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Everyone at Microsoft needs to chill the fuck out about rewards (Blind)

• OSeeEye (Oracle): You guys are getting 1%? I should move to Microsoft
• MSFTbleed (Microsoft): Even a promo is like a 5% raise. Who gives a crap
• whyking (Bloomberg): People might be treating their increment % as an alternative metric to gauge their standing in the team. When layoffs are going on every year, this is meaningful data point. Especially for those whose managers never provide any meaningful feedback all year.

Well done Deepmind folks! (Blind)

• brzz007 (Autodesk): It took gemini 20 minutes of back and forth to read a pdf with events and add them to my calendar yesterday. I could literally do it the caveman way in 3.
• ssupbitxh (VMware): Gemini is crap and I hate that I bought one year subscription
• natcha (Walmart): Ishan trying to promote with Twitter/xitter account. Obviously.

Getting rich in tech is all about luck than anything else. (Blind)

• riddle_ (Meta): Yes, it’s all about right place right time
• agr3ter (ByteDance): getting rich is mostly about luck period
• Shrike22 (Meta): Maybe you’re just too stupid to pick the rocket ships from the rest.

Viral De-Flock America campaign urging people to destroy AI cameras on Halloween night gains momentum (r/technology)

• CautionarySnail: Rowdy celebrations like this are vastly improved by leaving all digital devices safe at home.
• Whargod: Just make it a TikTok challenge, there won’t eb any left by dawn.
• DopamineSavant: DeFlock needs to become official and start endorsing candidates. I’m annoyed as shit trying to research the Flock position of all the candidates on my local ballot.

Remote work benefits are much bigger than a paycheck (r/technology)

• BrainLow6059: This is just corporate propaganda to lower remote salaries. You’re paid for what you do, not where you do it from.
• Hrekires: One thing I appreciated when we were WFH full-time during Covid was not having to maintain an entirely separate wardrobe that I only wear at work.
• CaptZ: I was talking to a coworker today about wfh. There have been multiple days that I didn’t feel good and if I had to go to the office, I would have called in sick. But if I’m home, I don’t have to get dressed nicely, drive and possibly spread my sick germs around the office, and if I’m wfh, I would still work. Saving both my time off and my team being short a person. It’s a win/win.

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A Fair Share of an Unfinished Game

Probability theory began with a practical argument: how should gamblers divide the stakes when chance interrupts their game? The puzzle, known as the problem of points, asks for more than a reward for whoever happens to be ahead. A fair answer must account for what could still have happened.

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Mykhailo Fedorov entered Ukraine’s defence ministry as a proven moderniser and left after only six months. His removal shows why changing a military during wartime is not merely a technical problem. Fedorov could expose waste, accelerate procurement and design ambitious personnel reforms, but he could not overcome a command structure that distrusted his methods or build the political alliances needed to make disruption last.

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US gas prices reach highest ever recorded for August amid stalled talks with Iran (r/news)

• hukep: Not just in the USA. I cry every time, I visit a gas station.
• dontrike: There are no talks with Iran. That title is stupid.
• thegrimranger: With our reserves at record-lows it’s going to get a lot worse before it gets better. And let’s hope we don’t need our reserves for normal reasons rather than hiding tacos awful decision-making

CDC: U.S. kindergarten vaccine exemptions hit record high as coverage falls nationwide (r/news)

• PlacebosForALL: Cultists would rather listen to their orange god and brain worm buddy than actual experts
• thegooddoktorjones: Abortion is bad and illegal, but letting your kids die of measles is a-ok, apprently.
• zer04ll: And measles is back, polio is back, tb is spreading

What’s a physical object from 15–20 years ago that disappeared so quietly that nobody even noticed it left? (r/AskReddit)

• ElectrifiedSword: ITT: People not remembering that 15-20 years ago was 2006-2011 not the 1970s through 1990s.
• cartooned: Swappable mobile phone batteries.
• Dizzy_Wallaby3101: The humble paper map. There wasn’t really a dramatic moment when they disappeared you just gradually stopped seeing them. Now almost everyone instinctively reaches for their phone instead. I can’t remember the last time I actually saw someone unfold a huge road map and try to work out where they were.

What major gets mocked as “easy” but actually requires serious intelligence? (r/AskReddit)

• ScottRiqui: I have degrees in engineering, applied physics, and law, and some of my wife’s readings for her philosophy degree made my brain want to run out of my ears.
• Sensitive_Blood1469: Anything with music
• Miggus_amogus: 90% of humanities if you actually want to be really good at it

Millennials, what’s something our generation was taught to accept that you’re glad younger generations are rejecting? (r/AskReddit)

• CrazyPlato: That discussing your working conditions or pay with your coworkers is wrong.
• KirinG: I love seeing younger retail/service workers take down and just not cater to rude customers. I never would have dared.
• Medical-Potato5920: Women not having to wear heels to go out. Seeing young women wearing sneakers to go out dancing was liberating.

