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A US homebuyer now needs to earn a record $107k to afford the median priced home for sale, an increase of over 45% in the last 12 months.
redfin.com/news/homebuyer-in…
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California passed a law requiring employers based in or hiring in Cali to post salary ranges on all job listings. It also requires companies with more than 100 employees to show their median gender and racial pay gaps — a first for a US state.
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🔥 New Post: Announcing InAppBrowser - see what JavaScript commands get injected through an in-app browser
👀 TikTok, when opening any website in their app, injects tracking code that can monitor all keystrokes, including passwords, and all taps.
krausefx.com/blog/announcing…
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Seibel's 1st Law of Debugging: The longer and more ridiculous the debugging session, the stupider the bug will eventually turn out to be.
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Some statistics to start the year:
During 2021 Bitcoin consumed 134 TWh in total, which is comparable to the electrical energy consumed by a country like Argentina.
Related CO2 emissions were ~64 Mt; enough to negate the entire global net savings from deploying EVs.
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why did the guy who wrote 12 Days of Christmas not pick a bird with three or four syllables for the first day? you wrote the fucking song. why make people sing “par-tree-aaage” when you could’ve just made it “and a lesser kestrel in a pear treeeeee”? cooler bird and it SCANS
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Today in late capitalism, apparently there is a whole product category of "mouse jigglers," devices that generate random movement from your mouse so your WFH surveillance software thinks you're working
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The next time someone tries to convince you that crypto isn't driving climate change, tell them about the private equity firm that bought an entire natural gas plant to mine Bitcoin with. buff.ly/3hWtGwb
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Zillow on just how insane the housing market is right now
zillow.com/research/days-to-…
Homes are selling twice as fast as they were the month before the pandemic, and 47% of homes in April were on the market for *less than a week* before going pending
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🤯Regular reminder—REALITY is not what our brains actually reproduce.
Infuriatingly TRUE—nothing is actually. moving. Put a pen tip or paperclip at any point to measure.
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It has not escaped my attention that the day social media companies decided there actually IS more they could do to police Trump’s destructive behavior was the same day they learned Democrats would chair all the congressional committees that oversee them.
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DoorDash spent tens of million of dollars to ram through a ballot proposition that removed benefits and job protections for their delivery drivers, then immediately turned around and started charging customers a fee in "response" to the proposition THEY WROTE. Shameless.
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1. A small business began selling camera tripods on Amazon
2. It reached $3.5 million in sales, 0.001% of Amazon's revenue
3. Amazon copied the tripods exactly and sold them as AmazonBasics tripods
4. Amazon banned the tripod company from Amazon
wsj.com/articles/amazon-comp…
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This concept of paying people the same when they do the same work at the same level of seniority is at once both radical and obvious. But it’s pushing against ingrained habits, sly negotiation bullshit, and a what-can-we-get-away-with mentality that belongs to a different era.
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Bravo, Reddit! This is the fair way to go 👏 cnn.com/2020/11/23/success/r…
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If Uber & Lyft tried this, they'd just create an massive opportunity for new, law-abiding ride-hailing businesses to arise. There's no economic reason that an on-demand taxi service HAS to pay poverty wages; we've simply allowed it to happen.
