likenesstheft

> However the limiting agent in this environment is governments willingness to zone and permit new housing construction.

Yep. So they cause the problem in order to be the ones who conveniently have the solution. One that has the added benefit of keeping them more and more central and overreaching over your lives.

It’s a shell game. A less informed population won’t notice that the political dynasties continue to live luxurious pompous lives off everyone’s backs, and the informed will be too busy in an unfair competition over scraps. Unless there is a huge surplus of housing, college space, and well paying jobs…your leadership is selling you out in a gambit to take in people who will gladly keep voting for them in return for 10% of the typical Canadian lifestyle. You need new leaders who put citizens first, not last.

How come you construe more housing as being a government responsibility? That is strange, especially when your government is causing these issues in the first place. Housing supply normally gets built to satisfy demand. If the regulations are too stifling for construction to be profitable for builders and workers, you won’t have houses. Period. Magic funny money only works for so long before the house of cards comes crashing down.

Interesting that some in Canada respond to the problem by expecting the government to do something all the time. They serve the poison and you want their antidote too? Canada’s leaders are doing a pretty great job of setting the stage for a housing takeover so they can conveniently come up with a solution that makes them more central and more powerful.

Do they overly regulate construction and make it hard to do business?

That’s a lot of people. Where are all those people going to be housed? Where will the resources for their education and gainful employment come from? Is the Canadian job market exploding with a huge amount of well paying jobs such that Canada’s children have multiple options to pick from, or will everyone be competing for scraps?

Labor shortage is such a lie. when they say that they just mean there aren’t enough low-information workers who will work for meager wages in a high taxation environment in a race to the bottom while some political dynasties always skim from the top. I hope you can all muster up the strength to vote in better leaders who put the citizens first.

A culture around frequent calls is toxic. It reeks of insecurity from some people who are afraid of paper trails.

> but some sort of frequent in-person meetups will be hugely valuable for high-ambiguity/collaboration/creative work

This is some vanilla scrum master bull shit, this isn’t how products or code get built.

Brick & mortar bookstores about to make a huge comeback.

Time to cancel my subscription to Microsoft’s online products. Never buying another Windows machine again. Apple or Linux only from here in out. Apple’s software and/or LibreOffice are more than enough.

Gotta find a way to relate the article to tech, it's a tech forum!

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This is why stupidity like Scrum should be abolished in every software shop worldwide. It just wastes time. It is just busy work and busy meetings for nothing and it is one of the most time consuming aspects of a dev job.

Pipe down you surburb dweller! /s

they don’t care because they think they’ll be the ones wielding the power

People are upset that they can't profit off your labor without a license? Those don't sound like open source purists to me. They sound like straight up thieves lol.

Apple didn't want to replace the keyboard on an m1 macbook I have. It was only a couple years old at the time. The guy at the Genius Bar just said no.

What?

no more work soon?

> If your managers can't get with the program, fire them and get replacements with a remote work clue. You'll be glad you did.

Yes. No need for managers or scrum masters.

That's true but what's more simple? Implementing UBI or banning this practice? Right now the latter is more simple and feasible. The former takes more time and investigation into how to do it properly so it scales forever.

If having someone's likeness requires, by Federal law, consent in the form of a licensing agreement where the person receives compensation then that's more okay.

I would still prefer a full ban on this. Maybe it'd be okay if theater or non-CGI film end up becoming their own booming industries owing to people enjoying being together in a place and seeing the limits of modern practical effects. With these deep-fake films and shows being labeled as "CGI" and letting the market decide.

Do you feel the same knowing that a company can steal your thought patterns, keystrokes, likeness in manner of speech and thought and appearance, and build an AI that codes about as good as you or will one day, without giving you a dime or needing you? Effectively cutting off your legs too since you won't even be able to monetize your own likeness anymore since they can just preempt you in that area too, via alterations to the likeness.

It's not just Hollywood extras who are victims here - it's everyone.

This affects everyone. It represents your boss making demands of your likeness for ownership. Some of us already had to politely decline to sign away our likeness and alterations to it for no compensation in return. It's clear what they want to do. They want to just take the likeness of the most beautiful and the most productive. They know every keystroke on company hardware and your general performance patterns, and they want to steal your patterns and thought processes especially if you go full bore and give them 100% all the time as a rockstar. They want you without paying you. The only way against this is Federal legislation making it illegal. The Federal Government should also create steep fines levied against any company that already tried to push this envelope. Awful bosses will never learn otherwise. You cannot pretend to say things about inclusion, equity, diversity, only to then make a move like this. This move signifies attempted ownership of a person's entire being, and some groups have no gall at all and make it clear that they don't even intend to give you any money for it. It is out-in-the-open broad daylight theft while they laugh at the majority of the people who have no power to say or do anything since in these economic times they can just coerce you into doing it because of necessity.

They want your productivity, appearance, style, and abilities and they want to give you nothing. Don't be fooled into a sense of pride because you're an engineer or a designer or a director or an executive or even a CEO - don't be someone who thinks that an extra in Hollywood is far below you and that this doesn't affect you. The technology is the same and will be applied to everyone's likeness unless you say no and unless the Federal Government gets involved to issue laws with serious teeth against this brazen theft.