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by clipsy 3y ago
> If it was my call to make Luckily for the rest of us, it is not.
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by clipsy 3y ago
> Tech workers on the other hand, say engineers, can easily get a high paying FAANG job without a 4yr degree It is prima facie absurd to say that tech workers can "easily" get a job at FAANG; if it were that easy to work at FAA
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by clipsy 3y ago
It would be lovely if some of the folks downvoting this could explain precisely why it is that I should accept my FAANG salary as "enough" while tech billionaires apparently shouldn't, rather than just trying to make this pos
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by clipsy 3y ago
So do medical doctors; and they've preserved that status by unionizing to protect it.
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by clipsy 3y ago
That sounds lovely, but I think you're getting a bit ahead of yourself. They haven't actually won any concessions or really accomplished anything yet; they haven't even demonstrated a reasonably successful walkout yet (we&#x2
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by clipsy 3y ago
Is a FAANG salary enough for Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, or Elon Musk?
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by clipsy 3y ago
The problem is that until six months ago the name “Bloomberg Feed” and the blue check would’ve been sufficient to establish it as a reputable source, and (much to the shock of HNers) many people do not follow Twitter/Musk drama closely
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by clipsy 3y ago
If you think those fines are strong punishments you are, frankly, delusional. Those figures are a drop in the bucket and are regarded by the companies in question as little more than the cost of doing business. Start putting CTOs in handcuf
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by clipsy 3y ago
> We as a society have decided (correctly) that leaking your private photos, conversations and data is an unacceptable risk, and punish the companies strongly for it. On what planet do companies get punished strongly for leaking PII? It
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by clipsy 3y ago
> You can get a pretty good taxonomy of different progressive views just by looking at how much “good” is thought to be in various powerful entities. For example, the capital-P Progressive might think “nonprofit > government >>&
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by clipsy 3y ago
Turning arms and munitions that we’ve already manufactured and stockpiled back into money is surprisingly difficult.
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by clipsy 3y ago
It's easy: if Elon says they're real, they're real. Just like all other rules at "Twitter 2.0"
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by clipsy 3y ago
If it’s so simple to build and operate, why does it need regulatory capture like this? Surely anyone who is concerned about their car lacking AM radio can simply put a cheap solar/crank powered AM radio in the glovebox or trunk in case
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by clipsy 3y ago
> Kids praying in school? Violation of church and state. Teachers preying on kids in school? First Amendment right! Everything's so simple when you just live in a fantasy world.
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by clipsy 3y ago
Well, that certainly explains why he finally got around to hiring a CEO -- no point running Twitter if his own tweets have to be approved by a lawyer.
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by clipsy 3y ago
The margins on home inkjet printer sales are not just low, they are typically negative. Which, coupled with incurious/cheap customers makes it very hard for an honest printer manufacturer to compete.
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by clipsy 3y ago
You deliberately misrepresent this as one $80 printer; in reality it is the sum total of all printers bricked by this, plus price gouging the printer owners who don’t want their printer bricked. If even a few dozen printers were bricked by
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by clipsy 3y ago
So does Seinfeld, to be fair.
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by clipsy 3y ago
It's worth noting, per the article: > And in November 2021, we introduced the four-day workweek to our staff, cutting 3.5 hours off each employee’s workweek while leaving their pay unchanged. I'm guessing they went from five 7.
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by clipsy 3y ago
> Twitter has still survived with its ~220M+ daily active users (DAU) The same figure Elon claimed was mostly bots?
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by clipsy 3y ago
If the government was obligated to get approval from every single person for every single decision there would be no government; you cannot even get every single person to agree that the sun rises in the east or the sky is blue. You have a
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by clipsy 3y ago
Maybe you could explain what on earth you're actually talking about rather than expecting us to not only infer it but be sympathetic to supposed censorship? Just a thought
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by clipsy 3y ago
I have no experience doing business in India and cannot meaningfully comment on how pleasant or unpleasant it is. I'm merely pointing out that being a "growing economy with tons of potential," as you put it, is not itself a s
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by clipsy 3y ago
Profitable and pleasant are not the same thing.
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by clipsy 3y ago
Because they presumably don’t want someone impersonating them?
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by clipsy 4y ago
Given that the supreme court ruling in Dobbs relied on right wing justices declaring that the 14th amendment should only apply in ways that the authors could have predicted in the mid-19th century, it seems quite reasonable to be skeptical
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by clipsy 4y ago
> Hollywood's practices have expressly failed to maximise the amount of money they earn - at all levels they earn less than people who went in to non-union fields. It does not follow that we need to copy their practices. Indeed, thi
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by clipsy 4y ago
But we already have the actual, real-world, non-hypothetical example of Hollywood pre- and post-unionization, and the latter is more effective at creating millionaires (to use your own arbitrary metric) than the former. So why are you insis
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by clipsy 4y ago
Do you have evidence for those statements, or are you just generally in the habit of stating your beliefs as fact?
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by clipsy 4y ago
As respectfully as possible: what on earth are you even arguing at this point? You claimed that Hollywood superstars "don't need unions" -- I pointed out that the superstars seem to feel they do, and that prior to unionizatio

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