Draiken

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by Draiken 2y ago
Corporation breaks the law to increase profits, gets caught, makes a PR stunt "apologizing" and gets off with a slap on the wrist. Where have I read that before? Oh, everywhere. This will never change while profits are the sole re
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by Draiken 2y ago
We can't control the physics that controls oceans. But we can control regulations and laws in which corporations operate in. That's why IMO the metaphor is deeply flawed. As for advice, honestly, we all know it already. Voting, ge
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by Draiken 2y ago
Companies are not oceans. Giving up and accepting abuse from these companies is definitely one way to deal with it, but I don't believe it's a good one.
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by Draiken 2y ago
Given all the DRM and other shenanigans implemented on ebooks, I'm not sure that's true anymore.
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by Draiken 2y ago
Yes, by pure statistics you are probably rich compared to everyone else. The average software developer salary is way bigger than the average salary for the entirety of the US. Let's not even mention compared to the rest of the world.
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by Draiken 2y ago
Could it possibly be different in Brazil? iPhones are not ubiquitous here, and they're way more expensive than other options.
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by Draiken 2y ago
My take is that it's like a fashion accessory. People buy Gucci for the brand, not the material or comfort. Rich people ask for the latest most expensive iPhone even if they're only going to use WhatsApp and Instagram on it. It&#x
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by Draiken 2y ago
At least here in Brazil, I've never heard such arguments. Seems even more unlikely for non technical users. It's just their latest market campaign, as far as I can tell. The vast majority of people buy iPhones because of the statu
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by Draiken 2y ago
> become popular because they allow more people to do more stuff more easily Nope. Because they allow people to be easily replaced. Nothing to do with how easy or good the framework is. That's the whole point of the article.
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by Draiken 2y ago
> Career changes are literally one of the easier things in life to do if you’re determined What nonsense. What makes it hard is everything around it. People can't choose to take a 50% pay cut to change careers. They can't let t
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by Draiken 2y ago
How is opening up the Apple ecosystem a race to the bottom? Aren't they going to continue to produce their amazing products and apps? Are you implying that if they do open it up, they won't be as dominant? I don't understand
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by Draiken 2y ago
Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but I "cloned" my own voice and the outputs were nothing like my voice. I thought I was going to hear myself speaking French, but it's definitely not that. A bit misleading if none of the
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by Draiken 2y ago
Sure, the original idea might've already been there, but they built the game all the same. Saying it "wasn't them" is misleading. They built it from scratch, with existing concepts from mods. Maybe their ideas department
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by Draiken 3y ago
Isn't the fact that they're the market leader in what they do proof enough? Would they have created/found this cash cow if they were a traditional company? People try to poke holes in their ways, yet they have made legendary
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by Draiken 3y ago
This is an underrated point. A lot of focus has been put on manufacturing procedures when this could've been avoided entirely in design. IDK anything about manufacturing so I wonder if this was due to incompetence, to save costs, ignor
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by Draiken 3y ago
> You can't expect workers on 12hr shifts to have consistent high quality of throughput. Nor should we. We should expect the company to prioritize safety and hire more people to avoid such mistakes. Or even if you want to keep that
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by Draiken 3y ago
Meta (and other privacy exploiting companies) have to actually... care? Even if it's just a bit more. Nothing draconian about it.
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by Draiken 3y ago
To be clear, I don't think this is true right now . But if the technology does improve just a bit further, it will be easy enough to be spammable and it will be abused.
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by Draiken 3y ago
Seems impossible to enforce, but I applaud the spirit of it. Pretty soon anyone looking to add "open source contributor" to their GH profile can take a Gentoo issue and ask an AI to cook up a solution, put that on a PR, and send i
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by Draiken 3y ago
Could they actually do something about it? What I found in my career is that the good managers do empathize and even sometimes try to improve the situation, but they simply can't. More often than not the cause of the issues come from d
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by Draiken 3y ago
You're right that corruption is not exclusive to capitalism. All systems will have that in one way or another. That was something the person I was replying to brought up. I don't think it matters for capitalism specifically. Any s
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by Draiken 3y ago
I hesitate to reply to people that hide behind throwaway accounts, but sure, I'll bite. >Even aside from the overwhelming historical evidence soundly disproving your point That has basically nothing to compare against it. The very f
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by Draiken 3y ago
While I agree with you, I can't see how we could ever fix the issue. The same patent holders are the biggest backers of our politicians and will absolutely never allow any reasonable fix to the system itself. All I read is how we shoul
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by Draiken 3y ago
It's almost like capitalism stifles innovation. Paradoxically it's one of the most common arguments people use in favor of the system: it pushes innovation! It actually pushes innovation towards profits, not pure innovation. When
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by Draiken 3y ago
You claim the list is false and provide nothing of substance to back that up. Assuming everyone simply chooses to use those services and could stop doing so in a whim is extremely naive. If you want to participate in society today, many of
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by Draiken 3y ago
I get that people just want to save money but I absolutely cannot understand how we keep screwing over artists like this. We pay a small amount, the middlemen gets all the money, 0.01% of the artists get more than a few hundred bucks, every
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by Draiken 3y ago
Agreed, it might not be the best word to describe it. I guess one aspect is that on other interviews they at the very least pay for all the work you end up doing. You're normally sacrificing your leisure time which, under normal circum
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by Draiken 3y ago
Which is in itself, a PR stunt.
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by Draiken 3y ago
I (thankfully) just got hired and it took 7 interviews. 6 of which included live coding. And I got lucky, as they could've said no after all that time investment. I understand that hiring is hard and I've had bad hires before, so
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by Draiken 3y ago
Maybe he's on the extreme side, but it's definitely better than not doing anything, like the rest of us.

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