patwolfe

I think you are vastly underestimating the complexity and inefficiency of doing this for one of the most visited websites in the world.

I think it’s a bit of a disingenuous example because Hasan has enjoyed TREMENDOUS success since then as well. Like, I think he got a few day ban (which is nothing long-term if you already have a following) and is now a top streamer in terms of subscribers and viewership.

I'd say the current biggest problem is that the highest earners simply do not pay much in taxes through loopholes and avoidance, not that taxes need to be increased across the board.

EDIT: the_gastropod's comment also under this parent is a great short summary of this issue. I second their recommendation of "Capital in the 21st Century"

Agreed - I think skepticism is usually warranted, and there are unions that are very active in doing "union things" in America that do more harm than good to the working class. I just took issue with the "slactivism" complaint specifically, because by starting the union the employees involved put themselves at risk of being fired. To me, continuing to call that slactivism is moving the goalposts to an unfair degree.

I think once they got to the point of forming an actual union (which, at Google, has a historical risk to job security) the "slactivism" potshots became inarguably unwarranted.

Yup, when there is nothing a company can do in a situation to avoid anti-trust regulation, that is a pretty good indication anti-trust regulation should have already happened.

Yeah, isn't the reason they are suing that the lawsuits have caused long-term damage... not sure what the above poster was getting at with their comment.

Do you have a source for the claim that 75% of Democrats didn't trust the 2016 election? While I've read reports about frustration with the electoral college among Hilary voters and a fear of election interference from foreign nations, I haven't read much about that level of suspicion of ballot-level fraud. I would push back on the idea that those concerns (which I don't feel qualified to speak on that true validity of) are equivalent to the idea pushed by Donald Trump that there was a scheme to legitimately steal the election, as in to produce a situation where the votes cast do not determine the winner.

Yeah this is simply not true, the median American did not vote for a Republican senator.

Agreed. It feels like there is a lot of tone policing that happens around the way women and people of color talk about these issues (especially with regard to their Twitter posts) which is pretty disappointing.

Agree that the root cause here is not Amazon, it's a system (unregulated capitalism) that incentives this behavior. I think it's still fair to criticize actors in such a system, especially if such criticism is done with the context that these companies and their bad actions are the product of that system and that it would be positive for most of the workforce for that system to be better regulated.

Really disappointing to see the "Well, what did you expect?" comments already. Just because companies have been trying to prevent organization of their labor for over a century doesn't mean it isn't still messed up now. It's easy to say that it's just the way the world works from your desk, the people who are forced to work in Amazon's warehouses with terrible working conditions don't have that luxury.

I believe you rent a day to buy in, but that’s a day of CPU usage measured by clock time. So it expires based on your usage, not 24 hours later.

This seems misleading. If you needed to use anywhere close to 24 hours of cpu computation per day, wouldn’t you not use a cloud provider? And most tenants will only use a fraction of that per day, so 77 days of CPU usage could take years to use.

I think the truth is these topics are ones people have a lot of personal investment in and as a result aren't able to objectively reason about very well. Betting markets on the night of the election reflect this as well.