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by drugme 8y ago
flagged - pure politics
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by drugme 8y ago
I read the Bitcoin mentions as examples, but not conflations of the overall issues with blockchains. Except that is only applicable for (proof of work POW) consensus and does not apply to proof of stake (POS) and delegated proof of stack (
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by drugme 8y ago
Don't get mad at companies that follow the law. The companies... make the law. That's what people are angry about.
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by drugme 8y ago
No - almost by definition, they get to be in that position be being in touch with what the founders want, and how they tick. Not for being in touch with "humans".
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by drugme 8y ago
They aren't even remotely "secret". Just obscure.
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by drugme 8y ago
I'm assuming you know already the difference between an inference and a fact.
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by drugme 8y ago
Or people are just piling up on you.
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by drugme 8y ago
You don't need a "source" to make that kind of inference.
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by drugme 8y ago
They got sacked because they supported (on social media) the blocking of Amazon sites and warehouses But action was aimed not at just those 3 employees. It was clearly aimed at all employees who expressed support the Gilets Jaunes - to
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by drugme 8y ago
As I age, I feel like I have to branch out my skill set as sort of a safety net to ensure that I'm still desirable. Yeah, that's the thing: the compulsion to learn stuff not because it's good technology, has staying power o
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by drugme 8y ago
More importantly what we deliver costs significantly less to maintain. Which management is often too inexperienced to appreciate the value of.
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Jonas Mekas – A Poet with a Movie Camera(nytimes.com)
1 points by drugme 8y ago|0 comments
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by drugme 8y ago
A laboratory for hazing and the crushing of adolescent self-esteem in general. I took many "sick" days because of it, and a close friend eventually dropped out of H.S. due to a variety of factors, including regular abuse during so
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FBI investigated civil rights group as 'terrorism' threat, viewed KKK as victims(theguardian.com)
5 points by drugme 8y ago|0 comments
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by drugme 8y ago
Actually that's pretty much the way the original comment (4 levels above yours) reads: "I'd rather have the company tell me it's all about the baseline (i.e. screw people over) and be honest about it -- than pretend that
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From books to bullets: inside Amazon's push to 'defend' America(theguardian.com)
2 points by drugme 8y ago|0 comments
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by drugme 8y ago
So it's OK to blatantly screw people over as long as you're "honest about it"?
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by drugme 8y ago
"Morale is super high," reads the post from a self-described engineer. "We are paid a ton. Looking forward to my yearly bonus of $100k. Fuck ethics. Money is everything." Sounds like Mark has done an excellent job of c
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Apple cracks down on Facebook after it paid teens for access to their data(theguardian.com)
2 points by drugme 8y ago|0 comments
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by drugme 8y ago
even for foreign powers. Not in the view of U.S. campaign law.
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by drugme 8y ago
Free speech is a good thing even when the speech is bad, even when spoken by foreigners, even when it's illegal. It seems you're confusing "has a right to exist" with "is a good thing".
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Goya's Black Paintings: ‘Some people can hardly even look at them’(theguardian.com)
2 points by drugme 8y ago|0 comments
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Star pupils: students inspire key study on alarming starfish decline(theguardian.com)
2 points by drugme 8y ago|0 comments
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by drugme 8y ago
OK, agreed - that was definitely unjustified hyperbole. By all accounts, they did not intentionally "collude" with the Russians. But what looms larger in my mind is the fact that FB was egregiously negligent in allowing the man
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by drugme 8y ago
[Facebook colluded] I'm not sure what source you're quoting, or what the original text was that you're attempting to simplify. EDIT: missed the quote when reading the message above somehow - sorry.
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by drugme 8y ago
The thing is - quite often they aren't renting them out; but simply holding them as "assets". Or when they do rent them out - they tend to raise the rent. Which is why the supply of affordable apartments tends to "dwind
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by drugme 8y ago
Amazon has forced attrition rates (someone has to go every year) What Amazon fails to consider is the number of high-caliber engineers who would never consider applying to work for companies that have policies like this.
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by drugme 8y ago
Why are companies so bad at coming up with a system that keeps more competent people and eases out less competent people but that also doesn't hurt morale by being a dystopian nightmare? Probably because they can't tell the good
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by drugme 8y ago
No. But in general your gut has a significant problem with microwave food if you eat it day in, day out.
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White gold: the unstoppable rise of alternative milks(theguardian.com)
2 points by drugme 8y ago|0 comments

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