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[deleted] t1_jecadqw wrote

Reply to comment by ersatzgiraffe in immortality: Humans will attain immortality with the help of 'nanobots' by 2030, claims former Google scientist by Vailhem

  • He doesn’t work at Google anymore

  • He's 75 years old best-selling author

  • He has made nearly 150 predictions in the last decades and roughly 86% of them became true, becoming an institution of futurology.

  • You didn't read the article.

> there are people [...] that don’t know what the fuck they’re talking about, perhaps.

Exactly. Exactly.

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marketrent OP t1_jec9h38 wrote

Reply to comment by JayCroghan in It's becoming increasingly clear that fintech has a fraud problem by marketrent

FCA’s Matthew Long wrote last month that the U.K. regulator “continue to see poor financial crime controls in some payments and e-money firms.”

That same regulator just put Revolut on notice that the company may be in breach of rules that state: “All adverts and promotions for financial services must be fair, clear and not misleading.”

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socokid t1_jec9dfy wrote

Reply to CEOs are quietly backtracking on remote work—and more companies could follow by ethereal3xp

> “It’s a good deal for companies who don’t want to deal with the backlash and consequences that come with layoffs but need to cut costs somewhere,” she explains.

LOL

"It's great that we make it so undesirable that people just quit, saving us from having to fire them, which is harrrd.

Now, back to wasting a couple of hours a day commuting away from your familyu, wearing out your car and wasting gas, just to sit in an office so you can Teams video your coworkers from your cube."

...

If you run a company like this, good luck! My company and my wife's companies hire from all over the country. Not only are the prospects much better (much wider talent pool), but the idea that we can't communicate in a virtual office in 2023 is so ridiculous I wouldn't even know where to start.

They'll just go back to having an office the size of a gas station for a 300 plus person organization.

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