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They made a mockery of non-profit status and displayed how weak government enforcement of corporations are.

I think "woke" is the wrong word here. I believe most Americans are aware of politicians and the media focusing on culture war divisions and are sick of it.

They realized they could use the government to protect their interests. After years of praising open-source, they also realized that they don't really like competition. Queue up Pe…

Those tax dollars go back to California and country. Amazon does everything in its power to not pay taxes or help society. It really shows little Amazon is taxed at, if at all.

Anti-Chinese comment thrown in there for some reason. Is anyone surprised S. Korea is choosing Samsung's preferred OS, Android?

Until we reverse Reagan's disastrous Trickle-Down Theory(Voodoo Economics), we won't see this changing. Even in the '80s they knew this current world would be the outcome. This isn…

Reaganomics. We should try to slowly go back to a pre-Reagan economic world.

Only thing to truly stop it is by having in-person interviews like we used to do pre-COVID. IMO, online video interviews are the worst, for both sides, and doesn't allow for that c…

Not sure but there seems to be a lot more bots on reddit. Entire threads with hundreds of comments from bots are all around reddit.

Surprised at this. I've seen a lot of people calling Liquid Death, Corporate Water, nowadays.

The internet wouldn't have become as big as it is, if it wasn't for the internet's open source models. The internet has been taken over by Capitalist and have ruined the internet, …

This is a huge problem in the US. Tax-payers are subsidizing a lot of medical advances, then the US government gives it to the private sector, privatizing whatever medical advances…

Are regular people going to be accused of hacking if they do something similar to what NYT did? This is a bad precedent to set moving forward.

California has some strict laws about beach access for everyone and you still see beach-side homeowners trying to fence off the public's access to the beach or putting up illegal s…

I wonder if they'll still do this once Reddit IPOs

I think you're going to see people start leaving Reddit as the IPO approaches and many will be coming to HN or other reddit-clones. Half the comments on Reddit really do seem to be…

I leave up articles for days hoping I'll read them, they pile up in my tabs— wasting so much memory. A lot of pc memory is wasted from just this on my end and I know I'm not the on…

Maybe their lawyers are when it comes to taxes

It's best to view OpenAI as any other private tech company even though they try to appear as a non-profit company in the public's eye.

It's becoming TV. All it needs is a live news & sports section and you'd never need to leave the Netflix app.

It's easier to vote out or force out a corrupt an immoral government overseer. A private corporate overseer cannot be voted out or forced out. Only a CEO or board can decide that. …

SRO sounds like a middle-man in this process. And like all middle-man industries, they suck out money from both sides that they deal with. We can easily publicly fund over-sight co…

I think there would be too many programmers who would be proud to take the jobs of other programmers trying to unionize. There are a lot of anti-unionists and Libertarian minded pr…

This article fails to mention the ultra-wealthy who lobby, donate to super PACs, donate to think-tanks, sponsor biased research studies. It's ignoring the real way most of the ultr…

What about the billionaires/multimillionaires who don't seek any positions but donate to campaigns, PACs, ideological think-tanks. This article would never have the Koch brothers i…