Joel Basson @joelbasson Twitter profile

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@r_saintier @PedderSophie @laprovence Literally better than no job

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@r_saintier @PedderSophie @laprovence If you have the savings that allows that, do that. Otherwise look for a better job while working, like most people do.

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@HannoKlausmeier Yeah, energy intensive industries are moving out of Germany for funsies

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@r_saintier @PedderSophie @laprovence If you’re unemployed, any job will do.

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@dieworkwear I was working > 40 hrs/week after graduating when I was in my 20s. I could not afford to buy until I was ~ 30, and instead shared a house with friends. Being able to buy a house in your 20’s just because you work 40 hours a week is absurd. Rare Derek L

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@AdamSinger @pitdesi Probably even more so now given the douchy cars and plates

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@Carnage4Life Uber took a long time to become useless. AirBnB went full throttle. It has reached the point where I don’t even bother looking anymore. just works, and I don’t have to moonlight as a cleaner

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@karlpetermichl @urenaluis2 Your company not a tech company

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@castlvillageman That’s Berlusconi. Easy mistake to make. Johnson is the one with the funny accent

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@SergKoloskov @RolandOliphant The weapons used here were donated by the same country doing the talking. Both need to happen. It’s the correct approach

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@shen__34 @Forbes Literally elected by council and parliament

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@IlvesToomas Poland has been excluding themselves over the last decade

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@RyanB1810 @KatyMontgomerie @xgigglypuff @Odikay333 You don’t have a degrees in finance

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@SebblzZ @DanielKral1 Severe lack of investment over the last 20 years has left them as the fax machine nation. The Schwarze Null is the culmination of this brain rot

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The answer as to why a16z and other VC’s push crypto/blockchain/web3 nonsense (when it is simply just bad tech) is that tokens allow for an easy exit, without having to wait for an IPO (and all that regulation and scrutiny that comes with it)

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@UploadVR @Heaney555 Who is the clown at Qualcomm responsible for naming their SoC’s?

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2 years

@jelleprins @alexeheath Chairs? That sounds pretty soft to me, not hardcore

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2 years

@GergelyOrosz FTX going bankrupt brings huge damage to other ponzi companies. FTFY

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@austral_gamer_ @TrueSlazac Depends on the country and if they’re in need of a good couping

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@FilledWithMoney @Carnage4Life It’s not about whether it’s useful, it’s about whether it can generate a return for investors money

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2 years

@Nowooski @radekzaleski Never ever seen a house in the EU without a dryer. Not one. Air conditioning however is more uncommon

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2 years

@GergelyOrosz It’s pretty hectic. They also swim under obstacles and up through what is clearly meant to simulate a hole in ice. And they keep the water cold. Only heated up on family day (Sunday). Nothing like the swimming I was taught.

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2 years

@Carnage4Life Incredibly shortsighted. Trying to trip up the company during a pivot, which it is incredibly well positioned to a accomplish during a market downturn

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2 years

@rogerharmar @DaveKeating Yeah, criminals should never have trust that their money is safe.

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4 years

@jonworth Why are the Brits taking criticism of AstraZeneca and their vaccine so personally? It’s weird

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@DylanMcD8 Simping for large corporations over regulators is just weird

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2 years

@GergelyOrosz There has got to be so many engineers now in the 55+ group

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1 year

@Carnage4Life “User-friendly features like not showing destinations before pickup” Nothing quite like your rides getting cancelled because your driver wants a more profitable route. Because of that, I’ve started using a private service.

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@Neoncaffeine @WheatPM @rocketbeans1 @nikicaga Then you haven’t looked at the comments

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2 years

@Matveyich @GergelyOrosz You’re not a finance/marketing/etc company with a tech division. Instead you’re a tech company, with finance/marketing/etc departments. If software engineers are clearly the most important people in your company, you’re a tech-first company

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@AmandaGaBaBa @Shane_Conneely @tobiaschneider We have 500 drinking fountains in Amsterdam. And it’s not a particularly large city. You can easily Google them… Otherwise just buy your water of choice at any of the loads of supermarkets, terraces or cafes. If in doubt, the good water is San Pellegrino. Avoid Perrier

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3 years

@EU_Eurostat Red being good and blue being bad is an interesting colour choice

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@Carnage4Life Yolo is easier when you have nothing to lose

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10 months

Meta’s AI research lab falling under Reality Labs led to many clowns thinking the Horizon Worlds app costs billions annually to develop.

