulted in a canceled subscription was giving Joe Rogan a Spotify deal.

CDRdude commented on Privacy is priceless, but Signal is expensive signal.org/blog/signal-is... · Posted by u/mikece

mortallywounded · 2 years ago

Even if every user had dozens of queued up messages, I don't think it equals millions in storage costs. Maybe I'm naive, but I have a storage/database/queue with billions of records and it costs <$700/month.

shrugs

CDRdude · 2 years ago

I think some messages will cost more storage than others. I have 4 devices synced to my Signal account. Yesterday, my friend sent me a 6.8 MB cat video[1]. I presume Signal has to store this cat video until I boot up my 4th device and load the queued messages.

[1]: It was a copy of this cat video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8Ud1Cr76j8s