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- Comment on Amazon lays off 500 Twitch employees, hundreds more at MGM and Prime Video 10 months ago:
A reasonable response with worries we also share. Thanks for that.
I’m from Europe and don’t understand why this should not just be resolved with taxes on the companies.
The record profits of the companies are in my vision because the company does not have to do anything for the healthcare and pensions. So if the company does not have to care for it, but society requires it, this is where the government needs to act. Tax the companies and arrange healthcare and retirement stipends. This solves one issue by solving the other, allowing the company to keep doing what it’s doing without having to think about healthcare… that has been resolved.
Individuals then have retirement benefits and can use private retirement insurance to supplement this.
- Comment on 10x Stronger Than Kevlar: Amorphous Silicon Carbide Could Revolutionize Material Science 10 months ago:
Defense industry will make this happen if it’s viable. War industry drives much of this. So we will see
- Comment on Amazon lays off 500 Twitch employees, hundreds more at MGM and Prime Video 10 months ago:
A few hundred losing their jobs is kinda misrepresenting the situation isn’t it. If you keep seeing each company by itself in terms of firings but then group the market as a whole in terms of people with money in the market.
It’s either a few thousand with money in the company vs the people fired from that company… Or the market vs all people fired in the market during these waves.
Plus… when you are one of the fired people the impact can be deeply impactful, in the US even as far as having no health insurance. While less profit mldoes not have such an impact.
- Comment on Boeing 737 Max planes are grounded after a hole blew in one mid-flight 10 months ago:
Absolutely. Hence my original call for a criminal investigation to see if they indeed accepted the risks knowingly as then they should be held accountable.
Like I think all upper management of big oil that knew what they where doing to the planet should be tried in the Hague for Crimes against humanity. I don’t care if they are old and long retired, concentration camp guards are also still tried after all these years.
- Comment on Boeing 737 Max planes are grounded after a hole blew in one mid-flight 10 months ago:
Maybe they can rent some production space in seattle :P
- Comment on Boeing 737 Max planes are grounded after a hole blew in one mid-flight 10 months ago:
This is indeed what I meant. I don’t think that someone was actively trying to make the plane unsafe, but in the eternal quest for more profit engineers, best practices and safety reports where ignored to make the plane as cheap as possible, resulting in the current
flyinggrounded deathtrap. - Comment on UN banned Apollo Fusion's business model of using mercury rocket propellant to launch satellites into space 10 months ago:
But it was so cheap… Would they think of the shareholders!
- Comment on Boeing 737 Max planes are grounded after a hole blew in one mid-flight 10 months ago:
They really screwed the pooch with the 737 max9… it’s like the gift that keeps on giving.
I think internal documents and communication should be seized and a federal criminal investigation is in order… someone must have actively fucked with this.
Embrear and Airbus are uncorking the champagne now probably.
- Comment on Tesla lowers Model Y, S, and X range estimations following exaggeration complaints | Several popular models are now showing lower range estimates in the US. The move comes after the DOJ opened a pr... 10 months ago:
My point exactly. Maybe this data should be required to be disclosed.
- Comment on Tesla lowers Model Y, S, and X range estimations following exaggeration complaints | Several popular models are now showing lower range estimates in the US. The move comes after the DOJ opened a pr... 10 months ago:
Mine too. I more mean that what is put on the sticker for sales. That should be an accurate average range for normal use.
Yes we can haggle over “normal use” but the bottom line is that the ranges advertised should be better representative of reality.
- Comment on Tesla lowers Model Y, S, and X range estimations following exaggeration complaints | Several popular models are now showing lower range estimates in the US. The move comes after the DOJ opened a pr... 10 months ago:
All these manufacturers collect tons of data. There is no reason range estimates can’t be better.
- Comment on Google maps adding sponsored detours 10 months ago:
This would be an excellent idea for toll highway owners. If the toll is more than what they need to pay google.
- Comment on Japan prepares regulation requiring Apple to allow sideloading 10 months ago:
Wanting privacy is OK, and your link to the video on the face ID of the bank also helped explain what you where talking about.
It’s the way you wrote it that came across if you where some conspiracy nutcase and that causes downvotes.
