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by cbeach 2y ago
In capitalism, any worker is able to own the means of production. Anyone can start their own business or purchase a share of someone else's business if they want to benefit from its 'fruits' In socialism and communism, only t
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by cbeach 2y ago
If you have no opportunity to own the fruits of your labour, you are not free. You are a slave. Economic freedom is freedom.
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by cbeach 2y ago
1. A majority of shareholders voted for the original pay deal. They deserve to have their vote respected 2. I don't judge company strategy based on statements by disgruntled ex-employees. It would be naive to do so. 3. Things Musk says
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by cbeach 2y ago
1. I want the people who built and own corporations to be able to decide what they pay their staff. If the Delaware judge wants to decide what Tesla employees get paid, she can do - but she needs to own enough of the company to have that de
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by cbeach 2y ago
You might want to edit Wikipedia's list of Marxist-Leninist states, in that case? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_socialist_states#Marxi... Also the page on China, which states the government is a "Unit
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by cbeach 2y ago
If it's 11pm on a Pittsburgh night in January, with the snow coming down, road markings barely visible, if at all, then the safe behaviour is to wait it out and drive in the morning. If FSD didn't work in those conditions, and thi
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by cbeach 2y ago
Ironic, that socialist/communist regimes always win power on the idea of giving control and ownership of assets back to "the people" The reality, of course, is that the people end up giving control and ownership to a one-part
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by cbeach 2y ago
Youtuber Johnny Harris released a great video covering China's changing maps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpQQOQ__1ok&ab_channel=Johnn... It's a detailed analysis of China's 2023 map, which many count
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by cbeach 2y ago
Futurism has a history of one-sided attacks on Elon Musk’s reputation, rather than substantive journalism. My favourite was their “Elon Musk thinks Cannibals are Invading the United States” story which made it to the https://elon
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by cbeach 2y ago
When the deal was agreed, it wasn't worth anything close to $55bn. It's only worth that now due to the incredible rise in value of the stock under Musk. A deal is a deal. As a £six-figure shareholder I am voting for Musk to be pai
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by cbeach 2y ago
Any recent version of FSD (i.e. 12.3.x) is technology close to magic. There was a time when HN would recognise technological acheievement on its own merit, without allowing personal politics to cloud our judgement. But sadly, we're in
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by cbeach 2y ago
So, a very smart CEO works for six years to turn a minor automotive startup into the world’s most valuable car company, enriching you while you sat on shares in the company. And despite this, you think he deserves his compensation (in the f
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by cbeach 2y ago
I’ve owned a Tesla for the last five years. It’s every bit as brilliant as Musk promised, and I can assure you Tesla is not a scam.
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by cbeach 2y ago
The UK established world dominance due to colonial trade during its Empire era, the industrial revolution, and the rise of financial institutions (in the early 19th century). The UK's international heyday came at the end of the 19th ce
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by cbeach 2y ago
It’s useful to know how the site moderators view my comments, and how this might influence their behaviour against my user account. Thank you for admitting this. I will be more wary of this site than I already was.
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by cbeach 2y ago
Yes, you’re right. At that point the videos were simply reposted without comment (which achieved her political aims all the more powerfully). She does provide commentary now her account has been restored to Twitter but I wouldn’t describe t
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by cbeach 2y ago
In other sectors of OSS I 100% agree with your point. But for a social network that lives or dies by the network effect, the outlook isn’t good for a Mastodon that gets forked.
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by cbeach 2y ago
Looking at Mastodon's growth story, it's clearly going to become a non-profit, regardless of how it structures its company for tax purposes...
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by cbeach 2y ago
A quick bit of math on the age/score of this story vs. others on the home page shows that this story has been deliberately buried. Probably by flags as opposed to human moderation, but in fairness to Jon Pretty, the moderators should s
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by cbeach 2y ago
You might ship 2MB of JS to each user once, but you then avoid shipping markup-heavy HTML on every click (like you do with SSR). But the point is somewhat moot as modern Internet connections and devices won’t struggle with a 2MB payload in
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by cbeach 2y ago
In terms of ecosystem, it reflects well on the leadership of Zio (John De Goes) that he refused to join the cancellation mob on principle: https://twitter.com/jdegoes/status/1783878876726219016 Whereas Typelevel,
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by cbeach 2y ago
Travis Brown worked for Twitter and almost certainly had access to personally-identifying information on @libsoftiktok that he used to dox her. You might think he's a hero, but I'm not sure you'd like it if the situation were
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by cbeach 2y ago
Yifan is Brown's new girlfriend? Pieces of the puzzle are now falling neatly into place. There were two blogposts written about Jon Pretty, insinuating bad behaviour on his part towards woman. One by Yifan. One by Victoria Leontieva (A
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by cbeach 2y ago
I honestly don't know how Jon survived this saga without killing himself. The kangaroo court, featuring many prominent members of the "community" was brutal in its rush to judgement. It delivered summary justice to a member o
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by cbeach 3y ago
So Elon Musk is analogous to Hitler now? Dear lord. One day, former sufferers of Musk Derangement Syndrome will read back their own internet comments with deep embarassment.
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by cbeach 3y ago
What a tragic waste of talent it would be if people were forced to give up their career after a single embarrassing snafu. All because of the "court of public opinion" If Musk had quit after his first mistake, America may have nev
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by cbeach 3y ago
I'm his customer base. I have solar panels on my roof and a Tesla on my drive. And I LOVE that Musk defends freedom of expression. I LOVE that he defends free market economics and border control. I assure you I am MORE likely to buy a
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by cbeach 3y ago
God forbid a CEO would express his sincerely-held beliefs. All my favourite CEOs inauthentically mirror the perceived beliefs of their customers in order to sell more products.
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by cbeach 3y ago
Indeed. Good example. If Cerf, Kahn and others had been forced to make the internet (as we know it today) compatible with with nascent competitors such as X.25, Cyclades, OGAS and EIN, it would have compromised the design process with a “to
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by cbeach 3y ago
If we were to force all new technologies to be interoperable with all technologies from all possible competitors we’d create a Kafkaesque nightmare for innovators and particularly early stage startups.

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