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by beatpanda 7y ago
The multi-billion dollar question is whether someone with serious technical acumen is prepared to step up and fight for a law that meaningfully restrains surveillance capitalism while allowing startups to compete. Or build a compliance-as-a
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by beatpanda 7y ago
Automattic was founded 15 years ago, and despite being a profitable and growing company for most of that time, has only raised $617.3 million, mostly to fund specific expansion projects. At no time have they sought 10x returns or some kind
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by beatpanda 7y ago
People love to trash talk WordPress, but by being consistently correct and committed to its principles, it got this single line in this article: "WordPress has managed to keep chugging and even bought Tumblr off Verizon." It'
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by beatpanda 7y ago
You can’t, this is why we used to design services based on open protocols with data portability. No service lives forever.
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by beatpanda 7y ago
"Well of course the models were right", you say to yourself. Who is still arguing about this? The evidence has piled up to the extent that being "skeptical of the science" is unacceptable in educated, elite spaces (such
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by beatpanda 7y ago
I was hoping this article was going to be more like “who makes enough money to eat working on Open Source Software?”
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by beatpanda 7y ago
> If you really believe the media, any media, is reporting things accurately in 2019 you are not thinking critically or actively searching for the truth. Please tell me which media source you consume that's telling you the other med
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by beatpanda 7y ago
> I quit reading media, and eliminated all social media from my life, and I've never been happier. Staggering numbers of people are dying from opioid overdoses, many of them from opiates that doctors were incentivized to push onto t
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by beatpanda 7y ago
If I put my number or email on my page, and I adjust the privacy settings to "only friends", I understand I am making that information available to my friends. They are free to copy that information by hand, or by copy-pasting, in
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by beatpanda 7y ago
Their argument doesn't hold up under the slightest amount of scrutiny. You can go to your friends' pages and manually extract their email or other contact information. If it's visible to you, its because your friend made a de
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by beatpanda 7y ago
This fight is much older than that. If you want to get sad, read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FriendFeed
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by beatpanda 7y ago
Haha, remember more than a decade ago when we all thought that interoperability was more profitable, and that everything would just naturally tend toward open standards? Wow. We were all just stupid?
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by beatpanda 7y ago
> Those things aren't going to zero anytime soon. Not with that attitude
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by beatpanda 7y ago
Divestment also means asking banks and institutions to commit to not investing in new fossil fuel infrastructure, not just selling stock in existing oil and gas companies. Making it more difficult for new fossil fuel infrastructure projects
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by beatpanda 7y ago
The "12 years" figure comes from here: https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/chapter/summary-for-policy-makers/ > C.1. In model pathways with no or limited overshoot of 1.5°C, global net anthropogenic CO2 emi
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by beatpanda 7y ago
The amount of migration that has completely upended political systems in the United States and Europe since 2010 or so will be a historical footnote compared to the migration we will experience due to climate change. The United States elect
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by beatpanda 7y ago
I'm a software engineer largely because my father and grandfather were union laborers. My and my cousins' generation was the first in our family to be able to go to college. And it was precisely because the union was so easy to
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by beatpanda 7y ago
If you fixed the zoning issues preventing you from building an RV park you're 80% of the way to solving the housing issue entirely. So, go for it I guess!
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by beatpanda 8y ago
Getting into YC is itself a credential
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by beatpanda 8y ago
> In the developing world where I live Facebook gives me the opportunity to maintain contact with my family who live on the other side of the world, as I walk the streets of São Paulo, for free. There were, before Facebook, hundreds of a
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by beatpanda 8y ago
I learned to write code because of a very different internet, and I feel like if I'd grown up with the internet we have today I never would have bothered. Interoperability and disintermediation were such powerful, intoxicating concepts
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by beatpanda 8y ago
In every article like this, I'm always looking for the author's orientation to place. It's important to me whether they consider the Bay Area, or any other place, an actual home , with some transcendent quality besides a col
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by beatpanda 8y ago
No, they didn't, after years of legal battles the plans to build on that site were finally approved. https://hoodline.com/2018/09/plans-for-8-story-mission-devel...
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by beatpanda 8y ago
It depends on the state. Lots and lots of states have tipped wage laws that allow an employer to count tips toward base pay. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipped_wage
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by beatpanda 8y ago
This is great, but why are these tools only for the Pacific Northwest?
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by beatpanda 8y ago
David Heinemeier Hansson gave this speech at one of the early YC startup schools and he's still right about everything. This feels like such an impossible relic now that YC is firmly part of the grow-like-cancer VC universe. How things
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by beatpanda 8y ago
> It’s not entirely clear to me why working hard has become a Bad Thing in certain parts of the US Most people don't have any real access to capital, and most people's labor is totally alienated from its actual value. For most
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by beatpanda 8y ago
It was also politically popular in the U.S. to outlaw unlimited donations to political campaigns from corporations, and then that law was struck down by the Supreme Court.
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by beatpanda 8y ago
Here's a more recent status update from the other side of this dispute: https://www.surfrider.org/coastal-blog/entry/whats-next-for-... The Supreme Court refused to take up Khosla's most recent appeal, l
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by beatpanda 8y ago
There's an extremely instructive lesson for programmers in the success and persistence of Alcoholics Anonymous. It's still around because: * It's free * It's decentralized * It works Is it the absolute best and most effi

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