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He who controls the compute controls the future

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@benz145 You’re not thinking of families. If you have kids, it’s their own personal large screen. I don’t think it replaces the concept of a large primary household screen (except where large screens are not possible). But as additional private screens, that’s a big win

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2 years

@Carnage4Life Ah, so just a16z backing another ponzi that can be easily offloaded to retail again. Makes more sense now

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@GergelyOrosz You’ve just described my business! 😂 Taking that company and their tech stack, and reengineering it so that it can scale is an art form. Often you first need to convince the founder and other managers that it is actually a tech company (and not a marketing company)

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@andrewroosbell @nikicaga Just also we’re clear. They are German. European. They are not from some poor, war-torn country. They are from one of the richest places in the world. They can live anywhere in the EU they wish. They can easily legally immigrate to the USA if they wish.

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@TrungTPhan With kids you also need the most direct flight, overnight. Irrespective of cost. A 10 hour daytime flight with kids is a mistake you only make once

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@RUnconcerned @TysonSClarke @johntrified I am a native English speaker. And no, it means as soon as possible. Which of course does mean it takes priority over other things. What else could it possibly mean?

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@GergelyOrosz Microsoft lost so much goodwill when they did this. It took a decade for people to forgive and forget. I’m old enough to remember the hatred towards “M$” from developers

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3 years

Italy wins everything in 2021!

Ferdinando Giugliano

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3 years

The Country of the Year for 2021 for @TheEconomist is... Italy! 🇮🇹

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@GergelyOrosz @mwfowlie You don’t pay severance packages to people that were laid off for performance reasons. Can you imagine the legal repercussions if they lied like that here 😂

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@ffrey42 @nikicaga Would have been interesting to put the capital city in Switzerland instead of Belgium.

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@tenobrus The fuck is up with all the autism talk. Engineers are nerds, not autistic

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2 years

@GergelyOrosz VS Code has been a silent winner. Just quietly took over

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@Lunayian Much better design language. I wonder if it’s a sneak peak at a new UI toolkit

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@thorstenbenner @bctallis @APHClarkson So Germany is at least sending artillery then? Like the USA is doing. No? There seems to always be some excuses from Germany for their actions

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@Storie_in_1_cip @TheEconomist Do you think sanctions are meant to make their currency weaker? South Africa’s currency was at its strongest when sanctions were at their strongest. It’s economy was being destroyed, and the currency had no reflection on reality. Sanctions work ruthlessly. But they take time

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@laurentzeimes @MarineBloody @ArkuAmore @ellegist False, you can buy it legally in the US

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3 years

Oil, not gas, is the biggest leverage point.

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Russian oil exports (black) in 2021 were 3 times as big as natural gas exports (blue), so oil prices matter disproportionately for Russia's war machine. If US allies in the Gulf ramp up production volumes to bring prices down, that would be a great act of solidarity with Ukraine!

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@hopelesssprings @sports_brick @PoliticsLs Amsterdam is literally a 15 min city. Almost every city we have in the Netherlands is a 15 min city

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The new electric fire engine in Amsterdam. Super cool, and apparently one of only three in existence

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@PantalonesB @Noahpinion If only there were data on cycling fatalities per capita to look at instead of relying on your personal experiences

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@TrashMan123456 @spectatorindex Spending on the military is still spending, and increases gdp

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@nonoumenon @ArmandDoma Does it though?

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@philroyceman @jonworth @DaveKeating Some random internal British document? Why don’t they accept a note from my mother?

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@vcdxnz001 @ZacksJerryRig @Tesla @WholeMarsBlog Mercedes has the only car with certified level 3 autonomy. You may use your phone to make calls, watch a movie etc

We put our blind faith in Mercedes-Benz’s first-of-its-kind autonomous Drive Pilot feature

Watching music videos from the driver’s seat.

www.theverge.com

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@Carnage4Life

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@TysonSClarke @johntrified In the West, in native English, it means as soon as possible. Totally normal thing to say and I have told employees that before. What possible other meaning would Indians have?

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@DaveKeating South Africa created “self-governing homelands” which managed to make our stats there very impressive at the time. An illusion of course. The log leader here is using the same trick...

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@GergelyOrosz Agile was a revelation in the 2007-2010 period. I was evangelist at the time. After that the issues started becoming apparent

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@Carnage4Life That and, you know, confidently making up stuff and presenting it as the answer. Fun for startups, but not great for actual tech companies replacing their money maker

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@Nowooski @radekzaleski We hang our clothes sometimes as it dries without creases. Other times we use the dryer. Do Americans just use the dryer regardless and then have to iron or get their clothes pressed? Sounds like a mission

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@AndyMorphs @Lunayian Those people were never going to buy Quest 3

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@jonworth It’s incredible. Almost seems like it belongs as part of the artwork

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@Nowooski @radekzaleski Neither do they here…they’re dryers. You either hang your clothes or you use the dryer. Not both

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@GergelyOrosz My favourite was the “Have Fun Staying Poor” period.