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Coworker uses AI to write all his messages (Blind)

• TXPg31 (NVIDIA): Things like status updates are mostly performative BS anyway. Why wouldn’t he optimize? This is one of the places where slop is actually the right solution.
• jkWb53 (Coinbase): Start doing the same before you become the team bottleneck. Nobody cares about your artisanal code, so get off your high horse and meet your weekly PR quotas ASAP
• f thuggery (Roku): Use Ai to summarize his messages and it won’t bother you anymore

Don’t come to Bloomberg I think we’re doomed… (Blind)

• BBaxel (Bloomberg): Just making stuff up. There’s no 15-20% layoff. Stop the fear mongering. We’ve still had zero layoffs and there’s no real news of one coming up
• merchant0 (Klaviyo): Damn that’s actually so cooked. My dream job was Bloomberg because I assumed no layoffs. Thank the lord I failed r4 of my interviews last year.
• WPslayer (Bloomberg): it was 10% last week in December. 20% by October on he following Monday. By Friday, 75% of us will be getting shitcanned by Sept 1st.

Genuinely why would anyone want to work at Microsoft at this point? (Blind)

• EdSnowden👀 (Oracle): You can either work at Microsoft for \$250k TC or some mid-sized company for \$150k.
• xcdvetyui1 (Microsoft): Unlimited PTO. People regularly go 3 weeks. Especially to India and often 4 or 5 and work weeks from there. The place shuts down 3 weeks at holiday. Tradeoff is extreme politics and everyone worships the CVP. Not innovative at all. Just navigating org politics and endless reviews before you can build anything.
• murderbot6 (Meta): what are the better options? rolling layoffs seem to be the norm now

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility / The shipment was found at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books (r/technology)

• Brick_Cabin2529: 404 is pretty great aren’t they? hope they keep up this quality of work
• Waidawut: An appalling desecration in the name of “progress” – it’s the American way.
• bryguypgh: We need a law against destroying the last known physical copy of a book with astronomical penalties. This is a crime against humanity.

Honey loses over 7 million users and 7,000 stores following YouTuber’s viral expose (r/technology)

• Maleficent-Serve2553: In conjunction with the Phoebe Gates news in the same vein, it feels like an increasing number of companies are battling for attribution of a declining number of legitimate consumer purchases (i.e., stealing someone’s margin is more profitable than creating new organic sales).
• Tasty-Traffic-680: Honey, I blew up my business model
• YAELLINGISFUN: Losing 35% of your users and 20% of your merchants because one guy made a YouTube video is the kind of accountability regulators should be embarrassed they didn’t provide first.

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Flight in the Ignorosphere

Earth’s mesosphere begins roughly 50 kilometers above the surface and extends to about 85 kilometers. Aircraft and weather balloons cannot climb that high, while satellites orbit far above it. The gap has earned the region the nickname “ignorosphere”: it is important to the atmosphere but exceptionally difficult to observe directly.

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Techmeme surfaced Google’s August 18 launch post, “Operation Blue Skies: Reducing Aviation Climate Impact with AI”. The project will use AI weather forecasts to identify patches of atmosphere where aircraft are likely to create persistent, heat-trapping contrails, then ask a small share of transatlantic flights to pass above or below them. The important change is scale: earlier experiments altered individual airline flight plans, while this state-backed trial will coordinate avoidance across a busy section of oceanic airspace.

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Red Bull looks like a drinks company, but its real product is a carefully engineered identity. The energy drink itself is easy to imitate. What rivals struggle to reproduce is the world of speed, daring and elite performance that surrounds it - from Formula One and football to record-breaking stunts. That brand machine has kept growing even after the death of founder Dietrich Mateschitz, though the same strategy now attracts mounting scrutiny.

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US law to investigate foodborne illness outbreaks has been delayed for 15 years (r/news)

• DarkPetitChat: Are you great again america?
• Muzi5060: If they could feed us shit, they’d feed us shit.
• SidneyMacdonald: 15 years of lobbying just so grocery chains dont have to track where tainted lettuce came from while thousands of people get parasites. corporate greed at its finest

Lake Powell hits record low, threatening key water and electricity supply for millions (r/news)

• The_Bitter_Bear: I’m guessing that nothing will be done until it runs dry a few times at this point.
• allmybreath: Alfalfa and grass hay consume roughly 30% to 40% of the entire Colorado River’s annual flow. This is more than all municipal, industrial, and urban uses combined.
• Widespreaddd: I see some experts saying that any cuts will likely come from agriculture, and then I see other experts saying that a lot of the most senior water rights are held by farmers. The situation is clear as mud to me.

