2022-04-05

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USB-C hubs and my slow descent into madness - Dennis Schubert

It honestly feels like no matter what you buy, you get more or less the same hardware, and you’re most likely getting a heavily overpriced product just because some company printed their logo on it. Outsourcing your production to China and even outsourcing/moving your R&D to local people with lots of experience in part sourcing and manufacturing is one thing. There are a lot of great arguments for it, and I’m generally supportive of that. However, I can’t help but feel a little bit cheated by companies just buying off-the-shelf products, slightly modifying the case layout, and then quadruple the price because it’s “from a reputable company”.
Amazon’s Project Kuiper books 83 rockets to launch internet-beaming satellites
- Jeff Bezos and Amazon Just Hired Everybody but SpaceX for Project Kuiper
Comcast wanted man to pay $19,000 after falsely advertising service on his street | Ars Technica

'Biggest fraud in a generation': The looting of the Covid relief program known as PPP

experts say is the theft of as much as $80 billion — or about 10 percent — of the $800 billion handed out in a Covid relief plan known as the Paycheck Protection Program, or PPP. That’s on top of the $90 billion to $400 billion believed to have been stolen from the $900 billion Covid unemployment relief program

there is still a chance to stanch the bleeding, because federal officials say $600 billion is still waiting to go out the door.