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by s2g 9y ago
The start tossing executives in jail. It’s the only real solution to corporations misbehaving.
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by s2g 9y ago
It's become fashionable to ignore China's misdeeds because of the money and hype.
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by s2g 9y ago
By ripping off a BBC show to the point of hiring the stars.
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by s2g 9y ago
And that’s fine, but you should keep that up to date too.
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by s2g 9y ago
Because the alternative is worse.
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by s2g 9y ago
Most of them were perfectly fine with owning people.
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by s2g 9y ago
They also didn't choose to tie electors to the per state popular vote and chose the electoral college in part to prevent the election of terrible candidates.
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by s2g 9y ago
> It's never good to let the whims of the majority trample on the minority You are arguing for the minority to trample on the majority.
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by s2g 9y ago
Yes, which is how it should be. States have senators to prevent tyranny of the majority. NYC should be worth more house seats than all of Kansas.
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by s2g 9y ago
HIPAA violations would have the federal government on the quick. It’s not a “delay and get people to show up to town hall” sort of issue.
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by s2g 9y ago
Hmm, maybe I should buy a couple spare 7 or 8. I’m not buying a phone without touchid.
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by s2g 9y ago
They also won't stand for unpaid overtime or union crushing. Musk's cult doesn't work as well when workers are used to real protections.
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by s2g 9y ago
It’s not both sides, it’s just more control of the online advertising industry. Google should be broken up over this type of behaviour. Spend too much money in Washington though.
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by s2g 9y ago
Need alternatives outside the reach of the us government and other hostile entities.
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by s2g 9y ago
The endless stream of small companies to the conglomerates is doom and gloom. Buy you or crush you. If you get really lucky you end up at Snap and are fighting for your life against a company an order of magnitude larger.
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by s2g 9y ago
Meh, founders still got theirs. What do employees matter? They should working for you in order to change the world achieve enlightenment basking in the glow of your genius.
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by s2g 9y ago
Solution sounds like it’s increase the regulatory overhead on private companies.
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by s2g 9y ago
oh alright then.
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by s2g 9y ago
because > Not OP but the reason I dislike Rust for OS/kernel development is that it's just too damn complicated isn't? I'm also not sure why stating my opinion is a problem. If you can't handle someone not bothe
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by s2g 9y ago
How many of the core devs don't work for Google? How much of the overall project direction is decided by people who have nothing to do with Google? Saying "it's open, so they don't really control it" is like saying
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by s2g 9y ago
C just pushes the complexity onto the programmer without help.
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by s2g 9y ago
I'm conflicted on this. I really do like the idea of a challenger to the linux monoculture (among devs)/the windows monoculture (among consumers), but I really hate the idea of google getting yet more power. If it was pretty much
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by s2g 9y ago
Why would Valve sell?
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by s2g 9y ago
Why wouldn't you make a profit? You sell that technology to hospitals and such the world over. You just might not have the option of telling someone it's 10 grand (with ridiculous profit margins) to get an earlier diagnosis and a
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by s2g 9y ago
Is it too much to ask that my health care isn't beholden to the whims of a bunch of billionaires?
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by s2g 9y ago
> I thought US monopoly laws were more about dealing with unfair profiteering off customers? This finally seems to be starting to shift. > What monopoly regulation would apply to a dominant market position delivering value at no cos
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by s2g 9y ago
> Some of the photographs I've seen of the border crossing and you trust those photos?
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by s2g 9y ago
> "nationalism is racism" and the corralary "strong states are fascist" Which is entirely backed up by the history of ultra-nationalist states.