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majani commented on X's new country-of-origin feature reveals many 'US' accounts to be foreign-run   hindustantimes.com/world-... · Posted by u/ourmandave
Meekro · 23 days ago
Worth noting that these foreign accounts are pretty small. The biggest foreign pro-MAGA account mentioned in the article is "MAGA NATION" with ~400k subs, with the others being in the 10k-100k subs range.

Contrast that with legit pro-rightwing accounts: @tuckercarlson (17M), @benshapiro (8M), @RealCandaceO (7.5M), @jordanbpeterson (6M), @catturd2 (4M), @libsoftiktok (4.5M), @seanhannity (7M).

majani · 23 days ago
Color me shocked that libsoftiktok is an actual US account. I was certain it was a foreign operative
majani commented on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues   cloudflarestatus.com/inci... · Posted by u/imdsm
lordofgibbons · a month ago
How did we get to a place where either Cloudflare or AWS having an outage means a large part of the web going down? This centralization is very worrying.
majani · a month ago
Now that network effects and data lock-in have taken root, downtime is not as big of a concern as it was in the 2000s
majani commented on Denmark to raise retirement age to 70   telegraph.co.uk/world-new... · Posted by u/wslh
TFYS · 7 months ago
Tax wealth. I know that's a very hard thing to do due to the mobility and political power of capital, but we need international co-operation and just do it. That's where all the money is and where it's going at an accelerating rate.
majani · 7 months ago
Any solution that starts with "if we can all..." is no solution at all
majani commented on CAPTCHAs are over (in ticketing)   behind.pretix.eu/2025/05/... · Posted by u/pabs3
lentil_soup · 7 months ago
that it reduces everything including culture to just one metric, money. Are you a fan of a band? can't go because you got outsold by some rich person that maybe cares or maybe not, it doesn't matter, they just have more money that you.

The space at a concert is limited so some form filtering will have to happen, but if the only metric is market price that's a pretty sad society specially when we're talking about culture IMO

majani · 7 months ago
Two big leaps in your answer: 1. that the person paying more is rich and 2. that the person paying more likely doesn't care about the band

The way I see it, it is also highly likely that the person paying more is of average income and just convinced themselves to pay more because they are superfans

majani commented on The Origins of Wokeness   paulgraham.com/woke.html... · Posted by u/crbelaus
jrm4 · a year ago
Black person here.

Like most discussions of "woke" and "wokeness," this one too fails HARD by not fully and directly addressing the origins of the term -- and by "fails hard" I do mean will almost certainly do more obscuring than clarifying by starting from an information-deficient premise.

Including, e.g. "The term 'woke' has its origins in the Black American community as a signifier of awareness about ones political and social situation..." is a bare minimum.

majani · a year ago
I'm also black and growing up I had the impression that "woke" referred to left-leaning conspiracy theorists and activists. 9/11 truthers and gay rights activists were the main woke groups of the Bush era
majani commented on Dropbox announces 20% global workforce reduction   blog.dropbox.com/topics/c... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
ericmcer · a year ago
It always seemed common sense to me that once a piece of software became stable and profitable you would need a much smaller engineering staff than when it was being built. The opposite seems to happens and orgs 10X their engineer headcount once they start making money.

It makes sense to keep some high performers and a few redundancies to stabilize/modernize it and make small improvements, but it feels like tech got really bloated with these massive corps who were trying to burn as much as they could to keep all the VC money flowing. Take like Uber having a team that built and maintained a chat app just for internal use, and every single big org having a bunch of teams responsible for various "some_dumb_name" that is the "custom X for 'Y'" where smaller teams just use the OS solutions to those problems.

majani · a year ago
What you are talking of is only possible in companies where the founder didn't take VC investment. Once you take VC money, you get on the treadmill of infinite growth to satisfy investors. That makes companies do strange things in pursuit of this impossible goal. Like hiring for the sake of showing growth in headcount, hiring people to branch into unrelated verticals, hiring people with big resumes just to say you have them on the team etc
majani commented on Dropbox announces 20% global workforce reduction   blog.dropbox.com/topics/c... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
wbl · a year ago
Avoid lifestyle creep! I have to say I'm bad at this myself: somehow it all adds up, while each individual expense doesn't look so bad.
majani · a year ago
One thing I've come to realize is that the larger your social circle, the more prone you are to comparisons and hence lifestyle creep. You can see this where the careers that involve a lot of socializing (sales, entertainment, law, finance etc) are known for having flashy people. And the careers that you can do as a loner (programming, quant, researcher etc) are known for having miserly folk
majani commented on Jeff Bezos killed Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris   cnbc.com/2024/10/25/jeff-... · Posted by u/donsupreme
Molitor5901 · a year ago
To play Devils Advocate for a moment: Why do we need, or even want, a newspaper to endorse a President? How does it not undermine a paper's journalistic ethics to be neutral and fair?
majani · a year ago
And it's also bad for business. I think people on either side of the aisle underestimate just how tilted the other side can get when you go against them
majani commented on Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby peacock" are AI generated   twitter.com/notengoprisa/... · Posted by u/jsheard
chongli · a year ago
The old internet seems to be doing much better. But it lost most of its users in the last 15 years..

What do you mean by this? How do you find the old internet?

majani · a year ago
You're on it right now. HN is a very old site with old users and old mods that links to other old sites
majani commented on How America's universities became debt factories   anandsanwal.me/college-st... · Posted by u/car
skrebbel · a year ago
I don't like this type of comment because it's makes it seem like that this was all planned like this on purpose (by some cabal of evil schemers, I suppose?), but without the need to provide any evidence that that's indeed how it went, because nothing of the kind of is explicitly claimed.

Things can go wrong without people scheming to do evil. It's not helpful to twist "these and these circumstances combined to produce a bad outcome" into a plan description unless you bring at least some evidence that it was, in fact, planned to go like that.

majani · a year ago
The reality is that people constantly vote for well-intentioned, empathetic interventions that have adverse economic effects in the long run

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