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Fair enough, it is very frustrating to see the industry i am a part of be so...sociopathic.

HN is an ideological battle whether you like it or not, dang. Especially political threads like this one. Expressing views outside of the techno-libertarian norm around here should…

> Care to elaborate? Many of us held minimum wage positions for some period of time before gathering the skills / tools / time to move on to something better. So did I, but I don't…

Capitalism is a system created by humans, presumably for the benefit of humans. If it doesn't do a very good job of making the lives of humans better then it could be considered a …

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Then capitalism has failed humanity.

I believe the person you're replying to may have been referring to themselves (look at their post history). That said I think you're giving SV a lot of credit if you're framing the…

LOL this is such a typical HN reply. "Just get room mates". Come on, the solution is to pay people so they can live a decent life and have a family if they want to.

Good.

The comment this person was replying to seems to be saying exactly that....

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They're occasionally the largest company in the world, headed by the richest man in the world. I'm sure they can find the money somewhere to pay their employees a decent wage.

> If these workers succeed in unionizing, it will only just accelerate Amazon's quest to replace MOST of these workers with robots. I'm sure they've thought this through more than …

> A simple fact is that all 7 billion people can't live like upper middle class Americans, it's impossible. Why not have one place in the world that a huge number of people sit at …

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i wish they would launch gpu instances :(

https://github.com/jlaine/aiortc may be a better option than janus. It's a much simpler to use implementation and is python. quick summary of the acronyms... STUN/TURN/ICE are all …

I assume the statute of limitations has passed for the OSHA suit here

The massive amount of money basically sits in an investment account and generates dividends to live off of. That's what people are talking about. In order to have a salary they're …

they changed it this year didn't they? Weren't people making jokes that now firefox is square and chrome is round?

Nice site. This isn't the first visa site like it i've seen, but they all focus on travel visas it seems. I suppose that's the low-hanging fruit. What would be interesting to see a…

diversify into what exactly? The entire cryptocurrency ecosystem seems highly correlated. Take a look at coinmarketcap.com, the charts are essentially the same for nearly all the l…

my cat likes to pretend like he enjoys going outside, then when he gets outside he flops around for about 10 minutes and then goes back inside.

Interesting, thanks for the link! I'm strongly considering doing this for my next project and all the information I can get is helpful.

Aardman Animation becoming a coop has captured my imagination. I am very curious how well it could work in the context of a tech company.