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2 years

@Carnage4Life Apple’s just quietly been subtly putting AI into their products for years. The Photos Memories feature might be the most delightful and understated use of AI at the moment in my opinion. AI is not the feature, it’s just a tool used in a feature.

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@benz145 If it’s facing you, the lenses are facing the wall and less likely to get sun hitting them

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3 years

@Yrouel86 @AschbacherJosef @esa @cnni Did you actually listen to what he said?

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@GergelyOrosz Everyone’s first big personal project in RoR is building a Twitter clone. It’s stupidly easy. The difficult part is the advertising tech and the moderation. And of course, the most important of all, you need concentrated users so social graphs come into effect.

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@DutchNewsNL It’s genius. Parents would pay large amounts of money to sit separated from the kids.

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@Austen @ctjwa I’ve never, ever heard of anyone other than Americans talk about something like adderall. If it weren’t for Hollywood, I would no idea what it is. Still don’t really.

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@Bill_Pair @GergelyOrosz Apple is their main source of revenue. Which is a precarious situation to be in. They are a mapping and traffic data provider now

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@GreekAnalyst Remaining neutral between EU and a foreign state? Interesting

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@pbergsen You seem to miss the most important point (for me at least) about Volt. We want European parties, not regional parties (like D66). Time for The Greens to do the same and get rid of GroenLinks, Die Grünen, etc

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@hopelesssprings @sports_brick @PoliticsLs The Netherlands was not always the bicycle and public transport haven it is now. It was transformed over multiple decades

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@AndrewWattEU @ErikFossing @SDullien @W_Schmidt_ @MKarnitschnig DE artillery, despite being promised, is still not in Ukraine. French artillery and Italian artillery are being used in Ukraine. Promising stuff and not doing anything, while hiding behind money “But we sent money. What more do you want from us?” Send. Heavy. Weapons.

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@Carnage4Life I know someone whose old company is enforcing a non-compete, so he has to wait 3 months before starting his new job. But, if he is not employed for a span of 3 months, he has to leave the Netherlands. Nor does he have freedom of movement in the EU. His visa only applies in NL

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@GergelyOrosz They are so going to be funding Anna Sorokin’s next venture

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@AndrewParsonson It’s been pretty evident for a while. They love to insult with their “Those that can’t innovate, regulate” refrain while Boeings planes fall apart.

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@darewecan @9to5mac @bzamayo No one is saying you may not use the Apple App Store. But if others don’t want to, they need to be allowed to use other app stores

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@defimattyy @ogShaddo @ShakyBarnes @piropalo @JonErlichman Never heard of ASML? ? Spotify? L'Oréal? Philips? Shell? Airbus? Michelin? AB InBev? Heineken?

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@legitleavitt @Trainman2520 @the_transit_guy Amsterdam is a 15 min city. No one is restricted from travelling further…

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@GergelyOrosz We’ve noticed an increase in candidates. Plus side : web3/crypto bros are back on the market Downside : they worked in web3/crypto which is a big red flag

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@GergelyOrosz Looking into the code is normal in an acquisition. It’s a part of my job

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@SArvanitis @Frontex FRONTEX is stopping it. They are not a news agency, they are showing how they busted this

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@RyanB1810 @KatyMontgomerie @xgigglypuff @Odikay333 Yeah, and what university exactly offers those exact majors?

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@Xotiw @woodstock69420 @iDeviceHelpus @pitdesi Pretty much every developer has said hand tracking is far better on the Quest. You can just look at Fruit Ninja to see the lag it has

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2 years

@Carnage4Life @henbas But why? They can automatically calculate them and include it in the total price very easily. If you’re wanting to be transparent, that is incredibly easy to do. That and making it an opt-out instead of an opt-in

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@conservatuga @FedRepofEurope @EuropeElects Timmermans, PvdA and S&D ran a really good campaign

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3 years

@SamJamesMorgan People often get confused by this. When meaning to buy a Chanel dress, they end up accidentally buying a Huawei router accidentally.

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@nicola_dEU @townsendyesmate I’m going to have to do my own research here

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2 years

@Carnage4Life LLaMa seems to be going down a similar path to Midjourney. I suspect this goes down a different route to search. We end up running LLM’s locally, and get periodic refreshed weights from Microsoft, Google, Meta. Apple in particular will push local usage

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2 years

@Carnage4Life A windows laptop? In tech? I dunno, sounds off

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4 years

@metaburbia @DaveKeating Uh, that’s how exports are attributed. Or do you think the USA government exported $150b last year? Business exports are attributed to EU, USA, China etc

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@GordonDarroch Busy buying a house in Amsterdam and the sellers makelaar was very eager to tell me this morning that finally now there would be change. No more immigrants. Which was quite the thing to say to my face

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