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Some jobs just rely on attracting and retaining people with no boundaries and no ability to set them. Startups are great at this. They foster a sense of community between the worke…

Broken clock.

Businesses have gotten larger and more powerful than the governments that are supposed to regulate them. Moreover, infested the relevant regulatory agencies.

I don't understand; isn't this literally the point of running a free service? Harvesting data and using it for marketing purposes?

Fair enough, but there may be a small middle ground between "guaranteeing a return" and "never made a dime in profit and in fact is burning through millions or billions of dollars …

>We have incurred net losses in all periods since we began operations and we expect we will continue to incur net losses for the foreseeable future. The admission that "we've never…

Why would a marketing and analytics company shut down a service that gives them full text transcripts of all of your phone calls? They may as well stop parsing your email for infor…

>namely, genocide, a role in putting a fascist, white supremacist in the White House A lot of people stopped reading the article right there. Writers like this only reach a certain…

>After the election to the presidency a few months later of a white supremacist This is why skimming is important. It gives you a rough idea of what the author's voice, style, and …

> That parcs and rec meme is awesome! >They won the Internet! I thought this place was supposed to be better than that.

Disheartening. I grew up with absentee parents. This is an unwelcome spin on that situation. I can't even give an opinion on this that doesn't immediately fly into rage. I just hop…

Tech jobs are paying insane rates. If you need to work at one of the top five tech giants in order to manage your debt then your story must be a catastrophic one.

You shouldn't be building anything that relies on a google service unless A) Google would die without that service B) You're just fucking around and what your building could burn t…

It's definitely like that on the internet; a lot of people on both sides of the US political spectrum seem to think there are two problems: 1 - Their chosen political party is not …

>We're not going to delete it but we're going to algorithmically prevent discovery Tech monoliths like facebook, google, and twitter are starting to show very obvious political bia…

>We're not going to delete it but we're going to algorithmically prevent discovery Tech monoliths like facebook, google, and twitter are starting to show very obvious political bia…

Are people really interested in working for facebook in this climate?

>If these drivers get everything they want, I cannot imagine a scenario where fares do not go through the roof, which will likely lead to a decrease in demand, which will have a ne…

Is this another one of those companies whose S1 says "We're not profitable and may never be"? Why is that the right time to go public? Once the company has an obligation to move to…

It's dark, but you can manipulate and abuse people into staying through pretty much anything. See abusive relationships or this handy article http://www.issendai.com/psychology/sic…

>A successful society is not just a rampant pursuit of economics and profits at the expense of everything else. Right, but people are incentivized by the profit motive and generall…

We could have a small handful of new great games from valve and an unknown number of crappy ones, or we could have steam. Steam provides more value to me on an order of magnitude t…

>When there are cars parked in between the cycle lane and the car lane it's much easier for the driver to miss the cyclist, and few people check the cycle lane before turning right…

It's mildly interesting that ethics are flexible depending on the target, but from a technical standpoint this project is not interesting. The code just builds a proxy list, genera…

I work in QA and don't like the reduced focus on quality (selfishly, because I've got the skillset to get paid by assuring quality). The article shows a graph that indicates that, …