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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
Agreed that it looks great, but there is zero chance it gets implemented in the US. Not with the tech lobbying money floating around in Washington.
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
It's so crazy to me how many people are OK with ad-supported news while complaining about the objectivity of news generally. IMO (having worked for news organizations), this one of the biggest problems with the industry. I worked for a
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
Spot on, and the recent press around Amazon's warehouse churn tells you everything you need to know about how they view labor. They're legitimately at risk of churning through their entire candidate pool in some job functions with
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
No idea, but I see more plant-based food in our future generally. It's gotta be way, way cheaper to farm crops than fauna and farm-raised seafood comes with it's own issues with mercury, etc.
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
> I’m not an Apple dev, but their app store is around 60% of global market share for apps and I don’t fault people for choosing food on the table over platform ideology. I don't either, but if that's the decision, then where do
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
Perhaps you haven't, but what are your customers doing? Even if you're not directly building ad products, you're likely not far removed from the businesses that are. I'm not trying to make an excuses here, I'm simpl
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
I have very mixed feelings about all of this. Obviously, it's disappointing news to see. But at the same time, it's hard to be surprised. Let's be honest here, the internet runs on ads, full stop. I have no concrete data but
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
> We should strive to make anyone who gets manipulated into changing their behavior based on an ad they saw feel ashamed and stupid for falling for their tricks, This sounds great, but: A) how do you know/can you prove that you&#x27
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
> This is a sign of pure greed. The most profitable company wants even more profits and will damage its brand to do so. This a feature of the system, not a bug. Companies have to keep growing because analysts and the money people decide
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
> It’s insulting to the dev community who drove the success of the app store and arguably iOS in general. No amount of “we love our devs” PR can reconcile this. Apple built this market to control it completely, you could see it coming fr
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
> It's a sign of mismanagement and especially loss of focus. I think it's a natural symptom of running a company built on exploiting people's desire to craft and control their own image. It's corporate narcissism. Zuc
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
> You say this but yet car manufacturers continue refusing to do so. It's been years already and sluggish screens are still normal, a bunch of weirdly placed knobs that offer no substantial tactile feedback, wheels that are horrible
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
> Surely you don't think anything goes in a children's library? Children's libraries are curated by librarians and teachers. There's never been a point in history where "anything goes" in a children's l
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
I don't want my kids being influenced by hateful content that proliferates on social media. Why is my support for banning hate speech online wrong while banning books in libraries is OK? "Think of the children" only gets thro
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
Parents can opt their own children out of reading material that conflicts with their beliefs. The issue is that those same parents don't want ANY children reading those books. > So what makes this different? You're seriously co
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
Why is it that many of the same people complaining about having their speech suppressed online are also pushing to suppress speech in the library? If we must allow all views to be expressed online, regardless of how abhorrent they are, must
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
Many cars nowadays already have GPS that can be remotely accessed by the automaker. A few years back, I worked on a telematics integration that accessed GPS data on cars and retrieved my own vehicle's location data from a service run b
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
How would something like that work? If a company gets demonetized and provides an answer that you don't think is satisfactory, then what? All you'd be doing in this case is creating another opportunity for a lawyer to put out some
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
It would be one thing if the clawback is at least fairly itemized and clearly stated up front. What's appalling about these stories is that the dollar amount is completely arbitrary and determined after the employee signs on. I passed
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
That's a pretty weak comparison. From the article: > BreAnn Scally, the lead plaintiff in the class action against PetSmart, told lawmakers about how she was left owing $5,500 to the company for a dog “Grooming Academy” that was ini
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
He denied paternity of his child for decades. We've known what kind of person he is for a long time, people just choose to ignore what they don't like.
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
You think Steve Jobs would be morally above doing something like this? His personal history is full of stuff like this.
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
I'm not trying to argue that the "pot" is an actual pot of money, it's obviously a metaphor.
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
> the real truth is that money is complicated and dealing with things like fraud cause myriad edge and corner cases which have real financial effects. More specifically, policies like "know your customer" are great in theory bu
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
> I'm not sure where the author gets this from, but it doesn't make sense. It makes sense if you look at bitcoin like a speculative asset with a cash value, which is how most people who own bitcoin treat it. Bitcoin has a marke
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
Imagine a world where all software developers are converted to contractors and have to work through a platform like Toptal, Upwork, etc. because it's easier for employers since the platforms do all of the background check and technical
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
Not only that, but their interview process is pretty insane. They wanted me to grind leetcode and do a week-long project and didn't give a lot of specifics about how much I could expect to make on the platform. Felt like a major time-s
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
> Nowadays, it looks like they have been replaced by "race to the bottom" sites, like Upwork, or these contract companies, that hire you at a fairly low rate, and shop you out for very high rates. I can't help but feel lik
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
Best of luck, I recently perused this path and abandoned it pretty quickly. I found a couple of companies looking for contractors that seemed to be a good fit, however, they kept delaying their projects and telling me they'd get in tou
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
> If they aren't better, why would a farmer care if they're for sale? They could just use the older varieties and not suffer any penalty. Many farmers use Monsanto out of fear for being sued. Monsanto has license agreements in

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