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by rrcaptain 9y ago
Also has to do with tech folk reinventing things that work perfectly fine such as buses, hyperloops, etc.
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by rrcaptain 9y ago
It's kind of ridiculous considering the original bill wasn't intended to protect tech companies from this type of shit.
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by rrcaptain 9y ago
>Banking has changed, perhaps permanently. It is less profitable and by many measures less risky than before. Banking has "changed" many times before. But these incidents keep happening. The dot-com bubble, the Great Depression
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by rrcaptain 9y ago
It's rather that banks foreclosed on houses that weren't in default for long enough to warrant forclosure. And that they skipped due process and didn't actually make sure they were properly forclosing. There's the famous
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by rrcaptain 9y ago
You can add as many regulations as you want, but it only perpetuates a broken system. And even the reforms that do happen are temporary, and easily undone.
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by rrcaptain 9y ago
Until you start throwing executives in prison, nothing will change long term. 10 figure fines are nothing compared to how much many Americans lost in the housing market crash. Consider how many people got foreclosed upon improperly. The los
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by rrcaptain 9y ago
>see Y2K bug One of my biggest pet-peeves is how since popular media hyped Y2K up as a potential world ending disaster when nothing happened people thought the whole thing was a myth. When it was not a myth (though it was overblown), it
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by rrcaptain 9y ago
They don't. People are going to get screwed and sued over this.
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by rrcaptain 9y ago
Would this not run into the copyright issues most other distributed hosting networks run into? Especially since it allows directly monetizing the content.
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by rrcaptain 9y ago
Why only charge 50% though? You only need to lower the prices to the point where the alternative is less desirable. That being said the point about getting lower quality customers remains. In my personal experience, I once chose a host for
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by rrcaptain 9y ago
Wasn't Square a YC company? They went public in 2016 I think.
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by rrcaptain 9y ago
You realize Equifax has had pretty much no consequences for their gross negligence, right?
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by rrcaptain 9y ago
The example you bring up in Sweden is exactly what I'm talking against . Stuff was outsourced to other companies for the lowest bidder, who were not held remotely as accountable as the government. >IBM took over the agency's
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by rrcaptain 9y ago
For this purpose I'm separating goverment employees and legislators. While government employees may not know specifically about software, that makes them like most clients. You need PMs and engineers to figure out what to do as the pro
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by rrcaptain 9y ago
>after paying the lavish benefits, pensions, etc. which federal employees receive. Federal benefits are not that lavish on an international scale. You get things that are considered human rights in other countries and a good pension. And
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by rrcaptain 9y ago
There is a non-zero impact of HTTPS on the size of a webpage. This can be bad for users on bad connections.
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by rrcaptain 9y ago
In all seriousness: why should we care what ad companies want? Mozilla makes a browser, not an ad platform. Advertisers may have to adapt, but that's their problem.
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by rrcaptain 9y ago
This is largely the part of independent contractors and subcontractors. Contracts go to the companies good at winning contracts, not necessarily the best company to do the job. The contractor takes an obscene profit for providing no value a