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add-sub-mul-divyesterday at 4:46 PM4 repliesview on HN

If Apple and Meta have had to pay $38 million for engaging in these practices I don't understand why they used the subtle "chronically-online" dig against people trying to expose it:

"And this has given rise to a cottage industry of chronically-online types — in other words, typical tech workers — seeking to expose them."


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kstrauseryesterday at 4:48 PM

What the… Yeah, I’m with you on that one. “We would’ve gotten away with it, too, if it weren’t for those meddling chronically onlines seeing if we’re obeying federal law!”

pavel_lishinyesterday at 5:08 PM

The whole thing seems to oddly disdainful of the people being impacted:

> How many 20-something software engineers even know how to use a post office in 2025?

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supjeffyesterday at 5:33 PM

I feel like there was a lot of nonsense ideas for what is such a short, and supposedly journalistically rigorous article

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