misslibby

He was presumably making good money, so able to buy his own insurance? According to the article he was from Scottland, so presumably he would also have been eligible for care from the NHS, like every other UK citizen?

Just because people organize their own things, it is not "dystopia". Some people don't need and/or don't want a nanny or a nanny state.

Taking good care of employees and contractors can be in the company's interest, though. It's costly to lose them and having to hire new ones, and ex employees talking badly about a company also is not good.

(I'd think, I don't work in HR, so no idea what actual directives they have).

Why is a contractor asking for more hours an example of them being taken advantage of?

I think a solution would be to not make one's contact information public, or limit the channel that can be used to get in contact.

So what of what I said is asinine? I only refer to the claims made by the article.

I'd say calling FOSS a sausage fest is asinine.

It kind of happened? Many countries established new levels of censorship and control. People installed tracking apps and got used to constant surveillance. All sorts of things. But not good enough, hence the need for WW3.

Anyway, not saying it was or is a master plan. Just saying that if you were hypothetically thinking about a reset button, a pandemic would be a clever approach, and within technological reach.

"The Great Reset" was the official motive of the World Economic Forum. They absolutely do want a reset.

OMG - another one for the annals of ridiculous feminist claims:

"The free nature of open source also leads to inequity. Open source is dominated by men, and people who don't have as much leisure time or stability might be less likely to contribute to open source when there's no compensation involved."

So an article lamenting the horrible lives of FOSS open source developers who work for almost nothing then turns around and blames the same OS developers for driving women out of tech by working for free.

Never mind that women tend to be paid by their husbands, so they would have lots of spare time for FOSS development.

Who has the right to make demands against FOSS developers? Have any FOSS developers been successfully sued and forced to implement something?

Obviously they should be careful when picking the license, but with any of the standard licenses, they should be fine?

There are many commercial open source projects already, with developers who get paid.

I don't quite get the moaning. If you are unhappy with FOSS, don't do it?

Nobody is entitled to a FOSS developers time. But on the other hand, FOSS developers are also not entitled to anything.

Suppose you are an elite that wants to control the global economy, and you hit upon the idea that a "Great Reset" would be necessary.

How do you build a reset button? A "mild" pandemic seems like an interesting approach.

Also not saying this was the case at all. However, it is a fact that gain of function research was being conducted, sponsored by the USA.

Oh, and if the modern biotech solution fails, WW3 might do the trick the traditional way.

So full in cancel culture?

Even if you want to support Ukraine, some things have certainly gone to far, like discriminating against anybody and anything with Russian origins (professor being told to not teach Dostojewski for example, as posted on HN a couple of days ago).

And demonstrating the international monetary system is not reliable at all, not sure it is a good thing.

Oops - lucky I am not in Russia...

Officially they made it illegal to inaccurately describe their invasion.

" their successes have been remarkable and have shown Russia to be mismanaged, incompetent, weak, and everything else one would expect of a typical authoritarian regime"

And doesn't make you excited for the war and enthusiastic about joining the fight for Ukraine? Great - but having only information and announcements from one side would give me pause. Somehow the war hasn't ended yet, despite of the zillions of Russian tanks that have been destroyed by now.

Well US could recognize it, then it could join NATO.

Presumably the value of remote work is not the same, then.

Is this the new variation of value theory of labour?

Workers are just market participants, competing with other workers. One way they can compete is by lowering their living costs, so that they can get by for less and afford to offer their services for lower rates.

Likewise companies compete and try to make their products more affordable.

This is how we arrived at the situation of extreme surplus in Western countries. Not by some entity (or internet commentators) setting arbitrary price points for things.

"There is an idle class of heirs and there is a working class. Being broke is in the context of these social relations." - that sounds as if you believe people who are "heirs" exploit the people who are not.

Why should production not be for profit? Anybody who produces something useful should be rewarded for it.

works for me

Are there seriously people who believe this bullshit? You think everybody who works only works for "heirs", and if there were no heirs, nobody would have to work?

If nobody would work, billions of people would starve within weeks. The only relationship to other people that would prolong ones life would perhaps the ability to eat some of your peers.

Capitalism has lifted billions of people out of poverty.

Maybe it is the dark patterns of the real life that push people back into games? What help could be given to help people find worthwhile things in the "real world"?

For many people, life is just going to work and then crashing exhausted on the couch to watch Netflix. So they would quit games for the sake of watching Netflix.

She was demoted because she never got government funding, so privately funding science still sounds like a good idea. She was also working for a private company when Covid hit.

Well that doesn't actually turn up any results, except for that one incident that made the news, with the drivers in the backseat. And this article debunking the fire claims: https://cleantechnica.com/2021/12/08/its-extremely-rare-for-...

Is there more to it, because from that wikipedia site it sounds as if he wasn't actually involved?

Is that really how you would frame that Gawker episode, "silencing journalists"? Have you read the Wikipedia article?