callmeal

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by callmeal 1mo ago
> Mark "they trust me; dumb fucks" Zuckerberg There's also Mark "company over country" Zuckerberg.
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by callmeal 1mo ago
Another point for "Pretty Privilege / Halo Effect"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_privilege
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by callmeal 1mo ago
I had to replace a fire alarm last week, so sometimes they do shriek at us at all hours!
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by callmeal 2mo ago
Yay capitalism! Imagine how much value is being created for shareholders by this destruction! Another example of "great work" being done! Jokes aside, I don't know what I would do in this situation either. Maybe find a way to
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by callmeal 2mo ago
>please, you're dramatically overestimating who gives a shit about this. And you're underestimating how much of a shit you need to give about this.
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by callmeal 2mo ago
I think it's the kind of work that (for beautiful moment in time) creates a lot of value for shareholders.
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by callmeal 2mo ago
It's cheaper for the manufacturer. Not necessarily for the consumer.
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by callmeal 2mo ago
All of them. Don't you know you're supposed to make fun of people that a "different" from you? Get with the program already. (/s if it wasn't already clear.)
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by callmeal 2mo ago
There is more than enough research. https://thehighwire.com/news/metas-internal-research-proves-... But nothing's going to change as long as we continue pretending that billionaires hoarding pieces of "specia
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by callmeal 3mo ago
I know it's hard - but I was referring to companies taking tax dollars and not doing anything with it: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/10/att-took-283-mil... >AT&T falsely told the US gov
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by callmeal 3mo ago
>So the health insurance alone doesn't come close to covering the gap. You're right - I was also including all the other taxes - SS/Medicare/Unemployment/State/city etc. For ex: someone living in NYC, with 1
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by callmeal 3mo ago
>You should start that company and guarantee that you will never lay anyone off. Long term does not mean "never". It just means looking beyond the next quarter and/or hiring based on business needs and not based on hype or
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by callmeal 3mo ago
>I see that it has a size of about 85.5 thousand square miles (and about 2 million people). >I've never understood the value in comparing relatively densely populated European countries to America. The practical realities of eac
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by callmeal 3mo ago
It's "Do More Evil" now.
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by callmeal 3mo ago
>Would you rather they never hire those people? Because that is one option. Yup, and that way those people should be hired by companies who are in it for the long term and not looking just at the next quarter (and using hiring as a way t
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by callmeal 3mo ago
>Now compare your cousin’s yearly salary in Belgium with the average salary of a US employee doing the same job. Take home is about the same after including health insurance and all the myriad taxes that US employees are subject to.
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by callmeal 3mo ago
>Do you think those natural resources would have been taken advantage of as well in some other system? Yes. See Norway for example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Pension_Fund_of_Nor...
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by callmeal 3mo ago
>It was not okay for them, they had to pay one billion dollars. Essentially peanuts compared to what they would have to pay to obtain the rights of everything they pirated.
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by callmeal 3mo ago
And then there's this one which always manages to horrify me: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh...
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by callmeal 3mo ago
>It did also make me a bit worried about the expected level of driver education... Not just driver, but of the general population. A few decades ago, the general reading level was at the 6th grade (thanks to the policies of Ronald Regan)
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by callmeal 3mo ago
>Although it's a no no to anthropomorphize on HN, it's worth noting that some folks think humans are post-hoc rationalizers as well: There's enough behavioural research to show that it is the case. For ex: https:/&#x
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by callmeal 3mo ago
>I don't think people are happy to give it over, gullible and naive maybe? Or tricked and bamboozled via dark patterns into giving it over.
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by callmeal 3mo ago
For the same reason we allow expat cats into the country.
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by callmeal 3mo ago
>I won't color any large entity uniformly bad at all times and aspects. Oh yes, I would color Meta. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_emotional_manipulatio... "Company over country!" -- Mark Zuck
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by callmeal 3mo ago
About the only "ethical" billionaires (did not exploiting anyone) would be the ones at the end of your list. That would be Taylor Swift, Beyonce, J. K. Rowling, Roger Federer (and no George Lucas is not on that list). > I guess
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by callmeal 3mo ago
I would add another one: 5. The people working some jobs (notably in the service sector and farm labor) are expected to be poor and remain poor.
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by callmeal 3mo ago
>1. One started a healthcare company, and bad things happen in healthcare, and you aren't going to look into any more than that. I did some more oldfashioned lmgtfy: This is not just "bad things happening in healthcare". I
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by callmeal 3mo ago
>By your logic, we can assume that the existence of these lawsuits and payments means that the entire value of the government can be attributed to exploitation. In the US? most def. I don't even know where to start with all the expl
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by callmeal 3mo ago
> Someone working a job they freely chose is not being exploited. This article from 2022 has something to say about that: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/22/amazon-wo... Amazon is
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by callmeal 3mo ago
I just took a quick look at the first person on your list: Judy Faulkner of Epic Systems Umm - a healthcare company selling patient health records. I'm willing to bet a lot of those records were not obtained through ethical disclosure

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