What’s a habit you picked up purely out of laziness that turned out to be surprisingly genius? (r/AskReddit)

• Outrageous_Expert635: I started leaving a basket by the couch for remotes and stuff so i never hunt around when i need them it was pure laziness but the place feels way less messy now
• lkeshaw: Keeping a small trash can in every room. The house stays cleaner with less effort.
• Miserable-Series1209: Eating chips with chopsticks so I don’t have to clean grease off my mouse and keyboard

What medical procedure or test turned out to be far more painful or uncomfortable than you expected? (r/AskReddit)

• hometown_heretic: IUD insertion. I blacked out on the table.
• DPetrilloZbornak: Cervical check during labor.  They did it when my husband left the room and went down the hall for something.  He heard my screams of agony from down the hall and around the corner and came running.
• YesYeahWhatever: Getting a chemo port installed in my chest. Almost everyone gets it done with twilight sedation but for unknown reasons my surgical team said, nah, she’s good. Quite unpleasant.

Gym goers, what’s the dark side of the gym life that no one ever admits? (r/AskReddit)

• Fphiz-: going after work and then having to come home to cook. Just literal exhaustion. Which is why meal prepping comes in handy though.
• Don_Pablo512: I had a roomate who was a very serious lifter, basically dedicated his life to it and was on roids and idk what else, he was jacked. But in his mind he was always small and no amount of gains could get him to where he wanted to be, there was always a bigger dude. Def had some big mental issues from it and was extremely insecure even tho the average dude could dream of having his physique.
• Illustrious_Salad346: Overall, nothing dark. My life is better for it. The only downside is that it’s a timesuck. I would like going to the gym more if I had an extra hour in a day four days a week. I enjoy working out, but trying to fit in the time means that I have less time to spend on other things I enjoy.

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I have not typed a single line of code since January this year. All Claude generated. (Blind)

• Txsp46 (Cisco): I have not used AI a single time since ever. All hand generated. I’m happy that my coding and cognitive skills are as sharp as ever.
• VhAc71 (Apple): Pretty sure interviews and interview prep is the only context where I’ll ever write code by hand.
• hlfvjcbj (JPMorganChase): I am not even enjoying this tbh. Dont get the same satisfaction when I finish task

More and More Convinced future isn’t great for Goog (Blind)

• ctf98Ht (Meta): I use google AI search, so whatever you have posted is just your opinion with one datapoint.
• abababcd (Western Digital): Meta being pessimistic on google is the highest level of disillusionment , world needs google and the world is a better place without meta.
• uneal (Palo Alto Networks): I agree , these AI agents are eating up goog lunch

Do you believe Anthropic employees really don’t work for the money? (Blind)

• cQfh64 (Intuit): Everybody only works for money, period. People who say i want to focus on mission and problem solving already have millions in the bank to take care of their expenses.
• boredddddd (Microsoft): Obviously. They work for the mission lol
• 4599f332 (PayPal): I believe they don’t _only_ work for the money.

Bernie Sanders calls out Sergey Brin for spending over \$100 million to defeat California’s billionaire tax — ‘If California passes its one-time 5% wealth tax, Brin would owe \$14 billion and still be worth \$270 billion’ (r/technology)

• Donnicton: But you don’t understand, if he has to pay taxes then that means he has to exist as part of society, rather than above it!
• hard2resist: Track record. Billionaires lobby hard against every wealth tax proposal, one-time or permanent. Brin’s \$100 million spend proves the point if this passes, expect the same fight against the next one.
• Oceanbreeze871: A one time billionaire tax is better than no tax ever.

3D-printing enthusiast creates ‘Flock Sock’ to blind controversial cameras, shares design — slip-on cover attaches to broom handle to make it easy to put on devices placed on traffic and streetlights (r/technology)

• Redlettucehead: Now that’s a waste of a good sock. What you may not realise however, and which I just learnt, is that there is about 2 pounds of copper and an ounce of gold in each camera as well as an NVDA chip
• MarketCrache: Tucker Carlson said we shouldn’t permanently blind them with a green laser pointer…
• Dave-C: I’m just waiting on the flipper zero that can make them report all tag plates as “penis.” One day…