SpicyLemonZest

6 ms·

91.
by SpicyLemonZest 2mo ago
Again, what you're saying is not what the social compact has historically been. Most companies, both inside and outside of Silicon Valley, happily recognize their informal responsibilities to the communities where they're located.
92.
by SpicyLemonZest 2mo ago
As the article says, companies this wealthy and successful are generally understood to have a civic responsibility to make contributions to their local community, above and beyond their tax obligations. It's a good equilibrium for ever
93.
by SpicyLemonZest 2mo ago
I do. It’s on the CEO’s shoulders the other 95% of the time. (Which again, I agree is not some horrible deal, it’s much more fun to be a CEO who’s stressed with too many calls than a blue collar worker who’s stressed about feeding their fam
94.
by SpicyLemonZest 2mo ago
It's not "so bad in this case". The domestic version is called "predatory pricing" and is illegal. In practice, it's easier to raise anti-dumping complaints than predatory pricing cases, both because the produc
95.
by SpicyLemonZest 2mo ago
The problem is that the rationale is hidden, not that criticism of it is hidden. If the Supreme Court doesn't explain why they make momentous, weighty decisions, that leaves the rest of us with only speculation, both in understanding
96.
by SpicyLemonZest 2mo ago
A settlement only binds the relevant parties, but I don't think it's terribly conspiratorial to think the details of this settlement are an implicit threat to Meta's competitors. "Meta agrees to implement a one-hour limi
97.
by SpicyLemonZest 2mo ago
What distinguishes a real backlash from a manufactured backlash, in your view? Every movement includes people who go talk to the media about why you ought to join them.
98.
by SpicyLemonZest 2mo ago
Most of the stuff people do in cities was shut or severely degraded during Covid, not just the jobs. If you can't take a quick walk to your favorite cafe in the morning or stop by a cool art event in the evening, yeah, city living gets
99.
by SpicyLemonZest 2mo ago
If someone were to come to my workplace and smash a window, for example, I think it's pretty fair to interpret that as a threat that they might smash the people working there next.
100.
by SpicyLemonZest 2mo ago
I'm not quite sure why you ask that? I'm not arguing that these two very different examples are the same, I'm explaining more concretely what it means to say that a CEO's job is to "to be responsible to the business
101.
by SpicyLemonZest 2mo ago
Many people observe a limited subset of reality. It's highly visible when a company hits a crisis and people lose their jobs; it's much more common, but much less visible, for a CEO to get an after-hours call about a brewing probl
102.
by SpicyLemonZest 2mo ago
Servant leadership is a management cliche that works well as a counterbalance to the dominance hierarchy that's implicit in a human org chart. I'm not going to listen to a Claude instance telling me to do something I'd prefer
103.
by SpicyLemonZest 2mo ago
Again, we're talking about different things. What the OP understands "repair the damage" to mean, which I know because I've seen the expectation myself in the wild, is that the next administration can restore the 2024 st
104.
by SpicyLemonZest 2mo ago
We're talking about different things. The French withdrawal from NATO unified command is a good example of what it means to say relationships can't just be repaired; it took 43 years to bring them back! It's true that the new
105.
by SpicyLemonZest 2mo ago
The limits are often covered pretty misleadingly. If you were to just order a truckload of American butter and import it, you'd be subject to the over-quota tariff regardless of whether the cap was reached. In order to get the preferen
106.
by SpicyLemonZest 2mo ago
The point is that, to a typical person who doesn't know much about accounting or insurance, UnitedHealth's "profit margin" is understood to mean the fraction of the money I send them each month that's going into the
107.
by SpicyLemonZest 2mo ago
I remember being a zombie nephew, although back in those days it was the Game Boy that purportedly fried my brain. (It was entirely normal, of course, for the uncle who told me that to then leave the conversation and retreat to his armcha
108.
by SpicyLemonZest 2mo ago
"Free speech" is definitely a concept that applies to the exposure of harmful speech to children. That's why there's no law on the topic; the Child Online Protection Act was overturned, and organizations like the EFF hav
109.
by SpicyLemonZest 2mo ago
I don't think that's true at all, although the roles which falsify it are generally invisible to or (as you can see downthread) looked down upon in Internet discourse. You do well at your local state school, you join whichever com
110.
by SpicyLemonZest 2mo ago
I don't think that's very much alike at all. Denying the existence of a major dynasty is like declaring that Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson didn't exist, and all the historical traditions and documents to the contrary wer
111.
by SpicyLemonZest 2mo ago
I'm not ignoring it at all. It's true, as this article says, that Trump and his political movement are anti-trans. But they have no issue with gay people. This fact is strange and confusing to many people involved in LGBTQ advocac
112.
by SpicyLemonZest 2mo ago
Yes. Lateral thinking is valuable, and the industry didn't at the time know any better ways to test it. Now we have system design questions, so we can get the same signal asking candidates for ad hoc estimates of QPS or whatever.
113.
by SpicyLemonZest 2mo ago
We’ve gotta normalize linking to the underlying ruling. Uber says they didn’t automate any permanent suspensions and the regulator says they did; how can anyone interpret this story without more information on how the regulator determined t
114.
by SpicyLemonZest 2mo ago
The first line of German law on abortions is "Whosoever terminates a pregnancy shall be liable to imprisonment not exceeding three years or a fine.". If this had been adopted into the US criminal code in the 2010s, even with all t
115.
by SpicyLemonZest 2mo ago
It sounds appealing when you imagine that nobody you like would ever be cut, but that's not how the Chinese system works. I would guess that at some point in the past you've laughed at memes making fun of political leaders; in Chi
116.
by SpicyLemonZest 2mo ago
The actual named humans making these decisions are very frequently not people who you would consider accountable. If Meta announced that they're firing hundreds of engineers and PMs for optimizing addiction-correlated metrics, even if
117.
by SpicyLemonZest 2mo ago
There's just no conceivable legal case there. Manipulating "stupid old people" and causing them to believe bad things is First Amendment protected activity.
118.
by SpicyLemonZest 2mo ago
They’re oblivious to this fact because it’s not true. Most people by a substantial margin trust their local police.
119.
by SpicyLemonZest 2mo ago
> Do you believe Flock cameras have been rolled out en masse across the entire country all at once because there is near-unanimous democratic support for their presence? I'm not sure where you got "near-unanimous" from. I
120.
by SpicyLemonZest 2mo ago
I think memes and political bubbles are making it very hard for people to reason through the actual principles and mechanisms of democratic governance. The reason the system keeps trying to make you vote for people like "Cop Kamala&quo

More ›