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by bongobongo 7y ago
You're right that it wasn't a good analogy. More like the Wal-Mart Store Card Credit Builder.
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by bongobongo 7y ago
It's worse than your typical secured credit card because it locks you into Amazon.com and services that use Amazon Pay. Basically, it's an agreement to buy Amazon products or products through Amazon until Amazon determines that yo
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by bongobongo 7y ago
>If you're a developer, please consider replacing reCAPTCHA on your site with an alternative I second this (for the same reasons that you cite), and it's fresh in my mind as I just recently began reimplementing authentication f
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by bongobongo 7y ago
“Companies will regulate themselves” is libertarian orthodoxy, and suggesting otherwise is ahistorical and silly. (But then again so is libertarianism.)
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by bongobongo 7y ago
Exactly. It’s a scaling issue.
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by bongobongo 7y ago
Don’t forget the proliferation of smartphones and the rise of stomp and holler music. Probably.
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by bongobongo 7y ago
It is absolutely anti-competitive garbage, and you should be prepared to see more and more of it (and increasingly anti-consumer iterations if it) until people wake up and start demanding that their political leaders do something about it.
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by bongobongo 7y ago
I owe 100% of my salary growth to job-hopping, so your assumption is incorrect. Look, you made a bad argument. It's not a big deal. The fact is that the situation you described is frankly ridiculous: the notion that, were it not for ol
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by bongobongo 7y ago
I understand the point that you are trying to make, but it's off the mark. Older workers are almost always paid more than younger workers, all else being equal. Unless there is some seismic shift in the economy, this might as well be a
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by bongobongo 7y ago
Wow cool
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by bongobongo 7y ago
This is accurate. Age discrimination is rampant in tech because young people are essentially recruited as unwitting scabs against their older peers. Aside from depressing wages and increasing loyalty (via fear of precarity), it’s also a ver
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by bongobongo 7y ago
It’s not a market at all, because participation, realistically speaking, is involuntary for most sellers. It’s closer to a feudal contract than an actual market.
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by bongobongo 7y ago
You don't understand the difference between a police department and a private corporation? No wonder you don't see a problem.
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by bongobongo 7y ago
I agree that Apple's intentions are not beneficent, but that's also not the point. There is a strong bias in tech/geek culture towards "decentralization" (it's even become something of a marketing buzzword than
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by bongobongo 7y ago
Automation shifts labor; it does not eliminate it.
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by bongobongo 7y ago
Labor always has leverage. The question is whether or not it is organized enough to use it.
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by bongobongo 7y ago
Keep in mind "dirty details" is a matter of perspective. Details that aren't dirty can become dirty depending upon who is wielding power.
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by bongobongo 7y ago
It's none of their fucking business. That's the problem.
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by bongobongo 7y ago
In my experience, AdTech companies will pay top dollar for engineering leadership (CTO, VP, etc.) but then hire a legion of junior developers at entry-level salaries to execute. I do wonder if AdTech hiring managers focus on young and inexp
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by bongobongo 7y ago
As a consumer I actively avoid vendors who use Square, anyways (at least whenever I can). Way too creeped out by their data harvesting and tracking of purchases. I made the mistake of choosing "email me my receipt" years ago and h
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by bongobongo 7y ago
God forbid I exist for a moment without being bombarded with offers to buy products. I would gladly trade the inconvenience of not being immediately aware of rake-buying opportunities for privacy and peace of mind.
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by bongobongo 7y ago
My main concern is the audio and video recording devices that will undoubtedly be attached to these drones (if history is any guide, likely without any disclosure). I foresee ads for rakes when Amazon notices that there are lots of leaves i
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by bongobongo 7y ago
Yes.
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by bongobongo 7y ago
This is a very narrow analysis that fails to account for any metric beyond the financial regulatory system, so I'm not surprised that it has led you to a strange and irrelevant conclusion. The metric to apply here is a moral one, and t
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by bongobongo 7y ago
The fact that you don't agree with it doesn't make it "extreme." It's actually not an uncommon view to consider Facebook to be bad. It's pretty bad when even a significant portion of your user base only uses yo
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by bongobongo 7y ago
The problem is that many organizations prevent their IT/engineering departments from professionalizing in a way that would allow for this. "We need a month to iterate over requirements and specification" can land like a lead
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by bongobongo 7y ago
I don't think this and other so-called "soft" skills are undervalued by engineers themselves. A good writer/communicator brings immediate value to any engineering team and will be treated as such, usually. It's the
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by bongobongo 7y ago
Not everybody worships wealth. Not everybody buys into the myth of the tech genius/entrepreneurial wizard. Some folks, myself included, don't feel that it's even remotely possible to amass billions in personal capital without
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by bongobongo 7y ago
Not in San Diego
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by bongobongo 7y ago
Very impressive that you have chatted with Bill Gates, and you seem very proud of that (congrats, by the way), but he's still a capital hoarder sitting atop a mountain of ill-gotten gains, and no I don't feel that I should thank h

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