"Wealthy asshole has no empathy." I'm shocked. Fuck her. Fuck talking heads in general.

...we cannot allow actions that deliberately cause harm

Seems like that's about the only actions Reddit execs have taken over the last several years. Glad I left when I did.

...micromanagement of advertising in today's hyper-competitive marketplace...

WTF are they on about? Cable TV is the least competitive market out there. I've never lived anywhere with more than two options.

...El Salvador has decided to transfer a large chunk of its bitcoin holdings to a cold wallet and store it in a physical vault

What are we up to now, like Ocean's 15 or something?

There will likely be no benefit for the employees or the users. For the PE firm, the goal is usually to pump up the value and resell or reenter the market, at a massive profit, in a few years. To do that, they'll have to make a lot of unpopular choices, such as layoffs and other cost cutting measures. If they're privately held, those choices have far less impact on the value of the company, since the stock market is heavily swayed by public perception.

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If you don't want to be tracked illegally, don't bring your phone.

If you don't want any to be tracked legally, write/call/tweet/visit your representatives.

A Kroger spokesperson said in a statement that the company’s business model is built on a “foundation of lowering prices to attract more customers.” “To be clear, Kroger does not and has never engaged in ‘surge pricing,’” the statement said. “Any test of electronic shelf tags is designed to lower prices for more customers where it matters most.”

I know these PR people get paid a lot to tell bald-faced lies, but I just don't understand how they live with themselves.

When I was a kid, I had seen, or at least heard of, nearly every TV show from my parent's generation. Going back probably 40 years. Like, I've probably seen every Looney Tunes, every episode of M.A.S.H., and most episodes of The Munsters, because some days there wasn't anything else to watch. My kids look at me crazy if I haven't heard of the latest flash-in-the-pan influencer, but if I bring up a 10-year old movie or TV show, they have no idea what I'm talking about.

It's the "see no evil" approach. If you didn't report the issue while the admin was online, then they aren't compelled to do anything about it. Convenient for the project maintainer who doesn't actually like maintaining things. Awful for the rest of us.

people with Goldman-backed credit cards like the Apple Card are actually making their payments less often than people with credit cards from other banks

Who could have possibly seen this coming?

limiting entrepreneurial freedom

Also known as protecting consumers.

But... but... then how will they collect telemetry for targeted advertising?

I get emails from school, with a link that opens a 3rd party app, which only displays a link that opens in the default browser. I've asked the school to just send me direct links to the announcements, but they say they can't. The site doesn't require authentication, but the URLs have UUIDs so I can't just guess what the link would be. The app is quite literally just a data exfiltration layer that does everything it can to make sure you can't bypass it. Good luck getting any other parents to give a shit though.

What a bootlicker.

Well put.

Soon, it won't be this idiotic hype cycle, but it'll be some other idiotic hype cycle. Short term investors love hype cycles.

I wish I had understood this years ago. I probably would have found a better place to work.

Is this an AI generated response?

With further refinement and scaling, internet providers could ramp up standard speeds without overhauling current fiber optic infrastructures.

Don't worry. They'll find some way to use this to justify massive rate increases.

What's orange?