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by wfo 9y ago
>In the US, employees must still be paid minimum wage. Depending on the state, an employer may count tips toward this amount. If an employee reports $0 in tips, the employer must pay them $7.25/hr. While I would like to believe that
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by wfo 9y ago
The skills that get you straight As in school are trying, being organized, dedicated to seeing things through, and being willing to work hard. That's it. It's just a question of priorities. I think the big answer here is that ther
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by wfo 9y ago
Sure that makes sense if when I drive to work I say to myself "I know it's illegal to drive a car because it kills people, but I don't really care who I kill because I want to save a couple of bucks". And then following
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by wfo 9y ago
Yes, huge swaths of ultra desperate people struggling to survive who rob and mug others is definitely analogous to a tiny cabal of ultra powerful, ultra wealthy publishers that could do any number of things but choose to leech millions off
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by wfo 9y ago
Yes, obviously. Far worse. Are you seriously suggesting that intentionally poisoning thousands or millions is less bad than assaulting one? One death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic, right? That's literally Stalin discussing mas
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by wfo 9y ago
With a functioning justice system or government or social structure, with blame comes punishment and consequences that deter future behavior. If top researchers refused to publish in or advocate their department pay for closed-access journa
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by wfo 9y ago
>Blaming the publishers is not very useful, they are just acting according to their self interest. Blaming the person who mugged you at gunpoint is not very useful, he is just acting according to his self interest. Alternatives are great
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by wfo 9y ago
There are ~20 huge companies each year that pay literally zero taxes [1] (that's for this year, you can go back and find a similar article every year). The lucky ones who manage to hit zero shuffle around every year. The rest of them p
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by wfo 9y ago
This is at least as bad as any violent crime. Almost certainly far, far worse by any ethical metric. The only difference between this and normal violent crime is that this is the kind of horrifying malicious crime rich, powerful people comm
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by wfo 9y ago
The existence of a reliable objective audit trail is a "problem" that is solved by electronic voting machines. Well, a problem for people who wish to rig elections. Perhaps the ability to untraceably modify millions of votes with
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by wfo 9y ago
Yes, the problem is far beyond Cook and it is systemic. People with no investment in the actual work, culture, employees, or purpose of the company (the board and shareholders) are the ones with control over the business. This fundamental d
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by wfo 9y ago
Antitrust activities while still provided for in US law have essentially stopped in the modern era, leading to massive concentration of power and economic disasters associated with monopoly and consolidation (e.g. financial crisis). So a ge
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by wfo 9y ago
>This is a crime that violates the 5th and 6th amendments, and we should be arresting and prosecuting those who gave the order to violate this man's constitutional rights. Funny. They can get in line behind John Yoo, J. Edgar Hoover
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by wfo 9y ago
Well with option 1, you create a whole family of terrorists who will (with some justification) hate and try to destroy the United States for the rest of their lives which will later become the justification for endless war, so if you'r
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by wfo 9y ago
Or to phrase this differently, physicists do not really understand what they are doing. They do some operation because it sometimes happens to produce results that match some physical experiments that they are trying to model. Their derivat
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by wfo 9y ago
You use a different co-op, naturally. You are conflating two solutions I offered, they are distinct and incompatible. A market but with worker controlled firms OR nationalized search. In one case you pick a different firm exactly like today
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by wfo 9y ago
>If anti-trust is your concern, make Google smaller. Regulate what % of marketshare they are allowed to control. Don't allow them to purchase any more competitors. This is one method, but the massive natural monopoly over search and
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by wfo 9y ago
>Even without Title II classification, there are other ways for the government to intervene in anti-competitive behavior (and indeed, they have). You don't actually believe this will happen or can be relied upon do you? There are wa
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by wfo 9y ago
Exactly, you've clearly stated my original point -- economic success in countries has nothing to do with the morality of their society or culture or government. Economic success is more often than not luck of the draw and can happen to
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by wfo 9y ago
It will never be reasonable, feasible, or worth discussing that e.g. every day users run a linux only locked down desktop and never use their mobile phones. Every time a privacy topic comes up, there is always someone to come in and say &qu
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by wfo 9y ago
The success of the United States economy was almost entirely built on slave labor. Dubai and Qatar, some of the most economically successful countries in their region, are essentially entirely built on slave labor. It is making a comeback i
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by wfo 9y ago
A healthy work environment is not economically optimal. Not even close. It is optimal to take as much from your employees as possible and to give them as little as possible in return; the opposite of a healthy environment and healthy workfo
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by wfo 9y ago
>Which economy's future would you bet on? This isn't a good metric. Countries with slavery, for example, can easily have a stronger economy than free ones. The amount of material goods a society produces is at best tangential t
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by wfo 9y ago
>we cannot afford to give everyone a $150k education. We most certainly can, easily, we just choose not to. We could bomb a few less hospitals a year and pay for every single American to go to college for free. We could make our corporat
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by wfo 9y ago
>I'm at least confident if my ISP started blocking Netflix because they made a deal with Comcast, the hammer of the FCC or FTC would fall on them in short order, What? What has possibly ever lead you to believe this? The FCC is doin
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by wfo 9y ago
Sure, if you trust the OS. But what if the OS itself forces spyware and adware into your machine without your permission and it is not removable, like Windows 10 does... The ability to control your machine is always good for users in the lo
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by wfo 9y ago
Actually, TDS is just fine. They used Tor to get around these restrictions, because if what you are posting online is so disgusting that nobody is willing to host you, yes, you have to use some niche service. It's just like if you are
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by wfo 9y ago
It seems to me you are just arguing that multinational corporations should be able to ignore all laws from every country because none of them have the global authority to regulate a global company, which is ridiculous and the opposite of ho
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by wfo 9y ago
Yes censorship by content providers is a (relatively small while Tor exists) problem, and it happens currently in real life. Censorship by ISPs is devastating, competition cannot help, and it is impossible to circumvent and is a real possib
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by wfo 9y ago
Sure, I agree. But I don't think it's fair to say he has the consent of the governed; rather that our system does not support that notion in any meaningful way. He is using his power against the will of the people explicitly.

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