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811.
by marricks 8y ago
“Western values” is such a propaganda term. We overthrow democratic governments in S. America because it suits “our” needs and have caused nothing but chaos in the Middle East for the last.. century? We need high tech companies to buy into
812.
by marricks 8y ago
Many people want to tackle homelessness by providing homes first rather than addiction help. Without a home and some semblance of stability people can’t cope with addiction or find jobs. The approach is meant to be very effective and makes
813.
by marricks 8y ago
It’s pretty telling that his company went all out against increased taxes in Seattle to help the homeless only to then start this initiative once being attacked by Bernie. This shouldn’t be praised as companies doing good, it’s them shirkin
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AT&T continues layoffs and outsourcing despite profits(theguardian.com)
7 points by marricks 8y ago|0 comments
815.
by marricks 8y ago
It's very easy to see how the want vs need question could be yet another ploy. For a small company I could be inclined to believe the owner asking the question, but could I ask them if they're living within their wants or needs? I
816.
by marricks 8y ago
“Other manufacturers have onsite repair” who does that nowadays and how accessible are their stores? I’ve had friends with HP, Dell, etc, laptops ship them off and wait a week to hear what is wrong and give them an estimate. And they usuall
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Ask HN: Why has Intel stock been rallying?
1 points by marricks 8y ago|0 comments
818.
by marricks 8y ago
He seems like he wants to be a better CEO and have employees volunteer but I wonder if this type of business leader ever actually wants to empower their employees by unionizing them? Or giving them the day off to vote? Encouraging regulatio
819.
by marricks 8y ago
I could empathize with your viewpoint more if not for the fact the lack of privacy wouldn’t be symmetrical. The middle and lower class will lose all semblance of privacy while the elite will be able to buy it. Case in point Mark Zuckerberg
820.
by marricks 8y ago
Really? Looking at drone strike causualities you’d have no clue how much the US even tries. Its funny cause I haven’t heard of large scale Chinese or Russian drones flying over other countries targeting terrorists but ending up murdering ch
821.
by marricks 8y ago
Why would your default stance be to believe a company over a leaker? The company has millions to gain from the contract and hasn’t shown morals on this issue. The leaker has so much to lose by releasing the documents, everything from their
822.
by marricks 8y ago
Eh... for a small organization sure but I think relatability from big wigs is more used as a way to hand wave controversies than being used for actual good? I think the president analogy really holds. A president who you could have a beer w
823.
by marricks 8y ago
I think this falls under “I want a president I would have a beer with”, you’re judging something by a bad metric.
824.
by marricks 8y ago
I’m more willing to believe the openly viewable GitLab migration tracker, which shows several thousand projects migrated. Just another way Gitlab is nice is the openly viewable statistics versus a generalization. https://about.gi
825.
by marricks 8y ago
I guess I shouldn't be surprised that come Monday morning all the reasonable critiques are buried at the bottom of the page and all the GitHub + MS love is upvoted to the top, hyping up all the "amazing business synergies". M
826.
by marricks 8y ago
I think what I said yesterday stil has relevance: —- Can anything exist anymore without A) Getting acquired by a multinational B) Becoming one Sure, MS visual code is open but as a few players get more and more power we all become subject
827.
by marricks 8y ago
Definitely, investors don't give you money just for kicks, they want a payday. It shapes the community... people who take that money get a head start, crowd out competition. Everyone needs to grow huge, get bought, or die. What could c
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by marricks 8y ago
Can anything exist anymore without A) Getting acquired by a multinational B) Becoming one Sure, MS visual code is open but as a few players get more and more power we all become subject to their whims and not them to ours. MS is pushing the
829.
by marricks 8y ago
How fucked up is it that our only tenable solution involves paying banks extra money through interest rather than just having the government pay it directly? It's more inefficient, but of course makes the banking lobby plenty happy...
830.
by marricks 8y ago
The idea that cities would offer themselves up for companies with live off user data is so disturbing. Why not give them a whole cities data, I'm sure they could solve it's problems! This is so emblematic of the current times. Cor
831.
by marricks 8y ago
Hope that apology isn’t taken at face value and they get hit with more regulations along with punishment.
832.
by marricks 8y ago
Are they governed by law? I'm starting to feel that no one follows the law, or spirit of it at least, unless they have to or can write the laws themselves. Corporations write their own laws through lobbyists and circumvent it when they
833.
by marricks 8y ago
I think when someone like the NSA provides you an algo you either decide you can’t trust them or need to ask some heavy hitting questions to make sure it’s not broken somewhere along the line for their benefit. I’d opt for not trusting them
834.
by marricks 8y ago
I hate it, and my personal biggest gripe is we the people should be making the rules to protect ourselves through laws, cheeringng on a company for doing this is just encouraging and enabling “self regulation”. They’ll also hold shareholder
835.
by marricks 8y ago
Without net neutrality ISP's can start prioritizing traffic and block others at their digression. With the massive consolidation of ISPs people don't have the option to punish companies for pulling such crap. Since many ISPs also
836.
by marricks 8y ago
It's amazing how "politicized" net neutrality has become in the last 6 months. A year ago I couldn't find anyone honestly arguing to repeal it. Reddit, HN, everywhere I looked people (and companies) besides ISPs said rep
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by marricks 8y ago
Surprising to see competition in a space that is so dominated by Google. I hoped it’d be some open source endeavor, but seeing the link was Forbes I shouldn’t have gotten my hopes up... that said competition and options is good!
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by marricks 8y ago
It comes off as someone who thinks they’re above the law. “We’ll do what we’re told, but only because we want to” Companies know they’re above the law at this point and are getting more brazen about it.
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by marricks 8y ago
You’re not wrong. Banks have enough money to do what they want and hide it or pay off. Average joe has to adhere to the letter of law and what ever corporations throw at them.
840.
by marricks 8y ago
Revealing when you get downvotes but no replies to a comment written with nothing but kidness and good intentions. People really don’t want to think about the morality of their choices.

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