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by chippy 6y ago
this is the wework model. Instead of the companies running the offices, the companies pay the workers to use 3rd party offices.
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by chippy 6y ago
Would it be harder or easier to unionise or make employee actions if the workforce is all online, compared to meeting in the same place?
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Maybe Day July 23rd 2020 – A Celebration of Robert Anton Wilson(maybeday.net)
1 points by chippy 6y ago|0 comments
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by chippy 6y ago
This has resulted in an open letter against this name change: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_open_letter_on_ren...
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Wikimedia Foundation proposal for name change to just “Wikipedia”(meta.wikimedia.org)
1 points by chippy 6y ago|1 comments
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The case for taking more risks. A review of Crawford's Why We Drive(unherd.com)
1 points by chippy 6y ago|0 comments
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by chippy 6y ago
if Siberia is anything like Canada or Scandinavia during a warm summer then the very last thing people want to do is to be outside. Outside when the frost melts means the air is full of newly hatched hungry mosquitos looking to bite and dri
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by chippy 6y ago
Yes, it's shades of gray. For example, lets compare a similar service. Twitter is currently censoring some of the President of the US's tweets. They were not doing that a few months ago. So it's not black and white where twit
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Unlike medieval millenarians, the woke have no vision of the future(unherd.com)
2 points by chippy 6y ago|0 comments
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by chippy 6y ago
This is the problem with reddit also and twitter - indeed all social media. The main problem is that US political elections "season" runs for 2 years! So out of every 4 years, half of the time is campaigning season so it means th
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by chippy 6y ago
> I'm surprised people are surprised by this I am thinking of creating a website with two lists of comment threads - the first to collate all the times users say "why are people surprised" at something which is surprising
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by chippy 6y ago
I think the genre is "woke capitalism"
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by chippy 6y ago
Maybe Mark understands his users (as in, the whole ugly world) more than his employees?
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by chippy 6y ago
We need to count these total after a couple of years to see which strategy worked.
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by chippy 6y ago
love the Lottie animations. were they much work? General question - if this was the first web app you worked on from scratch I'm impressed - did you have experience with working on existing ones?
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Where Is the Border?(e-flux.com)
1 points by chippy 6y ago|0 comments
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by chippy 6y ago
90GB is a bz2 compressed file not raw xml See the wiki: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Planet.osm/full
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by chippy 6y ago
> Is this another one ... nope
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by chippy 6y ago
Could you expand upon how to do this? And what does WS mean?
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by chippy 6y ago
One can equally say the PATRIOT act was justified and saved lives. Many people here agreed with that for years until Snowden etc revealed that it was unjustified.
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by chippy 6y ago
nope. They passed an amendment exempting Senators from the FBI's no-warrant-needed web browsing snooping this week. One law for the law-makers and one law for everyone else.
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How Machiavelli Was Misunderstood(newstatesman.com)
3 points by chippy 6y ago|0 comments
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by chippy 6y ago
TSA and security theatre became "normal".
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by chippy 6y ago
I think I had heard that the Chinese amongst their normal population (not officially) called it the "Wuhan Flu" originally.
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by chippy 6y ago
thats far too sensible to have an upvote
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by chippy 6y ago
Given that the plane has the space, and it's good publicity. Seems like it's at best really good and at worse mainly a harmless marketing stunt, but one that will be temporary. I hope we will see more companies doing similar pro-s
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by chippy 6y ago
He was unaware of recent important primate conflict studies that found that top posters were in different tribes than bottom posters in emails.
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Coronavirus: Outcry as Spanish beach sprayed with bleach(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by chippy 6y ago|0 comments
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by chippy 6y ago
I really don't see Tim Bray as coming out as an anti capitalist here. That's why this is amusing. To clarify, it's not bad what he did, he is the good guy now. To put him up as an example of anti capitalism in its own right (
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by chippy 6y ago
I doubt it's an in depth criticism of capitalism, rather the specific sub-branch of worker-exploitative practices that the company does. He'd be quite happy (as are we all here, if we are truthful) making more millions in other mo

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