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The point is that it's not law everywhere, and never will be.

At some point, the minimum wage will price unskilled labor completely out of the market. Companies now have 5 years to start automating these positions.

The Internet made this possible. So many people love using adblock and sharing files for free.. and the same tactics are being used to outsource labor... and now government intervention is a good thing.

Just AAron Swartz it: don't follow the license at all and do what you want.

I disagree. They won't get bought because VC will stay away from these companies.

the dot.com bust in ~2000 had lots of dead unicorns. Web van is a good example. It can and will happen again.

"Uh, yeah. I was almost arrested for installing VNC on the school computers..."

Exactly. During my time, white kids were being kicked out of school for wearing trench coats (and getting their lockers searched). But race was never brought into it..and people don't really care because it didn't get you attention.

The issue isn't really sexism or racism. The issue is that many people don't really realize how abusive some groups of people really are....to everyone.

Back when computer science was an esoteric subject only studied by your stereotypical neck beard, most developers I met in college were not really interested in helping beginners, regardless of your race or gender. If you did ask a stupid question, it was often met with a condescending response and arrogant attitude.

The Internet made it better, because you could learn so much information, without having to deal with the crap.

Only now, that computer science is cool and anyone and everyone is trying to get into it for a high paying job, does the mainstream see the same issues that have been going on for decades.

It should piss anyone off that went through them years ago and nobody would listen..because they weren't one of the magical genders or races that instantly gets you sympathy.

On a side note, why aren't we going after the fashion industry? It's equally as abusive and if you are a heterosexual man? You will be pushed out pretty quickly.

Nobody truly wants true equality, they just want retribution for perceived injustices and the power to abuse others without any consequences. It's pretty evident from all these discussions.

"The fees being charged are publisher fees, absolutely ridiculous fees for a minimal service that is completely obsolete in the internet age, hampers collaboration and the flow of information, slows down science, prevents underprivileged persons from accessing the research that is in the vast majority of cases publicly funded"

So we should be able to do whatever we want when we don't agree with a law? this is between publishers and researchers.

"and serves only to give money to these publishers, of which absolutely 0% goes to the researchers themselves."

This sounds like the 'all music should be shared and free' argument all over again. The last decade of Napster and Torrents have pretty much destroyed any chances of an Indy musician to make a living without the sponsorship of a big corporation.

It essentially pushed all of the Indy artists out. They actually had a chance to make a living with music before file sharing became part of our culture (and the belief that bits on a computer should somehow be free since it takes nothing to copy them).

The irony is that the exact same thing is happening with job outsourcing and now those same people are clamoring for government intervention. We somehow need to stop the free flow of information when it directly affects your job.

I worked in academia in a different life and nearly all research is conducted in some part by private entities pumping money into the University.

This won't have the desired effect and will essentially make research even more private.

I don't believe the GNU is a truly free license. If I decided to take software, use it in a proprietary app, and then sell it with no source, I would be taken to court (and people here on HN would want me sued out of existence (I've seen it many times already)).

Should I have a right to do this? Because this is exactly what is going on here. A copyright license is being broken and you believe it's justified.

Exactly. I used to work with a government contracting company. The simplest piece of software took many thousands of dollars in lawyer fees and compliancy.

A beginner dev could build many simple web applications in a day. However, it will probably have security holes and spaghetti code.

This is all about violating a license/copyright law. If we were talking about a large company using GNU/copyleft code and not sharing their changes back to the community, many people in the community would be demanding the law get involved (the Thesis Wordpress theme is a great example of this..which caused anger and outright hatred about 5 years ago in the HN community).

It's really difficult for me to stand behind any community that doesn't put all licenses on an equal footing. If you want the government to stop going after you for copyright infringement, you shouldn't be then using those same tactics to go after people violating the terms of your license.

This girl, Like Aaron Swartz, is nothing but a petty thief. It's pretty easy to put up a website with stolen papers/content.

The other issue is that it takes millions of dollars to fund the research for many of these papers. With no incentive to make money on the research, companies will either stop the research, or it will go completely private and there will be no access for anyone.

Many of these online revolutionaries really seem to understand how the world actually works. If you want to change it, start a research company and actually do the research yourself.

Not all workplaces have an open office space. The answer is to find another job and make sure it has something will work for you.

It sounds almost like the communes in the late 60s and early 70s, minus the sex.

I ran a meetup for around 5 years. Having many random people and different personalities come into the group caused lots of drama and issues.

It's kind of a microcosm for life. You have most people that simply want to go with the flow and be part of the group and a select few amount of people that constantly battle for dominance and are extremely aggressive (most of which had to be forcibly kicked out).

