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by rectang 1y ago
> In your world, is there such a thing as a bad employee? Of course — I implied as much via the “inappropriately cynical“ characterization. The tension between capital and labor is inescapable and ancient. I didn’t think you were gener
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by rectang 1y ago
In your world, is there such a thing as a bad employer? Something like the analogue to the “Reddit-infused worker” archetype, where leadership is inappropriately cynical about their workers and see them as “the enemy”?
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by rectang 1y ago
> The company wants the employee to do well > Also, who is "the company"? The company doesn't "want" anything other than to become a bigger pile of money — it's an amoral abstract construction, lackin
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by rectang 1y ago
Companies are amoral profit-seeking automata. Individuals, even those in senior leadership, have only limited capacity to act in opposition to the company's nature. Workers can definitely forge mutually beneficial relationships with s
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by rectang 1y ago
The mindset exists because historically commercial entities have often been horrendously abusive to their workers. Dickens, anyone? The flip side is the terror of an entrepreneur seeing their enterprise struggle.
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by rectang 1y ago
It's true for many companies, but to be successful it helps to act as though it isn't. Senior leadership sincerely believes that they are a force for good even when they are doing things to harm their workers, their customers, or
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by rectang 1y ago
Does anybody disable `npm install`? For yourself? For a team?
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by rectang 1y ago
How robust would the reapportioned seats be against extreme political gerrymanders? It seems like packing and cracking would still work.
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by rectang 1y ago
It's perverse that the compromise isn't named for the states who were denying suffrage to enslaved people but who wanted to claim them as population for the purposes of representation.
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by rectang 1y ago
Adding up the 1780 numbers on that page, the numbers appear to be almost identical. But there's a catch: those numbers include enslaved people . who numbered at least 500,000 (see [1]). * Free states: 1,390,067 * Slave states: 1,390,
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by rectang 1y ago
Since the US Civil War, it has been the feds forcing the ex-slave states into granting representation for their minority populations. States don’t have the power to force fair elections in other states without the feds — so the appreciatio
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by rectang 1y ago
Well, now that taker states have figured out how to hack the system and bleed giver states while doing things such as neutering the EPA without facing electoral consequences, attitudes seem to be changing amongst people who previously were
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by rectang 1y ago
Federal taxes paid by California’s residents and businesses subsidize the budgets of the states who have made retaliatory gerrymandering efforts necessary. Spending money on Prop 50 is rational because California is on the verge of a durab
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by rectang 1y ago
To what extent is Servo a greenfield project? It seems like a really exciting time to be involved.
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'Patients Will Wait Longer:' $100k Visa Fee Risks Worsening Doctor Shortage(bloomberg.com)
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So I Got Into a Fight with YouTube [video](youtube.com)
3 points by rectang 1y ago|1 comments
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by rectang 1y ago
Devin Stone of LegalEagle describes his experiences trying to get imposter channels taken down: > Imposters keeps stealing my channel. "Sounds like a you problem" -- YouTube It’s entertaining to hear a lawyer communicating wi
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by rectang 1y ago
May we both find ourselves among the few, alongside Edward Packard.
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by rectang 1y ago
Few among the lucky are humble, few among the unlucky are serene, and irrepressible resolve is often met by irresistible fate.
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by rectang 1y ago
> Why would suddenly famous actors be any more savvy? Despite what Hollywood would have you believe, Hollywood is not exclusively populated with rich and famous celebrities.
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by rectang 1y ago
I'm skeptical that entertainment industry workers are thousands of times more irresponsible that their peers in other industries. (Those who consume a lot of political media demonizing the "liberal Hollywood elite" may disagr
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by rectang 1y ago
> You can argue how well that’s worked out for us The elephant in the room is that many of these highly successful people who have brought great economic advantage to the US over the years happen to have brown skin. As for why this pol
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by rectang 1y ago
It’s funny, but as someone who’s worked in music production, when you say that what comes to my mind is that the vast majority of people in the entertainment industry are nowhere near as wealthy as David Lynch. “Hollywood standards” to me
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by rectang 1y ago
We wait and see whether the supply chain attacks crescendo to a crisis and force NPM's hand. In the meantime I'm doing everything I can to avoid NPM and to uphold "just don't use the software if you don't like it&q
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by rectang 1y ago
> Yet no concrete suggestions. There are a bunch of concrete suggestions in the article: " By introducing universal signatures for packages of executable code, smaller channels and webs of trust, reproducible builds, and the many
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by rectang 1y ago
I subscribe to Premium for this reason, and am mostly content with my subscription. Two aspects I don’t like are that it’s tied to my centralized google identity, and that YouTube doesn’t have enough competition.
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by rectang 1y ago
Very well said — I agree with all points. But is NPM culturally averse to such mechanisms, and will they reject them as an imposition on authors even as the pace of successful supply chain attacks accelerates? I think that one hole is that
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by rectang 1y ago
I imagine that a lot of people who make their living selling bad deals to suckers agree very strongly with you that the fault lies with the sucker.
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by rectang 1y ago
In a general discussion forum, I have floated some approaches for hardening distribution which have proven effective in other communities. If NPM can harden their systems using other mechanisms, then more power to them.
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by rectang 1y ago
I don’t think the current state of software development is irredeemable. Ongoing downstream review of all dependency code is practical for only a tiny fraction of projects; for most projects using publisher reputation as a proxy for package

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