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They made a mockery of non-profit status and displayed how weak government enforcement of corporations are.

I think "woke" is the wrong word here.

I believe most Americans are aware of politicians and the media focusing on culture war divisions and are sick of it.

They realized they could use the government to protect their interests. After years of praising open-source, they also realized that they don't really like competition. Queue up Peter Thiel's Zero to One and his praising of monopolies.

Competition Is for Losers

Those tax dollars go back to California and country. Amazon does everything in its power to not pay taxes or help society. It really shows little Amazon is taxed at, if at all.

Anti-Chinese comment thrown in there for some reason. Is anyone surprised S. Korea is choosing Samsung's preferred OS, Android?

Until we reverse Reagan's disastrous Trickle-Down Theory(Voodoo Economics), we won't see this changing.

Even in the '80s they knew this current world would be the outcome. This isn't a surprise to the Fed or the Reaganites.

Reaganomics. We should try to slowly go back to a pre-Reagan economic world.

Only thing to truly stop it is by having in-person interviews like we used to do pre-COVID.

IMO, online video interviews are the worst, for both sides, and doesn't allow for that close connection to ever take form.

Not sure but there seems to be a lot more bots on reddit. Entire threads with hundreds of comments from bots are all around reddit.

Surprised at this. I've seen a lot of people calling Liquid Death, Corporate Water, nowadays.

The internet wouldn't have become as big as it is, if it wasn't for the internet's open source models.

The internet has been taken over by Capitalist and have ruined the internet, in my opinion.

This is a huge problem in the US. Tax-payers are subsidizing a lot of medical advances, then the US government gives it to the private sector, privatizing whatever medical advances were paid by tax-dollars.

Socialism seems to create a lot of markets for the Capitalist private sector.

Are regular people going to be accused of hacking if they do something similar to what NYT did? This is a bad precedent to set moving forward.

California has some strict laws about beach access for everyone and you still see beach-side homeowners trying to fence off the public's access to the beach or putting up illegal signs that say "Private Property, No Beach Access" or something like that

I wonder if they'll still do this once Reddit IPOs

I think you're going to see people start leaving Reddit as the IPO approaches and many will be coming to HN or other reddit-clones.

Half the comments on Reddit really do seem to be made by bots, you can easily tell when you look at their post history.

I leave up articles for days hoping I'll read them, they pile up in my tabs— wasting so much memory. A lot of pc memory is wasted from just this on my end and I know I'm not the only one.

It's interesting to think about how much wasted energy comes from tabs you're leaving open, hoping you'll get back to them one day.

Maybe their lawyers are when it comes to taxes

It's best to view OpenAI as any other private tech company even though they try to appear as a non-profit company in the public's eye.

It's becoming TV. All it needs is a live news & sports section and you'd never need to leave the Netflix app.

It's easier to vote out or force out a corrupt an immoral government overseer.

A private corporate overseer cannot be voted out or forced out. Only a CEO or board can decide that. It's undemocratic.

The public has an actual voice in government while having absolutely no voice in a private corporation.

SRO sounds like a middle-man in this process. And like all middle-man industries, they suck out money from both sides that they deal with.

We can easily publicly fund over-sight committees to oversee these industries instead of relying on SROs who take tax-payer money and are in the perfect financial and power position to do some really corrupt and immoral things.

Look at the National Association of Realtors, another SRO— On October 31, 2023, a federal civil jury found that the NAR had conspired to inflate commissions paid to home-buyers' real estate agents, and determined that NAR and its codefendants owed damages of almost US$1,800,000,000.

Zillow and NAR have anti-trust lawsuits coming their way too. Relying on SROs is just asking for corruption, imo.

I think there would be too many programmers who would be proud to take the jobs of other programmers trying to unionize.

There are a lot of anti-unionists and Libertarian minded programmers in the US.

This article fails to mention the ultra-wealthy who lobby, donate to super PACs, donate to think-tanks, sponsor biased research studies.

It's ignoring the real way most of the ultra-wealthy use their wealth to influence politics, on a local level or national level.

What about the billionaires/multimillionaires who don't seek any positions but donate to campaigns, PACs, ideological think-tanks.

This article would never have the Koch brothers in their study because, technically, they never sought to be in office, even though we know they donate billions of dollars to their think-tanks and super PACs.

Indie game devs are extremely passionate about their work and art. They don't really think about the financials or how many man-hours they're investing into their project since they're doing it out of passion and love for their vision and game.

They're like artists and it's best to think of them like this. And artists can be idealistic and stubborn about their work and vision.

Marketing, finance, target audience, time investment, scope of work— These are after thoughts to indie devs.

Tech workers have desperately needed a union for years now.

And now look at how many well paid tech workers are being laid off or fired and now tech companies are re-hiring the same tech workers at a lower wage or as a contract worker with no benefits.

"Tech salaries dropped 3 percent year over year, from $161,000 to $156,000. Adjusted for inflation, salaries decreased 9 percent, from $141,000 in 2022 to $129,000 in mid-202"

In 6 months they've already managed to depress tech wages by almost 10%

It's sad to think that being a W2 employee is becoming a real perk. A privledge that only the best connected techies seem to get.

We're at the very beginning of this 'Hype Cycle'

    -Innovation Trigger: A potential technology breakthrough kicks things off. Early proof-of-concept stories and media interest trigger significant publicity. Often no usable products exist and commercial viability is unproven.
    -Peak of Inflated Expectations: Early publicity produces a number of success stories — often accompanied by scores of failures. Some companies take action; many do not.
    -Trough of Disillusionment: Interest wanes as experiments and implementations fail to deliver. Producers of the technology shake out or fail. Investments continue only if the surviving providers improve their products to the satisfaction of early adopters.
    -Slope of Enlightenment: More instances of how the technology can benefit the enterprise start to crystallize and become more widely understood. Second- and third-generation products appear from technology providers. More enterprises fund pilots; conservative companies remain cautious.
    -Plateau of Productivity: Mainstream adoption starts to take off. Criteria for assessing provider viability are more clearly defined. The technology's broad market applicability and relevance are clearly paying off.

Good video about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB1RDz9jaj0

100% an AI generated response.

searx needs a shout out

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Searx https://github.com/searx/searx