These problems will be amplified since everyone is sleeping in the same area.

I don't think I would ever want to be part of this pod-based community. Personally, it sounds like a nightmare.

your approach would devolve into basically a bartering system of labor for goods. Something we had many centuries before currency exchange.

I think our current system is still better.

The genie is out of the bottle. We created a cheap and easy way to communicate with anyone in the world, which also means an easy way to reach inexpensive labor markets.

There isn't really anything we can do about it. Creating all the laws in the world will only ensure the mass exodus of companies that want to compete globally.

Workers need to give a company a reason to hire them.

I disagree. My wife was home schooled and has huge gaps in history, science, math, and English. Most of which I learned in public schools.

While the public schools in the US need some work, many of the people I talked to that 'didn't learn anything' didn't want to put the time and effort into actually learning.

Instead, time was spent on complaining about the system.

When I was in high school in the US 20 years ago, it was 8:00am to 3:15pm.

This seems pretty reasonable to me.

If you terrorize the world long enough, like many of the groups in the middle east, you will get people that just want to give you what you want, in an attempt to make it go away. Others will even blame themselves: "Maybe I did something wrong. Why would they bomb my cities unless we did something to them??"

Terrorism seems to work most of the time. Quebec,Canada is a good example of this. In the 70s, there was a separatist group that set off hundreds of bombs and even kidnapped the vice chairman at the time (and ended up killing him). This was mostly because they didn't feel they should be forced to learn English and wanted the French culture and language to dominate.

Fast forward a few decades and the roles are reversed. French is required everywhere in Quebec and businesses basically have to communicate all in French and are subjected to massive fines if their signs are not in French (and it has to culturally make sense).

The separatists have won and it had nothing to do with equality. They wanted their culture to dominate and have the power..and now it does..all through the power of terrorist activities.

It even happened much earlier with groups like the Vikings. They were never really defeated. They stole, raped, and pillaged across the world, and countries gave them what the wanted and they even ruled entire nations.

Eventually, their children's children didn't want to lose wealth or power and didn't continue the violent ways of their ancestors.

To stop them, the world had to give them wealth and power...while they murdered the innocent. I guess it worked, but many innocent people had to die along the way.

If we listened to people like you, terrorist groups in the middle east would continue to conquer that part of the world and gain more and more power until we have no way to stop it.

I am shocked sometimes to see empathy here for anyone that would execute you by cutting your head off, stone women and homosexuals, and rule a nation with an archaic religion.

Especially since many here can't even tolerate humane corporal punishment in the US or a simple bible verse spoken in a public school.

"Netflix critics acknowledge that the FCC's net neutrality or "Open Internet" rules apply only to Internet service providers and not content providers like Netflix. "

What's to stop companies like Netflix from making deals with service providers to essentially get around Net Neutrality? There isn't any real way to stop this, because it is their content and should have full control over the streaming of it.

As a side note, Net Neutrality supports really don't seem to understand the laws they worked so hard to get passed.

This mentality is how you will succeed. Should you be working 40 hours outside of work forever? No. But, it may be required to push your product/idea to the marketplace.

I did the same thing for about a year before I finally quit my day job. I haven't work those kind of hours for many years.

If you aren't willing to sacrifice your free time, you probably won't succeed as a business owner and you are better off just working a regular job.

"The bad actor is the individual who acts bad. The Post Office is not a bad actor for delivering letters."

If they actively ignored death threats/didn't send them off to the police when it came to their attention, they become responsible.

"The costs of bad actors are your costs."

Cloudflare is sick and tired of getting attacked by people from the TOR network. I don't blame them for the ban. It's costing them money..and TOR isn't going to raise the funds to pay them for the lost bandwidth and customer revenue.

We used to have a bigger problem with mail spam because server operators constantly would leave anonymous relaying open. How did we stop a great deal of it? By blacklisting the IP until the problem is fixed. It has worked out pretty well.

"And you should realize that in doing it you're knowingly hurting innocent people."

I guess we have to determine which 'innocent' people are more important: The ones getting their websites attacked and hacked anonymously, the people that can't access those websites because they are down/DOS attacked, or the random people that want to use the TOR network.

While will be bad for workers in the short-term, I think it's better for everyone in the long-term.

Companies that have a solid business model won't be folding every 6 months and workers will have more stable employment.

It doesn't really matter anymore.

The Internet has made it so pretty much anyone can get their voice heard. A popular twitter hastag or a viral video can change public opinion.

I freelanced while living in Asia in my late 20s. I usually had 3-6 month contracts and at the end of a contract, had to find my next gig.

You are basically running your own small business: taxes, marketing (finding gigs), health insurance, and the uncertainty of finding your next pay check are all things you now need to worry about.

