Some even end up going big and steal from banks/investors but that is a bigger no-no. ( FTX, Theranos, WireCard, Frank, WeWork, etc )
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It is easier to vilify individuals than to reduce the need for food theft (depressed wages and lack of economic opportunities for most people)
I believe this will cause an increase on the trend of technical debt.
There are several talks/papers/blogs on lines of code being a cost/liability and not a product/asset. (this blog post seems to assume the inverse)
Would likely also question the lack of resources allocated to these open source projects by companies with a lot of profits from, in part, using those open source projects.
Not only do most open/free source libraries come without support agreements: they come with the broadest possible limitation of warranties. (As they should)
So the company, knowing that what they are using comes without any warranty either of quality or fitness to the use-case, have a very strong burden of due diligence / vetting.
And along with the GOP are working to remove those laws/restrictions.
https://businessinsider.mx/fair-labor-standards-act-hiring-c...
A Hardware Security Module would avoid exfiltration of secrets.
(Off-line AND off-device)
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Monoliths / Centralized services are the ones that can't adapt to the coming technology.
https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Counter-Anti-Disintermediatio...
Great implementation example: https://ssbc.github.io/scuttlebutt-protocol-guide/#follow-gr...
Example: https://www.propublica.org/article/when-private-equity-becom...
Also Adam Smith has a lot of rants against rent seeking behavior and landlords if you want to go with that "communist" writing.
> The rent of land, therefore, considered as the price paid for the use of the land, is naturally a monopoly price. It is not at all proportioned to what the landlord may have laid out upon the improvement of the land, or to what he can afford to take; but to what the farmer can afford to give
Funnily enough, check how far back the 1/3 income for rent comes from and the context on which it is mentioned:
> The rent of an estate above ground commonly amounts to what is supposed to be a third of the gross produce; and it is generally a rent certain and independent of the occasional variations in the crop. [..] This rent “is seldom less than a fourth ... of the whole produce.”
If one wants to escape a corporate hellhole no sense in starting another one.
Additionally no need to start from scratch. Just joining an existing worker cooperative would be a radical improvement over non-equity employment.
Some vendors use the term Security Bulletins
"But the police, however useless, were by no means idle: several notorious delinquents had been detected; men liable to conviction, on the clearest evidence, of the capital crime of poverty; men, who had been nefariously guilty of lawfully begetting several children, whom, thanks to the times!—they were unable to maintain. Considerable injury has been done to the proprietors of the improved frames. These machines were to them an advantage, inasmuch as they superseded the necessity of employing a number of workmen, who were left in consequence to starve. By the adoption of one species of frame in particular, one man performed the work of many, and the superfluous labourers were thrown out of employment."
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"The rejected workmen, in the blindness of their ignorance, instead of rejoicing at these improvements in arts so beneficial to mankind, conceived themselves to be sacrificed to improvements in mechanism. In the foolishness of their hearts, they imagined that the maintenance and well doing of the industrious poor, were objects of greater consequence than the enrichment of a few individuals by any improvement in the implements of trade which threw the workmen out of employment, and rendered the labourer unworthy of his hire. And, it must be confessed, that although the adoption of the enlarged machinery, in that state of our commerce which the country once boasted, might have been beneficial to the master without being detrimental to the servant;"
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"These men never destroyed their looms till they were become useless, worse than useless; till they were become actual impediments to their exertions in obtaining their daily bread. Can you then wonder, that in times like these, when bankruptcy, convicted fraud, and imputed felony, are found in a station not far beneath that of your Lordships, the lowest, though once most useful portion of the people, should forget their duty in their distresses, and become only less guilty than one of their representatives? But while the exalted offender can find means to baffle the law, new capital punishments must be devised, new snares of death must be spread, for the wretched mechanic who is famished into guilt. These men were willing to dig, but the spade was in other hands; they were not ashamed to beg, but there was none to relieve them. Their own means of subsistence were cut off; all other employments pre-occupied; and their excesses, however to be deplored and condemned, can hardly be the subject of surprise."
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"The present measure will, indeed, pluck it from the sheath; yet had proper meetings been held in the earlier stages of these riots,—had the grievances of these men and their masters (for they also have had their grievances) been fairly weighed and justly examined, I do think that means might have been devised to restore these workmen to their avocations, and tranquillity to the country."
Most of their profitability comes from becoming a de facto monopoly / middle-man so they will attempt to gain as much market share as aggressively as possible. (Including sacrificing present profitability, giving away money for free rides/things, etc)
It is not a technical necessity but an economic venture capital necessity.
In the rest of the world Steve Jobs / Apple would have been in a bigger trouble just from the start of the emails.
https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/apple-google-others-...
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-google-lawsuit-idUS...
Even by then most of those same companies had already settle another case that included ending those agreements:
https://www.cnet.com/culture/doj-settles-no-recruit-claims-a...
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-requires-s...
It should be seized and either converted into a credit union (give ownership to the affected people) or a state run non-profit banking service. (And also implement the proposals for the postal service to offer banking services)
That would avoid both a lot of smaller wells fargos doing worse things and further financial damage to the economy, clients, and workers of splitting up a private company.
https://www.reckontalk.com/electro-russian-tesla-first-elect...
The biggest manufacturer of electric cars worldwide is BYD
The biggest driver of sales (trough public policy) has been China and Europe, including things like announcing bans of ICE in city centers/cities:
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Electric_car_use_by_country
Tesla started as a luxury brand (Roadster and then luxury sedans) and the only innovation they have managed is name recognition; even the adoption they have driven in the US has been mostly trough public policy like tax incentives.
Being able to afford that wouldn't be lucky, it would imply some sort of per-existing wealth or at least a solid support network.
In the words of ChatGPT:
> When determining the potential impact on the market for the original work, courts will consider whether the use of the copyrighted material is likely to harm the market for the original work. This may include whether the use of the copyrighted material would compete with the original work, such as if it is used as a substitute for the original work or if it would reduce the demand for the original work.
As such this is at least not clearly a fair use case. (And arguably quite possibly a not fair use case)