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by crbnw00ts 13y ago
Uh, it has nothing to do with automation. It has to do with illegal collusion on salaries. Wrong thread?
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by crbnw00ts 13y ago
This seems like a really big deal. If Silicon Valley companies are colluding to suppress programmer salaries, perhaps it is time for programmers to team up to fight back, using a union or a guild. Now, before the usual tropes about the soft
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by crbnw00ts 13y ago
That diagram for the "waterfall" approach that they yanked from Wikipedia is a complete straw-man representation. It's nonsense. Here is the actual, original source for the Waterfall approach, first published in 1970: http:&
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by crbnw00ts 13y ago
Exactly. Competition among all the HFT entities has squeezed a lot of the volatility out of the market: "Volatility, a measure of the extent to which a share’s price jumps around, is about half what it was a few years ago." Quoted
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by crbnw00ts 13y ago
Not any more. The rules were changed / clarified a few years ago: http://www.inc.com/guides/2010/11/how-to-comply-with-new-rev... Apple mentions their adoption of the rules in this press release (scroll
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by crbnw00ts 13y ago
Another example which backs up your hypothesis is Valve; a gaming company filled with people who love games, and thus they are their own customers. They too have a "no management" management approach.
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by crbnw00ts 13y ago
> That being said, the tone of your comment makes me think you are not interested in an argument, but rather just want to deflect attention away from what the USG is doing. Because everybody is doing it, right? Quite the opposite. In no
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by crbnw00ts 13y ago
> Save for the UK, I can't think of a single Western European country that goes to the extreme lengths of surveillance that the US does. People were equally skeptical about the extent of the US's surveillance until the Snowden
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by crbnw00ts 13y ago
So, the rest of the world is "shocked, shocked I tell you" that the US is monitoring the internet? Does anyone really believe there aren't similar entities in other countries doing the same? I bet all the world's governm