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New comment by cruzcampo in "Emirati firm to use a Trump-affiliated digital coin"

cruzcampo — Thu, 01 May 2025 17:35:10 +0000

I miss the days when corrupt politicians at least made the pretense of trying to hide it.

New comment by cruzcampo in "The Gang Has a Mid-Life Crisis"

cruzcampo — Thu, 01 May 2025 17:34:24 +0000

It really does feel like most tech leaders are having an internal struggle that they externalize and make all of our problems.

Have you seen Musks Twitter timeline? That guy is so chronically online and desperate to be liked that it's just sad. How can you be the richest man in the world and yet so deeply pathetic?

Same with Zuck's attempt at being "cool" now and don't even get me started on Benioff's whole weird "Aloha" thing.

Deeply insecure, unhappy people, despite having all the wealth in the world. And they're gonna make sure all of us are just as unhappy, because if they can't buy happiness, why should anyone else have it?

New comment by cruzcampo in "The Brief Origins of May Day"

cruzcampo — Thu, 01 May 2025 15:11:44 +0000

I wouldn't call the fall of the only socialist superpower at the time social progress.

New comment by cruzcampo in "The Brief Origins of May Day"

cruzcampo — Thu, 01 May 2025 15:01:16 +0000

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cruzcampo — Thu, 01 May 2025 14:45:15 +0000

Could you name a few?

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cruzcampo — Thu, 01 May 2025 14:40:00 +0000

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cruzcampo — Thu, 01 May 2025 14:22:13 +0000

Most of the shareholders are random rich people that have never lifted a finger in their life, yet get to enjoy the fruits of your labor.

New comment by cruzcampo in "The Brief Origins of May Day"

cruzcampo — Thu, 01 May 2025 14:11:39 +0000

Why is it a zero-sum game to you? Why not advocate for all workers in the name of solidarity? There's no enemy but the class enemy.

New comment by cruzcampo in "The Brief Origins of May Day"

cruzcampo — Thu, 01 May 2025 14:08:30 +0000

Whether you see it or not, it does :-(

New comment by cruzcampo in "The Brief Origins of May Day"

cruzcampo — Thu, 01 May 2025 14:08:03 +0000

There's nothing stopping us from creating an engineers union. Each field should have their own organisation.

New comment by cruzcampo in "The Brief Origins of May Day"

cruzcampo — Thu, 01 May 2025 14:03:23 +0000

We are what is called the labor aristocracy in socialist discourse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_aristocracy

It is still labor and we are still exploited - most the revenue we generate goes to capitalist interests, not us, the laborers, which are the creators of all revenue.

It's just that we have it comparatively good and so are less inclined to seek out systemic change - a less favorable reading would be that we are bought off to split us off from the rest of the proletariat.

New comment by cruzcampo in "The Brief Origins of May Day"

cruzcampo — Thu, 01 May 2025 13:54:42 +0000

There should be a separate white collar workers union.

New comment by cruzcampo in "The Brief Origins of May Day"

cruzcampo — Thu, 01 May 2025 13:52:51 +0000

But software developers are the working class. Anyone who derives their income from labor is.

New comment by cruzcampo in "The Brief Origins of May Day"

cruzcampo — Thu, 01 May 2025 13:41:36 +0000

There's a lot of regressives here actively abusing the flagging functionality for censorship - ironically the same kind of people that'll tell you how much they care about freedom of speech (the unspoken part: but only if its speech they agree with)

New comment by cruzcampo in "Microsoft gets twitchy over talk of Europe's tech independence"

cruzcampo — Thu, 01 May 2025 11:54:11 +0000

I do wonder if building software that runs on your own machine would be a market advantage in the EU.

One could market strongly with the data privacy / sovereignty angle that resonates a lot more in Europe than the US.

New comment by cruzcampo in "Microsoft gets twitchy over talk of Europe's tech independence"

cruzcampo — Thu, 01 May 2025 11:51:31 +0000

This is where governments need to step in. We need grants to open source contributors as a national security priority. If you're helping build alternatives to American Big Tech, the state should sponsor that.

New comment by cruzcampo in "Microsoft gets twitchy over talk of Europe's tech independence"

cruzcampo — Thu, 01 May 2025 11:23:33 +0000

Are there any specific Microsoft products you would prioritize?

I'd envision building a plug-in replacement to facilitate switching.

New comment by cruzcampo in "Ask HN: Why are Americans on this site acting in an anti-free speech way?"

cruzcampo — Thu, 01 May 2025 11:07:33 +0000

> That includes more than hacking and startups

Is literally what the guidelines say. The political implications of tech should be well within that purview.

New comment by cruzcampo in "Microsoft gets twitchy over talk of Europe's tech independence"

cruzcampo — Thu, 01 May 2025 10:59:48 +0000

If Europe has no industry, why is Trump so upset about the trade deficit in goods?

New comment by cruzcampo in "Microsoft gets twitchy over talk of Europe's tech independence"

cruzcampo — Thu, 01 May 2025 10:47:57 +0000

Yes, I fully agree - this is a super important thing the EU needs to do if it wants any chance at homegrown competition.