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> Mark "they trust me; dumb fucks" Zuckerberg There's also Mark "company over country" Zuckerberg.

Another point for "Pretty Privilege / Halo Effect"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_privilege

I had to replace a fire alarm last week, so sometimes they do shriek at us at all hours!

Yay capitalism! Imagine how much value is being created for shareholders by this destruction! Another example of "great work" being done! Jokes aside, I don't know what I would do …

>please, you're dramatically overestimating who gives a shit about this. And you're underestimating how much of a shit you need to give about this.

I think it's the kind of work that (for beautiful moment in time) creates a lot of value for shareholders.

It's cheaper for the manufacturer. Not necessarily for the consumer.

All of them. Don't you know you're supposed to make fun of people that a "different" from you? Get with the program already. (/s if it wasn't already clear.)

There is more than enough research. https://thehighwire.com/news/metas-internal-research-proves-... But nothing's going to change as long as we continue pretending that billionaire…

I know it's hard - but I was referring to companies taking tax dollars and not doing anything with it: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/10/att-took-283-mil... >AT&T falsely…

>So the health insurance alone doesn't come close to covering the gap. You're right - I was also including all the other taxes - SS/Medicare/Unemployment/State/city etc. For ex: so…

>You should start that company and guarantee that you will never lay anyone off. Long term does not mean "never". It just means looking beyond the next quarter and/or hiring based …

>I see that it has a size of about 85.5 thousand square miles (and about 2 million people). >I've never understood the value in comparing relatively densely populated European coun…

It's "Do More Evil" now.

>Would you rather they never hire those people? Because that is one option. Yup, and that way those people should be hired by companies who are in it for the long term and not look…

>Now compare your cousin’s yearly salary in Belgium with the average salary of a US employee doing the same job. Take home is about the same after including health insurance and al…

>Do you think those natural resources would have been taken advantage of as well in some other system? Yes. See Norway for example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Pension…

>It was not okay for them, they had to pay one billion dollars. Essentially peanuts compared to what they would have to pay to obtain the rights of everything they pirated.

And then there's this one which always manages to horrify me: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh...

>It did also make me a bit worried about the expected level of driver education... Not just driver, but of the general population. A few decades ago, the general reading level was …

>Although it's a no no to anthropomorphize on HN, it's worth noting that some folks think humans are post-hoc rationalizers as well: There's enough behavioural research to show tha…

>I don't think people are happy to give it over, gullible and naive maybe? Or tricked and bamboozled via dark patterns into giving it over.

For the same reason we allow expat cats into the country.

>I won't color any large entity uniformly bad at all times and aspects. Oh yes, I would color Meta. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_emotional_manipulatio... "Company over co…

About the only "ethical" billionaires (did not exploiting anyone) would be the ones at the end of your list. That would be Taylor Swift, Beyonce, J. K. Rowling, Roger Federer (and …