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by shimman 5mo ago
Why does this argument never apply to neoliberalism? That was never put to a vote but it still thrusted upon a country where the results are what you would expect: the worse income inequality ever seen in the history of the nation, life exp
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by shimman 5mo ago
Uhh, I'd expect the trillion dollar transnational corporation to do right by it's workers rather than rat fucking them to appease corporate do-nothing leeches if I'm being frank.
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by shimman 5mo ago
Yes, it's what the opposition literally does. Go read some press pieces from these neoliberal moderates: https://www.progressivepolicy.org/weighing-the-risks-of-righ...
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by shimman 5mo ago
No, look at functioning democracies. They don't need authoritarian rulers, only those that want to be authoritarians argue elsewise.
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by shimman 5mo ago
MSFT acquisition of NPM was a massive shit show, they fired many staff engineers and people that were at github for quite a while. Top comment was a liar.
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by shimman 5mo ago
Well workplace democracy has only been tried in a few corporations. If you want an interesting business case look into Semco Partners in Brazil: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo_Semler#Semco_1990%E2%8... There is
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by shimman 5mo ago
Making side projects isn't a trillion dollar industry tho, adding to the fact that we are facing another global supply chain crisis due to the Iran War; the US is about to commit the biggest self-own ever in the history of empire.
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by shimman 5mo ago
No, it implies that you give workers the means to dictate the direction of the company. That is what workplace democracy does: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workplace_democracy Acting like centrally planned dictatorshi
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by shimman 5mo ago
Yeah that comment is making it seem like people don't care if they are using AI only the results, but they not only do care they actively hate AI and tech companies associated with it too. There is a reason why there is a massive backl
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by shimman 5mo ago
Probably MistralAI or any of the Chinese companies that aren't throwing billions down the drain while American society lacks healthcare, childcare, and good wages.
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by shimman 5mo ago
Sure, modern American corporations care more about hoarding wealth rather than helping build up US society. Once neoliberalism became the mainstay economic position of the US income inequality has skyrocketed, healthcare costs have increase
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by shimman 5mo ago
I've only ever had the $20 month claude plan but last night took the time to setup opencode + openrouter paying for deepseek + glm. Previous experience, while extremely awkward, I'd hit my limit within one or two chat replies and
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by shimman 5mo ago
Even better, why do they think everyone in the government is working for the interests of Americans and not corporations?
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by shimman 5mo ago
Maybe once before but the web animation library has come a really long way over the last 5 years. Another thing to look into if you haven't in a while are container css queries. It makes responsive fluid design quite easier than how it
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by shimman 5mo ago
Yes, the old "well that's just the law" while ignoring the material effects of said law. They're just following orders after all right? Just ignore the playbook big tech has been using across development boards in Americ
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by shimman 5mo ago
Yeah I agree with this. It's great being social in your community because those are the people you routinely run into periodically. It makes relationships easier to maintain too, especially when you're just a walk away from people
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by shimman 5mo ago
Of things to be upset about, an independent journalist asking readers to pay for access ranks very low. Especially compared to LLM companies that are exacerbating the climate crisis, increasing cancer rates among residents, or increasing ut
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by shimman 5mo ago
B2B absolutely cares, especially since ZIRP is unlikely to ever come back in our lifetimes. No sane corporation is going to continue to throw billions down the drain with nothing to show for it.
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by shimman 5mo ago
Growing worry I have are the dozens of newly minted corporate elites that will continue to wreck havoc on the tech industry mandating their golden paths while America still lacks medicare for all, college for all, and universal childcare. I
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by shimman 5mo ago
Does EU have the USA problem where most farmers are basically sharecroppers where they are mandated where they can buy their seed, buy their fertilizers, where they buy their chicks/sows/calfs, what equipment they can buy, how the
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by shimman 5mo ago
It is a personal attack, that's why I made it. These people have a massive influence in society, they literally dictate the direction of technology in the country. They deserve scorn and public shaming. Do you think the direction of te
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by shimman 5mo ago
Good thing there is nothing in their career that actually signals they were a good network engineer and not just another do-nothing corpo elitist that wants to collect their bag while fucking over society.
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by shimman 5mo ago
No, elite refers to a class of people in the United States. Go study some labor history rather than going all orwell on words you disagree with.
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by shimman 5mo ago
Their time at GitHub doesn't inspire confidence, especially when their decisions likely lead to GitHub's current problems when they have a history of hiring nonqualified people.
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by shimman 5mo ago
Yes, as we all know big tech absolutely follow the rules and don't skirt regulations. It's clearly the journalists causing the problems and not the government that has a history of ignoring contracts when it benefits them!
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by shimman 5mo ago
I always delineated the two as one being corporate social media, I do wonder if there is a better word/phrase for it but IME if you use the phrase two describe it as such to those that were online pre-2008 they immediately grasp the di
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by shimman 5mo ago
No, you can't really make educated guesses unless people start opening their books. Especially in an industry where the vast majority of firms make up valuations out of thin air and not based on any reproducible insights.
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by shimman 5mo ago
Looking at Dana Lawson's career on linked in, it looks like they never spent time being an actual developer. Seems fitting that a completely out of touch elite in the US would make such statements.
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by shimman 5mo ago
Reddit has more monthly active users than twitter and reddit isn't really culturally relevant at all (neither is twitter either IMO).
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by shimman 5mo ago
Reminder that universal public high school education wasn't obtained in the US until the 1940s. Large families were your source of labor because you never given a chance to make a better life for yourself.

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