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  • Why Didn’t Scot Peterson Try to Stop the Parkland Shooter? - The Atlantic

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  • Thanks for archive. Difficult for me to do from my mobile app.

  • Why Didn’t Scot Peterson Try to Stop the Parkland Shooter? - The Atlantic

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  • Yes, but this is a think piece that has interviews, questions, and political discussion around the aftermath and learning from this event and others.

  • Amazon terminates iRobot deal, Roomba maker to lay off 31% of staff

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  • It really depends on redundancy. Does Amazon have people that can do what iRobot staff does. For operational or sales teams maybe. If Amazon becomes the only store where you can buy a roomba, you probably lay off folks responsible for wholesale. That probably also means you lay off some marketing. But the core people that make the stuff probably have less redundancy. These layoffs are probably impacting the people that actually make and design the stuff, since they no longer or going to make all the stuff they planned. The hypothetical layoffs for acquisition would probably be smaller and impact different people at the company. And because it's an acquisition, there may have been negotiated more favorable severance terms,

  • The International Court of Selective Justice - The Atlantic

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  • I'm not mad. But the context around South Africa is interesting. The questions around the court really only being able to bring charges against recognized nations and not Palestine or Hamas is interesting. It's important to put this ruling in the larger context of world events and politics. Also the context of Israel actually showing up unlike Russia is important. I don't think the tone of the article is about being sour about the result, but the need for consistency.

    Given the dreadful toll of civilian deaths in Gaza, reportedly now topping 25,000, Israel should answer questions about its conduct. Every member of the United Nations’ 1948 Genocide Convention has an obligation to raise concerns if they have evidence that a group of people is at risk of genocide. Given previous catastrophic failures to prevent genocide—in Bosnia, Rwanda, Darfur—more referrals to the court could be good news for the protection of civilians at risk. And unlike Russia, against which Ukraine made a complaint to the court in February 2022, Israel has indicated that it takes the charges seriously, attending the court to dispute the accusation.

  • Amazon terminates iRobot deal, Roomba maker to lay off 31% of staff

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  • iRobot said it would focus on margin improvements, reduce spending on research and development, and pause all work on “non-floorcare” products, including its air purifiers and robotic lawn mowers.

    I doubt it. If you are stopping r&d and killing whole product lines, it makes sense to lay off the teams directly tied to those product lines. I'm guessing they needed Amazon to help them break into the market for areas outside of floor vacuums?

  • Pelosi accuses some protesters demanding Gaza cease-fire of having ties to Russia

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  • Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on Sunday suggested that some protesters calling for a cease-fire in Gaza could be linked to Russia and urged the FBI to investigate.

    I don't think this is a bad take. Russia will use social media for everything and anything that can magnify discord in American society. I don't think they care about the morale position of any side as long as pushing the messaging causes internal conflict in the American political conversation.

  • Nearly 25,000 tech workers were laid off in the first weeks of 2024. Why is that?

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  • That's not what the article says. The article is saying that was true last year that the hiring spree was over optimistic and needed correction. Now that is not the case, but there's a weird knock on effect where the market has rewarded this behavior companies keep tightening to continue being rewarded. And there's a heard mentality where if company A gets rewarded by the market for layoffs, company B faces scrutiny from major shareholders not to do the same.

    I think the initial correction of layoffs kind of made sense a year ago, but this article makes me think there is something not cool happening as it keeps continuing.

  • Texas scheduled to execute Ivan Cantu despite new evidence, recantation of witnesses - Liberation News

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  • Possible to get a more reputable neutral less sensationalized source for this news?

  • American Debt: The typical American household is now paying a record $1,583 a month in various loans

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  • So you can use and enrich corporations for smart phones, buying groceries, paying for transportation, your electronic payments, insurance, etc. But draw a line in the sand for loans to better your life whether it's education, home ownership, or car ownership?

  • Fossil is quitting smartwatches

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  • Will there ever be a day where I can just buy a smart watch strap to attach to my mechanic watch to get biometrics and what not?

  • How was fugitive Kaitlin Armstrong caught? She answered U.S. Marshals' ad for a yoga instructor

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  • That's why it's not evidence and not used in court. This is the rationale a detective uses to identify a suspect and begin looking for evidence. And he's outlining that to a reporter that a phone disconnected from a network at the time of a known crime is suspicious.

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  • So it's not so much what data is shared, but how it's triggered to do this at unnecessary times is where the intent is likely nefarious.

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  • Data includes ip addresses, etc... is that a surprise? How do most notifications work? Is the device client polling status updates to retrieve status changes to trigger a notification? If that occurs isn't it obvious the user IP would be known?

  • Which games do you dislike, but the rest of the world loves them?

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  • Try hunt showdown. It's kind of an anti battle royal game and a smart person's thinking shooter and not a twitch shooter. Civil war era so no spray and pray. 12 man servers instead of 100 so it's more tactical and strategic with our randomly dying all the time. And it's a carrot instead of a stick; no shrinking map to create a funnel of conflict, but hunting for a single boss on the map that you must kill and then attempt to extract with the trophy it drops best sound design I've experienced in a shooter.

  • Which games do you dislike, but the rest of the world loves them?

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  • Basically any game where crafting is a central mechanic. Why do people love repetitive boring tasks and looking at grids of items for hours on end.

  • American Debt: The typical American household is now paying a record $1,583 a month in various loans

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  • No one is saying it's always a good idea. But good financial planning for life requires planning to take on debt based on what you need near term, but can plan to afford long term.

    For example, if you buy a house and take out a mortgage you will have a monthly payment that might be equivalent to rent. But unlike rent, you can sell the place you live and recoup the value of the house you own because you took on debt. But on the flip side you can plan that wrong and be house poor where you can afford your mortgage but have no money for the rest of things you need to do in life.

  • American Debt: The typical American household is now paying a record $1,583 a month in various loans

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  • I am having trouble understanding what counts as debt. As someone that makes all purchases on a credit card, does that count as debt if I pay it off every month? My initial gut reaction is that the number is low and that means people aren't buying homes or cars or higher education. Also not sure if this also means older boomers and genx are carrying more debt into later stages of life than they used to. They mention that in the article, but would be curious to see more demographic breakdowns.

  • American Debt: The typical American household is now paying a record $1,583 a month in various loans

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  • It's tough, but buying a house is debt which factors into this debt analysis.

  • Proposed CA bill would electronically restrict cars from going 10mph over speed limit

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  • Isn't that just going to cause accidents? For all the non regulated cars on the highway, what happens if you need to merge into a lane where the flow of traffic is faster than the speed limit? It doesn't even have to be a highway, but lane changes in any city can have that problem I imagine.