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New comment by mig1 in "Tech workers' fight for living wages and a 32-hour workweek is a battle for all"

mig1 — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 14:28:41 +0000

Are you asking me to give some of my profits to the workers? Are you a communist? /s

New comment by mig1 in "Roc Camera"

mig1 — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 12:19:02 +0000

There’s an assumption on HN that everyone can identify AI slop because pretty much everyone here can. But my personal experience and what I think might be more in line with reality is that the majority of social media users can’t tell or don’t care.

New comment by mig1 in "Companies are lying about AI layoffs?"

mig1 — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 12:34:25 +0000

How do they save money by hiring people in the US with H1B? Most of these companies have compensation policies so it’s not like they can hire a person at the same level and pay a lot less…

New comment by mig1 in "Gemini in Chrome"

mig1 — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 06:21:02 +0000

Ex-Googler here, at least in the UK, privacy was taken very seriously by all employees, we never collected data without explicit consent and never used it for anything but what the user granted permissions for.

New comment by mig1 in "AirPods live translation blocked for EU users with EU Apple accounts"

mig1 — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 08:33:14 +0000

correct. An example of this is building a WhatsApp client, you need certification from Meta and that seems to legitimate.

New comment by mig1 in "Warp Code: the fastest way from prompt to production"

mig1 — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 16:53:33 +0000

New comment by mig1 in "Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now' [video]"

mig1 — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 18:42:08 +0000

I know it feels like this might be part of a big plan against sideloading, but from my time at Google, I’d say it’s more likely to be the idea of some exec trying to get a promo.

New comment by mig1 in "Era of U.S. dollar may be winding down"

mig1 — Fri, 09 May 2025 21:24:16 +0000

It literally says in the article that nothing is going to fully replace it. And the same way that it didn’t happen overnight for it to become the force that it’s today in the global economy, it won’t disappear overnight either.

New comment by mig1 in "The Modern Struggle Is Fighting Weaponized Addiction (2020)"

mig1 — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 05:45:13 +0000

I agree with the sentiment of the article but I don’t understand the point they were trying to make here:

“Before, you had to go socialize with friends; now, you can just get drunk with a bunch of strangers. Before, you had to go find a mate, create children and raise a family; now, you can just watch a lot of porn.”

I’d think more of Facebook, Instagram and Netflix or the advertising industry in general like weaponized additions than what I do of alcohol.

New comment by mig1 in "S1: A $6 R1 competitor?"

mig1 — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 14:05:06 +0000

This argument that the data centers and all the GPUs will be useful even in the context of Deepseek doesn't add up... basically they showed that it's diminishing returns after a certain amount. And so far it didn't make OpenAI or Anthropic go faster, did it?

New comment by mig1 in "Trae: An AI-powered IDE by ByteDance"

mig1 — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 21:10:02 +0000

Facebook, Cambridge Analytica, Sponsoring a genocide… the moral differences between the US and the CCP are imaginary.

New comment by mig1 in "When banks call to verify your details how do you know the call is legitimate?"

mig1 — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 06:13:12 +0000

I had an incident with a debt collector once(UK), they call me saying I had some pending parking tickets to pay and asked for my address, DoB, etc to confirm it was me, I refused and asked them to tell me the details they had, they refused.

This kept going on for about a year, the legal limit they can chase a debt, so at that point they gave in and share the details and as it happens, it wasn’t me. Don’t even own a car, which I mentioned multiple times.

Anyways, I’d never share my details over the phone if I’m not fairly certain who’s in the other side. This company was legit but had very suspicious tactics.

New comment by mig1 in "That sinking feeling"

mig1 — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 13:27:10 +0000

I think you don't know enough about the EU if you think business will continue as usual...

When the EU says it's preparing for NDB, it's referring to the fact that the Dutch government already hired around 1000 customs officials to deal with it. Business won't continue as usual.