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Because you’ll be a force multiplier making the IKEA builders have nicer materials and surface finishes, instead of making really nice furniture pieces that get thrown away on every redesign. Same reason to want a .NET backend dev that plays well with others, instead of a lisp dev with a perfect reimplementation of their own web framework, but going across stacks or teams requires onboarding on the tech instead of just the domain

Problem with package managers are they are quite expensive to run, so hard to manage in an otherwise open source ecosystem. There was some controversy around NPM before the GitHub acquisition https://www.businessinsider.com/npm-cofounder-laurie-voss-re..., which I guess is the exact problem a non-profit such as RubyCentral tried to solve.

I would GitHub would be quite well-positioned to set up infrastructure around a fork of RubyGems if things fall apart.

I think what you’re describing is a race to the bottom, and I also think a Country A(merica) focused on its soft power would believe Country C could be a part of a multilateral agreement to exclude the practices demonstrated by Country B from competition

If the owners overlap with the employees, then what part of the revenue is divided between salary, benefits and profit is often a tax-optimization question, which I think is the point in the GP. A single-person company paying themselves 200k in yearly wages or 100k in wages and 100k in dividends from 200k in revenue can look like a “non-profit” or a high-margin company with the same effect for the owner.

> I've been running an open source, libre project for closing in on 24 years now, and generating revenue from it for about 17 years. There's never been any "profit", but there has been revenue. I regard profit as what's left of the revenue after you pay the people who work on the project and any expenses, which is the way most corporations and accountants would view it.

Because priority number one is getting you to watch their originals, so that you will keep subscribing as the market for movies produced outside the streaming services gets more competitive.

The big events gets featured on the home page, for anything you are probably better of searching for directors or reading reviews, and then finding where you can see it.

It’s the Microsoft org chart with guns pointing between divisions, e.g here: https://www.businessinsider.com/big-tech-org-charts-2011-6

Expected value https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expected_value

An attack there is quite high risk, you would have to thread the hybrid warfare needle well to not trigger NATO Article 5.

That is part of the less pretty side of how unions perform their capitalistic functions. Killing companies that threaten established worker rights, so as to not get races to the bottom. For another example they should also cull companies or even industries that have become so unproductive that they can no longer compete on compensation.

> Accounting for selection effects and the potential endogeneity of unionisation, the results show that increasing union density at the firm level leads to a substantial increase in both productivity and wages.

https://academic.oup.com/ej/article/130/631/1898/5824627

> After controlling for differences between studies, a negative association between unions and produc- tivity is established for the United Kingdom, whereas a positive association is established for the United States in general and for U.S. manufacturing.

https://library.fes.de/libalt/journals/swetsfulltext/1755676...

Yes, you will see examples of this in the Nordics. However, the equilibrium is fragile and does need cooperative legislation to disallow obviously bad behaviour leading to races to the bottom. Things such as Reagan/PATCO and union/mafia ties are probably making it very hard to restore any sort of healthy equilibrium in the US.

Bundling and Unbundling https://stratechery.com/outline/bundling-and-unbundling

Is that Jeff Bezos in the audience at 14:59, laughing at the joke about a man speaking his mind in the woods?

> 1. Red tape & public "input"

> [...] and bureaucrats and all of that.

On a recent episode of the Ezra Klein show, Jerusalem Demsas argued that part of the problem is that the bureaucrats in the US are too constrained in their powers, so e.g. when weighing an infrastructure project against wildlife protection laws, it's not a bureaucratic organisation making a final decision on how to proceed with minimal impact, but it's private organised interest groups litigating without any limits on re-litigation, and a ruling that does not necessarily weigh the public interest of having projects proceeding towards completion.

Damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

> And if the thing you know isn't actually known

Who do you want to be the arbiter that gatekeeps this information and decides the science is strong enough that you “actually know”?

This reminds me of the short story “The Great Silence” by Ted Chiang, so I can recommend that to anyone intrigued by your comment.

Joe Rogan leans left in the same way someone that starts their sentences with “I’m not rasist, but …” aren’t racists. It’s just a rhetorical device to convince you that they don’t believe in labels, and then they immediately use their actions and words to demonstrate that they fit the textbook description of the label.

> They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words.

It might just be cultural with the customers I’ve integrated with, but we’ve had a policy of requesting OIDC and then only doing SAML if that causes hiccups, and of a handful of SSO integrations with customers on the Microsoft stack there has always been hiccups. There might be other correlations here, such as the IT departments at Microsoft shops in our cases being more driven by consultants and managers.

Why does Microsoft seem to default to SAML for organisations using Azure AD?

All our enterprise customers on the Microsoft stack indicate SAML as the only viable option, whereas those on Google Workspace or on more custom IdAM setups in my experience don’t care if you as a vendor prefer SAML or OpenID Connect.

> I always remind people to learn something first before you try to teach other people.

Teaching is one the greatest ways to learn and develop your relation and vocabulary for what you are currently learning. It’s one of the greatest tricks a good college class will pull, having students continually drag each other a step further as they learn something new and then have to explain it to their peers. Most blogging is this kind of “I’m not writing it down to remember it later, I’m writing it down to remember it now.”, so it’s seems to me you might be dismissing some eager learners if you think the act of blogging is self-important.