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Re:Why Americans pay more for lunch than Britons do
on Saturday September 07, 2019 @01:19AM (#20901948)
That would explain why the sammiches were cheaper. American companies despise competition.
Re:Why Americans pay more for lunch than Britons do
on Saturday September 07, 2019 @01:18AM (#20901945)
Not really, in the end it comes down to the person who decides what price to put on the sammich.
Re:What’s it like to live on less than $2 a day?
on Saturday September 07, 2019 @12:51AM (#20901851)
Well, it's not nothing...but making the ridiculously poor slightly less poor isn't something I'd call an "amazing achievement" since it's stupid easy to make them not poor.
Re:Favorite Interview Questions
on Saturday September 07, 2019 @12:45AM (#20901834)
I'm reasonably sure that you aced the test.
Re:Favorite Interview Questions
on Saturday September 07, 2019 @12:43AM (#20901827)
So you're high-strung and uncomfortable around people? I think that's an important thing for the hiring manager to know.
Re:New micro-robots can break apart and remove biofilm or plaque from ...
on Saturday September 07, 2019 @12:40AM (#20901818)
Can they use the carbon to self-replicate yet? That's when things get interesting.
Re:'Waffle House Index' is a real thing during disasters
on Friday September 06, 2019 @11:45PM (#20901669)
*as well as centralized?...sure it can, which means that it's centralized. What it cannot be is completely independent.
Re:'Waffle House Index' is a real thing during disasters
on Friday September 06, 2019 @11:43PM (#20901662)
Didn't we already try the bread and circuses thing? Capitalism is exploitative by definition, civilizations lasted longer that it has existed so how "stabilizing" it is is certainly not a given, in fact there's evidence for the exact opposite. Capitalism doesn't "restore equilibrium", it dictates it, it's authoritarian and non-merit based.
Re:'Waffle House Index' is a real thing during disasters
on Friday September 06, 2019 @11:38PM (#20901648)
I don't think it's ethical to pay that little period, but I don't see Waffle House commercials talking about this either, so if the company isn't trying to profit off of it and the employees want to do it I'm all for it.
Re:'Waffle House Index' is a real thing during disasters
on Friday September 06, 2019 @11:34PM (#20901636)
an organization is centralized by definition, it's just a matter of scope, the arbitrary place where you draw the line depends on your politics.
Re:What's Driving the WSJ’s “Truth About Broadband” Series
on Friday September 06, 2019 @11:29PM (#20901615)
What drives thinly veiled corporate propaganda?
Re:Tax Policy Gave Us White Claw
on Friday September 06, 2019 @11:26PM (#20901604)
Nah, you're already a part of their spreadsheet, they don't need everyone as a customer, the profits still roll in.
Re:Tax Policy Gave Us White Claw
on Friday September 06, 2019 @11:24PM (#20901595)
As with most things, it's a little of both, not binary. Your decisions effects others, others decisions effect you. You can spend your entire life not making a dent into how complicated that particular equation is..or...you can just not be a dick and either try to help other folks or at least not go out of your way to make their lives worse.
Re:Tax Policy Gave Us White Claw
on Friday September 06, 2019 @11:19PM (#20901581)
welcome to capitalism
Re:Tax Policy Gave Us White Claw
on Friday September 06, 2019 @11:19PM (#20901579)
So you think that the government should be able to set prices? I don't know why you don't like how business regulates prices.
Re:Tax Policy Gave Us White Claw
on Friday September 06, 2019 @11:16PM (#20901569)
By that logic CEO pay does the same thing, along with every other cost.
Re: Let's Encrypt makes certs for 30% of web domains
on Friday September 06, 2019 @11:12PM (#20901553)
Well that's interesting, so these are political certs?
Re: Let's Encrypt makes certs for 30% of web domains
on Friday September 06, 2019 @11:10PM (#20901545)
If you're working for profit, competition is awful. If you're not working for profit competition may or may not be good. Regardless, how you personally feel about competition isn't relevant here.
Re: Let's Encrypt makes certs for 30% of web domains
on Friday September 06, 2019 @11:08PM (#20901540)
You mean like Linux and Git, or do you mean like "blockchain brofedora authoritarian lulz"?
Re:The Silicon Valley Heavyweights Who Want to Settle the Moon
on Friday September 06, 2019 @11:06PM (#20901528)
We're not running out of space, we're running out of space that rich people don't already own and use to exploit labor.
Re:You Can Now Tell Facebook to Delete Its Internal Record of Your Face
on Friday September 06, 2019 @11:00PM (#20901510)
You can now tell the Queen of England to make you a Knight!
Re:Ask HN: Which company has the best devTools? Why?
on Friday September 06, 2019 @10:52PM (#20901496)
It just occurred to me that some companies may dictate devtools which would make this question make more sense, as well as reinforce my negative opinion of business decisions.
Re:Ask HN: Which company has the best devTools? Why?
on Friday September 06, 2019 @10:48PM (#20901487)
Git for source control, jira for issue tracking, everything else nothing stands out.
Re:Some doubts about human-centered design
on Friday September 06, 2019 @08:56PM (#20901110)
economics is a virtue-centered value system, in fact it chooses the definition of value based on the politics of the economist.
Re:Some doubts about human-centered design
on Friday September 06, 2019 @08:54PM (#20901103)
Ethics and profit motive are easy to balance, justification takes a few paragraphs.
Re:Ask HN: Which company has the best devTools? Why?
on Friday September 06, 2019 @05:45PM (#20900208)
There are rarely if ever any "best" dev tools, there are plenty of terrible ones though.
Re:In an area without cellphone reception, I was unable to open the car
on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @11:04PM (#20883527)
I can't wait for the days when my television won't work because Sony's servers go down.
Re:Novel advice for incoming STEM freshmen
on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @09:43PM (#20883148)
Also they should read Karl Marx, it's a good overview of real world economics.
Re:Whatever happened to Six Sigma?
on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @07:45PM (#20882521)
One should always be grateful to their future overlords.
Re:Whatever happened to Six Sigma?
on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @07:42PM (#20882503)
Project management isn't trivial, but it isn't outrageously difficult either. What makes it difficult is when you need to spend hundreds of hours a week making up numbers that bear no relationship with reality in order for someone above you to put a green box in their powerpoint presentation.