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by 6cd6beb 7y ago
Some jobs just rely on attracting and retaining people with no boundaries and no ability to set them. Startups are great at this. They foster a sense of community between the workers and then understaff/overbook the team. When the inva
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by 6cd6beb 7y ago
Broken clock.
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by 6cd6beb 7y ago
Businesses have gotten larger and more powerful than the governments that are supposed to regulate them. Moreover, infested the relevant regulatory agencies.
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by 6cd6beb 7y ago
I don't understand; isn't this literally the point of running a free service? Harvesting data and using it for marketing purposes?
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by 6cd6beb 7y ago
Fair enough, but there may be a small middle ground between "guaranteeing a return" and "never made a dime in profit and in fact is burning through millions or billions of dollars annually with no expectation to stop any time
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by 6cd6beb 7y ago
>We have incurred net losses in all periods since we began operations and we expect we will continue to incur net losses for the foreseeable future. The admission that "we've never made money and there's a good chance we n
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by 6cd6beb 7y ago
Why would a marketing and analytics company shut down a service that gives them full text transcripts of all of your phone calls? They may as well stop parsing your email for information about the purchases you make.
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by 6cd6beb 7y ago
>namely, genocide, a role in putting a fascist, white supremacist in the White House A lot of people stopped reading the article right there. Writers like this only reach a certain audience.
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by 6cd6beb 7y ago
> That parcs and rec meme is awesome! >They won the Internet! I thought this place was supposed to be better than that.
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by 6cd6beb 7y ago
Disheartening. I grew up with absentee parents. This is an unwelcome spin on that situation. I can't even give an opinion on this that doesn't immediately fly into rage. I just hope I don't try to pair off with someone who en
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by 6cd6beb 7y ago
Tech jobs are paying insane rates. If you need to work at one of the top five tech giants in order to manage your debt then your story must be a catastrophic one.
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by 6cd6beb 7y ago
You shouldn't be building anything that relies on a google service unless A) Google would die without that service B) You're just fucking around and what your building could burn to the ground without consequence https:/&#x2
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by 6cd6beb 7y ago
It's definitely like that on the internet; a lot of people on both sides of the US political spectrum seem to think there are two problems: 1 - Their chosen political party is not pushing far left/right enough 2 - The opposing par
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by 6cd6beb 7y ago
>We're not going to delete it but we're going to algorithmically prevent discovery Tech monoliths like facebook, google, and twitter are starting to show very obvious political biases. If we push them to be equitable to differi
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by 6cd6beb 7y ago
>We're not going to delete it but we're going to algorithmically prevent discovery Tech monoliths like facebook, google, and twitter are starting to show very obvious political biases. If we push them to be equitable to differi
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by 6cd6beb 7y ago
Are people really interested in working for facebook in this climate?
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by 6cd6beb 7y ago
>If these drivers get everything they want, I cannot imagine a scenario where fares do not go through the roof, which will likely lead to a decrease in demand, which will have a negative effect on take-home pay for drivers. With that in
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by 6cd6beb 7y ago
Is this another one of those companies whose S1 says "We're not profitable and may never be"? Why is that the right time to go public? Once the company has an obligation to move towards profitability, doesn't that expose
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by 6cd6beb 7y ago
It's dark, but you can manipulate and abuse people into staying through pretty much anything. See abusive relationships or this handy article http://www.issendai.com/psychology/sick-systems.html
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by 6cd6beb 7y ago
>A successful society is not just a rampant pursuit of economics and profits at the expense of everything else. Right, but people are incentivized by the profit motive and generally do what they can to meet it. To just say "think of
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by 6cd6beb 7y ago
We could have a small handful of new great games from valve and an unknown number of crappy ones, or we could have steam. Steam provides more value to me on an order of magnitude that makes the article laughable. Steam is like netflix befor
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by 6cd6beb 7y ago
>When there are cars parked in between the cycle lane and the car lane it's much easier for the driver to miss the cyclist, and few people check the cycle lane before turning right. I was definitely guilty of this until I started cy
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by 6cd6beb 7y ago
It's mildly interesting that ethics are flexible depending on the target, but from a technical standpoint this project is not interesting. The code just builds a proxy list, generates a random number, opens a page, and posts the payloa
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by 6cd6beb 7y ago
I work in QA and don't like the reduced focus on quality (selfishly, because I've got the skillset to get paid by assuring quality). The article shows a graph that indicates that, over the long term, teams that attack cruft or spe
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by 6cd6beb 7y ago
So? There's more than one party negotiating that rate of pay. Think it's unfair for one person to negotiate against a company? Maybe, but that's where unions become useful. There's ill will against them, and they're
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by 6cd6beb 7y ago
Two kinds of people in this system. One of them thinks if you work hard you can climb your way out of poverty through your own self determination and hard work.
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by 6cd6beb 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_leader Certainly not a new thing.
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by 6cd6beb 7y ago
>If you train an AI using data from a system that already has certain biases, then the AI is going to replicate those same systemic biases That's not what happened in the example at all. The example company isn't biased against
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by 6cd6beb 7y ago
There are at least two problems with this: - "I'm sure there are managers and engineers crying in private in every big company out there": You're not excusing google here, just expanding the range of companies whose appa
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by 6cd6beb 7y ago
Unsolicited question: Does every man have his price?

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