Many people share concerns about the use and storage of PII by for profit companies and governments without any oversight on what actually happens with the data. It is good that waryness on who you provide what data to is Becoming more mainstream. I remember years ago people would look at me funny if I replied “no thank you” when asked my zip code in a store. Now a lot more people do it.
- Comment on Japan prepares regulation requiring Apple to allow sideloading 10 months ago:
Probably also for the Q-Anon level lunacy with the government apps n stuff.
- Comment on Chinese Carmaker Overtakes Tesla as World’s Most Popular EV Maker 10 months ago:
Meh, the US will slap enough tariffs on these things to make their own Autoindustry competitive again.
So will the EU.
But china has a gigantic middle-class that can afford these things, so I hope they all switch to EV en masse… it’s a win for the planet!
- Comment on Chinese Carmaker Overtakes Tesla as World’s Most Popular EV Maker 10 months ago:
Company is beholden to the Chinese government, apparently that is worse than beholden to a manchid and a group of ultrarich shareholders.
- Comment on Japan prepares regulation requiring Apple to allow sideloading 10 months ago:
You being paid by apple to fear monger about sideloading?
If you fear this, just leave the sideloading to others.
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video will start showing ads on January 29th unless you pay extra for ad-free 10 months ago:
The moment each show got a pre-reel for another Amazon show this was clearly the path they where taking.
Already cancelled a good 6 months ago.
- Comment on BT has nearly switched off Huawei core days ahead of ban 10 months ago:
These telecom titans can plan and manage their networks. This is not strange at all, the bulk was probably phased out already, but all as late as possible to minimize the opportunity cost.
- Comment on Lucid’s $50,000 Tesla Challenger Under Development, CEO Suggests 10 months ago:
Who cares?! Affordable, Safe, Enough range, Enough space, Comfy.
- Comment on Intel CEO claims 18A node will at least match TSMC's N2 performance and beat it to market 10 months ago:
Less yapping… put up or shut up. TSMC could use some serious competition.
- Comment on Intel CEO claims 18A node will at least match TSMC's N2 performance and beat it to market 10 months ago:
Less yapping… put up or shut up. TSMC could use some serious competition.
- Comment on HP raising Instant Ink subscription pricing significantly 10 months ago:
/Shocked pickachu face.
Get 'em hooked, make 'em pay. - Comment on Tesla removes Disney+ app amid Elon Musk's feud with Disney CEO Bob Iger 10 months ago:
Reich-Wingers… nice i’m totally stealing that
- Comment on The Telecom Industry Is Very Mad Because The FCC MIGHT Examine High Broadband Prices 10 months ago:
Split out all the costs you want, itemize the bill, have at it. But if the sticker price says 45 dollah i want to be able to pay that and get what you offer. not have to take out the calculator and add stuff. I think there are to many americans obsessed with “big goberment stealing my moniez” … who cares. If its in the price and the price is competitive I dont care that x% is tax. It will be the same on all competing products too.
- Comment on Cable lobby and Republicans fight proposed ban on early termination fees / Customers should be allowed to cancel cable TV without penalty, Democrats say 11 months ago:
In the Netherlands early termination fees are not allowed you sign up for a period and stick with that. After that period you can then terminate with 30 day notice, no auto renew per year, or you get a prorated refund of what you paid (in annual payment for example). A few exceptions apply but not many.
- Comment on Drag race: hypersonic threats are slow enough for US missile defenses 11 months ago:
This might be a nice watch. youtu.be/0n3fjoacL20?si=LAA8ndk71Zuq5jkG
- Comment on GM Says It's Ditching Apple CarPlay and Android Auto for Your Safety 11 months ago:
Well, tech companies keep improving their products, car manufacturers are known to forget about any product they sold unless they are forced into a recall.
- Comment on Steam Workshop: New Quality of Life Workshop Features 11 months ago:
Having competing platforms require games to move away from steam workshop in order to also service their customer on these other platforms might be a blessing and a curse at the same time.
Finally some much needed updates.
- Comment on The Telecom Industry Is Very Mad Because The FCC MIGHT Examine High Broadband Prices 11 months ago:
Would it just not be better to manage all unavoidable charges to be included in the sticker price?