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Re:Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs seeks share of property taxes for Toronto ...
on Friday February 15, 2019 @05:26PM (#19175296)
Kind of rich for a company which pays hardly anything (if anything T all) in taxes to ask for tax revenue.
Re:Instacart paying 80 cents an hour because worker received a large tip
on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @06:31PM (#19030994)
This isn't just startup culture though, it's capitalism in general. Startup culture is really just the embodiment of everything wrong with capitalism.
Re:Instacart paying 80 cents an hour because worker received a large tip
on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @06:23PM (#19030934)
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.
Re:Google Urged the U.S. to Limit Protection for Activist Workers
on Thursday January 24, 2019 @02:53PM (#18992280)
All employers cave to labor action.
Re:Silicon Valley wages have dropped for non-tech jobs
on Monday November 19, 2018 @08:24PM (#18491197)
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.
Re:Silicon Valley wages have dropped for non-tech jobs
on Monday November 19, 2018 @08:19PM (#18491163)
>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.
Re:Silicon Valley wages have dropped for non-tech jobs
on Monday November 19, 2018 @08:16PM (#18491149)
Or until landlords are abolished like they should be.
Re:Silicon Valley wages have dropped for non-tech jobs
on Monday November 19, 2018 @08:15PM (#18491142)
>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?
Re:Amazon’s consumer business has turned off its Oracle data warehouse
on Friday November 09, 2018 @09:38PM (#18419622)
What do you mean traditional car companies not taking EVERYTHING IS seriously? Volzwagen is switching all their cars to electric.
Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook Calling for Bloomberg to Retract Its Chinese Spy...
on Monday October 29, 2018 @05:23PM (#18331643)
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.
Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook Calling for Bloomberg to Retract Its Chinese Spy...
on Saturday October 20, 2018 @07:48PM (#18266077)
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.
Re:Repair is as important as innovation
on Friday October 19, 2018 @10:20AM (#18256890)
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.
Re:The U.S. Needs to Crack Down on White-Collar Crime
on Sunday October 14, 2018 @11:22PM (#18217190)
So how many chances are we going to give billionaires? Three? Four? One hundred? Most people get one mistake.
Re:How I’ve Attracted the First 500 Paid Users for My SaaS
on Sunday October 14, 2018 @11:13PM (#18217159)
Isn't that more telling about the nature of "value" than the advice though?
Re:Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias against women
on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @11:15PM (#18190763)
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
Re:Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias against women
on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @11:02PM (#18190718)
How the hell are you targeting ads with "bicep mass"?
Re:Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias against women
on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @10:43PM (#18190657)
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.
Re:Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias against women
on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @10:33PM (#18190632)
Yes. Software engineers taking ethics seriously and not letting technical enthusiasm blind them is news, not normality.
Re:Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias against women
on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @10:32PM (#18190627)
The media has always been about narratives.
Re:Denmark to ban petrol and diesel car sales by 2030
on Thursday October 04, 2018 @12:38AM (#18137245)
While this is a good thing, it's not nearly sufficient to stop climate catastrophe.
Citation needed. Elon trashed his name well enough on his own.
Elon Musk has evaporated the public's trust in him.
Re:In killing Inbox, Google takes another swipe at its most passionate...
on Saturday September 15, 2018 @08:49PM (#17996794)
That's a poorly phrased warrant canary. Aren't warrant canaries intended to be for FISA-type warrants?
Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ and ‘uploa...
on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @09:34PM (#17975207)
Mom & Pop, by definition, refers to the ownership of the medium. Not how many people work on it.
Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ and ‘uploa...
on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @09:32PM (#17975197)
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.
Re:Google is discontinuing Inbox
on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @09:30PM (#17975188)
Once again Stallman shows that he was right all along.
Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ and ‘uploa...
on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @12:23PM (#17970341)
"Clumsy and ham-fisted way" is a weird way to say "white supremacists".
Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ and ‘uploa...
on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @12:17PM (#17970273)
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.
Re:Former Tesla Firmware Engineer Discusses the System
on Friday August 24, 2018 @08:03PM (#17838729)
Didn't they already do an Over-the-Air update to fix the braking time in response to a bad review?
Re:Former Tesla Firmware Engineer Discusses the System
on Friday August 24, 2018 @08:02PM (#17838727)
AC should be considered mission critical.