can you really copyright your comments?
By default, everything you write, from a novel to an Internet forum shitpost, is not only copyrighted by you but also “all rights reserved.”
What that guy is doing is (a) making his writings more available for reuse than they would be otherwise, and (b) making a point about how fucked-up it is that corporations treat stuff posted to social media as if it were a free-for-all they could use however they want.
Andreessen had fuck-all to do with Firefox. He had worked on Netscape Navigator (which changed names several times over the years and is now known as SeaMonkey), but he had left Mozilla years before Firefox, which was a from-scratch rewrite, became a thing.
In that regard – writing shit code that was best thrown out – him and Eich (the fucker who inflicted Javascript on the world) are quite similar.
Finally somebody other than me says it!
I’m pretty skeptical about the notion of being able to time the market in general, so changing my asset balance at all based on external factors (i.e. not my age-based glide path or whatever) takes some pretty extraordinary circumstances re: systematic and sovereign risk. Frankly, weird stuff like gold and options have been outside my scope of contemplation up to this point. Maybe I should revisit that.
Anyway, concretely, what I did was just exchange a bunch of VTSAX for VTIAX. I don’t know what the country breakdown of VTIAX is, and I honestly don’t want to care (although I acknowledge I may be forced to, at some point).
If the co-op is purely doing contract work and the contract ends, how are they able to continue to pay workers on the bench?
I think this is the buried lede. How much is income reduced to tech workers vs traditional employers? Without strong social safety nets in the country a co-op with a much lower salary may not be a viable option because unemployment would leave the former workers without resources to live on.
I feel like the answers to these would be related. One answer could be that the organization maintains a large fund to act as a buffer to maintain salaries between contracts instead of operating “paycheck-to-paycheck.” An even simpler answer could be that the co-op chooses to take on a large number of small contracts instead of a small number of large ones, such that the revenue is relatively consistent to begin with.
They also flow from corruption (regulatory capture/failure to enforce anti-trust and other consumer-protection law). It’s hard to say whether that is itself a cause or result of wealth inequality, though.
As per the sidebar, this community is:
A place to discuss problems of car centric infrastructure
Ads in infotainment systems aren’t “infrastructure,” and enshittification of consumer electronics doesn’t really have much to do with car-centricity. It pains me to say it, since opposing advertising and proprietary software are also issues near and dear to my heart, but this thread is off topic. I’m going to exercise my blatant hypocrisy “moderator discretion” and choose not to remove it, but please try to hew a little closer to the community’s stated purpose in the future.
To reiterate: I very much do think this is an important issue to discuss. I just think that discussion is better had somewhere like !enshittification@lemmy.world, or a more generic technology or automotive community.
I just massively shifted my retirement accounts from being ~80%/20% US/international stocks to more like 50/50. I’m increasingly doubting myself and thinking I ought to shift the ratio even more.
Some of the graphs are useful, but the message that site is pushing is weird gold-bug propaganda.
What do you mean, “soon?” There’s an entire fucking Wiki article about the “sharing” that’s already happened!
They’d still rather stay silent than break with Trump and ally with leftists. To be really fair, they deserve no fucking credit whatsoever.
You’re speaking in the wrong verb tense there, buddy.
It’s a version control system, not social media!
I get that you’re explaining it, not endorsing it, and so this criticism isn’t directed at you, but the notion that people would pick Github over Gitlab or Codeburg because of the bandwagon effect is just dumb and weird.
I don’t know about medical professionals, but Professional Engineers do, in fact, often get reimbursed by their company for the cost of earning their PDH credits.
if that happens, people should migrate
Or better yet, they should just go ahead and do so right now. What’s the point of picking Github over the other better alternatives anyway?
INB4 Trump/Musk/RFK notice that “naloxone distribution” is a thing and abolish it, so fentanyl overdose deaths start going up instead of down.
No, he’s right. Russia was doomed to lose to Ukraine, let alone the EU, until the US switched sides.
If Europe and the US want to both be able to defend their respective backyards against imperialism
Why are you still talking like the US and EU are allies? The EU needs to defend against US imperialism.
The secret ingredient is crime. The casinos were fronts for money laundering and “failed” on purpose as part of the scam.