brightstep

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by brightstep 5y ago
This sounds awful. I already feel disconnected from the world around me, my community, nature, fresh air. Why would anyone want this for themselves? To be productive? If this is the next step in productivity, we need to start looking at how
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by brightstep 5y ago
Sure, what do I care? I care about people not corporations. There are competitors salivating to scoop up any devs who are out of a job if Google goes under.
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by brightstep 5y ago
unions are about workers, not investors
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by brightstep 5y ago
that's a different thing than a less-productive worker not being fired
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by brightstep 5y ago
It won't happen because those criteria are antithetical to the purpose of a union. Unions are about solidarity as a working class against corporations. It doesn't work unless members see eachother as on the same side regardless of
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by brightstep 5y ago
With regard to the lazy worker, honestly, who cares? You still get paid. The company isn't going under. No doubt like most situations of abuse, this is a minority case because in general people like being productive.
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by brightstep 5y ago
Will you still feel that way when you're declared a terrorist for attending a protest where someone brought a gun?
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by brightstep 5y ago
You may be technically correct if we want to get pedantic, the observed reality supports my conclusion.
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by brightstep 5y ago
Some of us have seen the exorbitant damage corporations can cause, for example Exxon et al knowingly destroying the planet in a bid to extract profit. No organization is inherently good. Unions can be led by bad actors, and that doesn'
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by brightstep 5y ago
Unions reduce profits by giving employees a voice to protect themselves, demand the compensation they deserve, etc. It's therefore inevitable that corporations (Google, FAANG, or any others) will try to preempt or destroy them. It is t
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by brightstep 5y ago
I'd rather an arms race than one side having all the arms.
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by brightstep 5y ago
Weird, never heard of a strawman that actually keeps happening in real life, over and over. People may be disgusted by the incentives of capitalism, but their disgust hasn't changed it very much.
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by brightstep 5y ago
What incentive do leaders have to give up authority?
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by brightstep 5y ago
That's just a problem on investment, not inherent to subways. The more we spend on dumb "solutions" like these tunnels, the more we close our imagination to improvement of actual proven public infrastructure
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by brightstep 5y ago
What does "leadership" mean here? I thought these systems were supposed to be decentralized and trustless?
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by brightstep 5y ago
That's idealistic thinking. Amazon does have power over people that don't use it. It influences national, state and local governments. Where it decides to open a distribution center has a huge impact on communities. It controls AW
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by brightstep 5y ago
One of the issues that QUERY solves is that POST is overloaded and is being used for purposes beyond its intended responsibility. Shifting that overloading to GET feels to me like just another hacky approach. I prefer the well-defined, sing
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by brightstep 5y ago
Definitely. The HTTP spec has a gap that's being filled with a hack, albeit a widely accepted and implemented one. QUERY removes ambiguity, aids self-documentation of APIs, and improves caching.
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by brightstep 5y ago
The examples in section 4 are just that, examples. They are not intended to be the only format a query may take. The issue with POST that QUERY solves is lack of an idempotency constraint.
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by brightstep 5y ago
Please explain to me the path from individuals hosting their own Small Web apps to the mitigation of Amazon's power and prevalence in our lives. It's nice that you are off fb, I am too. But some number of individuals deciding not
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by brightstep 5y ago
It's being unhoused that causes mental illness, not the other way around.
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by brightstep 5y ago
If you believe this, you've never spoken with an unhoused person in your life.
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by brightstep 5y ago
Sounds like a good reason not to base a global economy on it, then.
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by brightstep 5y ago
Then our infinite growth economy is like an invasive species that has taken over the planet. Hunting resources to extinction, growing ever larger and all-encompassing, heating up our planet with its metabolic cycle of fossil fuel extraction
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by brightstep 5y ago
Profits at the expense of others is more or less the driving force of our entire economy. Not sure how you're going to legislate that away.
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by brightstep 5y ago
The alternatives being worse doesn't make a critique of a system less valid. Yes, it's good that we have free political speech and yes, it's true that capitalism's incentives drive decisions like invasive data collection
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by brightstep 5y ago
It's the global economic system, and it's incentives and structures drive decisions that individuals and companies make. Seems pretty relevant to this discussion, and most discussions since many if not most of our choices are econ
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by brightstep 5y ago
This is a real problem that will not, and can not, be solved by Web3. The power of corporate tyranny extends beyond the technological realm. It is political, cultural, and economic to name a few. You simply can't meaningfully challenge
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by brightstep 5y ago
Unless relays come together and agree to block someone or something. As long as there are enough relays this is improbable
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by brightstep 5y ago
"executing on it" is doing a lot of work here, i.e. it requires resources, political connections, etc. But ultimately you're right, and this is what "Web3" believers always miss. A technology alone is not going to b

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