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Also you need to keep them clean to maintain efficiency. In a field that’s easy - you can probably just employ the landowner and buy an attachment for his tractor. On the roof there isn’t really any good way of automating it, and some rooftops aren’t accessible for a window washer and a long brush.

The latest is that Google is making it easier for external stores. This was in development before their recent court loss against Epic. F-Droid is still going strong imo, although it’s certainly lacking as a place to browse for apps.

If F-Droid did die something would definitely pop up in its place. It already has a protocol that allows you to monitor other app sources than the official F-Droid store, such as directly from developers. Hell, there are already alternate versions of the F-Droid app, eg AuroraDroid.

All F-Droid does is vaguely check the app and then compile it with their key. They’re simply a single point of trust for this action, a buffer between the user and the many developers writing apps. This is a service anyone could provide, however right now no one else needs to because everyone trusts F-Droid well enough for most things, and their favourite app developers enough to update directly.

Bit annoying that they’re more specific about latency than bandwidth. The laser had lower latency than broadband, but I want to know if the laser had enough bandwidth to stream the video.

A big part of trading stocks is assessing value independent of the stock price. You want to buy stock when it is undervalued and sell it when it is overvalued. Tesla seems to be in the latter position, IMO.

Yeah I was a bit surprised. Seems quite clearly over-valued.

It’s a great way to launder money.

the world’s most valuable automotive company.

Lol no.

The three year old email maybe points towards a smoking gun.

Unfortunately, while this reads well for news articles, it probably doesn’t hold enough for courts to actually action against.

DeSantis promising other peoples’ money for causes that money was not donated for isn’t on anyone’s bingo cards at this point, because it’s practically a given.

Let’s not forget that DeSantis used Florida taxpayer money, which was ringfenced for dealing with migrants in Florida, to pay his friend’s chartered airline business to ship migrants from Texas to Massachusetts - an act that had no benefit to Florida whatsoever, but certainly benefited his friend’s chartered airline (which DeSantis uses frequently on the State taxpayer’s dime without disclosing his expenditure.

Criminals gonna crim.

The worst person in tech is a choice between a bunch of people who are working together to make things worse for everyone else?

When I lose things it’s almost always because I’ve put them in a safe place. Safe from me!

But yeah it’s really about factoring in likelihood and opportunity. I think it helps to compare physical and digital spaces. If you have a CCTV system, then anyone could watch the monitors and see what’s happening - however they’d have to get into the building, find their way to the secure room, log in to the system, etc. When something is online it creates better opportunity for surreptitious access and also greater likelihood in terms of the number of people who could potentially come across it. While in the physical space you might get away with having staff control access during the day and locking the door at night, online you have to have far more robust security measures to achieve the same level of safety.

So it’s maybe better to say: the easier it is for you to access data, the easier it is for someone else to.

If you can access the data, so can someone else.

Yeah I mean the point I’m making isn’t that Wikimedia execs are paid too much, it’s that all executives are paid to much. The workers actually create value, all an executive does is direct that value generation and claim the rewards for themselves.

IMO income below something like $200k shouldn’t be taxed at all - workers below that range are sacrificing their time (and sometimes their physical health) to earn money. Above $200k income should be taxed heavily. People who make more than that are typically doing less while earning more - what they earn is disproportionate to the amount of effort they put in.

You’re right that their salaries weren’t $500k plus, those numbers included severance. Actual salaries were in the order of $150-300k (with the highest salaries paid to the owners).

Wikimedia doesn’t have stock AFAIK.

I mean I’d argue that the Wikipedia execs are still paid too much given their actual productive output.

So they’re making $150-300k per year, with more for severance. That is indeed relatively low compared to major tech companies.

The article’s examples were Docusign (CEO made $85M) and Google (CEO made $225M).

Well that’s just the futility of banning boycotts. Unless someone actually says they’re boycotting, you’d have almost no way of proving that they were.

Well that’s the thing, sexual discrimination isn’t really protected in the US outside of employment.

The US has:

• 14th Amendment, which states the law must apply to everyone equally (so gay people can get married)
• The Civil Rights Act, which contains various Titles:
  • Title II, which prevents businesses in hospitality or operating across state lines from discriminating over race, color, religion, or national origin
  • Title VI, which prohibits businesses working for the federal government from discriminating over race, color, or national origin
  • Title VII, which prohibits employers from discriminating over race, color, religion, sex, or national origin

I’m actually in 2 minds about whether the 1st Amendment would prevent this. One the one hand, there is a clear gap in the Federal law that State law should be able to fill. On the other, that gap was exactly the same thing as the gay cake baker successfully challenged against.

But it isn’t, and it fits in line with the Civil Rights Act Title VI which prohibits businesses that work for the federal government from discriminating against certain classes. This is the same law, but at the state level. Speech is not curtailed unless you choose the option that requires curtailment.

Like I say, the business is free to not take state contracts then refuse business to whoever they like (just like the gay cake baker did), but if they want to work for the state they have to follow state rules.

Not necessarily, businesses would be free to not do business so long as they’re not also contracted with the state. This refers to businesses contracted with the state, so it’s more like the terms of their contract rather than an explicit rights issue.