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by Bresenham 6y ago
The piece starts out saying the iPhone is a commodity. My chair is a commodity. The physical iPhone manufactured at a Foxconn factory has aspects of a commodity. But is that physical iPhone device worth hundreds of dollars solely for its p
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by Bresenham 6y ago
To take up their seats, they would have had to swear an oath - "I swear by Almighty God that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, her heirs and successors, according to law. So help me God."
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by Bresenham 6y ago
The BBC was banned from broadcasting the voices of Sinn Féin MPs who had been elected to the UK parliament. So starting from the vantage of a news service banning interviews with members of its own country's parliament, outlets like Ru
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by Bresenham 6y ago
I have to laugh at the Times of India (rated yellow) comment - "It tends to have a bias in favor of the Indian government". Times of India, An Phoblacht, CGTN, Global Times, Press TV, Ria Novosti, Russia Today, Sputnik, TASS, Tele
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by Bresenham 6y ago
The difference is labor time compensated for is compensated for, labor time expropriated is not. Labor time compensated for by Google excessively well is also labor time where workers are producing wealth excessively well. Ken Thompson had
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by Bresenham 6y ago
> massively powerful, self-interested entity The difference is the union at some level ultimately has to answer to the workers who comprise the union, whereas the corporation is ultimately responsible to the majority stockholders who are
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by Bresenham 6y ago
> it is going to be significantly harder to start steering the company's product direction and social responsibility efforts than 'just' representing the employees during e.g. benefits and compensation negotiations. Unions
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by Bresenham 6y ago
> While a union that represents workers interests is a good thing, I think it would be dangerous to give even a part of google to people with ideological fervor. On a practical level, a union that concentrates just on its members interes
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by Bresenham 6y ago
> an increase in labor supply due to women entering the labor force In the USA, there has been a (relative) decrease in labor supply due to women leaving the work force. Women's participation in the labor force by percentage has de
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by Bresenham 6y ago
My thesis is that for the earnest young founders mentioned in the essay who want to make the world a better place and to work on X, the trouble starts when they sign a deal with VCs, super seeds etc. If they are not earnest, but sociopathic
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by Bresenham 6y ago
> Reporters literally can't believe it when founders making piles of money say that they started their companies to make the world better. The situation seems made for mockery. How can these founders be so naive as not to realize ho