jj4211

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[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

It made me think about how we are fearing the potential of a Carrington event hitting us in the modern era, how bad it would be and how much it will take to build back.

It occurs to me that we could just have a 'software calamity' of similar scale, since we love putting so many eggs in so few baskets controlled by people that want to ditch all their expensive intelligent caretakers and slop things up into oblivion instead.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

Well they solved that by canning bioware altogether.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Nope, not signing up with reddit again to read some comments.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 7 points 18 hours ago

My laptop sleeps fine after latest update... Of fedora

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 7 points 18 hours ago

Annie are you ok?

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Would have been really funny if he had a Russian mistress, a North Korean mistress, an Israeli mistress...

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Kids are not subordinates or chinese intelligence, so they wouldn't even move the needle in 'newsworthiness' in this sad state of affairs.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

That's one affair, the other is with one of his subordinates.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Less about the sex, more about the unfair leverage one would have over others by virtue of the sex.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The affairs themselves are a salacious twist on the vulnerability to espionage and the other affair was with an Nvidia exec, which is a huge office politics no no and corporate sharks are circling..

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Basically every time there is bad news and a decline in any major stock I see a rush of people on Lemmy (to be fair, everywhere) proclaiming how, um, actually whatever just went bad is good and looks a lot better if (add tortured logic here).

There is an element of "the market does well as long as everything thinks it does well", and a lot of people working hard to keep that self fulfilling prophecy rolling.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Wager there's a lot of room for this to happen, a popular thing in companies to show they care is a pledge to match up to some nominal amount donated by employees to the same cause.

I do wonder if some of these companies attach a "don't credit us" clause, since they are leaving it to the employees to pick causes, they might not want to get associated with a cause just at the whim of a random employee.

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