Draiken

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by Draiken 2y ago
> You can find people to grind on your vision, but you cannot make them see what you see. I call bullshit. If you can't explain your vision you're a shitty leader. Good leaders can share their vision and get people to buy into
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by Draiken 2y ago
I don't think this holds to scrutiny. This breaks down as soon as you get out of the idea phase. Everyone has visions, and most great achievements today are the results of an amalgamation of them. The really big achievements are almost
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by Draiken 2y ago
They don't want a clear answer. They never did, and likely never will. That's the problem with this type of topic. As much as I like to talk about it, there never seems to be any real talk. People pick a side and arguments be damn
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by Draiken 2y ago
What? We're into late stage capitalism and you're telling me the world was experimenting with making employees lives better? I must be living under a rock! Where are these so called experiments? I only see employee conditions gett
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by Draiken 2y ago
Because it was a good marketing stunt and they believed it would increase profits in the long term by hiring/keeping people that cared about that. Also, I wouldn't discount the fact that there's a lot of cargo cult induced de
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by Draiken 2y ago
I agree that we never had a real test and probably never will. Another aspect that I think completely shifts the conversation and is often overlooked: duration. If I am told I have X amount of money for Y amount of time, I'll plan acco
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by Draiken 2y ago
People, yes. Corporations, no. It's literally their raison d'être.
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by Draiken 2y ago
Come on... plan better? It's almost always the simplest answer: they can get richer like that. I don't get why people try to rationalize greed so much. It's just that: greed.
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by Draiken 2y ago
Yeah those were times that probably compare the most to what we see today. I agree with you it's definitely not the worse version of this (yet) but regardless, I don't think what GP said should be acceptable as reasonable. Saying
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by Draiken 2y ago
Having to interview at hundreds of places to find a job is not.
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by Draiken 2y ago
I agree that having a more realistic mindset that we are already in a great position can help if the person's comparing themselves with others earning a lot more. But I argue that this alone is not enough. Phrasing it merely as somethi
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by Draiken 2y ago
Sure, but it's all about proportions. I now am lucky enough to have enough money for everything I need and that means almost all problems are a payment away from being solved. 99.9% of the problems become really small. The amount of ti
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by Draiken 2y ago
We have to complain about literally everything you just said. The entire system is broken. Everyone should be entitled to live their lives without being subject to these awful conditions, but we as a society keep allowing this to happen bec
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by Draiken 2y ago
And who pays the candidates for the hours wasted in these interviews again? Comparing that to the hundreds of hours working together is what is preposterous. If interviews were paid for, then the entire conversation would shift dramatically
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by Draiken 2y ago
Think about it for a second mate: competition leads to winners and winners don't like competition, they like monopolies. And no, the car industry has almost no competition. It's an oligopoly with very few players and a notoriously
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by Draiken 2y ago
I'm unsure where the purity claim comes from. Parent said people should praise him for his actions. Nowhere it's stated ALL his actions, or that he is pure in any way, shape or form. Nobody is perfect and he's no different, a
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by Draiken 2y ago
I agree with you on that. I dislike the partisanship that was demonstrated (even if coerced). However, for me, personal feelings about him should not matter in this case. It's a question of how our society treats people that expose bad
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by Draiken 2y ago
Does it really matter? We argue semantics around incidents like this when it comes down to: people doing bad stuff and trying to hide it. If anything, these laws are completely broken. People should never be punished for exposing bad actors
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by Draiken 2y ago
No. It's pretty much always a result of another system failing. We're not talking about a kid helping out in their mom and pop's shop. We're talking about kids working in meat plants because it's cheap labor. If the
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by Draiken 2y ago
Okay, let's assume then all this thread is about being pedantic, and not because you're actually against child labor laws. My bad. Still not sure how sending kids to work will increase their safety. You've mentioned evidence
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by Draiken 2y ago
We don't need death statistics to know that children working with poverty wages to make rich people richer is bad. Your argument is that unless we have thousands dying, it's fine? I don't understand why people are even arguin
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by Draiken 2y ago
It's more about who hasn't talked to me about RPi ever: regular people. Regardless, I posed it as a question exactly because I don't know.
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by Draiken 2y ago
You can take investment without going public. It's most likely harder, but definitely doable.
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by Draiken 2y ago
If the consumers were non tech people, I'd agree. But isn't this a product aimed at hackers and tinkerers? I know the first thought that came to my mind was: damn, I'll have to find new hardware when my Pi dies.
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by Draiken 2y ago
Same here... HN kiss of death maybe? Too bad. Looks fun.
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by Draiken 2y ago
I believe social media [with a big following] is implied. Otherwise it's useless too.
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by Draiken 2y ago
Agreed. To be fair, personally I don't blame billionaires per se. They are mere proxies for the real issue: the profit motive. But it's easier to sell that billionaires should not exist than it is to sell that we shouldn't se
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by Draiken 2y ago
If a few billionaires stopped sucking up all the money, we could sustain pretty much everyone without those compromises. But that's not gonna make shareholders happy. But I find that even expensive items are not guaranteed to be of qua
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by Draiken 2y ago
All of these systems you mentioned have already failed. We are simply very slow to accept it. Even in the (almost) mainstream media with shows like John Oliver, you can see just how deep the degradation of all our regulatory entities really
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by Draiken 2y ago
That's another big issue. Everyone loves to repeat "vote with your wallet" but what do you do when it's all bad? I don't know. It's not feasible for many to not own a car and even if it was, the few that "

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