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New comment by ThePowerOfDirge in "What the fuck happened to nerds"

ThePowerOfDirge — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:20:11 +0000

Many of the most prominent American tech leaders these days are of Indian origin. The social stigma to tech is not present in Indian culture, which stems from India having been under British colonial rule and the accompanying de-industrialisation of India. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De-industrialisation_of_India

New comment by ThePowerOfDirge in "OneDrive data now has an expiry date"

ThePowerOfDirge — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:40:59 +0000

Cough up the dough, or away your files will go.

New comment by ThePowerOfDirge in "Iran says it will target US tech companies in Middle East"

ThePowerOfDirge — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:43:33 +0000

They hardly pay taxes in the U.S. so they deserve no protection. In fact, I'd encourage Iran to attack them. You didn't pay? You're delinquent? No I will not protect you, ya gotta pay.

New comment by ThePowerOfDirge in "OpenAI fires an employee for prediction market insider trading"

ThePowerOfDirge — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:58:19 +0000

Gambling = investing. Buying stocks is also gambling. Share buybacks, dividends, fancy words for forking money from workers to some joe schmoe that bought a lottery ticket, i.e., a stock.

New comment by ThePowerOfDirge in "The DOJ still wants Google to sell off Chrome"

ThePowerOfDirge — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 02:34:01 +0000

It destroyed Bell Labs https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/realestate/severance-lumo...

New comment by ThePowerOfDirge in "DOGE puts $1 spending limit on government employee credit cards"

ThePowerOfDirge — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:39:32 +0000

But DEI is what made JD Vance who he is today. To quote an article: "The truth is, if it was not for the Yellow Ribbon Program I would not be going to law school."

https://www.politifact.com/article/2025/feb/19/ask-politifac...

Why are they trying to destroy it? Are they saying that they do not want more DEI, JD Vance-type people, that one is enough?

New comment by ThePowerOfDirge in "Department of Defense: Software Is Never Done (2019) [pdf]"

ThePowerOfDirge — Sun, 29 Jan 2023 01:24:24 +0000

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hG4LH6P8Syk at 21:10

New comment by ThePowerOfDirge in "Department of Defense: Software Is Never Done (2019) [pdf]"

ThePowerOfDirge — Sun, 29 Jan 2023 01:20:18 +0000

Agile had the scrummaster role. The authors of the Agile manifesto said that this role was supposed to rotate in the group of coders and eventually be phased out once the group got used to the process. The agile process in its final form has no managers.

New comment by ThePowerOfDirge in "The dictatorship of the articulate"

ThePowerOfDirge — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 08:40:34 +0000

>We don't accept that kind of risk anymore in the US

3 years of coronavirus in the US seems to disagree with this statement

New comment by ThePowerOfDirge in "Man who robbed bank to get his own money back hailed as national hero"

ThePowerOfDirge — Sun, 14 Aug 2022 00:41:08 +0000

Seems like BITCOIN has crashed to very low values recently as well: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/harrypotterobamasonic10...

New comment by ThePowerOfDirge in "Covid testing firm ‘selling swabs carrying customers’ DNA’ to third parties"

ThePowerOfDirge — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 21:22:17 +0000

A super-inefficient personalized poison.

New comment by ThePowerOfDirge in "Covid testing firm ‘selling swabs carrying customers’ DNA’ to third parties"

ThePowerOfDirge — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 21:21:00 +0000

Seems like you have a very firm grasp of what can and cannot be done with a person's DNA.

New comment by ThePowerOfDirge in "Adele gets Spotify to take shuffle button off all album pages"

ThePowerOfDirge — Sun, 21 Nov 2021 18:51:52 +0000

The artist always has the option to put the entire album into 1 track.

New comment by ThePowerOfDirge in "U.S. states file updated antitrust complaint against Google"

ThePowerOfDirge — Sun, 14 Nov 2021 12:36:06 +0000

You missspelled Baidu and CCP there.

New comment by ThePowerOfDirge in "The metaverse is bullshit"

ThePowerOfDirge — Sat, 30 Oct 2021 12:10:58 +0000

>Even when we get brain computer interfaces, I don't want to live in the embodied internet, because tactile sensation is a huge part of how we experience the world, and clicking a mouse feels better than making a finger gun in empty air.

This man is a moron.

New comment by ThePowerOfDirge in "Italy wants an exception to Europe's gas-engine ban for Ferrari, Lamborghini"

ThePowerOfDirge — Sat, 02 Oct 2021 11:35:36 +0000

Considering that Italy will be hit hard by climate change, I find this a weird opinion to hold for an Italian. Last thing I heard there's no garbage pickup in the capital city in Rome, so these Ferrari companies must somehow forgot to pay their taxes a lot or?

New comment by ThePowerOfDirge in "I was a teacher for 17 years, but couldn't read or write"

ThePowerOfDirge — Sun, 01 Aug 2021 18:26:37 +0000

These "anecdotes" make my blood boil.

New comment by ThePowerOfDirge in "US companies hit by 'colossal' cyber-attack"

ThePowerOfDirge — Sat, 03 Jul 2021 11:33:12 +0000

Time to wake up, ban cryptocurrencies so this never happens again, then go back to sleep!

New comment by ThePowerOfDirge in "US companies hit by 'colossal' cyber-attack"

ThePowerOfDirge — Sat, 03 Jul 2021 11:32:53 +0000

Time to wake up, ban cryptocurrencies so this never happens again, then go back to sleep!

New comment by ThePowerOfDirge in "US companies hit by 'colossal' cyber-attack"

ThePowerOfDirge — Sat, 03 Jul 2021 11:22:14 +0000

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/microsoft-digitally-...