Most people don't want this. They want to come into work, focus on their job, and collect a paycheck.

The "gig" economy is just a fad. Companies love it because they don't have to pay for a full-time employee.

The problem is that the majority of people don't work this way. It's difficult for a business to have meetings when a portion of the staff has decided to come in around noon and the other portion comes in at 9am.

You can try switching meetings around, but there is only so much time in the day.

Update: I was pretty rational with this discussion and it was still down voted. Either: 1) I have people following me and down voting the majority of my posts (which I suspect is happening to some degree) or 2) HN users aren't realistic.

"those heavily reliant on the state, like oil, gas and mining, gambling, or forestry, and industries that involve a lot of imperfect information and market failures, like finance, IT, and the music and fashion industry."

So NONE of the billionaires in those industries create any value? I just don't agree.

How about the hundreds of thousands of people that are now employed as a result of this 'rent-seeking' behavior?

We were told that this never happens. This is why ID isn't required. Right?

I will be interested to see the results of this.

Especially when we live in a world where even looking at someone the wrong way constitutes 'harassment'.

Many more hetro men would love a chance to see more women and don't really care if they see their unmentionables.

Women? Not so much. I'm all for equality, but this seems a bit extreme.

I saved myself at one company for almost two years, because nobody could do my job. I was the only developer and I ran their entire e-commerce store. Pretty much every department was slowly let go and for the last year, I moved all of their systems from an expensive and bloated shipping system and our own hosted/custom cart to Excel and a $100/month hosted e-commerce platform.

At this point, they didn't need me anymore and I was let go (which I knew was going to happen, but I enjoyed the relatively easy paycheck).

I also used that extra free time during work to start the company I am still running today.

Your post has no basis in reality. Stop believing the media. It just makes you look foolish.

When peoplw talk about solving equality, it usually involves taking away from the wealthy and giving to the poor.

Rather than the more difficult task of educating the poor to create their own wealth.

We should be striving for equality of opoortunities, not outcomes.

Why is someone not surviving surgery? Do they have a poor diet, which contributes to riskier health situations?

Why will they be killed by the police? Are they threatening someone or do they look like they will?

All of the things you listed come down to attitude and personal choice.

"However, our appeals to Amazon affiliate program administrators (associates@amazon.com) and even Jeff Bezos (jeff@amazon.com) were either ignored or answered incompletely, leaving us wondering if anyone was listening. "

This is pretty standard for Amazon marketplace seller services. They take a 16%+ cut of all of your sales and have absolutely nobody to help you when your account is banned or disabled by one of their auto bots.

This happened to a client of mine a few years back. Near 100% feedback, complying with every rule, and one day they get the ban hammer (for a claim that was later withdrawn by the original person that filed it).

Amazon withheld $50,000 for over 3 months while they were 'investigating'. After 3 emails where Amazon responded with canned responses, they said the matter was 'closed' and all future emails would not be answered.

Do NOT do business with Amazon. You will end up sorry and probably without a business. As as an associate or marketplace seller, they own all of your clients and you are responsibly for anything bad that happens. When you get kicked, they have all of your data, your clients, and your money for 90 days.

On top of this, they compete with their own marketplace sellers (unlike Ebay) and use all of your sales information to undercut you. I witnessed it many times with the above client.

This should be against the law. I think the only reason they haven't been sued out of existence is because their so big.

"I got rejected by both Facebook and Google this week after 1st round and it has been quite a downer on my confidence"

I'm self-employed now, but when I was looking for jobs, I was rejected multiple times (before finally finding a job). I tried to learn as much as I could from the situation and I moved onto the next interview. Sometimes, it's just not a good fit or they were looking for someone with a different skill set.

All of these successful people that are 5 years younger than you probably got rejected multiple times before getting a job. They will never tell you this and you only see the success.

It reminds me of many photographers' portfolios: You might see 100 beautiful, perfect, pictures. But, you don't see the 1000 terrible shots it took to get them.

"It has been at least a month I have been looking for new job but still nothing."

Try to get busy with something. Work on an open source project while you are looking. I'm not sure why, but I've always found my best jobs while I wasn't thinking about getting a job all the time. It might have to do with subtle signs or body language...or maybe I'm just more comfortable.

"So far life has been really really brutal for me"

Welcome to life. It sucks..but you sound like you are on the right path.

"dating"

Dating will always be tough. I dated around for 5 years before finding my wife. I have found that it's very similar to finding a job: When I'm not concentrating on looking for a date, I end up finding one.

My wife and I met through a meetup group. It had nothing to do with dating, just a mutual interest.