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DevX101 commented on Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges news.bloomberglaw.com/ban... · Posted by u/nreece

fny · 3 days ago

I'm all for antitrust, but it's a shame the Amazon acquisition was blocked.[0]

iRobot was in a distressed state then, and immediately laid of 1/3 of staff when the deal fell through. I knew a survivor of that mess. Now this.

0: https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/29/24034201/amazon-irobot-ac...

0: https://archive.is/rBn7z

DevX101 · 3 days ago

I’m glad it was blocked. Amazon gives law enforcement and ICE access to Ring camera footage. I have no doubt they’d eventually be letting cops spy inside our homes with these vacuum cleaners.

DevX101 commented on Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business investors.micron.com/news... · Posted by u/simlevesque

sgnelson · 15 days ago

I feel like the "democratization of technology" is on the back slide. For the longest time, we had more and more access to high end technology at very reasonable price points.

Now it feels like if you're not Facebook, Google, OpenAI, etc. etc. computation isn't for you.

I hope this is just a blip, but I think there is a trend over the past few years.

DevX101 · 15 days ago

Software has been moving in the right direction. Tons of open source projects for every application imaginable. But hardware has gotten more closed. You can't replace batteries in phones, they get pre-loaded with state level spyware, laptops today have about the same hard drive space as 10 years ago to drive cloud usage, and GPUs and now memory seem to be becoming increasingly cost prohibitive for consumers.

DevX101 commented on Eight Sleep adds 'outage mode' to smart beds after AWS problems left them frozen theverge.com/news/804289/... · Posted by u/ls-a

DevX101 · 2 months ago

If you care about your data privacy don't get this bed. There's really no good reason for it to phone home and tell the CEO (YC company), when you're sleeping, if you're sleeping with someone else, and when you're sick.

DevX101 commented on Sequoia COO quit over Shaun Maguire's comments about Mamdani ft.com/content/8e6de299-3... · Posted by u/amrrs

DevX101 · 2 months ago

If I had to classify the current era we're in, it'd be the "Age of the Edgelords".

DevX101 commented on Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image bitbytebit.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/recroad

DevX101 · 3 months ago

Enshittification really should be upgraded to a fourth law of thermodynamics.

DevX101 commented on Trevor Milton's Nikola case dropped by SEC following Trump pardon eletric-vehicles.com/niko... · Posted by u/xnx

DevX101 · 3 months ago

For anyone here planning on doing corporate fraud, just make sure you leave a $1-2MM line item for regulatory assistance.

DevX101 commented on US to put economic data on 9 blockchains bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/imaginaryunit01

barbazoo · 4 months ago

It’ll be good enough probably for his base.

DevX101 · 4 months ago

His base doesn't read BLS reports.

DevX101 commented on US to put economic data on 9 blockchains bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/imaginaryunit01

josefritzishere · 4 months ago

You can use blockchain with fake data. The problem isn't chain of custody. It's that the source of truth in American financial data has been compeltely undermined and lacks legitimacy.

DevX101 · 4 months ago

Yup, the president just fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner when unfavorable jobs numbers were released.

Blockchain does absolutely nothing to address this trust issue.

DevX101 commented on The Folk Economics of Housing aeaweb.org/articles?id=10... · Posted by u/kareemm

SoftTalker · 4 months ago

I think that what contributes to this view is that new construction always seems to be at the high end of the market. This makes sense, it doesn't cost the builder a lot more to build a $500k house than to build a $250k house, and building two $250k houses will take twice the time and close to twice the costs. So builders/developers are going to build what is most profitable, which is the most expensive houses that they think they can sell in the local market.

What is less obvious is that this still increase housing supply. It's not new affordable housing, but the people moving in to the new expensive houses are leaving their old houses, and the people who buy those are leaving their old houses, so eventually the price drops happen on the older, smaller homes at the bottom end of the market.

DevX101 · 4 months ago

Increasing the supply of the high end market often occurs while simultaneously reducing the supply of the low end market. This happens when landlords renovate their buildings. So it's very possible that adding supply can limit price inflation on the high end, while increasing costs on the low end.

DevX101 commented on A spellchecker used to be a major feat of software engineering (2008) prog21.dadgum.com/29.html... · Posted by u/Bogdanp

DevX101 · 4 months ago

It still is? Few engineers could build a good spell checker without external libraries, giving a database of valid words.