alex_young
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Comment · 17 days ago
As I understand it they just stop there. They pallet stuff up and sell it in bulk to someone who then proceeds to part ways with it on eBay or something like that. I think most of the mass market companies do this. Costco is well known for this.
Comment · 21 days ago
Buried in this usage update: https://www.anthropic.com/news/2026-usage-policy-update
Comment · 21 days ago
Having lived in an expensive European country and in several different US states, that wasn’t my experience.
Even when factoring in things like tipping and taxes being included in the prices, I would say In aggregate US restaurants are simply more expensive.
Comment · 21 days ago
Maybe I’m missing something, but couldn’t you then go buy another $300k house and have $600k sitting in a bank account?
Or maybe you’re saying all the homes increase in value by 3x and your income didn’t keep up? Clearly many people did see their incomes increase if there is a market for such homes…
Comment · 22 days ago
It doesn't seem all that different. Cops use these cameras to stalk ex-girlfriends, target political foes, and perv on the public at large. The public watching them hardly seems worse.
I do agree that we just shouldn't have this kind of mass-surveillance in general, and I think that's kind of the point of this particular endeavor.
Comment · 2 months ago
"have" is doing most of the work here. Most EVs have a small 12v battery to power 12v components. But the driving the car to the store part is done with lithium.
Comment · 2 months ago
This seems to be the model for “self” driving cars too. Good luck keeping attention during that ten thousandth time it navigates something tricky and suddenly needs immediate intervention.
Comment · 3 months ago
The Library, or part of its collection, was accidentally burned by Julius Caesar during his civil war in 48 BC, but it is unclear how much was actually destroyedComment · 3 months ago
Did it not burn? Was it not the most extensive library of human writing at that time? Please help us all understand. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria
Comment · 3 months ago
Perhaps the burning of the library at Alexandria would qualify. How intentional that was is somewhat in question, but the world certainly turned its back on the only collection of written knowledge and let it turn to ash.
Comment · 4 months ago
The 4th amendment protects people from unreasonable searches by the government. It does not require businesses to do anything special. There are plenty of great reasons to, and even other legal requirements to, protect and limit information gathered by businesses about individuals, but the 4th isn’t one of them.
Comment · 4 months ago
I worked for one such employer long ago that would “accidentally” bounce paychecks.
This happened with such regularity that people would take their checks to said employer’s bank on payday and stand in line to cash them before heading to the office. You’d see a couple of coworkers in line to do this.
Maintaining a list like this is probably not super useful. Any company that does this kind of stuff as a routine will not continue the routine of employing people for long.