masonic

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Comment · 2 years ago
Actual title: "The aftermath of ChatGPT’s launch leaves media industry battling profitability with layoffs"
Comment · 3 years ago
Note that your link is your link as the position owner and requires an additional clickthrough to get to the posting.

This is an example of the downside of putting your postings in a walled garden like LinkedIn.

Comment · 3 years ago
This is the third such Show HN in the past 20 hours
Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
>I’m shocked that what everyone said would happen is happening.

What did "everyone say"? Are you confusing Keystone with Keystone XL?

Comment · 3 years ago
If they've been spending $3 million/year on Twitter ads, are they that bright in the first place? I've literally never made a single buying decision that had anything to do with a Twitter ad. Ever.
Comment · 3 years ago
>In 1986, the city implemented a ban on cruising to address gang violence, crime, and traffic-related accidents. But San Jose’s primarily Mexican American lowriding community has suffered the consequences of the ordinance, which many say facilitated discrimination.

This is a crock. The ordinance affected only stretches of San Carlos Street and Santa Clara street and was implemented because the resulting gridlock rendered downtown businesses utterly inaccessible (even discounting rampant crime). The entire rest of the city (and county) was open to them, even Stevens Creek Blvd.

It's going to be very interesting to see this conflict revitalize if the so-called Google Village west of Market St. ever happens. Right now, downtown is mostly a ghost town at night anyway.

Comment · 3 years ago
> hosts don’t like charging them

This is a crock. Since AirBnB has no search filter for "Show price with fees", it encourages hosts (literally every superhost in my searches on a recent trip) to show an artificial rate and then a "cleaning fee" upwards of 50% of the base rate.

Comment · 3 years ago
The IBM 3800 was a highly reliable laser printer. It was first deployed 46 years ago.
Comment · 3 years ago
... and China's more ruthless powers of Eminent Domain to acquire land
Comment · 3 years ago
>The first Japanese Shinkansen train went over budget by 100%, but nobody remembers that anymore. Instead they talk about how wonderful the Shinkansen trains are.

HSR is at 300% of original budget without even a credible schedule for completion of that original plan -or- source of funding.

Long-distance "high speed" rail is going nowhere in CA without constraints on air travel, especially short-hop flights, that includes taxation for environmental consequences. Nobody flying the Bay Area or Sacramento - L.A. corridor is going to spend 4X as much to spend double the time in transit.

Comment · 4 years ago
"But the intensifying drought and wildfires in Northern California and escalating hurricanes and storm surges along the Southeastern coastline drove the couple to sell both houses."

This is a crock. HMB is no more subject to drought or wildfires than anywhere else in the country. They fled to NC for the same reason my retired Apple executive neighbor did -- lower taxes and higher quality of life than CA now.

Comment · 4 years ago
How many Republicans can you name who were on nationwide radio in the 1980s?

In other words, it was made up.

Comment · 4 years ago
Downstream refers to liquids, or concepts. Perhaps "downwind" was meant?
Comment · 4 years ago
>Presidents just appoint one of these individuals as director.

The President's nominee doesn't have to be from existing rank-and-file FBI employees, Special Agents or otherwise.

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