omegaworks

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by omegaworks 3y ago
>this seems to make the case that writers were previously overpaid What does it say about our society that the regression to the average no longer accommodates classic expectations of American life like homeownership.
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by omegaworks 3y ago
Farouk certainly played a role, but I long to see an exposé on the backchannels between elites during this period. It seems the great powers of the Global North wouldn't dare attempt to destabilize and usurp one of their own sovereigns
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by omegaworks 4y ago
You are ascribing zero agency to multibillion dollar corporations. They are deliberately closing stores in vulnerable neighborhoods to maximize the political blowback against labor gains. Chicago just elected a union leader mayor, who commi
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by omegaworks 4y ago
This is a coordinated capital strike. Walmart is doing the same thing to Chicago stores in vulnerable food-deserts[1], after a CTU leader was elected mayor. Workers are demanding a living wage in a world where the costs of basic needs are s
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by omegaworks 4y ago
>the U.S. government believed HMN Tech could insert remote surveillance equipment inside the cable, the official said without providing evidence The US government is absolutely installing remote surveillance equipment inside these cables
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by omegaworks 4y ago
You underestimate the degree to which high-level executive success is dependent on responding to the boss that tells you to jump with "how high."
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by omegaworks 4y ago
I wish author would have also included Signature Bank on his charts, so we'd have another example of a failed regional bank rather than just comparing against functional regional banks.
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by omegaworks 4y ago
>even though I understand this is absolutely not the goal of creating one. Not necessarily. All a union is is a way of collectively negotiating. Whether those terms include stipulations about the way creators are treated is up to the uni
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by omegaworks 4y ago
>then twice as much retirement savings should simply lead to a twice higher market clearing price for that work due to "these accounting mechanizations". You assume: * The labor market isn't flexible, that higher pay won&#
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by omegaworks 4y ago
>promising something it can not deliver without bankrupting the country. If the government can not get something basic like covering subsistence-level costs for its population over 62 working without bankrupting the country, the governme
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by omegaworks 4y ago
> that causes inflation which quickly erodes the value of the payment Pension payments cover basic subsistence-level costs for goods that can be mitigated by supply-side production and productivity increases. Claiming that they cause inf
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by omegaworks 4y ago
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by omegaworks 4y ago
We are not as powerless as you claim we are. There are billions of dollars of capital being allocated toward building AI systems, the most abundant sources of which like to view (or at minimum present) themselves as above-board, legal and o
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by omegaworks 4y ago
It's a boogeyman, a harmless prop hyped up by the GOP in an effort to heighten tensions with China and criticize a tepid response by the administration. The Biden White House seems happy to play along, justifying more equipment from to
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by omegaworks 4y ago
We're seeing a level of wealth inequality now that rivals the level seen in the Gilded Age. "Petty crime enforcement" won't do anything but place more of your neighbors in harm's way. An oppressively policed neighbo
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by omegaworks 4y ago
>With no constraints on construction will there be a small boom in new development, tearing down virgin forest in order to make empty developments? Prior to these changes, so much new housing was forced into the urban-wildland interface
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by omegaworks 4y ago
Things might get much much colder in Europe if all the freshwater melting off Antartica stops the NAC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Atlantic_Current#Climate...
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by omegaworks 4y ago
SFPD is notoriously, maliciously useless. It's a political tactic that they've used to wring more funding, less oversight and fancy surveillance gadgets from the city. The previous DA had to rent a U-Haul himself to seize stolen p
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Elon Musk Gets Viciously Booed by Stadium Crowd at Dave Chappelle Show(gizmodo.com)
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by omegaworks 4y ago
> I don't see a system that rewards and uplifts whiteness. What you see is little more than your own personal anecdote. Who are the voices centered in the conversations around funding? Why is it easier for some people to secure in
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by omegaworks 4y ago
I'm simply pointing out that your three examples don't negate the fact that we have a system here that taken whole rewards and uplifts whiteness. White colonialism literally crafted the system that elevated those three non-white
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by omegaworks 4y ago
It makes no sense to debate the meaning of "rejected outright" with you. Just because a strategy doesn't work when it is applied at a particular point in the process, doesn't indicate that the strategic goals are wrong t
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by omegaworks 4y ago
All Brahmin, members at the top of a caste system established by British colonizers[1]. A system causing its own set of problems in Silicon Valley[2]. 1. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-48619734 2. https:&#x
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by omegaworks 4y ago
Parent comment literally said "D&I should be rejected outright" and uselessly categorized the pain of driving institutional change as "pointless problems." There is a point to trying to change a system that only sees
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by omegaworks 4y ago
>If D&I is operating at the wrong end of the pipe, it should be rejected outright because it won't work and will cause pointless problems in the meantime. So instead of discussing ways of making D&I work, we should throw it
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by omegaworks 4y ago
The norm in Silicon Valley is treat D&I with an inordinate level of skepticism, if not reject it outright as "anti-meritocratic." What we have here is not explicit racial segregation, but a system operating via capital and clo
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by omegaworks 4y ago
>More often than not, diversity initiatives come in the form of quotas or penalties for hiring or promoting too many "non-diverse" people. This is literally not the case for the author. From the article: >I told HR that I
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by omegaworks 4y ago
>that will reject the whole D&I concept This is already the norm in Silicon Valley. D&I awareness is a brand new thing, and mediocre reactionaries like the author pervade existing leadership structures. Over 50 years ago the US M
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by omegaworks 4y ago
>And on top of this being an absurd rich-journalist problem Journalist is a stretch here. OP is a fiction author, a blogger and columnist at best.
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by omegaworks 4y ago
Market cap also quantifies the value of the labor that has gone into developing the infrastructure that supports these networks. Had that labor been allocated differently, that trillion dollars of value might be seen in parts of the economy

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