memmcgee

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by memmcgee 7y ago
No that's still private ownership. Amazon, for example, is not collectively owned, even though it's owned by more than just Jeff Bezos.
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by memmcgee 7y ago
Doesn't Go already download packages from GitHub?
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by memmcgee 7y ago
That would make sense as a worst case scenario but I'm not sure the evidence suggests that's the route they're going. If they wanted to acquire a CI/CD product, they would've bought Travis when it was being shopped
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by memmcgee 8y ago
What track record do ANY unions have in the last 50 years?
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by memmcgee 8y ago
The solution to this is the solution to many problems in tech: unionization. Many tech workers think unions cap the maximum achievement and result in people getting underpaid. In reality, we're _already_ underpaid when you look at how
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by memmcgee 8y ago
The IWW's ideology is hardly extreme considering the prevailing ideology in the US. And the IWW is small, but their track record speaks for itself.
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by memmcgee 8y ago
Then what would you do with all your capital? Sit on it? I highly doubt it. You'd either spend it (which is good) or invest it because 50% of more money is still more money.
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by memmcgee 8y ago
The public believes in and supports climate change prevention. The problem is not so much that propaganda convinces public opinion that the people in power do not have an incentive to make any changes.
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by memmcgee 8y ago
I highly doubt capitalism is going to save us from climate change considering it has largely driven the problem.
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by memmcgee 8y ago
You're correct in that assumption. Plankton blooms are already damaging the climate in many ways.
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by memmcgee 8y ago
All I can say is that the Star Trek: Discovery name drop will age extremely poorly.
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by memmcgee 8y ago
You overestimate SpaceX's importance.
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by memmcgee 8y ago
Not to mention the Solar City buyout was pretty explicitly a bailout. SC had already retained bankruptcy counsel.
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by memmcgee 8y ago
Rich isn't even necessary part of it. Musk, as well as many other people in the news, exemplify white cis male privilege. If a female or non-white CEO did half the shit Musk has done, she'd be out. Look how Marissa Mayer was vilif
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by memmcgee 8y ago
That's because his PR team has pushed that narrative for years. He wasn't a founder however.
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by memmcgee 8y ago
Yes, and they're not alone in that. Many car companies are above the minimum required for five stars.
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by memmcgee 9y ago
>Can't they do both? I don't think they're going to be in short supply of prisoners anytime soon. Except there should be a much smaller supply of prisoners because many laws are unjust as they are now. The drug war directl
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by memmcgee 9y ago
>Why so much faith in non profits? I don't have that much faith in non-profits. But I don't have any faith in a for-profit company for social good.
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by memmcgee 9y ago
I don't see any indication of Promise being a non-profit. It seems to me that you're just trying to break into the prison-industrial complex. I am doubtful this is much better than current for-profit prisons considering you still
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by memmcgee 9y ago
By that logic all encryption is broken.
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by memmcgee 9y ago
I think you're romanticizing Silicon Valley. There's plenty of startups all across the world and there will likely be even more since we have such an anti-innovation administration now.
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by memmcgee 9y ago
Except they also penalize drivers for not accepting many rides. So if you want to continue driving for Uber, you have to "sell" your driving services at some point, even if the price isn't good for you.
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by memmcgee 9y ago
Because they're not actually effective. Most brute forcing is done via dictionary attacks.
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by memmcgee 9y ago
It's also unlikely a company will just switch over self driving tech. A lot of the technology all these companies have is proprietary and I highly doubt it will all be interchangeable.
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by memmcgee 9y ago
Probably not. It's unlikely either party will want this to go to trial so it'll probably end in a settlement where the company buys a license on top of damages.
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by memmcgee 9y ago
Because Wall Street executives caused the economy to collapse and only one of them got thrown in jail. Executives only end up in jail when they hurt the rich (see: Enron, Bernie Madoff)
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by memmcgee 9y ago
Uber is still losing money though and fast. Their entire competitive advantage is that they have a shit ton of VC funding to subsidize rides with. They've been able to survive this long because they've always been able to raise mo
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by memmcgee 9y ago
The despicable behavior at Uber is far from a few individuals. At the very least their entire HR division is negligent at best and malicious at worse. The problems with managers at Uber seem to apply to most of them. I'd advise anyone
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by memmcgee 9y ago
Uber is not at all the "little guy".
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by memmcgee 9y ago
Well they did get "anonymized" email data from UnRoll.Me.

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