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Still not as bad as the pink fracking drill bit "for the cure."

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fracking-for-a-cure/

"Self driving cars will make the roads safer. They won't be drunk or tired or make a mistake."

Self driving cars start killing people.

"Yeah but how do they compare to the average human driver?"

Goal post moving.

When I first started using DDG I would use the bang to get me back into google very often. Now whenever I use a browser or device (mis)configured to use google I feel like a guy who accidentally launched and tried to use IE8.

I switched from Alta Vista at Google in the early 2000s because the Alta Vista index was stale and full of spam. Google search tools were comparatively primitive (av let you do things like word stem search) but the results were really good.

Unfortunately Mozilla is being run by a McKinsey consultant.

I wanna see Sam Altman reenact the "make it work" mirror scene from always sunny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBXNa0ipFPQ

Pretty crazy to think that it is actually not sure whether spending less than 500k on a supercomputer is worth it.

Has more to do with the market for supercomputers. They are monsters to keep fed so it's not a question of if you can buy it but rather if you can run it. But customers for supercomputers are in the market because they need the most raw power that the technology is capable of supplying, so buying and installing a decade old supercomputer (which is going to have the same operating costs at a lower capability than a new one) doesn't make sense.

You also have to consider that the downtime's going to be a lot higher on this equipment as you're going to start having components hit the end of their useful life.

The biggest con is the industry's war to make Kei trucks illegal in the US.

These are almost certainly saleried, exempt employees with no "timeclock".

They were fired for expressing a political opinion and doing so in a way Google did not like.

It is certainly legal for Google to fire them for this because it is legal for Google to fire them for almost any reason. But it's also pretty certian that there is no way in America to protest your employer in a way where the law would protect you from retaliation.

Hacker news is full of people LARPing as corporate crisis management officers, or counsels for the defense. Every post you get about "company caught grinding up babies to fuel forever-chemical cancer machine" will get a ton of posts by people arguing that actually it's a net positive for the world and how could anyone be against such amazing innovation?

Unfortunately, then they can legally terminate you for refusal to work.

I don't think they're being fired for "refusal to work". There is a concept of "job abandonment" but one 9 hour period wouldn't count. Typically you need several days of no contact/no show before you have considered to have abandoned your job.

This is more about at-will employment: Google has a right to fire an employee at any time for almost any reason, or for no reason. There have been people getting fired for posting pro-Palestine content to linkedin, which is completely legal in the US.

This isn't a story of "employees overstepped a line and got fired" this is a story of "there is no line, companies can fire employees for almost anything and definitely for their political views regardless how respectfully they are expressed."

Also going on strike is basically the definition of "organized refusal to work"