That is a really cool resume item, ngl

Do you mind me asking the languages/frameworks backing it? (e.g. JavaScript/Node)

“The situation is so dire, that you need to pay us money if you want to read this article!!!”

Alt title: ISPs attempt to avoid infrastructure upgrades unless paid for by others; points fingers.

Nothing new tbh.

Hands on 10 and 2 while operating the 2 ton death trap!

It’s honestly wild that Israel be like: “we don’t need the support from even the most conservative Americans”

And Ben Shapiro still be like: “Israel can kill everyone in the region and it still isn’t genocide”

And the average American be like: “Can we lower food and gas prices instead of funding oversea wars?”

And Congress be like: "no, that will hurt our stock portfolios "

I’m an idiot (see username)… but:

The baby has not been fed any milk for days, as baby milk is totally absent in Gaza.

… don’t babies drink breast milk? I’m so confused

And foreign journalists are not allowed in Gaza, I wonder why…

Because they don’t want foreign news agencies reporting about their journalists being killed!!

oops, I said their “quite part” out loud.

Horrific

key fucking words: LAST STANDING HOSPITAL

smhmh

Make your own instance

I missed your response, my bad, but I think others have touched on the major point with some pretty good analogies, but I will give you a full response since is a valid question. DISCLAIMER: I am a Software Engineer, not a real estate expert, although I was raised by a real estate expert.

Imagine you are Apple and own “Apple Park” in Cupertino, California.

Apple does not own the property “out-right”, they have a mortgage on the property and buildings similar to the average home mortgage, but much more expensive. When you “own” the mortgage, it is up to you who occupies the building, which often is done by contract. When you “own” a building for the purpose of giving your own employees a place to work, you often enter in a contract with “yourself”, but most often as a “subsidiary” signing a contract with a “parent company”.

Let’s say that a subsidiary is “renting” the entire building, but also, 90% employees work remotely. Although you, as the subsidiary, are still “paying rent to” the parent company, you as a subsidiary are losing money by paying for an office space that is mainly unused. So sure, it could be said that the parent company “isn’t losing money”, however, the subsidiary is since the office is unused and still being paid for. The subsidiary can’t just stop renting the office, since they are in a legal agreement with the parent company. This pushes parent companies to enact “return to office policies” so that subsidiaries are paying rent on “required office space”. Having “butt’s in seats” also helps with maintaining building value as one can prove “hey look, my office building is in demand”, even if simply artificial demand through subsidiaries.

Most office buildings, especially if for tech, cost in the hundreds of millions depending on location. If you think tech companies buy them outright rather than mortgage them with the company and assets as collateral, that is incorrect.

In other words… If you have a mortgage on an office building with no one in it, the “market” looks negatively upon that, which brings the building’s value down, but not your mortgage payment and interest. Therefore, you are paying more on your mortgage than the value of the building. Similar to buying a car with a car loan, using the crap out of it, and then not touching it for 5 years and expecting it to increase in value. (Car is a bad comparison as 99% of them lose value the second they leave the lot, but is easiest to compare)

It’s about “butts in seats” people.

Big tech companies OWN not rent.

When you OWN an office building, and it is empty, you are LOSING MONEY.

It’s about the real estate, nothing else. Open your eyes

discovering 49 zero-day bugs in EV systems

Holy shit that’s a lot of zero days homies

Imagine being in a corporate environment trying to implement an OSS into your platform and having to tell your 50 yo teammate: “Oh yeah, just pop in this Discord server real quick to see any relevant info”. Instant credibility loss

10 kg gold Dec. 2023 = ~$727,591 = $2062.92 * 10 * 35.27 oz/kilo

10 kg gold June 1920 = ~$105,810 = ~$300 * 10 * 35.27 oz/kilo

seems much higher than the respective housing cost for an average home in both cases

price ref

Equality != Equity

There is a big difference in the messaging to young men by both the parties.

Republican - “You’re going to have a job, a house, a wife and kids, and all you have to do is work hard and you can live the American Dream”

Democrat - “You are the oppressor and need education on why men and white people are bad”

You can see how one is more appealing than the other, especially to those who don’t pay much attention to politics and maybe only hear a 30s political clip on social media once a week.

Disclaimer: not saying these are actually the alignments/messaging, just major annecdotal perceptions I have heard from people who describe themselves as “not a Democrat” and asked them “why not?”

Incorrect, the supreme court has many times over ruled “hate speech”, which doesn’t have a legal definition in the US, is protected under 1st amendment. Calling for violence is not.

I am free to say “I hate [insert protected class/person/group/etc]” without legal consequences.

Although I am technically free to say “Let’s cause harm to/attack [insert protected class/person/group/etc]”, legal consequences could follow since call to violence.

Although i still disagree with using facebook at all, and sorta unsure what you mean by “because other people are using meta products and using them on you without telling you about it” (websites using meta based SaaS products maybe), if the facebook container extension is anything like the aws container extension, I bet it’s a pretty good recommendation. Firefox ALWAYS the best recommendation

Simple solution: stop using meta products