928 karma · joined March 28, 2021
I suppose that the article goes in the same pile as the 'how Costco pressures vendors', 'how Walmart beats up it's employees', ranging back to manufacturing companies, traveling farm labor, and block haulers on the pyramids.
It is just my browser stuffing a plus sign at the end?
or perps.
A good idea for an experiment. We could try different things in different places (states?) and see what is what.
I suppose the cops playing Taylor Swift could pay the ASCAP mafia or whoever and be above board.
Generally, I'd say that if the public wants to watch all police activity, they'll have to get used to sausage being made. Maybe that's not such a bad thing, life isn't as clean and sanitary as you might think from a cubicle.
It's shaping up to be a great decade.
I think that's probably too crude a concept, although you can argue that probably 10% of Twitter needs a lawsuit being horrid people and all.
My own guess is that the ability of social media is strong and subtle enough to avoid any rule you might cook up. Their ability to steer enough votes to win an election is obvious and their own bias is clear.
You're not going to get your relatives to leave Facebook, it's too handy for trading baby pictures, so I have no clue what should be done. There'll always be some sort of editorial control.
Interesting copyright issues.
Anyone who thinks their profession will continue as-is for the long term is probably mistaken.
Yeah, that's a problem.
Usually, next up is some handwaving about building homes from shipping containers because they're rectangular.
It isn't like walls are 8'2" high. There's a great deal of standardization built into modern home design.
In California (FWIW), I expect that you hit seismic issues.
You have to go beyond the first section.
His main points are that (a) it's hard to standardize on the larger parts and (b) there is no low hanging fruit.
You know, that could be.
I'll present a meta-hypothesis. Diversity is generally dangerous and global communications/global movement drives everyone closer to hazardous behavior. Without the filtering of slow tempos, things get sporty.
It would be interesting to compare the US to Japan and Japan's tendency to favor new construction (plus the differences in features and styles).
Realistically, he simply pissed off members of the ruling class of the US. Their presence has become significantly more obvious in recent years.
Other than that, I'd say it's mostly a 'show me the man, I'll show you the crime' sort of thing.
I'm afraid you'd simply get wound up in their own national policy and need to peep through keyholes.
Pretty wild on github to see national policy kinks worm their way through the system. What happens if it's hosted in a neutral country?
Given enough data, and no doubt Amazon surveils their people more than most, they could determine the 'truth' along a more straightforward line.
"Does this hair style make more money for the company"
As hair can be a strong form of expression, there's probably a measurable delta here.
Going forward, smart companies will obfuscate the determination. I suppose that training an AI is not a bad way to pull this off.
As mentioned in an earlier thread, I see a close relationship between the Twitter People and That Guy who goes to all the city council meetings to yell. They don't make up a majority of the population, but they sure can burn up some bandwidth.
You can make the argument that 'normal' people have been held down by jus' reg'lar dudes for millennia. This is their chance to shine.
Have an upvote ya 'rebel.
Is it growing exponentially? Personally, I'd say that changes at the margin are becoming smaller. I think that the difference between 1940-1980 is much greater than 1980-2020.
As an aside, it's funny how static music has been for years. There are numerous bands that sound like they would have been reasonably successful in 1970 (and visa versa). 1920 vs 1970 is a whole 'nother issue.
My favorite variation of all this is the micro variety.
. Find a social media maven with a zillion followers
. Say something horrid to them
. Get them to respond
. Huzzah! Instant fame or at least a few followers for yourself.
. Wash rinse repeat.
WFH is a hybrid between employee and contractor.
I think that it's too small. Consider the swathes of time that are examined in history books.
It all looks amazing and fast moving when you are living it, particularly when you are younger.
I vote for a John Neil/Aubrey Beardsley sort of look.
What I see are bored young males hanging out and getting in fights, not a whole generation of people learning cuneiform in their newfound free time.
Emergency electric start gas generator with downstream battery and inverter. Keeps battery full. Generator is sized to average load not peak and doesn't run all the time.
Being a PG&E customer makes life interesting.
The other business I find interesting is water catchment systems as the water goes away. It could be that your roof is entirely sufficient to provide household needs even in a drought year.
Every year is one step forward and two steps back. The future's so bright, you gotta wear tinted safety glasses.
Not in that business, but could it be simply that a new way of measuring taxonomy is needed? From the outside, it appears that the whole business inherits from a Victorian need for orderly tree structures.
That makes me think of the internet radio owners (Grace Digital, Yamaha, etc.) that all had their products brick because the underlying look-up service just up and went away. No problem. You just have to buy another hunk of plastic and microprocessor.
One difference is the difficulties in making some 'parts' now. It's one thing to make a fuel pump for a 1950's car, quite another to duplicate a controller board, often with obsolete parts and secret software, that runs the convertible top.
Another is that a lot of parts are more monolithic than they used to be and harder to design/build. Look at headlight assemblies.
It doesn't help that with the increasing amount of software and electronics in a modern car (a Tesla being the leading example), the auto industry is acquiring the product lifecycle times and forced obsolescence of the PC industry.
Increase capacity.
By running the system ever closer to the bone you simply cause more disasters.