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by meh99 5y ago
That’s a blatant lie, or more generously, harmfully ignorant perspective. Academics, thinkers, have been warning about private power eroding public for decades. Oh sure SV specifically is new NOW, but they haven’t done anything Walmart didn
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by meh99 5y ago
Twitter is a private organization that owns the physical infrastructure it’s managing. When did we switch from capitalism to socialism? You own their infra and agency now? The slippery slope is every pleb thinking they’re David going agains
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by meh99 5y ago
You’re right I forgot communication didn’t exist before Twitter and iPhones. How silly of me. God said let their be Steve Jobs and suddenly human communication… Privately owned infrastructure was never for you. It’s for the elites to corral
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by meh99 5y ago
Human playbook: put social agency into enabling invasive private and public power, complain about lack of free agency, reboot social contract. If you all don’t like it put your agency into dismantling these power structures rather than logg
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by meh99 5y ago
Or you’re existing under a chemical delusion that two different things are occurring. It’s humans who don’t want to perpetuate other humans speech. I’m not going to live in your unscientific epistemology about nation states being worse than
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by meh99 5y ago
Somehow all of what we got just magically creates itself if the government is paying people? Houses will build themselves! Food will magically fill your fridge! Can we get over the old wives tales? Scientifically people will work to support
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by meh99 5y ago
I think we define success too narrowly for these sprawling organizations with massive social influence. How much political scrip such an organization generates given esoteric economic measures should not outweigh real world impact
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by meh99 5y ago
Humans were giving away their service to the church for promises of forever life. Mass delusions are easy to propagate as they require little emotional nuance; a salute, tattoo, incantation… those used to be enough to bind large groups. Gro
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by meh99 5y ago
I was not speaking to taxation. I’m speaking to private influence on wages, regressive taxation, privilege for the financial elite, the real health issues and costs of extreme inequality as being authoritarian. Relativity; being poor isn’t
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by meh99 5y ago
Millions see sky wizards, should I? I get the difference. It doesn’t absolve our culture of ignoring it’s deficiencies. But look what happens at a university in 2008 when students simply sit on the ground. Is there a difference? Or have we
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by meh99 5y ago
I don’t really see the inequality of representation and taxation in capitalism as any less authoritarian. If everything I do is being validated for value by management and bosses, and my buying power is managed by bankers who have inflation
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by meh99 5y ago
Frankly, the dystopia is an economy that forces me to be friends with randos who also passed through the filter, and not with people I would pick. The dystopia for HR is the burden these apps alleviate. Stop accepting contrived gate keeping
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by meh99 5y ago
Empirical evidence of his subjective goals going unmet is not empirical evidence of an objective truth we all must follow.
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by meh99 5y ago
What do you suggest that will make a difference in yet another human era of aristocratic capture of our lives and agency. They do not have an information advantage, just a political one. And we can see how concerned the general public is wi
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by meh99 5y ago
They don’t require a biological mutation but they do require a change in agency, social state. Take society as an organism in the abstract and it definitely needs to mutate. Crichton was a pop science author, right-wing believer in America.
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by meh99 5y ago
No one thought “glass” because the outcome was predetermined. Employees do not care about financial or literal waste. They only meme in mind when they go to their job for “make money”. I goto meetings with a vision and zero fucks about the
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by meh99 5y ago
If you’re good enough relative to what test? I simply do not believe meritocracy can exist. Our biological sensibilities are too easily confused by concepts we don’t fully grasp, and come on; there is so much rubber stamping and favoritism
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by meh99 5y ago
Apple makes the idea of Plan9 viable using wireless technology and smart protocols.
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by meh99 5y ago
I really don’t see how the nation isn’t a Ponzi scheme. We keep buying in with our time and being told there isn’t enough to go around when it comes to affording a life. I know the historical context for a Ponzi scheme is financial, but yes
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by meh99 5y ago
I get what the author is going for but agile, scrum, process, and such are ephemeral helicoptering. When the outputs are socially restricted, it’s not as if work from home is enabling free thought and novel productive agency. IMO it’s merel
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by meh99 5y ago
I wasn’t using it as an example of success, but of commitment to collective goals. Here we are discussing the supposed leverage engineers have, but frankly, in 25 years working in circuit board design and software, engineers are some of the
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by meh99 5y ago
Other researchers claim autism is an emotional evolution. I’m disinclined to trust our contemporary society with deciding whether autism is good or bad. A difficult scenario for parents, perhaps, but I feel that’s better handled by society
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by meh99 5y ago
So we need to disrupt unions unaware of inflation. Engineers also could collectively tank the economy; wfh makes a strike a matter of not opening a laptop. Even just the serious threat would put aristocrats on notice. Look what WSB has done
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by meh99 5y ago
You have done nothing to validate this claim and are simply regurgitating acceptable political speak. Kids can be taught otherwise. And a minority of the rich can be told to stfu by the masses, or enjoy working in the coal shovel jobs. We p
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by meh99 5y ago
Will somebody please think of all the people with inane perspectives on multimedia they want to post! Come on software engineers; social media problems are all there is.
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by meh99 5y ago
Cherry picked stats, arguments that are waved away as conforming to an obscure theory without showing it’s true… As the author kindly points out… member of Gen Z … ah, inexperience… happy to forget I read this and give them a break.
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by meh99 5y ago
Anecdotally I’ve seen the same in managers. I tend to believe these arguments just curve right into confirmation bias. I’ve been on teams that worked fine with managers and those that did not. It depends on the commitment of the actors in q
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by meh99 5y ago
The problem I have with this is it’s just software. I am not a carpenter and context switching is expensive when it comes to thought work (probably because it’s still just typing, lacking the mechanics of swapping a hammer for a screwdriver
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by meh99 5y ago
There’s still billions of people who believe in helicoptering. Being watched by sky wizard and judged at all times is their expectation. It is their agency. Write down whatever you want, how does one resolve the reality? We have documents i
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by meh99 5y ago
Don’t expect that with big corporate hoarding it all for you. It’s “their infrastructure” and their business. The west wants to be free of life’s problems while also being free to optimize time to avoid dealing with them. It’s almost as if

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