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August 07, 2022

Daily Tech News 7 August 2022

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  • Amazon is acquiring Roomba maker iRobot for $1.7 billion. (Ars Technica)

    Given Amazon's habit of handing out Ring doorbell video footage without the tedious drudgery of asking or telling the owners, my inclination to buy a Roomba has abruptly evaporated. At least a doorbell is - by design - on the front of the house facing outwards, not roaming around inside.


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  • Why did you get a variable rate mortgage? Are you stupid or something?

    Long-term fixed-rate mortgages are almost unknown outside the US, and certainly don't exist in Australia. If you think about it, there's no way a bank would offer a long term fixed rate loan when interest rates are at historic lows, because they can only lose on the deal... Unless something is propping them up on the other end.


  • Are blockchains / cryptocurrencies / NFTs / stablecoins / decentralised finance a scam?

    Mostly, yes. Not entirely, but it's the way to bet.


  • You keep mentioning gluten-free stuff. Isn't that also a scam?

    Unless you have celiac disease, yes.

    If you do have celiac disease, gluten-free meals are the difference between living a relatively normal life and being a hermit subsisting on boiled rice and carrot sticks.


  • Who is that vtuber you referred to obliquely the other day?

    If I referred to them obliquely it would only be a retired Hololive member, and there's only four of those (not counting Hitomi Chris, who no-one remembers): Aloe, Coco, Rushia, and most recently Sana. And the reason for the obliquity is that all four have other online personas kept separate from Hololive for privacy / contractual reasons. On my non-technical posts I will sometimes be less oblique - or a quick Google search will probably tell you more than you ever wanted to know.



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