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by nielsbot 5d ago
I worked there right before they sold to Oracle for a bit—my impression was a lot of brilliant engineers but no unified product story.
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by nielsbot 5d ago
healthcare isn’t really a market economy and neither should it be. we should make it a public a service without a profit motive
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by nielsbot 6d ago
Are you saying it needs less? Why do you think that?
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by nielsbot 7d ago
Don't do it, Denmark! It will not end well.
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by nielsbot 9d ago
Why not break them up? Man, can we get some real anti-trust judges in here?
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by nielsbot 9d ago
And we’ll all suffer if the merger goes through. (Who is this study for?)
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by nielsbot 11d ago
why is flock good?
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by nielsbot 11d ago
Replying again to say: A union isn't the real objective. Greater share of profits and more democracy in the workplace is. So maybe that's union-shaped or maybe something else.
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by nielsbot 11d ago
Start as a union shop? Or a cooperative? (see peer comment) Good question--not sure at what size it makes sense to have a union? Is it 1 employee?
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by nielsbot 12d ago
> desperate to get out of the squid games and quarterly layoff fears "If we reduce the number of employees for better short-term financial results, employee morale will decrease. I sincerely doubt employees who fear that they may be
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by nielsbot 12d ago
Too bad they weren't unionized--I assume that would have helped. The workers who built the company and created its worth (obviously not evenly distributed) now get a "thank you very much goodbye" e-mail. I think they deserve
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by nielsbot 13d ago
Agree. This is also what Swift uses.
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by nielsbot 14d ago
also—this is public review for data centers not, say, housing.
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by nielsbot 15d ago
Right. But what about the cases it is used for good?
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by nielsbot 16d ago
> worked well for them yeah because they don't care about a top notch user experience.
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by nielsbot 16d ago
When companies can afford to build a native app but instead use a WOSE (write once suck everywhere) toolkit, it’s because they don’t care about the user experience.
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by nielsbot 16d ago
similarly, Einstein's Dreams is a collection of very short stories that explore different flavors of time. For example: time slows as you near the city center - those who approach it end up frozen forever like the event horizon of a bl
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by nielsbot 17d ago
slightly meta, but remember the time SJ got mad on stage and threw his demo camera? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M4t14s7nSM
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by nielsbot 17d ago
*way
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by nielsbot 17d ago
He maybe didn't present that say but he did rehearse a lot
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by nielsbot 17d ago
I like to ask people who are pro blanket surveillance if they’d be ok with the police putting an Air Tag in their car
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by nielsbot 17d ago
FTA: > “I work with Flock Safety. And I called originally because I’m getting followed,” the installer can be heard telling a dispatcher in the recording of the call obtained by Atlanta News First Investigates. “I was getting harassed, p
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by nielsbot 21d ago
I think there’s a similar deal going on with Venezuelan oil now https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/29/whats-behind-the-us...
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by nielsbot 22d ago
Curious who will be playing and enjoying these
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by nielsbot 22d ago
Should have called it Bob The Builder
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by nielsbot 23d ago
Clinton was a neoliberal. Not an expert, but I thought for a long time the vision of anti-trust being democracy-preserving (or at least preventing corporations from being able to compete with the government for power) was replaced by a view
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by nielsbot 23d ago
> Of course the best laid taxes always get abused or turn into something else entirely. Can you explain this more?
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by nielsbot 28d ago
I do find it disconcerting for a private company to have so much control over what is not essentially a public resource. There should be a government provided alternative.
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by nielsbot 28d ago
It would be nice if every logged in twitter user's viewed tweets were transmitted to a decentralized aggregation service for all to view freely.
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by nielsbot 29d ago
> started from a false premise that "antifascists" are being persecuted because they're against "fascism". Uh… then WTF are they against? Also—terrorism is a vague term and defined by the authorities. I’m curious

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