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by nielsbot 5mo ago
no--i was just making a slightly silly point about tech companies 1) laying off workers and 2) spending that cash on infrastructure (including chips) which goes to 3) Samsung and in this case 4) its workers.
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by nielsbot 5mo ago
We’d need to see the payout distribution to know for sure… Just the average doesn’t say enough.
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by nielsbot 5mo ago
That’s nice for the handful of people in the right place at the right time, I guess…
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by nielsbot 5mo ago
I want to smoke what you’re smoking!
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by nielsbot 5mo ago
Are you saying taxing billionaires out of existence would be bad for equity and 401ks? How, exactly?
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by nielsbot 5mo ago
are you saying workers should show gratitude to their employers?
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by nielsbot 5mo ago
From our laid off workers pockets to Samsung employees’!
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by nielsbot 5mo ago
democracy in the workplace
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by nielsbot 5mo ago
you’re saying corporation have zero coercive power against software engineers? tell that to all the Meta coders being let go today.
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by nielsbot 5mo ago
we’re nowhere near that problem today. don’t worry.
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by nielsbot 5mo ago
there’s also a dam breaking effect. if unionization starts kicking off again, that can be contagious. so companies are incentivized to “nip it in the bud”
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by nielsbot 5mo ago
how much were your dues? and you were getting $7.25/hr?
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by nielsbot 5mo ago
unions don’t work unless everyone’s in them. it’s a free country—individuals have freedom to just work at a non union shop.
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by nielsbot 5mo ago
you can fire union members you can’t fire people for organizing.
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by nielsbot 5mo ago
what’s your evidence for that? It that’s true, why is union membership declining? why did Trump et al gut the NLRB? why do starbucks unionized employees STILL not have a contract years after forming a union? Unions are good and we need more
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by nielsbot 5mo ago
But then we might look weak! (Like Trump does every time he slouches over in his chair next to Xi Jin-Ping)
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by nielsbot 5mo ago
Not really. It’s a cult. Well there’s a handful. For them you can suggest https://leavingmaga.org
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by nielsbot 5mo ago
There's also Orca: > Orca is a two-dimensional esoteric programming language in which every letter of the alphabet is an operator, where lowercase letters operate on bang, uppercase letters operate each frame. https://100
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by nielsbot 5mo ago
And have the luxury of being able to ignore them. That is a luxury.
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by nielsbot 5mo ago
It would be nice if billionaires could f off to billionaire island and leave everyone else alone you won capitalism. go away.
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by nielsbot 5mo ago
I think that's the normal path for new markets as they consolidate...
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by nielsbot 5mo ago
I am going to miss being able to host TypeScript in a web view however.
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by nielsbot 5mo ago
I assume because there’s no good “render a view hierarchy based on layout delivered from a server” option. Whereas this is what HTML is with caveats.
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by nielsbot 5mo ago
Are you saying corporations and PACs buying ads is the same as people pooling their monies to fund a movie?
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by nielsbot 5mo ago
But now we know better
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by nielsbot 5mo ago
if Palantir (or other consultancies) are friends with government decision makers (especially in the US) then spending more on a service is a feature, not a bug.
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by nielsbot 5mo ago
You might be interested in the Strict Memory Safety option https://docs.swift.org/compiler/documentation/diagnostics/st...
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by nielsbot 5mo ago
Kosmo.com? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kozmo.com
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by nielsbot 5mo ago
You're probably right
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by nielsbot 5mo ago
it’s a business, not a charity

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