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rrcaptain··on Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs seeks share of property taxes for Toronto smart city
Kind of rich for a company which pays hardly anything (if anything T all) in taxes to ask for tax revenue.
rrcaptain··on Instacart paying 80 cents an hour because worker received a large tip
This isn't just startup culture though, it's capitalism in general. Startup culture is really just the embodiment of everything wrong with capitalism.
rrcaptain··on Instacart paying 80 cents an hour because worker received a large tip
No the rich and powerful have choices of how to act, while the poor have very little. Additionally, the rich and powerful are the ones who have structured the system in such a way that the proletariat have very little choice in the matter.
rrcaptain··on Google Urged the U.S. to Limit Protection for Activist Workers
All employers cave to labor action.
rrcaptain··on Silicon Valley wages have dropped for non-tech jobs
Only very recently and many haven't even raised all the way. But I agree that it's not going to solve the problem, only a maximum income can solve that.
rrcaptain··on Silicon Valley wages have dropped for non-tech jobs
>My guess is that while your anecdote may infuriate you, the effect of investors who don’t rent out their homes is negligible on housing prices.

No that's actually a large part of housing problems. Like a third of Manhattan real estate is empty. And Manhattan is already super dense but still has homeless people.

rrcaptain··on Silicon Valley wages have dropped for non-tech jobs
Or until landlords are abolished like they should be.
rrcaptain··on Silicon Valley wages have dropped for non-tech jobs
>And that doesn't count the lifetime pension, health, early retirement some of them get.

That website explicitly includes benefits, what are you talking about?

rrcaptain··on Amazon’s consumer business has turned off its Oracle data warehouse
What do you mean traditional car companies not taking EVERYTHING IS seriously? Volzwagen is switching all their cars to electric.
rrcaptain··on Apple CEO Tim Cook Calling for Bloomberg to Retract Its Chinese Spy Chip Story
I doubt they're trying to prop up a single tech journalist. If I had to speculate on intelligence agency motivations I'd speculate that they're trying to attack SuperMicro.
rrcaptain··on Apple CEO Tim Cook Calling for Bloomberg to Retract Its Chinese Spy Chip Story
It's also possible Bloomberg's sources are lying to them. It's not unwarranted for intelligence agencies to leak things to the press deliberately to create a story.
rrcaptain··on Repair is as important as innovation
Much of the maintenance of Britian's infrastructure is still done by the government. Rails, for example, are government maintained but we just don't get the profits anymore.
rrcaptain··on The U.S. Needs to Crack Down on White-Collar Crime
So how many chances are we going to give billionaires? Three? Four? One hundred? Most people get one mistake.
rrcaptain··on How I’ve Attracted the First 500 Paid Users for My SaaS
Isn't that more telling about the nature of "value" than the advice though?
rrcaptain··on Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias against women
You don't see discussion on that because you're on a tech industry website, not a janitorial forum. And the percentage of women in janitorial work is nearly twice that as the percentage in tech per BLS: https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat11.htm
rrcaptain··on Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias against women
How the hell are you targeting ads with "bicep mass"?
rrcaptain··on Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias against women
Biases are rarely knowingly done, that's why they're biases. The proof is in the pudding though. The model Amazon came up with was biased against women. That suggests that female candidates in the dataset were discriminated against.
rrcaptain··on Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias against women
Yes. Software engineers taking ethics seriously and not letting technical enthusiasm blind them is news, not normality.
rrcaptain··on Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias against women
The media has always been about narratives.
rrcaptain··on Denmark to ban petrol and diesel car sales by 2030
While this is a good thing, it's not nearly sufficient to stop climate catastrophe.
rrcaptain··on Dear Moon
Citation needed. Elon trashed his name well enough on his own.
rrcaptain··on Dear Moon
Elon Musk has evaporated the public's trust in him.
rrcaptain··on In killing Inbox, Google takes another swipe at its most passionate users
That's a poorly phrased warrant canary. Aren't warrant canaries intended to be for FISA-type warrants?
rrcaptain··on EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ and ‘upload filter’
Mom & Pop, by definition, refers to the ownership of the medium. Not how many people work on it.
rrcaptain··on EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ and ‘upload filter’
Niche yes, but mainstream (like mom and pop) refers to the ownership of the medium. And HN is owned by one of Silicon Valley's most powerful firms.
rrcaptain··on Google is discontinuing Inbox
Once again Stallman shows that he was right all along.
rrcaptain··on EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ and ‘upload filter’
"Clumsy and ham-fisted way" is a weird way to say "white supremacists".
rrcaptain··on EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ and ‘upload filter’
Are you joking? HN is owned by YCombinator, one of the most powerful companies in the Valley. If it's Mom and Pop, than so is Mitt Romney's hedgefund.
rrcaptain··on Former Tesla Firmware Engineer Discusses the System
Didn't they already do an Over-the-Air update to fix the braking time in response to a bad review?
rrcaptain··on Former Tesla Firmware Engineer Discusses the System
AC should be considered mission critical.
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