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by colinmorelli 6y ago
> Ahh the old "greater good", most violations of human rights begin with a speech about the greater good... And yet, plenty of controls to protect people don't turn into permanent revocations of human rights. Why, when t
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by colinmorelli 6y ago
A lot of companies won't last a year when their business operations are effectively ceased overnight - whether they were sustainable beforehand or not. Uber certainly had cash flow problems before this started, but even companies with
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by colinmorelli 6y ago
Yeah I was torn about responding to this comment. By the employee's own admission, the severance was generous. There is no other option but to use online meetings for this now. So maybe a 1:1 could have been done, but a) that would hav
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by colinmorelli 6y ago
Shopify seems to be working towards exactly this, and recently announced their new Shop app: https://www.shopify.com/shop It only includes Shopify sellers, and of those only the ones that choose to be listed on Shop, but wi
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by colinmorelli 6y ago
This, but also - these arguments tend to be very one-sided. The implication is that engineers would always do the right thing if pesky management just got out of the way. Is that true sometimes? Of course, there are plenty of shit managemen
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by colinmorelli 6y ago
Uber operates in: ride sharing, food delivery, bike messenger, corporate travel, freight, helicopter, and gig economy jobs, and more - and these are just the publicly launched products. Each of those lines has its own external _and_ interna
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by colinmorelli 6y ago
Apologies for my misunderstanding (hah, very topical for the post). The way it concluded made me interpret it as if you were trying to suggest that the person's actions were the same, and thus the scenarios were the same.
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by colinmorelli 6y ago
This thought experiment is flawed. It assumes the only variable worth considering are the actions of the individual. The reality is that we apologize all the time for doing something that, done one day previously or to a different person, w
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by colinmorelli 6y ago
This. It's also worth remembering that the cost to bring products to market - particularly in the software/technology industry, continues to rise. As larger players continue to expand their portfolio of offerings with years of eng
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by colinmorelli 9y ago
What you guys are doing is awesome. Best of luck going forward.