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by thorough 5y ago
Every so often in the US you’ll hear of people with neuroses that stem from the Great Depression (quite frequently, with hoarding among the elderly population). I think COVID will have a similar impact on a significant subset of the populat
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by thorough 5y ago
You are leaving something out that seems quite relevant to me, which is that the list wasn’t just objected to as unprofessional but that the conversation was escalated to the highest possible level, linking it to genocide.
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by thorough 5y ago
DHH says the trouble didn’t come from objecting to the list. In fact, he’s disavowed it repeatedly. He said the trouble was that the employee said that the list was not merely unprofessional but was one step on a ladder of racial oppression
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by thorough 6y ago
So this "good faith" requirement seems like a huge gaping loophole, just a wonderfully easy way to dismiss and even censor a ton of people you merely disagree with. Whether or not they are arguing in good faith is so subjective an
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by thorough 6y ago
Yeah, I've definitely grasped their argument, which became clear once they clarified that "allowing people to make up their minds" doesn't mean "allowing content the owners disagree with" but rather "we wo
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by thorough 6y ago
Right. The actor matters a huge amount. We all agree on that. But if you run a forum and say you will not allow any view to be expressed therein that you don't agree with, you aren't in fact "allowing people to make up their
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by thorough 6y ago
I think the conversation is just a little more sophisticated than you imagine it to be. And you can be generally in favor of free speech (!= the First Amendment) without accepting its more extreme interpretations. I mean, I'm guessing
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by thorough 6y ago
How would you suggest a company like YT can "allow people to make up their own minds" about an issue if they do not "provide a platform for views" of that issue that they "don't share"? Unless you are just
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by thorough 6y ago
I think if you’ve decided that there is something wrong with the employer/employee relationship where hundreds spend their professional life working at someone else’s company, pushing ahead that person’s vision, and fulfilling that per
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by thorough 6y ago
Hmm... the Bay Area in my experience is one of the less walkable parts of the United States I’ve visited.
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by thorough 6y ago
I sincerely think that your CEOs of large companies are much less powerful than one would naturally think. They have money and power, but much of it is based on a group of people sympathetic to some pretty extreme views approving of you. We
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by thorough 6y ago
I’m working at my job doing just fine. My employer is pretty happy and so am I. Then a new guy comes along and says, “I can do thorough’s job better than he can.” My boss hires him and she agrees. At length, she decides to keep the new guy
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by thorough 6y ago
Hypothetical question: I have little money but I write an amazing book and it sells to millions. Each books takes, say, $5 to print, and yet I sell it for $15. Therefore I end up wealthy from this endeavor. Did I exploit the people who chos
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by thorough 6y ago
I think the article states and it has been repeated several times in the comments here that the author already did so and that a lawyer is now required because the offender disputed the claim.
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by thorough 6y ago
All right, you've stated that you think that having to remedy such an obvious abuse by hiring a lawyer is not a problem. But the question is, why don't you think it's a problem?
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by thorough 6y ago
If you were "looking for a sensational headline" and GitHub intentionally took your copyrighted code and was running it, wouldn't you come up with a more direct statement than "GitHub has my stolen code"? For exampl
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by thorough 6y ago
If someone posted copyright information in say, the forum area of your personal website, and someone from the website containing that information emails you about it, you might actually find yourself doing some basic due diligence and just
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by thorough 6y ago
How is the title misleading? It's "My Latest Brush with the Corporate Internet: GitHub has My Stolen Code." If a website, even one like GitHub that posts others' submissions, had something I felt was mine and I had to go
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by thorough 6y ago
As the article progresses, the more and more apparent it becomes how full of himself the author is. In an article that is ostensibly designed to honor his aging father, the author (a marketing professor at NYU) gets to the point that he won