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by marricks 6y ago
Thiel may want to rethink the title then.
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by marricks 6y ago
Honest to god, isn’t shooting it just any direction in space safer?!
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by marricks 6y ago
Let’s focus on what’s important. Perhaps the comparison isn’t perfect but I don’t think it matters as much as horror the FBI regularly does. The more we start comparing to other countries and say “oh well at least we’re better than them” th
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Leaked Document Reveals Amazon’s Twitter Army Was Handpicked for “Humor”(theintercept.com)
46 points by marricks 6y ago|19 comments
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by marricks 6y ago
Do they create high turn over because they’re selecting for the best people to exploit? It’s a gestalt, you can see it two ways and I have no clue why someone would want to see it as a “good practice” unless that view was beneficial to thei
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Fired, interrogated, disciplined: Amazon warehouse organizers allege retaliation(nbcnews.com)
61 points by marricks 6y ago|0 comments
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by marricks 6y ago
Amazon warehouses have a far, far, higher turn over rate than other warehouses, probably because the conditions are so cruel. It’s really sad how many people get super invested in defending mega corporations. I hope it’s just employees tryi
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by marricks 6y ago
Warehouse work used to pay more than $15/hr, and if you look at the stats workers in counties without Amazon warehouses get paid more[1]. Pay is closer to 20 an hour. [1] https://www.economist.com/united-states&#x2F
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by marricks 6y ago
That's a nice local statistic but it's probable at this point amazon is depressing warehouse work wages that used to be quite a bit above minimum wage. https://www.economist.com/united-states/2018/01&#x
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by marricks 6y ago
Counties with Amazon warehouses have a lower pay rate for warehouse work than counties without them. Amazon makes bank because they can get away with exploiting workers more than a mom and pop shop can, or small businesses. --- edit --- Ama
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by marricks 6y ago
I agree, if one wants to avoid the conflict of a union a work place should be at least 51% employee owned. Short of having mandatory employee ownership unions are the next best thing, and one is far easier in the US. Otherwise we have what
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by marricks 6y ago
Monitors can fail, you can miss an email, etc etc etc There's always a big gap between what should never happen because you planned well and what does happen
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by marricks 6y ago
Google could just penalize websites for being JS heavy or loading slow but instead they built a walled garden they have control over. I get some happiness about it but hopefully we can have nice things without such massive sacrifices.
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by marricks 6y ago
While your comment isn’t factually wrong it’s phrased to almost blame the poorer countries. Brazil burns down forest mainly because of the United State’s desire for think like soy beans to feed cows. Poorer countries use coal because it’s c
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Timnit Gebru Was Fired from Google – Then the Harassers Arrived(theverge.com)
9 points by marricks 6y ago|0 comments
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by marricks 6y ago
I guess the choice could be fine, but the simple fact that every year it gets harder and to harder to opt is terrifying. And perhaps the terrifying privacy implications of such a system.
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by marricks 6y ago
What a cop out. Why carry water for the awful way the internet is heading? Perhaps it’s because the net of the past used to be a “wild frontier” not owned by a couple companies is why people have nostalgia. Those companies can make major de
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by marricks 6y ago
Yeah... personally that is what makes me most reticent about M1 and future products. With intel you know virtual machines and what not will just work, here Apple actually has to provide driver information and such or we’ll all just rely on
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by marricks 6y ago
Apple launch M1 for their smallest cheapest computers first, if you want drive multiple screens you are not their target audience. I think it's understandable devs are confused a bit, it's a flashy new thing and we want to try it,
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by marricks 6y ago
I do not look forward to seeing how the US defense industry eventually utilizes this technology.
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by marricks 6y ago
People often defend companies with explanations of how the world is, when common folk often expect (or just want) the world to behave differently. Is it unreasonable to want, or even expect, an incognito window to disable all forms of track
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by marricks 6y ago
Google created these jobs and deemed them important. Like I agree, if AI ethics researchers are doing their job correctly Google will be unhappy with them, but this is really what Google offered, lots of freedom. You can be as cynical as yo
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by marricks 6y ago
She could of downloaded documents for an attorney or to search for the allegations Timnit was accused of. Google will of course phrase it as damningly as possible. So once again, why assume Google has the moral high ground (in any way) in t
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by marricks 6y ago
Or this group was a thorn in their side and thousands of employees are disgusted by their actions and they want to bury this as effectively as possibly. They don’t need an iron clad case they have millions of dollar to throw at lawyers. Onc
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by marricks 6y ago
It’s pretty cool we can just take Google at it’s word after a 5 week investigation with literally no details coming out. Google also decided to drop this bombshell on a Friday the same day they are announcing a rebranded ethics team. It’s
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by marricks 6y ago
Don't know if anyone else made this mistake but: author is not saying bitcoin will 50/50 collapse tonight just some night this year. > So the next time someone tries to explain to you that “Bitcoin is a store of value”, when
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by marricks 6y ago
The general public cares a lot more about the price of bread than the price of Google's stock, so I'd say economists are reasonable on this one. If and when that money injection moves around to affect the price of bread will be qu
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by marricks 6y ago
Occam's razor is good in theory but when you have powerful actors that can collude against people's best interest it's very harmful.
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by marricks 6y ago
Money they also run media, and when things settle down people read NYTimes, listen to NPR, and it slowly eats away at what they've learned until they're right back where they started. "Well things aren't perfect but they
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by marricks 6y ago
> What I can guarantee is nobody shorting GameStop got Robinhood to pull the plug. Not sure how you could possibly gaurantee that. Also given that Robinhood edit got a huge chunk of cash from a shorter makes that pretty weird to &quo

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