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by jasode 3y ago
>Pick an industry where money is not the issue, such as self-funded software startups, and co-ops don’t form. Because the owner/founder of the self-funded software company doesn't want to dilute their ownership with workers
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by jasode 3y ago
>That cliché just doesn’t apply much to many professionals, because the biggest expense is salaries. The context of my reply was this thread's article: IBM laying off a middle-manager employee like MaryKathryn Doheny. There isn&#
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>Why cant the workers pool their available capital, [...] Tech workers are considered to be highly paid, The highly-paid workers can pool capital... if we're speaking in hypotheticals . The hypothetical tech workers can hypoth
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>As I understand, you don't really need money to make a co-op, [...] The most plausible route I've heard is freelancers forming a co-op where they pitch in some portion of what they make to a shared pot [...] , but it seems a
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>Time for people (_especially_ young people) to consider alternative arrangements like worker co-ops. The issue isn't philosophy. The roadblocks to worker-owned co-ops taking off are money and capital . Picture a Venn Diagram of
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by jasode 3y ago
>IPv6 is waiting on stubborn cloud networks and CDNs. Most of the edge now has it. Depends on the ISP. E.g. a lot of Verizon/Frontier FiOS residential customers don't have IPv6. Google statistics say USA is ~47% IPv6. Fron
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>Matlab users should switch to Julia. [...] What prevents matlab users from switching? The syntax is similar. Choosing a programming language based on just comparing the language syntax only works for academic settings or toy project
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>It will continue to do exactly the same thing. If that thing had no value The parent poster you're replying to wrote "loses value" not "no value" . As an example, I have the last version of Adobe Creative S
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by jasode 3y ago
>Sort of. He hasn't posted anything since last year. He posted this one April 23 (about 15 days ago): https://twitter.com/cshirky/status/1650298747237064704 I think the default Twitter webpage view is co
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by jasode 3y ago
>It is hard, though, to build and maintain the structures of the old, “smaller” internet. You can, today, still go back to the can-to-can structure that a personal website, an RSS feed, and a browser provide. I think the author ignore
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>Why would someone stick around at a party they don't like? Is this really what normally happens? The reason was in the paragraphs leading up your excerpt: >, and so he decided that the unresolvability of the question was the
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by jasode 3y ago
>The reason scientists submit to these journals is that your career depends on which journal you published at. Yes, I agree and wrote a previous comment repeating the reason you gave: https://news.ycombinator.com/item
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>Why do so many commenters on HN always sound so confident, It's because the outsider's mental model of "academic journals publishing" is dominated by seeing the artifacts of publishing: the pdf files. With pd
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>If you thought that this blog post had provocative ideas, you might be interested in reading some of Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophy of language Yes, I've mentioned Wittgenstein before: https://news.ycombinator.
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>I just cannot imagine thinking like this if youre not completely detached from real, normal human interactions. Your statement makes it seems like you've misunderstood his thesis. He's envisioning a future where humans-to-hu
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by jasode 3y ago
>I would suggest the author actually talk to some real people. Not on Twitter, or Mastodon, or anything - just real people. Friendly fyi in case you got the impression he was a recluse isolated in a basement ... The author "talk
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>This entire article is devoid of any synthesis or value added information. If you look at the byline in this CNN article, you'll notice it says "Reuters". Reuters offers a "news wire" service with articles of
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by jasode 3y ago
>Why is there not more competition? I didn't downvote your comment but there does seem to be competitors unless I'm misunderstanding this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_clone#Brands It's
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>The first facebook issue that you mention is unrelated to the App Store, it’s an OS restriction. Side loading won’t affect this. Your sentences above are a prime example of a technology mindset being so familiar with the underlying te
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>, is that this clearly isn’t the case when you look at Android. Sideloading already exists The problem with using Android as a counterexample is that Apple iOS is more restrictive (e.g. privacy settings) than Android. E.g. Facebook
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by jasode 3y ago
>But coworking spaces are another possibility. Co-working spaces I'm thinking of are still ultimately rented from commercial landlords. I'm not talking about the workers paying for the use of a temporary desk. It's the
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by jasode 4y ago
>Pilot G2 I like Pilot G2 pens but unfortunately, they have a limited shelf life as the gel ink inside dries out. I just found this out recently when I went to get some more "new" Pilot pens from my supply closet and noticed
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by jasode 4y ago
>You typically need to give the under-performing employee at least a chance to improve and meet the required standard - otherwise the hiring company will be leaving themselves open to a wrongful dismissal suit. In the USA where most st
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by jasode 4y ago
>Why it takes this many years to be recognized, He was already recognized by various awards decades ago ... by other organizations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Metcalfe#Awards The Turing Award from ACM h
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by jasode 4y ago
>The largest shareholder who owns 10% of the company was asked if he was going to put up more cash last week and he categorically said he won't. This arguably started/accelerated the fall, he probably regrets that now. All-In
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by jasode 4y ago
>So it is perfectly valid to say "in ten years, this $100m bond is worth $100m...and I intend to hold it for ten years, so it's worth $100m [equivalent] today". But that valuation model is not perfectly valid. It'
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>= 2/3. Just from this knowledge alone, you could decide that you will always switch, since the probability that the other boxes have the keys is 2/3. Your sentence the particular way you worded it is not the correct mathemat
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by jasode 4y ago
>My first suggestion would be as T-Bills. [...], and I'm still not sure why it was not standard practice. Corporations have always split their cash into cash and "almost-cash-equivalent" liquid assets (like Treasury Bil
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>I've always considered "middleware"'ish type stuff to be "systems level" by virtue of the "it mainly provides services to other software" aspect of the definition seen above. The middleware-prog
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>I think it might be the way he tries to make it sound exciting for a general audience. Looking at other videos of Károly Zsolnai-Fehér speaking at a podium to an audience, I think he's genuinely enthusiastic about the subject ins

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