Hacker News: sageikosa

New comment by sageikosa in "Organizers have unionized 5,000 contract workers at Apple, Facebook, Yahoo"

sageikosa — Thu, 14 Sep 2017 14:55:12 +0000

Seriously, forward towards what? The "perfect society"?

New comment by sageikosa in "Organizers have unionized 5,000 contract workers at Apple, Facebook, Yahoo"

sageikosa — Thu, 14 Sep 2017 14:45:25 +0000

Towards?

New comment by sageikosa in "Criticizing Google got me fired"

sageikosa — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 19:21:56 +0000

I can complain about going out in the rain and getting wet. End of story.

New comment by sageikosa in "Criticizing Google got me fired"

sageikosa — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 19:19:48 +0000

Protected in that you cannot be prosecuted for it perhaps.

New comment by sageikosa in "Google Critic Ousted from Think Tank Funded by the Tech Giant"

sageikosa — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 13:57:14 +0000

You're thinking investment markets, not philanthropic giving markets. Any think tank is competitively attempting to gain funds to stay afloat. Some do this by lobbying for grants, some by soliciting private donations. But there's a finite amount of capacity to fund think tanks regardless of the source of income.

Google can certainly find other think tanks they like better.

New comment by sageikosa in "Google Critic Ousted from Think Tank Funded by the Tech Giant"

sageikosa — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 13:46:50 +0000

He's not silenced, they just took away the podium that says "sponsored by Google".

New comment by sageikosa in "How the GDPR Will Disrupt Google and Facebook"

sageikosa — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 09:39:25 +0000

Cool. 88 more pages of functional specs on every project.

New comment by sageikosa in "When it comes to internet privacy, be afraid, analyst suggests"

sageikosa — Tue, 29 Aug 2017 16:56:27 +0000

...and a police force with arrest powers, and corporate compliance offices that follow the letter of the law, and federal investigators that try and parse code...

And once you get big, you can't get any more revenue.

And I want to be king.

New comment by sageikosa in "When it comes to internet privacy, be afraid, analyst suggests"

sageikosa — Tue, 29 Aug 2017 16:49:40 +0000

Microsoft wasn't split. It was informed that they could only do so much product integration.

New comment by sageikosa in "Facebook says Pages that regularly share false news won’t be able to buy ads"

sageikosa — Mon, 28 Aug 2017 17:28:28 +0000

People can only manipulate millions of others easily when they are led to believe that they should be led.

New comment by sageikosa in "Facebook says Pages that regularly share false news won’t be able to buy ads"

sageikosa — Mon, 28 Aug 2017 17:22:54 +0000

I thought it was clearly stated. It's just not one of those things that adds to the conversation, except perhaps by demonstrating the same principles of the direct action via the downvote. It's so rare I get something I both disagree with and which demonstrates immediately by its subject matter how to deal with it.

New comment by sageikosa in "Facebook says Pages that regularly share false news won’t be able to buy ads"

sageikosa — Mon, 28 Aug 2017 17:02:37 +0000

Yes we can set definition of what is bad and what isn't. Enjoy my exercise of it with this downvote.

New comment by sageikosa in "Portugal Dominated Angola for Centuries. Now the Roles Are Reversed"

sageikosa — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 20:58:15 +0000

To my ear that's like saying evolution cannot sustain itself indefinitely. As long as there are generational selective pressures on imperfect replicators, evolution will continue.

Without a superstructure of omnipresent social domination to hinder or disrupt it, capitalism will be used where countable savings for investment and idea that promising accountable returns find themselves together.

Here's a thought to explain my defense of capitalism: capitalism doesn't cause corruption, but like anything else it is destroyed by corruption. Capitalism is used by the corrupt because it is so good at identifying that which the market values and in delivering it.

New comment by sageikosa in "Let Consumers Sue Companies"

sageikosa — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 20:38:54 +0000

Not sure what the subject of that sentence was; it appears to be passive (and actorless) in the first part but the dependent clause (after "then") seems active voice.

What or whom is causing society to go out of its way...? Litigation?

New comment by sageikosa in "Let Consumers Sue Companies"

sageikosa — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 20:29:01 +0000

Thanks for playing

New comment by sageikosa in "Let Consumers Sue Companies"

sageikosa — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 17:47:37 +0000

Tort reform. Some things should be kicked out of the courts at the front door by a legal bouncer.

New comment by sageikosa in "Let Consumers Sue Companies"

sageikosa — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 17:36:52 +0000

I believe litigation in the United States is based on the idea that access to the courts to redress grievances (against private individuals or public institutions) is fundamental for a civil society. This goes as far as preventing habeas corpus from being suspended in Illinois during the American Civil War as the courts were still in operation, and the "justification" for holding people in Guantanamo. While I have heard the vague generalities of "overreach" and "unconstitutionality" levied against regulation by some opponents, the more nuanced economic argument is that regulation creates barriers to entry, slowness to adapt, and governmental bloat (i.e., bureaucracy which can only be reined in by more bureaucracy). The market solutions to regulation are more properly insurance (by producers) to cover claims and tort constraints. Snowflake society doesn't like calculating the economic (market) value of risk to life or limb, but the truth is that without reasonable tort the economic impact will still be born, but socialized by non-risk takers subsidizing expanding bureaucracies.

New comment by sageikosa in "Portugal Dominated Angola for Centuries. Now the Roles Are Reversed"

sageikosa — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 14:12:22 +0000

Portugal was more concerned with getting trade goods from the far east than trying to build up sub-Saharan Africa for most of it's history. It just so happened that when the Scramble for Africa started, Portugal already had toeholds all along the coast.

New comment by sageikosa in "Portugal Dominated Angola for Centuries. Now the Roles Are Reversed"

sageikosa — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 14:10:36 +0000

The "Scramble for Africa" was a particularly late colonization push (late 19th century). Colonization in Africa started after de-colonization was complete in the Americas.

New comment by sageikosa in "Portugal Dominated Angola for Centuries. Now the Roles Are Reversed"

sageikosa — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 14:03:43 +0000

Anyone can be an entrepreneur. It's having an idea that can be acted upon that should provide a positive return (in terms of comparable and calculable inputs and outputs). In the capitalist production order, entrepreneurs need capital to create the conditions necessary to act on the plan. Most people don't have ideas that can be acted upon with enough potential return to justify seeking capital investment as a unique enterprise.