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by yathaid 4y ago
Matt Stoller has written extensively on this topic: - https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/antitrust-enforcers-to-ba... - https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/non-compete-agreements-an...
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by yathaid 4y ago
Are the margins on this website too small to note down your objections? :)
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by yathaid 4y ago
> I'd prefer to see more easily-communicated DE standards and published levels of adherence, rather than moving to the uni-desktop. I used to be on this hill. All this leads to is inoperable software where each integration point is
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by yathaid 4y ago
"With corporations the point of a penalty is to deter, not destroy." I don't know if this actually the point like you suggest, but why do you believe this should be the point?
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by yathaid 4y ago
> This struck me... Us techy people should be able to use our knowledge to get more out of our tech setups. You are going up against a probably 1000s strong team of equally techy people whose job it is to do what you are trying to cobble
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by yathaid 4y ago
Can you elaborate on this a bit? I am really interested in which area of the tools space was annoying to this extent.
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by yathaid 4y ago
What OP was suggesting is exactly what you get. You can see results at the level of any manager and zoom out recursively.
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by yathaid 4y ago
I am seeing a lot of hate on the internal tooling. Can you elaborate on that a bit more?
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by yathaid 4y ago
Would you pay more for a house where the internal plumbing is beautifully laid out? Not functionally better, just more beautiful (in some abstract sense).
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by yathaid 4y ago
> Again, if something happens, make an open public accusation. What do you think will change if they do?
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by yathaid 4y ago
"Now that many university presidents have agreed to implement many of the demands, I believe that the conflict between truth and social justice is likely to become unmanageable." Can someone ELI5 what is this conflict between trut
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by yathaid 4y ago
A meh article, but this: > They wondered if such devices would seal off the wonders of technology into a black box: “effortless, opaque, and therefore unquestioned by consumers.” was prescient.
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by yathaid 4y ago
This brings back some fond memories of experimenting with many alternative shells including LiteStep. I remember being able to run Windows XP + LiteStep + Chromium + PuTTy as my daily driver on a refurbished laptop with 256MB of RAM during
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by yathaid 4y ago
Argument from Authority 101. "If the Earth revolved around the Sun surely the Church would have published Copernicus' work." I don't disagree with your conclusion, just your method of reaching it.
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by yathaid 4y ago
"In my (apparently naive) mind, if you're smart enough to work at Google, you're smart enough to manage your own OS." This is a bit like saying if you can operate on human brains, you should absolutely be able to take ap
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by yathaid 4y ago
What you are saying is a false root cause, i.e. "TikTok causes rare mental disorders". Which is not what OP is saying.
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by yathaid 5y ago
This line of argument is bikeshedding at it's finest. If Mossad is out to get you, they are going to get you, no matter what you do. The threat model for 99.999% of the population doesn't include bespoke attacks from three letter
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by yathaid 5y ago
How is the HDPI experience? I am using KDE with a lot of hacks [1] currently, would love to try something that is more native. [1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30752499
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by yathaid 5y ago
This article has a laundry list of things that annoyed the heck out of me. So I decided to try and dual boot to Ubuntu on my Surface Pro 7. This may come across as a rant, but I do not mean it that way. I know the tears and sweat people hav
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by yathaid 5y ago
Disclaimer: I work for a small e-commerce firm named after a large river, opinions are my own. Writing in response since the company I work at is one whose values is quoted in the article. My initial approach to the values was a similar &qu
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by yathaid 8y ago
It's not Apple's oversight of the app store that is the problem Warren is targeting, it is the participation. Apple can either take 30% from Spotify or have iTunes, not both. Similar argument for Amazon and Amazon Basics. The arti