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iamasoftwaredevon Attorneys say Elizabeth Holmes isn’t paying them

God I hope she has to deal with having an underpaid and overworked public defender.

iamasoftwaredevon Uber lays off around 350 more across Eats, self-driving and other departments

I meant it makes sense that people keep building them needlessly because I would just at the opportunity even if I felt like it was totally pointless.

iamasoftwaredevon Uber lays off around 350 more across Eats, self-driving and other departments

That's one of the policies that destroyed Microsoft's reputation for years.

You could argue that they did it in the stupidest way though.

iamasoftwaredevon Uber lays off around 350 more across Eats, self-driving and other departments

> from SoftBank, no less

Is this supposed to be evidence of a sound company or a strike against them?

After Wework I really can't tell.

iamasoftwaredevon Uber lays off around 350 more across Eats, self-driving and other departments

> It's arguably the most valuable battleground in logistics - developing a "last mile" delivery network at scale.

But it's also hard to get the prices up enough without people just getting off their lazy asses and buying food.

source: price goes up I get up off my lazy ass.

iamasoftwaredevon Uber lays off around 350 more across Eats, self-driving and other departments

> their own key-value store

It seems like everyone does that.

and it makes sense cause if given any chance to do it I'd jump on it immediately.

iamasoftwaredevon US workers may have to change social media use as firms adapt to China's rules

Yes, total piece of crap. Many kourics.

iamasoftwaredevon US workers may have to change social media use as firms adapt to China's rules

I didn't say it wasn't censorship, I said it's not a free speech issue and I stand by that. Blizzard is free to associate with who they want. They want to associate with China.

What if instead of china he started talking about how white people need to start driving the lesser races out? Should blizzard still be required to associate with him? Is anything less than business as normal too much of an impingement on his rights?

What happened to him is just business. If you don't like it (I don't), then blame capitalism (I do).

iamasoftwaredevon US workers may have to change social media use as firms adapt to China's rules

Well, they aren't.

You might notice the part where the people who offended china are lauded and the cowardly companies are being lambasted for failing to stand up to china.

iamasoftwaredevon US workers may have to change social media use as firms adapt to China's rules

That seems less like changing his mind and more like recognizing that if you act like a piece of crap you will (deservedly) be treated that was, and having to censor yourself to not act that way isn't a free speech violation.

iamasoftwaredevon US workers may have to change social media use as firms adapt to China's rules

I don't see how you can possibly get that from the comment.

Socialism, yeah okay. Pro-censorship?

iamasoftwaredevon US workers may have to change social media use as firms adapt to China's rules

because Russia is not as relevant internationally.

iamasoftwaredevon US workers may have to change social media use as firms adapt to China's rules

Or maybe we should start standing up to an authoritarian regime.

oh wait, capitalism. Nevermind. Let's pander to them instead.

iamasoftwaredevon Experts who say we shouldn't worry about superintelligent AI are wrong?

Why does the post have a question mark? The title is a statement.

"Many Experts Say We Shouldn’t Worry About Superintelligent AI. They’re Wrong"

I dunno, I might listen to the AI experts on this one.

iamasoftwaredevon 2 in 5 Canadians quit their jobs because of bad bosses

True for me at every job I've quit. Just quit my job last week.

Unemployment sucks but I was miserable.

iamasoftwaredevon No Radical Changes in GNU Project

and truth and past actions.

iamasoftwaredevon No Radical Changes in GNU Project

> The media then lied about RMS defending a pedophile

They should have stuck to the other times he defended pedophilia and child porn instead.

iamasoftwaredevon Startups ‘are staying private way too long’ says Marc Benioff

> because even if Valve was poorly managed

based on their culture deck it doesn't seem great.

Purely from the standpoint of maximizing value I mean.

iamasoftwaredevon Startups ‘are staying private way too long’ says Marc Benioff

He got rich. His own reputation pretty much stays intact as genius visionary founder.

It's not much of a learning experience if all you get is rewards. Even if he's bitter that the rewards weren't as much as he wanted.

iamasoftwaredevon Startups ‘are staying private way too long’ says Marc Benioff

Worst mistake he made was not just taking the money from google.

It is shocking, and kind of infuriating, that he whines about going public being his biggest mistake when the only reason it was a problem was because of his companies questionable behaviour.

iamasoftwaredevon Startups ‘are staying private way too long’ says Marc Benioff

Well when you have

- Founders getting to take cash out earlier

- employees with golden handcuffs that could last forever

- Questionable to outright illegal behavior being completely okay in the private market

- Insane levels of founder control

- massive VC firms willing to pump in enough late money to take pressure off earlier VCs

Then why go public? Especially if a lot of companies seemingly can't survive the IPO completely intact. Just look at WeWork

iamasoftwaredevon Tether exceeds Bitcoin in dollar trading volume

I thought tether was pretty much accepted to be a massive scam?