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Does anyone care about 4k? Ive been using either 720 or 1080p for years and never had an issue

why do you say this? not disagreeing just curious why you're thinking that?

Chonky boy Telescope

Telescope AF

Oh lawd he comin

anonymized data to people who have agreed to submit for research

Seems fine to me?

He didn't pay 44 billion for Twitter.

He paid 44 billion to restore free speech.

I think his cause is more noble than sheer capitalism

Edit: down vote and hate all you want... mark my words .. Elon is going to go down in history as a visionary, a hero and a champion of free speech.

a bunch of angry ex-twitter employees on hacker news is not an accurate representation of reality

That's the cost of free speech apparently.

Elon's cause is more noble than sheer capitalism.

Advertisers don't want to be on a platform that allows honest, open communication. A sterile non-controversial platform is much safer for them.

At some point as our rights and our freedoms in this country slowly erode, we're going to be grateful to have Twitter and to Elon Musk for being one of the last platforms to put our freedoms over sheer capitalism.

I tried to get a job working for the New York times tech department they treated me like absolute ass.

Glad they're getting ripped off.

I'm always struggled with these types of people who think they're better than you and expect you to treat them as such.

The weird part is if you show them up or prove that you're better than them in some way they become extremely ass kissing.

I find it disingenuous and nauseating and it seems that a lot of people are like this if not most people.

Maybe this is just the normal human hierarchy at work and I have autism and I don't connect with it.

I just try to treat everyone equally. I guess I'm the weirdo.

Caste is an accurate word to describe it.

Its out of this world bad. Like every job after a day has hundreds of applicants according to LinkedIn.

Online applying seems to be shooting the rez into the void

Im seniorish. Got about a decade in the tech industry.

One company down...the entire rest of the tech industry to go.

As an over 40 the job search is grim

These current politicians are continuing to skyrocket the national debt.

I don't have to vote for new politicians. I just have to wait for the dollar to collapse.

World wars are over. Countries have Nukes now.

showing gratuitous sex scenes is not developing the characters and not developing the plot.

is literally just gratuitous clickbait.

May have been titillating before PornHub existed, but now it's just a hassle to watch.

and taxi driver

helping a country defend itself from a brutal imperialistic invasion not helping defend democracy?.

It's not anything that I'm willing to work a few extra hours a week to pay for.

And it stresses me out just submitting code to github.

So what?

USA is not the world police.

If there's no strategic interest or benefit I don't think I should have to work a few extra hours per week to help pay for that war.

biggest military rival

Russia has the economy the size of Italy. Three American states have bigger economies than Russia. Were more advanced than them on every level technologically economically militarily. The only thing they have is nukes which they'll still have no matter how Ukraine turns out.

We would wipe the floor with them in a head on military conflict.

defend democracy

That's been the propaganda reason for previous wars...

It's hard evidence that shows European healthcare systems being more effective yet costing much less.

European countries have safety nets much more rigorous than the United States.

Education is much cheaper in many European countries than the US.

I don't understand how Russia is considered powerful. Its got an economy the size of Italy. Three US states each have economies larger than Russia.

The US is light years ahead of Russia, economically, militarily and technologically.

Russia is not a military threat though. It has an economy the size of Italy. Three US states each have bigger economies than Russia. The US blew past it on every level militarily, technologically, and economically decades ago.

It has nukes but Ukraine doesnt solve that.

Syria, Yemen, Crimea, Darfur, Rwanda...we throw countries to the wolves all the time. In many cases the USA IS the wolf. I think the USA killed half a mil innocent civilians in Iraq part 1 and 2? The people in charge clearly arent hung up on noble intentions.

Russia has the economy of Italy so its not even remotely a threat militarily or economically. They have nukes but no matter what happens in Ukraine it doesnt get rid of those.

The US exports more oil than it imports so its not really oil fields.

So I dont understand the strategic interest of Ukraine.

I think our tax money could be used for something better.

If its your view that the billions given to fight the Ukraine is an efficient use of resources thats cool. Ignore that part of my post. It wasnt meant to start a flame war, I am open to friendly discussion though

Also a wealth tax is pretty hard to implement itself. See:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37989924

Interesting. did not know that. Looks like they possibly destroyed some too back in the 90s?

I think people come here despite the government.

If they wanted a good government they would move to some country in Europe which pays slightly more taxes but they get way more value for it.

I don't think the US government is doing a good job at all for the amount of taxes we pay.

Russia's economy is the size of Italy.

The United States would utterly destroy them and any other country (except mayyybe China) in an outright military battle. Like it wouldn't even be close. No help from Ukraine needed.

We have 11 aircraft carriers here in America. No other country has more than 2 aircraft carriers. Our military dwarfs other militaries both technologically, financially, and in sheer power. Just spitballing but I bet we could probably reduce our military strength by 50% and still beat almost every country in the world.

We struggled with asymmetrical guerrilla warfare back in Vietnam so that could be a problem but in a head-to-head battle like world war II, we're unbeatable. I'm also assuming they've advanced quite a bit in knowledge/technology of taking on asymmetrical geurilla warfare nowadays.

However, the massive force equalizer is Russian nuclear weapons and I don't see Ukraine getting rid of any of those.

I disagree. Maybe you've worked in more efficient government agencies, but I've worked in both sides and the private industry groups Ive worked with arent perfect but are massively more efficient.

I haven't seen any evidence showing that Ukraine provides any strategic interest to the United States.

I'm open to being wrong if I see any compelling evidence.