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- Comment on Imagine if Amazon and all jobs out there were cooperatively owned? 1 day ago:
Jesus fucking christ you guys don’t have any idea about how owning something works.
- Comment on After laying off 9,000 employees , Microsoft records $27.2 billion profit in latest quarter 5 days ago:
How would one working at said company who wants to work NOT get laid off?
To get a sense of proportions…
www.macrotrends.net/stocks/…/number-of-employees
So they’ve added 100 000 people in about 10 years and are now laying of 9000.
Probably by a combination of 1) not being incredibly incompetent / toxic and 2) not being unlucky enough to be one of the very very few that are doing something management thinks is not needed.
- Comment on After laying off 9,000 employees , Microsoft records $27.2 billion profit in latest quarter 5 days ago:
The layoffs happened just recently, this profit has nothing to do with them. We’ll see in the next few quarters what the effect of these layoffs will be.
- Comment on After laying off 9,000 employees , Microsoft records $27.2 billion profit in latest quarter 5 days ago:
This highlights a fundamental misunderstanding on how companies are supposed to operate.
- Comment on YSK: Deezer, the music streaming service, is owned by a company whose Founder and CEO is a Russian Oligarch with connections to the Kremlin and donates to the American Republican party. 6 days ago:
We know this because Weird Al used his year-end video to make the world aware that, in return for his tens of millions of streams, he got around $80.00 from Spotify for a whole year.
How does that work? 10 million streams pays more than $20k in royalties.
- Comment on YSK: Deezer, the music streaming service, is owned by a company whose Founder and CEO is a Russian Oligarch with connections to the Kremlin and donates to the American Republican party. 6 days ago:
Guess how much money the artists get when you do that?
- Comment on YSK: Deezer, the music streaming service, is owned by a company whose Founder and CEO is a Russian Oligarch with connections to the Kremlin and donates to the American Republican party. 6 days ago:
That way the artists get even less than with Spotify.
- Comment on YSK: Deezer, the music streaming service, is owned by a company whose Founder and CEO is a Russian Oligarch with connections to the Kremlin and donates to the American Republican party. 6 days ago:
I bet there’s some Linux application that is able to connect to it and create a virtual output device you can pick for the tidal app, or any other audio.
That might be possible, but the native Spotify uses Spotify Connect, which means that the device can independently play the music. I just issue it commands from the client.
A similar thing exists for Tidal: Tidal Connect. But unfortunately the Linux client does not support it. Android, MacOS and iOS do, though.
–vk
- Comment on YSK: Deezer, the music streaming service, is owned by a company whose Founder and CEO is a Russian Oligarch with connections to the Kremlin and donates to the American Republican party. 1 week ago:
Yeah seems to me that Spotify is the way to go. And for the artists you really like, buy the album or donate to them in addition to listening them via streaming.
- Comment on YSK: Deezer, the music streaming service, is owned by a company whose Founder and CEO is a Russian Oligarch with connections to the Kremlin and donates to the American Republican party. 1 week ago:
Tidal’s client doesn’t seem to support outputting to devices like Wiim in Linux. Spotify client does.
- Comment on Too bad we can't have good public transportation 1 week ago:
Chinese government can print an infinite amount of Yuan out of thin air.
That’s not how any of this works. Sure they can do that, but they cannot control the effects of having done so.
- Comment on Too bad we can't have good public transportation 1 week ago:
I would say that there’s quite a lot of reason to believe that infrastructure investments can be one of the best ways to help poor people rise economically. Which has obvious paybacks.
worldbank.org/…/infrastructure-and-poverty-reduct…
This still requires creating infrastructure that is actually needed, otherwise it’s just wasting money.
- Comment on Too bad we can't have good public transportation 1 week ago:
A feature of rail is very high building costs. If they wasted money on building HSR on a lot of places where it’s not needed, this means there’s gonna be a debt that never gets paid by the utilization of the rail.
So it’s not about maintenance, but the up-front cost.
- Comment on Too bad we can't have good public transportation 1 week ago:
- Comment on They're completely serious 1 week ago:
They taste great though so thanks for coming by.
- Comment on The Star Wars Outlaws flop - Guillemot blames waning interest in the franchise 2 weeks ago:
A) And yet, not long after, Andor was massively successful.
Andor was awesome in addition to being successful. It feels weird when those two things coincide.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
This is so cute.
I live in country that has plateaued for the last 2 decades.
- Comment on Ok, I'll pay you the 1995 price 4 weeks ago:
I once was in a lunch group where one of the people honestly asked the restaurant staff about wifi, standing almost next to this sign. The guy smugly pointed at the sign and said nothing.
It was cringy for everyone involved.
- Comment on Viewers like you 4 weeks ago:
When what you think you have learned is not the truth, probably.
- Comment on Viewers like you 4 weeks ago:
People are in their bubbles. People who say that woke is bad are shit. People who say that woke is great are shit. The concept is being used for good and bad for cynically manipulating people to be at each others’ throats all the time because that’s how fucked up shit companies make amazing amounts of money these days apparently.
- Comment on It is what it is 1 month ago:
They are fully capable of extracting profile data from you even if you’re in incognito/private mode. And it doesn’t matter what browser you are using.
- Comment on It is what it is 1 month ago:
Next headline: Google promises to delete the Firefox private window data they were holding
- Comment on (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ 1 month ago:
They’re too poor to have museums so by default yoink
- Comment on Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon 1 month ago:
What do you mean, “no further replies”?
- Comment on Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon 1 month ago:
Does that imply that we should avoid getting people everything they need?
- Comment on Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon 1 month ago:
So why is Vladimir Putin not in Hague?
- Comment on Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon 1 month ago:
remotely
hah!
- Comment on Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon 1 month ago:
They obviously have way more than zero qualms about killing innocent civilians. Gaza would look a lot different if they did not.
- Comment on Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon 1 month ago:
Unprovoked? Really?
- Comment on Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon 1 month ago:
They’re an Islamic Republic. That puts a certain kind of upper limit to their intelligence.