The super anachronistic output makes this really difficult. One of the examples was the battle in the war of the roses but all the imagery suggests over a hundred years later.
Readit Newsbthater commented on Show HN: Time Portal – Get dropped into history, guess where you landed eggnog.ai/entertimeportal... · Posted by u/samplank2
bthater commented on Apple: The only big tech giant going against the job cuts tide blog.pragmaticengineer.co... · Posted by u/cpeterso
Apple is a real company. Amazon, Twitter, even Microsoft to some extent are not.
Apple makes things. The software side works with it, but it's a hardware company. They aren't entirely dependent on conjuring up value out of thin air, they have supply chains and manufacturing and whatnot.
Even Amazon, which deals with physical objects, doesn't really make anything.
Maybe I am missing a point, but both Amazon and Microsoft have devices that they manufacture and distribute. While they may not be profitable at the price they are sold they provide value to customers that isn't conjured from air. Additionally they also sell access to data services, while the data may not by physical, the data centers are physical objects that are designed and built by both AWS and Microsoft.
bthater commented on WhatsApp fined 5.5M euro by lead EU privacy regulator reuters.com/technology/me... · Posted by u/Bender
Is there any information as to what they violated that is resulting in the fine? This article is particularly sparse on details.
bthater commented on Heat pumps of the 1800s are becoming the technology of the future knowablemagazine.org/arti... · Posted by u/adrian_mrd
Wow, really? Prices seem much higher than that in Seattle. A friend got 3 handlers totaling 24k BTU for like 12 grand.
Seems to just be Seattle tax, I had to get a water line replaced in my home and the quotes were $2-7k higher than I've seen suggested in other regions. Tradework here is inflated likely by the salaries of tech workers in the city.
Toxic is not the highlighting of breaking the build with a trophy, it's what gets associated with it.
Imagine an "ugliest shirt" trophy, given out to whoever wheres the ugliest shirt of the week. At a fashion magazine, this may be toxic shaming. At a tech-heavy startup it might have people start buying the worst shirts they can to try to win it.
If the attitude associated with getting the trophy is condemnation, that's bad. If it's a reminder that everyone fucks and be careful, that's fine.
Oof that hits a sore spot. I was the 2016 Winner of the Ugliest Shirts Award at one of the first technology companies I worked at. Being singled out in front of all your peers for poor fashion sense and then the ensuing obligatory laugh ruined my opinion of that company's leadership. I would strongly encourage anyone in a professional environment
(especially those in leadership roles) to keep comments on appearance to yourself.
I'm unironically sure it's helping their engagement numbers. Someone with the app installed on their phone is going to engage much more frequently.
At least anecdotally this push was the final push I needed to stop using reddit. I went from probably browsing for a few hours a day to maybe once or twice a month when a friend links me a post.
bthater commented on Benefits of ‘looping’ kids with teachers for multiple years newsnationnow.com/solutio... · Posted by u/pelt
This seems like a practice that would work for some students and hurt others. Some students may not do well with a particular teacher. Being stuck for years with that teacher is a disservice to the student.
This was my experience in schooling two decades ago. I had the same teacher for Grades 1, 4 and 7. This teacher and I did not work well together and I noticeably got worse grades in grades 4 and 7 than I had in the surrounding years.
I am sure the teacher was sick of me by the third year as well.
bthater commented on Housing is at the root of many of the rich world’s problems (2020) economist.com/special-rep... · Posted by u/ethor
I'm sorry but your answer to Q1 is extremely naive. There is no way that activity from renters will even remotely approach the power of those who own property in politics. The latter group can lobby and make campaign donations, the former can't exactly...
The best thing you'll get is a campaign promise to do something about it, but not much action. The only way something will actually be done about it is if the effects of it become economically catastrophic or people start rioting en masse.
The latter group can unionize like the tenants union of Washington[1]. Unions can lobby on the behalf of their members and make campaign donations based on their dues. While their power may not be as great as the amount of individual homeowners who can independently donate a union is a good mechanism here for renters to advocate for affordable housing. Here in Seattle there are multiple unions that have lobbied to local city council members for increased tenants rights such as 6 month notice for increase in rent[2]. _Things_ are being done about the problem at the local level across the country through unionization of renters and workers.
[1]: https://tenantsunion.org/ [2]: https://council.seattle.gov/2021/09/27/sawant-congratulates-...
bthater commented on Uber is laying off 3,700, as rides plummet due to Covid-19 techcrunch.com/2020/05/06... · Posted by u/kkcorps
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