The longer Uber can continue to operate at a loss, the more legitimate competitors they can drive out of business.
It's almost impossible for legitimate businesses, constrained to make a regular profit, to compete against VC-owned companies. The latter are financed indirectly by fedgov's "quantitative easing" program, wherein the gubmint gives billions of dollars of free money to well-connected oligarchs.
Or decent upstanding patriots could just rip the cameras off their poles and smash them with bats, thereby restoring a small degree of freedom to the area.
Oh, I know, I know. But muh private property! But muh rule of lawyers!
Am I the only one who thinks this is super awesome? The surveillance state is incompatible with a free society and deeply unamerican. All failures for the Stasi are wins for the American people.
Isn't widespread unemployment and the resulting destitution fundamentally a symptom of dysfunctional economic management? I don't buy the narrative that there are just "too many people".
Can we really claim there is no useful work that needs done? Surely the country has not reached some state of infrastructural and cultural perfection where that would be plausible.
Also.. there are way too many PhDs doing menial work in call centers etc for me to accept we have any serious skills deficit. We all know many people were pushed out of the software industry, while the media was loudly bleating about a shortage of developers. The official economic narratives seem like increasingly obvious lies.
Guest workers depress wages for citizens and retard national economic development. Because they have no intention or ability to stay long term, they effectively *live* in their home country's economy while *working* in America. They are not villains, but they are unwelcome guests.
I do support making it very easy to become a citizen, on the condition one renounces citizenship in their former country. My Irish ancestors benefited from an easy citizenship policy when fleeing the famine. They were unskilled laborers who today might be derided as refugees. They certainly wouldn't have passed any elitist vetting regime. Yet they and millions of immigrants like them built this country. Immigrants were the bedrock of America's now-lost prosperity.
Right now we have our immigration policy ass-backwards. We make legitimate immigrants - who want to start a new life and BE Americans - jump through insane hoops. While importing millions of low wage workers who have no chance of becoming Americans and contributing to the nation. Pathetic.
From their website: "Priorities USA is a voter-centric progressive advocacy organization and service center for the grassroots progressive movement."
Any time you see an organization self-describe as "grassroots", you know they are funded by oligarchs and advocate policies that are harmful to working people.
Zuckerberg is a cartoonish villain. He's one of the few people in America who's more widely hated than Hillary Clinton. The only way he can win an election is through outright fraud.
I've lost confidence in Ubuntu. Canonical seems increasingly user-hostile. And in my subjective opinion - reinforced by this story - their technical quality has been declining for a while.
So what's the alternative?
My Docker containers are already based on Alpine, and running atop ECS, which is based on Amazon Linux. But I still need cloud VMs and bare metal servers. One thing I really appreciate about Ubuntu it's the ease of running the same OS on my servers and on my Thinkpad laptop.
*BSD is out because afaik it cannot run Docker. No, I'm not fucking giving up my containers. They are incredibly useful for my job.
Mint is for dopes.
Slackware was fun 20 years ago when I was just learning. Seems like it would be an incredible pain to use it for production work.
CentOS and Fedora have always been a little unpleasant to work with. But maybe worth another look.
I've never actually tried Alpine outside a container. So it's a possibility I guess.
Serious question for people who have abandoned Ubuntu: What did you switch to? Was it worth the hassle?
There is NO social "safety net" in America. Trust me - been there, done that, thank God I survived.
There are plenty of long-term welfare dependency programs, don't get me wrong. But there's basically NOTHING for a normal productive worker who's temporarily down on his luck.
Don't believe me? Try it sometime! You'll be unpleasantly surprised.
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I've never heard of fair.com. But based on their name I can only assume they're in the business of cheating people.
The longer Uber can continue to operate at a loss, the more legitimate competitors they can drive out of business.
It's almost impossible for legitimate businesses, constrained to make a regular profit, to compete against VC-owned companies. The latter are financed indirectly by fedgov's "quantitative easing" program, wherein the gubmint gives billions of dollars of free money to well-connected oligarchs.
Fake progressive shitheads sure do love big corporations and hate freedom of speech.
