memonkey

Think the difference is who is explicitly signing contracts.

I highly recommend The Depressed Person by David Foster Wallace

It is astounding to read this point of view that people should just shut the f** up and be OK with being treated like shit because that'S BusiNEss BABY.

Good points and I hope this puts a renewed flame under the ass of the labor movement.

In addition, there's a very strong Anti-China view in this community. But the red scare was just an appetizer. The main serving is the anti-communism that has infected the subconscious of Americans who only hear and listen to the media that serves this insanely good propaganda.

I don't see how that is any different if we're comparing it to the United States who is also capable of the same things but violently steals whatever they want.

I love the meme where stans come to Elon Musks' defense no matter how vanilla the criticism is.

> Not being able to do laundry on Sunday was actually a big hit to my personal liberty

this is actually hilarious. thank you for sharing.

anti-asian propaganda is thriving right now

usually, with friends, you can say "fuck you, i'm a nerd then" and they would be cool with that

where does rent spike to $10,000 a month?

I don't know that this post is the place to shift a discussion about a women's experiences to that of men.

FYI there are and were government programs that operate very efficiently. Massive de-funding causes inefficiency and lack of innovation.

What The Wire does great is show how money and power is actually routed. It's capitalism hiding in plain sight. Why wouldn't it be the same way in a world with less government?

The assumption that a government model would cause a loss of innovation seems dismissive of what the government model has brought us in the past (DARPA, Space Program, nuclear energy, etc., etc.)

CSS is not as traditional an experience but is so fundamental to succeeding as a front-end developer. I really love that this is a Zine as well!

You're getting a lot of hate for this comment but I think it's an important discussion.

It isn't easy to "just go somewhere else" or "start your own thing" for a variety of reasons. The reality is that the majority of these game developers aren't getting job offers every day and don't have access to the kind of capital necessary to start a company.

It's flippant to suggest that these developers can just find another job, because the other reality is that most of these developers would only be able to find jobs doing the same thing but under a different moniker.

People in other places in this thread have produced some solutions, which I think is somewhere along the lines of organizing and unionizing, and I think that would help for bigger companies who are known to exploit these workers.

Whatever the solution, history has shown that you cannot rely on a company's word that they won't do this anymore.

I think the point is just that profits do not end up going to the people doing the majority of the work.

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A great start-up I was working for just closed down. I have experience working at really small agencies, start-ups, and fortune 500 companies. I'm really interested in working with a diverse group of cool people. I have a background in design and am a self-taught engineer focusing mostly on the front-end.

PeerTube is one alternative that is recommended.

This is one of my favorite books. Frank Muller has an audiobook that makes it even better.

The assumption that the apps would raise wages if people suddenly stopped tipping seems misguided. It's possible that people would just work longer and harder for the cash because they're desperate.

A little tin-foily, but I went to Vegas with my family in late December. About 2 weeks after we got back, my dad had a severe case of the flu (so far as we know) and so did my cousin's girlfriend. They were both showing symptoms similar to Covid-19, but because testing was not available then, it's hard to say for sure. And it was flu season then.

The idea that physical labor being unskilled work has been perpetuated for thousands of years in class based systems despite the fact that any kind of work can involve both physical and intellectual skill. If you've ever worked in a warehouse, you would know that there are plenty of skills to learn and refine.

There is still a stigma about people talking about money and how much they are making.

It's an important conversation to have, especially when the wealth gap between CEOs and regular people is so wide. The thing this guy is doing can potentially influence the ultra rich into giving up some of their enormous wealth.

the relentless picnic

episode 21

no world

https://soundcloud.com/relentless-picnic/ep-21-no-world

Isn't this usability issue on part of the website developer/ux designer too? What you point out is right, but it can also be implemented in a way where you're not outright just calling the function to pop up that little notification asking for [insert api] permission. It might be a better solution where the ux designer/developer has some sort of button the website that then calls that function for a slightly better experience.

Like many words, it can be important to know its history.

If anybody is curious about the work of Science being a fundamentally human activity, check out Bruno Latour. I'm sure there are others, but this is one I've recently discovered. NYTimes did a good article on him: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/magazine/bruno-latour-pos...

Pointing out a single fallacy in the context of the whole argument seems pretty facile to me.

So a rich white man born into privilege and complicit with America's domestic racism, wealth inequalities, and staunch disregard for climate change, supports a candidate with the same ideals?