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by pleasantpeasant 2y ago
They made a mockery of non-profit status and displayed how weak government enforcement of corporations are.
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by pleasantpeasant 2y ago
I think "woke" is the wrong word here. I believe most Americans are aware of politicians and the media focusing on culture war divisions and are sick of it.
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by pleasantpeasant 2y ago
They realized they could use the government to protect their interests. After years of praising open-source, they also realized that they don't really like competition. Queue up Peter Thiel's Zero to One and his praising of monopo
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by pleasantpeasant 2y ago
Those tax dollars go back to California and country. Amazon does everything in its power to not pay taxes or help society. It really shows little Amazon is taxed at, if at all.
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by pleasantpeasant 2y ago
Anti-Chinese comment thrown in there for some reason. Is anyone surprised S. Korea is choosing Samsung's preferred OS, Android?
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by pleasantpeasant 2y ago
Until we reverse Reagan's disastrous Trickle-Down Theory(Voodoo Economics), we won't see this changing. Even in the '80s they knew this current world would be the outcome. This isn't a surprise to the Fed or the Reaganit
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by pleasantpeasant 2y ago
Reaganomics. We should try to slowly go back to a pre-Reagan economic world.
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by pleasantpeasant 2y ago
Only thing to truly stop it is by having in-person interviews like we used to do pre-COVID. IMO, online video interviews are the worst, for both sides, and doesn't allow for that close connection to ever take form.
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by pleasantpeasant 2y ago
Not sure but there seems to be a lot more bots on reddit. Entire threads with hundreds of comments from bots are all around reddit.
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by pleasantpeasant 3y ago
Surprised at this. I've seen a lot of people calling Liquid Death, Corporate Water, nowadays.
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by pleasantpeasant 3y ago
The internet wouldn't have become as big as it is, if it wasn't for the internet's open source models. The internet has been taken over by Capitalist and have ruined the internet, in my opinion.
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by pleasantpeasant 3y ago
This is a huge problem in the US. Tax-payers are subsidizing a lot of medical advances, then the US government gives it to the private sector, privatizing whatever medical advances were paid by tax-dollars. Socialism seems to create a lot o
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by pleasantpeasant 3y ago
Are regular people going to be accused of hacking if they do something similar to what NYT did? This is a bad precedent to set moving forward.
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by pleasantpeasant 3y ago
California has some strict laws about beach access for everyone and you still see beach-side homeowners trying to fence off the public's access to the beach or putting up illegal signs that say "Private Property, No Beach Access&q
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by pleasantpeasant 3y ago
I wonder if they'll still do this once Reddit IPOs
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by pleasantpeasant 3y ago
I think you're going to see people start leaving Reddit as the IPO approaches and many will be coming to HN or other reddit-clones. Half the comments on Reddit really do seem to be made by bots, you can easily tell when you look at the
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by pleasantpeasant 3y ago
I leave up articles for days hoping I'll read them, they pile up in my tabs— wasting so much memory. A lot of pc memory is wasted from just this on my end and I know I'm not the only one. It's interesting to think about how m
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by pleasantpeasant 3y ago
Maybe their lawyers are when it comes to taxes
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by pleasantpeasant 3y ago
It's best to view OpenAI as any other private tech company even though they try to appear as a non-profit company in the public's eye.
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by pleasantpeasant 3y ago
It's becoming TV. All it needs is a live news & sports section and you'd never need to leave the Netflix app.
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by pleasantpeasant 3y ago
It's easier to vote out or force out a corrupt an immoral government overseer. A private corporate overseer cannot be voted out or forced out. Only a CEO or board can decide that. It's undemocratic. The public has an actual voice
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by pleasantpeasant 3y ago
SRO sounds like a middle-man in this process. And like all middle-man industries, they suck out money from both sides that they deal with. We can easily publicly fund over-sight committees to oversee these industries instead of relying on S
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by pleasantpeasant 3y ago
I think there would be too many programmers who would be proud to take the jobs of other programmers trying to unionize. There are a lot of anti-unionists and Libertarian minded programmers in the US.
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by pleasantpeasant 3y ago
This article fails to mention the ultra-wealthy who lobby, donate to super PACs, donate to think-tanks, sponsor biased research studies. It's ignoring the real way most of the ultra-wealthy use their wealth to influence politics, on a
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by pleasantpeasant 3y ago
What about the billionaires/multimillionaires who don't seek any positions but donate to campaigns, PACs, ideological think-tanks. This article would never have the Koch brothers in their study because, technically, they never sou
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by pleasantpeasant 3y ago
Indie game devs are extremely passionate about their work and art. They don't really think about the financials or how many man-hours they're investing into their project since they're doing it out of passion and love for the
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by pleasantpeasant 3y ago
Tech workers have desperately needed a union for years now. And now look at how many well paid tech workers are being laid off or fired and now tech companies are re-hiring the same tech workers at a lower wage or as a contract worker with
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If tech workers don't mass unionize soon, corporations will find cheaper labor
3 points by pleasantpeasant 3y ago|1 comments
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by pleasantpeasant 3y ago
We're at the very beginning of this 'Hype Cycle' -Innovation Trigger: A potential technology breakthrough kicks things off. Early proof-of-concept stories and media interest trigger significant publicity. Often no usabl
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by pleasantpeasant 3y ago
100% an AI generated response.

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