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"Bourgeois" is not defined by how much you make per year. It's defined by your relationship to the means of production.
Anyone getting paid 100k+ is also getting stock options.
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That's somewhat unfair. Facebook doesn't give you (and people around you) cancer.
Facebook doesn't cause cancer of course, but there's no shortage of evidence that it harms some of its users, as well as contributing to social phenomena that harm non-users. The Rohingya genocide is a prominent example. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_content_management_...
https://www.apa.org/monitor/2022/03/feature-minimize-instagr...
My first job was for a sketchy knock off autoparts company that was a glorified drop shipper. I built a dozen websites and a database of a few million rows. I was proud of it at the time. Then I started reading customer support emails, took a few phone calls from disgruntled customers, and it turns out the company was just cycling cash. Would charge 100 orders and float the cash as it trickled out refunds. I ended up…
Was that just a very high return rate or an outright scam? If the latter how could they sell for anything?
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What was the requirement? My apartment building has lights in the hallways that are only on when needed, but they just use a basic infrared sensor.
* Minimize BOM cost. Only 1 in N lights would actually have the full sensor complement, so they needed to communicate. * Minimize installation cost. They just wanted to plug into a light socket, not run network cabling. * Push data logs to a central server. They didn't want to send a tech physically to each lightbulb to get data for e.g. energy usage certifications. plus other obvious requirements. All of that made i…
PIRs are cheap and last basically the lifetime of the hotel. I would need to see some actual data to believe this whole project didn't actually cost more than installing a bunch of PIR lamps.
Moving Murfie to Pine Bluff has been a disaster. The entire situation has been bad for Murfie users and myself. I'm coming up on 3 years now with very minimal progress on returning media to users and getting the site fully operational. There are a lot of places where in hindsight I could have made better decisions. At every point the best course seemed to stand out, only to sour with unexpected obstacles. At first I…
I built a distraction free writing app in 2012 to help me write, and it has been the single greatest distraction of all. it was successful, becoming the number one writing app on Windows store for years. I now have thousands of users, and it makes a tiny bit of money each month, and supporting and fixing bugs takes up most of my spare time. I have to date not managed to finish more than a sketchy first draft of a nov…
Interesting that most posts here have to do with monitoring or surveillance of others. Privacy is important...
I doubt the one who put the 737-max into a dive, the one who but the A400 into reverse, the one causing the Toyota runaways, and similar cases are going to post.
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Pretty sad that you feel the need to rub salt into a wound.
Nah I don't think that's what I did. As another commenter said maybe that's how it came out (sorry), but not the intention.