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by pink_dinner 11y ago
The point is that it's not law everywhere, and never will be. At some point, the minimum wage will price unskilled labor completely out of the market. Companies now have 5 years to start automating these positions. The Internet made t
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by pink_dinner 11y ago
Just AAron Swartz it: don't follow the license at all and do what you want.
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by pink_dinner 11y ago
I disagree. They won't get bought because VC will stay away from these companies. the dot.com bust in ~2000 had lots of dead unicorns. Web van is a good example. It can and will happen again.
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by pink_dinner 11y ago
"Uh, yeah. I was almost arrested for installing VNC on the school computers..." Exactly. During my time, white kids were being kicked out of school for wearing trench coats (and getting their lockers searched). But race was neve
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by pink_dinner 11y ago
"The fees being charged are publisher fees, absolutely ridiculous fees for a minimal service that is completely obsolete in the internet age, hampers collaboration and the flow of information, slows down science, prevents underprivileg
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by pink_dinner 11y ago
Exactly. I used to work with a government contracting company. The simplest piece of software took many thousands of dollars in lawyer fees and compliancy. A beginner dev could build many simple web applications in a day. However, it wil
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by pink_dinner 11y ago
This is all about violating a license/copyright law. If we were talking about a large company using GNU/copyleft code and not sharing their changes back to the community, many people in the community would be demanding the law ge
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by pink_dinner 11y ago
Not all workplaces have an open office space. The answer is to find another job and make sure it has something will work for you.
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by pink_dinner 11y ago
It sounds almost like the communes in the late 60s and early 70s, minus the sex. I ran a meetup for around 5 years. Having many random people and different personalities come into the group caused lots of drama and issues. It's kind o
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by pink_dinner 11y ago
your approach would devolve into basically a bartering system of labor for goods. Something we had many centuries before currency exchange. I think our current system is still better.
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by pink_dinner 11y ago
The genie is out of the bottle. We created a cheap and easy way to communicate with anyone in the world, which also means an easy way to reach inexpensive labor markets. There isn't really anything we can do about it. Creating all th
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by pink_dinner 11y ago
I disagree. My wife was home schooled and has huge gaps in history, science, math, and English. Most of which I learned in public schools. While the public schools in the US need some work, many of the people I talked to that 'didn&#
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by pink_dinner 11y ago
When I was in high school in the US 20 years ago, it was 8:00am to 3:15pm. This seems pretty reasonable to me.
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by pink_dinner 11y ago
If you terrorize the world long enough, like many of the groups in the middle east, you will get people that just want to give you what you want, in an attempt to make it go away. Others will even blame themselves: "Maybe I did someth
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by pink_dinner 11y ago
"Netflix critics acknowledge that the FCC's net neutrality or "Open Internet" rules apply only to Internet service providers and not content providers like Netflix. " What's to stop companies like Netflix from
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by pink_dinner 11y ago
This mentality is how you will succeed. Should you be working 40 hours outside of work forever? No. But, it may be required to push your product/idea to the marketplace. I did the same thing for about a year before I finally quit my
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by pink_dinner 11y ago
"The bad actor is the individual who acts bad. The Post Office is not a bad actor for delivering letters." If they actively ignored death threats/didn't send them off to the police when it came to their attention, they b
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by pink_dinner 11y ago
While will be bad for workers in the short-term, I think it's better for everyone in the long-term. Companies that have a solid business model won't be folding every 6 months and workers will have more stable employment.
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by pink_dinner 11y ago
It doesn't really matter anymore. The Internet has made it so pretty much anyone can get their voice heard. A popular twitter hastag or a viral video can change public opinion.
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by pink_dinner 11y ago
I freelanced while living in Asia in my late 20s. I usually had 3-6 month contracts and at the end of a contract, had to find my next gig. You are basically running your own small business: taxes, marketing (finding gigs), health insurance
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by pink_dinner 11y ago
The problem is that the majority of people don't work this way. It's difficult for a business to have meetings when a portion of the staff has decided to come in around noon and the other portion comes in at 9am. You can try swit
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by pink_dinner 11y ago
"those heavily reliant on the state, like oil, gas and mining, gambling, or forestry, and industries that involve a lot of imperfect information and market failures, like finance, IT, and the music and fashion industry." So NONE o
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by pink_dinner 11y ago
We were told that this never happens. This is why ID isn't required. Right?
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by pink_dinner 11y ago
I will be interested to see the results of this. Especially when we live in a world where even looking at someone the wrong way constitutes 'harassment'. Many more hetro men would love a chance to see more women and don't rea
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by pink_dinner 11y ago
I saved myself at one company for almost two years, because nobody could do my job. I was the only developer and I ran their entire e-commerce store. Pretty much every department was slowly let go and for the last year, I moved all of the
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by pink_dinner 11y ago
Your post has no basis in reality. Stop believing the media. It just makes you look foolish.
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by pink_dinner 11y ago
When peoplw talk about solving equality, it usually involves taking away from the wealthy and giving to the poor. Rather than the more difficult task of educating the poor to create their own wealth. We should be striving for equality of op
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by pink_dinner 11y ago
Why is someone not surviving surgery? Do they have a poor diet, which contributes to riskier health situations? Why will they be killed by the police? Are they threatening someone or do they look like they will? All of the things you list
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by pink_dinner 11y ago
"However, our appeals to Amazon affiliate program administrators (associates@amazon.com) and even Jeff Bezos (jeff@amazon.com) were either ignored or answered incompletely, leaving us wondering if anyone was listening. " This is p
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by pink_dinner 11y ago
"I got rejected by both Facebook and Google this week after 1st round and it has been quite a downer on my confidence" I'm self-employed now, but when I was looking for jobs, I was rejected multiple times (before finally find

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