Joe-Z

Maybe finding new ways for the market isn't the best approach. What about publicly shaming the people who profit off of this?

I remember there was a big outrage about Martin Shkreli's actions. Meanwhile the CEOs of these companies probably get lauded in business magazines.

Calling these miserable, greedy, selfish bastards out for what they are could be a first step. God, how I'm hoping for a socialist revolution to take place within my lifetime...

For someone who accuses other people of being crazy you sure sound pretty crazy yourself. Maybe back up your claims with numbers instead of throwing around accusations of censorship and propaganda?

Why? Because they don't have enough users for this to be worth it you mean?

IMO the more simple explanation is they want this data to sell to data aggregators, who can in turn enrich the profile they have on you. There's a similar thing going on with smart TVs, right?

Why do you not just post your reply to his comment as an actual reply to his comment?

Your point is an interesting addition (have you read "The Art of Not Being Governed" by any chance?) but this seems to me to just be for the sake of getting more karma, which I will not support.

The first time I started thinking about it that way was when I bought a book featuring a selection of Banksy's works [0]. In the opening pages it had a quote of him, making pretty much that point:

The public space is ours. It's not their for corporations. It's to be enjoyed by the people and if you want to come in with your hands full of money to make something else of it you can fuck right off. He's a true artist.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Wall-Piece-Banksy/dp/1844137872

Thank you for responding. If I ever get far enough down in my book pile I will let you know :D

Hi! On Wikipedia it says it‘s a trilogy [0], Misspent Youth being the one you didn‘t mention. Would you recommend starting with the 2nd book in the series?

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_F._Hamilton_bibliograp...

Yes, racism exists. That was not GP‘s point though. The point was that enough kids in Japan are victims of racism that it gets listed as one of the top reasons why so many pupils don‘t want to go to school anymore. I also highly doubt that there are so many non-Japanese kids in local japanese schools that this is a major problem.

3rd time I've seen this posted now and never with a source. I'm curious also!

>'who cares nerd, get back to your work'

That's pretty much it. The first time I really understood Snowden was when he was on the Joe Rogan podcast (think of JRE what you will...). It really drove home the point of the profanity* of evil. Just people going about their daily business, not thinking too much about it.

*this doesn't seem to be the correct word here. If you're a native english speaker please tell me what's the right phrase to use here

Here‘s a link to donate for Snowden:

https://edwardsnowden.com/de/donate/

Also I will be downloading an illegal copy of his book today. And I’m not even that big a fan of him.

EDIT: Removed some profanity, sorry

I’ve had these exact same issues for the past 1 1/2 years. This is the time when I switched from a part-time to a full-time job, which often times leaves me utterly exhausted in the evenings and feels like I can never get to a „it‘s done“-point. Boy, am I looking forward to a break over christmas time!

I think the author should do some trimming on this piece. With a little more concise points and a healthier length this piece could be a bombshell. It certainly describes the feelings I‘ve had for a while now very closely. As a European and an Austrian especially the point about our leaders being idiots for copying neo-liberal policy-making rings very true.

I get so irritated whenever this is brought up as an "additional security measure". Like, guys, we just found the source of the bug and put in some code to fix it. If it fails again it shows we haven't understood it completely and should take another look. Not just throw in a random try-catch where the outcome is that if it fails again it's just that some string won't be rendered in the application anymore or whatever. Could take months before anyone notices and we learn that something basic has been broken all along.

Thank you for standing up for confident programming! (We could make this a new term if we wanted to :D)

EDIT: Wait, maybe there's a better term than confident programming already... I would appreciate some input if someone sees this.

Wow! I will try to remember that metaphor when I start to plan going into self-employment (in a year or two). Thank you!

If you find a company that‘s run by robots instead of people you might get what you advocate for

That's like the 1000th ad-targeting article I've read, but the first time to hear this perspective. Absolutely fascinating, thank you!

Here's one question though: If you're the established player in one field and don't really need the online ads other than for staking a claim, would it really influence your sales that much if a competitor takes over that space? Probably just a downturn in number of sales to new customers? (Who presumably haven't heard about the other players in the field and just go with the one that's shown to them in online search results?)

Okay, that's more than one question, but maybe you'd like to elaborate a bit.

I don‘t care how much he donates. My point is exactly that we shouldn‘t have to rely on one wealthy individual for anything. The money should‘ve stayed in big parts with the people that helped build this wealth (i.e. employees) and the ones living in the country which enabled this creation of wealth (i.e. taxes)

Well you know what? Building massive empires while evading taxes, exploiting unregulated markets or down-right not adhering to existing law and then relying on „philanthropy“ to make the world a better place should be disincentivized.

That said Bill & Melinda Gates do seem genuine in their efforts and I think it‘s great what they‘re doing. They just shouldn‘t have been able to obtain such obscene amounts of wealth in the first place.

It is a pretty specific thing and I was very surprised to see it as the top comment.

Are you seriously defending the money-people? Just give us this one moment where noone chimes in to teach us how greed supposedly helped turn savages into society

Doesn‘t sound right, does it?

Even weirder is this re-phrasing: „The more integrated into the global economy you are, the less you need english“

Greetings from Austria!

There I was, ready to be furious and dang strikes yet again with nothing but reason. Thank you for your service!

Nice one HN, by changing the title (to something that is not the title of the actual submission!) you just inverted the meaning of the first sentence of the top comment at the time of writing [0]

If you are going with the second headline why not include the "Tell them no."-part too?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21703750

>Remember pager duty and overtime pay? Doesn't that seem quaint now that many people seem to have accepted that they must make themselves available at all times?

I'm too young to remember, but I have a few years of working experience under my belt now. The amount of people that greenlight everything a supposed authority demands of them just baffles my mind. I'm not even mad if a company tries to maximize their gain on the expertise that I bring to the table. That's just the game: You work for what's in your best interest, I work for mine. But when you push back against a perceived worsening of workplace conditions and the people not supporting you are your colleagues, because they somehow see themselves as being on the same side as the boss... I'm kind of sad about the social achievements people are willfully throwing away in the hopes that they themselves will 'make it' one day

And by the way, this is coming from someone who loves his job and has a good relationship with his boss. Doesn't mean I have to be delusional about what's going to happen when push comes to shove

Okay, I was scrolling through this feed to find some proof that this is a joke account. But they are actually serious, right?

Are there laws in the UK that allow the police to enter your house and steal all your tools? For people who didn't click on the link: It is a picture with literally nothing but tools supposedly found during a "#weaponSweep"

This is fucking dystopian

Do you think the people being filmed would've behaved less aggressively if the camera man had told them that he only keeps footage for a month, doesn't run tracking and ID-ing software on it and only ever re-watches it when there was 'an event'?

Amazing how you got downvotes for that. I was just thinking why some people reacted so aggressively towards the guy filming. And tbh he behaves really annoyingly. If he really wanted to teach people a lesson about constant surveillance this certainly doesn't play in his favour.

But I think it also has to do with the fact that at least with him people actually have someone to be mad about. As opposed to their usual mode of surveillance where they are being filmed by a 'security' camera (hey, it's security people! nevermind if it doesn't actually make anything any safer) operated and owned probably by their boss or someone who they are not on equal grounds with.

It makes me kind of sad.

Then most people are still living in a surveillance dystopia / prison to stick with your analogy

I‘d rather not be in prison than hoping I‘m the chosen one who gets out

Great point! When typing my reply I actually wasn't sure about using 'developed countries' as the term, but it was the one that came to me fastest. In a discussion further down the thread I just called it 'country of origin', maybe using something like that would have been more fitting.