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> I am in favor of capitalists controlling their own business - modulo protected class issues

What does this mean?

Can you give an example of a protected class and how the business would be impacted?

I don't use my Home device ever, but its been plugged in for so long. The other day while walking by it, I decided to just unplug it.

Why not? I put a cover over my laptop cam.

I haven't listened to this yet, but am wondering if the gender gap in teaching could be an issue?

I work in tech where the gender disparity between men and women is discussed very often -- but I don't see these conversations taking place amongst teachers, most especially for earlier primary education which is more female than male.

Maybe there is a bias here or maybe women teachers have teaching styles that resonate with female students more. It definitely needs more attention.

> It was not the first time Chan tried to buy a Model 3. In 2016, he placed a reservation for the EV and was charged seven times by Tesla. He canceled the reservation and only received all his money back three and a half years later – without any compensation or interest.

Jeez, I was thinking of getting a model Y but some of these stories are scary.

Also the video and images in the link show some pretty bad quality engineering.

This is a key point of Peter Thiel's in his talk at YC from some years ago. He expands on it to great effect in a few other videos too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtJ0C0UHFfE.

honest Q: why is it their job to fix this?

also: for companies that are global in nature, with global operations, offices, employees, etc. is it right to take on the issues of the country where they have an office? (or are HQ-ed, or have X% of employees (even if majority)?)

Why not other things? Why aren't the issues of the impoverished of India an issue w/ tech companies, especially given the large presence of "well to do" Indians or upper-casters?

Does the US have protections that prohibit companies from doing that? Or is it just that there's more faith in our legal system if a company does what isn't in the shareholders' best interest?

I work at a Bay Area tech company with a lot of H1Bs. I consider myself to be an average coder, no formal education, and yet it behooves me why I'm sitting next to Stanford and Harvard grads at work doing the same grunt-work coding that I'm doing.

Not anything original, not anything H1B worthy, just building front-end UIs and basic BE stuff. There's of course H1Bs working on the more complex things too like machine learning (complex to me) but I'm just astounded by the number of "brilliant" H1Bs that I have to stand shoulder to shoulder with when doing my average (at best?) coding.

From my perspective we still need other information, do they also ban other apps that are purpose-built for hate speech? Was it just this app because of the controversy over banned Twitter users going to it?

I'm not taking a side either way but am curious.

Can the outside world hear in though?

People may forget themselves and lose sense of perspective. I have a bipolar condition where sometimes I'll pace my apartment and yell about anything and everything, if I lived in one of these places I imagine it'd exacerbate things and bother the neighbors too.

Well this type of employee activism is happening everywhere even in tech, or especially so in tech.

I work at a company in SF that's gone full ACAB ("all cops are bastards"), defund the police, you must be with us or you are not an "anti-racist", et. There's a lot of internal activist groups and what not.

I worry that investors have no idea how much time and resources are spent on this, but then I consider that activist shareholders themselves have become a movement.

The reality is that this type of thing is going to become more and more common and accepted.

omg yes, I was noticing this over the past week specifically. I keep getting these crap ads multiple times in pretty short video (less than 20 min?)

Reminds me of watching TV when I was a kid :(

> If you’re new to how these socialist organizations think, check out their self-avowed plan to infiltrate BLM early and leverage its cause for their own Marxist ends... They have a mentality to implement their ideology at its fullest with no compromise

They don't need to, they're pretty open about it, see here just today: https://www.reddit.com/r/ActualPublicFreakouts/comments/hluj...

> A city that put a 90% tax on billionaires would find that they all left pretty quickly.

That's kind of hyperbole given the OP said "up to 10%".

But aside from that, don't a lot of billionaires (steve jobs, bill gates, etc) only pay themselves a $0 salary when they're rich and own their own company where they're paid in stock? So any % of $0 is still 0.

> Here's the rub: I strongly suspect that YouTube is not profitable, or is just barely profitable, such that it would be difficult to run as a separate company from the rest of Google... > Breaking apart Google would substantially risk those businesses.

Isn't that kind of the point of "break up google" though?

That "they" (big tech) destroy any other businesses in a similar space (video in this case) that isn't similarly an ads or social-media giant? Or that tech "eats the world" in ways that aren't always strictly good?

The growth in the administrative side of education has been incredible as money from the government kept pouring - I read an article a few years ago about a university (Arizona?) with bloated administration that had built a dorm with a pool and a rock-climbing gym in order to attract students.

This is a problem for the exact reason you mention, but also:

> This includes facilities, support services, activities, athletics. Then there is just the socialization, dorm experience, meeting people, parties

> ...they need the ridiculously high tuition money (including from out-of-state and international students as mentioned)

And these students from China, India, and elsewhere don't care about the great basketball team at the university or the football tailgating events or the pool parties! (or at least not as much :)

The bloat has also resulted in a proliferation of degree programs by focusing on what can make the schools the most money. Thus not providing the real-world/educational requirements that may be necessary but not as "fun".

I like things like this, anyone have any similar to share?

Why would this open source project add something specific to the US even if just a banner?

People keep saying slogans like "injustice anywhere..." or silence is complicit ... but they mean just on this US/Western issue?

It seems like brigading people.

Wow so if I work for a company with an office in Chicago, but I work in their SF office - I could potentially relocate without a salary adjustment?

Can you explain more? What does "having to disable the telemetry" mean and what's the effect of that?

Your "against" seems to be an actual study, your "for" links are from Jane McGonigal who's been criticized for making claims not backed up in any way and who makes money selling "betterness" through apps, TED talks, and books.

Fuschia seems like the type of project that's begging to be canceled.

Uh huh, that article is from 2017 and also says this:

> Nearly 45 years after NASA astronauts last embarked on a lunar mission, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has announced his company's plans to send two private citizens on a flight around the moon in 2018.

Hmm I was also told that I didn't need to bother getting this done b/c I'm in my mid-30s.

But I haven't been that sexually active in my life :( so I know the stat about most ppl having some form of HPV but it may not apply to me.

Do you have to get it earlier in life?

To what extent do CEOs like Jack Ma, who are known in the West (at least on here), acknowledge the reality of this system?

Or do they?

> As a coder, if I'm honest, money speaks louder, unfortunately. If they pay me I'll do it, as others obviously do

Agreed. The company I work for is doing AMP and are getting real business value from it.

As such money does speak louder and if the users of our product are engaging with it more because of AMP, why would we go against it?

Philosophical reasons aren't enough. To give people and companies a reason to oppose AMP you'd need to frame the reasons in a way that includes business considerations.

> But try changing your diet. I won't make any suggestions but there are limitless option to biohack your body. You will see amazing effects on your brain too.

Can you give an example?

> cinema is having its most successful years ever, so clearly many people are enjoying the films Hollywood is putting out.

Is that really true or is it just films like "Avengers" who make Hollywood's balance sheet look better than ever?

I'm not entirely convinced that the film industry can survive without giant blockbusters like that.

You might say that there's always been blockbusters, but although I don't have any data on this I imagine the proportion of $ that these films make up has only grown over time. Maybe leading to a reliance on a few big hits.

I consider this one of the reasons we've seen a proliferation of super-hero/comic adaptions (an endless supply of material here) and other giant movies tapping into an existing fanbase (Star Wars, Fast/Furious, etc).

where do you people buy this stuff?

I must be the most uncool person in the world :(

This is also what Google's new Flutter project uses to build cross-platform apps.