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That being said, employees of a company don’t have free speech rights. And hypocrisy is not illegal.
Elon is well within his rights to fire people writing open letters, and everyone needs to realize that companies are not democracies.
It would be bad faith if they removed access to the open source code somehow.
Also, I’m looking to start reusing VIM (company policies meant that VIM wasn’t available for me to use for a while, but thankfully we are rid of those ridiculous policies) and I’m wondering if I should switch over to Neovim this time round.
“How dare you leave an anonymous opinion on Glassdoor. Here are our lawyers and the government forcing you to be doxxed and the speech to be removed”.
“But not pronouns. Those are sacred.”
We have 500 roles open for the rest of the year and we will continue to keep those 500 roles open.
And also, we have a great transition plan if you want to quit the company, because your values don’t align with us.
See, they are pirates and not professionals, so it’s a “transition plan” and not a buyout package.
A PR puff piece doesn’t tell anyone anything.
Now that marijuana, for example, is largely being legalized through the U.S., illegal sales of marijuana have completely vaporized.
Very few will opt to use crypto if a government has deemed it illegal if there is a legal alternative.
I guess there is value in crypto if your government and civil society is completely collapsing, but those blockchains are being sustained entirely by first world gamblers hoping to make a buck on cryptos prices increasing.
Once they realize that crypto has been reduced to (as its backers are now insisting) a currency for failed states, they won’t gamble in crypto and they won’t fund the enormous amounts of energy needed to keep a blockchain running.
Maybe a non profit can run a blockchain that people in failed states can depend on. But then the question arises, why would that non profit use an expensive technology like the blockchain as opposed to simply using a Postgres DB. Something which all the biggest crypto exchanges already do to provide immediate transactions because the blockchain isn’t fast enough.
Which brings us to the point that the only reason anyone is using the blockchain is because it’s been successfully marketed to lay people as this magical inflation defying, freedom providing magic money tree that only goes up in value, when in reality it’s at best a pretty terrible database with some niche uses.
And the purpose of a currency is to facilitate financial transactions.
Which crypto is horrible at, because it cannot maintain a decent value at any point.
Crypto is as good at being currency as iron is at being bread.
All this stuff is literally what all the crypto people were and still are saying.
But most people seem to prefer the desktop versions of chat apps.
They really should have both.
Why is crypto avoiding US laws?
Edit: Also, a quick Google of top stem cell research companies show that they are based in the U.S. or Europe, so I’m not sure how correct the claim of US avoidance is. But even if they are avoiding the U.S., they are choosing Europe instead, where “legal flexibility” is still not a thing.
With about 4000 employees, that’s an average of about $30k per employee.
That sounds pretty low to make any sort of profit.
Ultimately, as someone who finds blockchain technology really cool, what I struggle with is, in which scenarios is blockchain better than Postgres?
> blockchain technology, specifically so-called “public blockchains”… are not an improvement on existing non-blockchain solutions.
The article may have worked as a standalone article but doesn’t really provide a response to the letter it starts off with.
If you’re a tech company, you’re not selling for China too long before they cut you out. India will require you to partner 49% with a local company. And Russia is increasingly isolated.
And the UK will throw a few tantrums as Boris Johnson needs to somehow show that not being part of the EU has some impact, even if it’s negative (wanting to switch from metric to imperial, lol…industry and retailers in the UK, many ardent Brexit supporters, are publicly complaining), to distract from his personal illegalities, but end of the day they will either join the single market and follow EU commercial rules anyways, or find that they are imposed on them because no one is manufacturing UK specific products.
If mooching is so pleasurable why isn’t everyone doing it?
Because being poor in the US is really hard. Getting government benefits in the US is really hard. And the way a lot of government benefits are structured, with a whole bunch of cliffs because of ridiculous means testing, it’s extremely difficult to get out of a cycle of dependence on govt benefits.
It’s hilarious seeing people, whose college education was almost entirely covered by the government (you could pay your college education working part time at your local burger place because it was so heavily subsidized, and that’s not even including the massive percentage of people who got free education from the govt because they were enlisted in a variety of wars), complaining about the fact that the govt may forgive student loans that students take decades to pay despite being in the top 10-20% of income brackets.
And frankly, if these people were really concerned about those who worked hard and paid off loans being chumps, as opposed to opposing any help for anyone who is not in the top 0.1% (remember that multi trillion tax cut passed not even half a decade ago?), maybe they would propose something else that compensated for the massive decrease in educational support, massive increase in college prices, and the massive increase in the need for a college degree to get a job, by proposing something like tax credits for whatever tuition you paid over the last several years. So, for example, you get tax credits worth 10-(2022-tuition year)0.8tuition, so tax credits for the last 10’years of tuition, at 80% last year, and then reducing linearly till it drops to 0 for tuition paid more than 10 years ago.
Or adjust it some other way that makes sense.
They break laws and regulations and then count on either having those changed in hindsight or having a valuation as a result of breaking those laws and regulations that is much greater than the fine they will negotiate down later anyways.
That’s the Uber model. Along with passing on unwitting costs to their employees, and not paying them enough because they call them gig workers.
The only difference is a property tax of 2.5% assessed every year.
That being said, I would be surprised if this 2.5% property tax didn’t apply to car rental companies cars as well.
You appear to be claiming that Netherlands can achieve car free living because it’s tiny and flat, and yet you point to a U.S. city that has made car free living possible despite being nearly half the size of the entire country of Netherlands, and therefore massively bigger than any Dutch city.
So which is it? Is being tiny an advantage or is it a disadvantage?
Most US urban areas can easily achieve car free living the way the Dutch did. Obviously the suburbs cannot, but that does not prevent American cities from trying.
It’s a complete disservice to recommend Gitlab to someone if an alternative is available.
Crypto has none.
It’s just an enabler and hotbed of a variety of scams.
Any use it may have can only possibly reveal itself after the crypto asset bubble/scams die.
So even if you’re a crypto enthusiast, you should be in favor of this whole disastrous phase for crypto ending so you can try again and actually make it useful this time.
Since crypto has become a completely speculation driven asset it’s become useless for anything other than buying and stuffing under the mattress.
Any value crypto may add to the world will only happen once that dynamic is eliminated.
But now that it’s in Apple’s financial interests (not even its users’ interests) to push for native apps so Apple can collect their tax, the Apple supporters have seamlessly switched sides.
I don’t understand why iOS would be any different.
They will settle the shareholder lawsuits (and probably make Twitter Inc. and therefore the shareholders themselves, pay for it).
Because if they do anything Elon’s gonna threaten to make their lives miserable in many different ways. And they are all gonna fold.
They didn’t become board members to protect shareholder rights. They became board members because it’s a cushy job that pays well for little work. And gives you some street cred. Getting into a fight with Elon threatens all of that.
So yeah, Elon’s bullying and tantrum throwing will win again because the only entity that can fight back, the US govt, has decided for a few decades that it really shouldn’t be doing anything.
And it’s still easy for medium/advanced users to sub in their preferred applications instead of the defaults.
That’s how it should be. Easy defaults for beginners and non experts and easy ways for expert users to sub in their preferred options.