Facebook is well known for collaboration with the Stasi. They do their part to feed the Gulag.
Lick those boots!
Or decent upstanding patriots could just rip the cameras off their poles and smash them with bats, thereby restoring a small degree of freedom to the area.
Oh, I know, I know. But muh private property! But muh rule of lawyers!
Am I the only one who thinks this is super awesome? The surveillance state is incompatible with a free society and deeply unamerican. All failures for the Stasi are wins for the American people.
Isn't widespread unemployment and the resulting destitution fundamentally a symptom of dysfunctional economic management? I don't buy the narrative that there are just "too many people".
Can we really claim there is no useful work that needs done? Surely the country has not reached some state of infrastructural and cultural perfection where that would be plausible.
Also.. there are way too many PhDs doing menial work in call centers etc for me to accept we have any serious skills deficit. We all know many people were pushed out of the software industry, while the media was loudly bleating about a shortage of developers. The official economic narratives seem like increasingly obvious lies.
Guest workers depress wages for citizens and retard national economic development. Because they have no intention or ability to stay long term, they effectively *live* in their home country's economy while *working* in America. They are not villains, but they are unwelcome guests.
I do support making it very easy to become a citizen, on the condition one renounces citizenship in their former country. My Irish ancestors benefited from an easy citizenship policy when fleeing the famine. They were unskilled laborers who today might be derided as refugees. They certainly wouldn't have passed any elitist vetting regime. Yet they and millions of immigrants like them built this country. Immigrants were the bedrock of America's now-lost prosperity.
Right now we have our immigration policy ass-backwards. We make legitimate immigrants - who want to start a new life and BE Americans - jump through insane hoops. While importing millions of low wage workers who have no chance of becoming Americans and contributing to the nation. Pathetic.
Facebook always lies.
Time for antitrust action against FB?
From their website: "Priorities USA is a voter-centric progressive advocacy organization and service center for the grassroots progressive movement."
Any time you see an organization self-describe as "grassroots", you know they are funded by oligarchs and advocate policies that are harmful to working people.
Are your sure it's not domestic propaganda that's causing civil unrest?
Vladimir Putin groped me while we were riding the public bus! I think he used microaggressions, too!!
I don't think most Bitcoin speculators are computer nerds. Quite the opposite if the small sample I've met is representative.
How much does Facebook's public relations firm pay you to disrupt discussion of Facebook's perfidy by posting this annoying, racist wallotext?
Zuckerberg is a cartoonish villain. He's one of the few people in America who's more widely hated than Hillary Clinton. The only way he can win an election is through outright fraud.
We have become a caricature of the Soviet Union.
I've lost confidence in Ubuntu. Canonical seems increasingly user-hostile. And in my subjective opinion - reinforced by this story - their technical quality has been declining for a while.
So what's the alternative?
My Docker containers are already based on Alpine, and running atop ECS, which is based on Amazon Linux. But I still need cloud VMs and bare metal servers. One thing I really appreciate about Ubuntu it's the ease of running the same OS on my servers and on my Thinkpad laptop.
*BSD is out because afaik it cannot run Docker. No, I'm not fucking giving up my containers. They are incredibly useful for my job.
Mint is for dopes.
Slackware was fun 20 years ago when I was just learning. Seems like it would be an incredible pain to use it for production work.
CentOS and Fedora have always been a little unpleasant to work with. But maybe worth another look.
I've never actually tried Alpine outside a container. So it's a possibility I guess.
Serious question for people who have abandoned Ubuntu: What did you switch to? Was it worth the hassle?
But how can the vendors be Agile(tm) if they can't release bug-riddled crapware and let their customers serve as free QA?
Nice wallotext!
Lick those boots!
Of course it's legal. Workers have no rights, don't you know? It's DUH LAW!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Only if you live in an uncivilized culture where people *use toilet paper*. Gross.
There is NO social "safety net" in America. Trust me - been there, done that, thank God I survived.
There are plenty of long-term welfare dependency programs, don't get me wrong. But there's basically NOTHING for a normal productive worker who's temporarily down on his luck.
Don't believe me? Try it sometime! You'll be unpleasantly surprised.