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Creator of Ruby on Rails, Founder & CTO at Basecamp & HEY, NYT best-selling author, and Le Mans 24h class-winning racing driver.

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  1. 6 hours ago

    The great thing about work-place surveillance software advertising their customer list is that it gives you a who-not-to-work-for list at the same time.

    Replying to @deanpeters @thedannyferg and 2 others
    Exactly, I’m far more interested in their customer list Uber Amazon Disney Nike Cisco and Verizon should maybe just be considered as potentially bad workplaces
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    14 hours ago

    Spain spends 75% less than the USA on health expenditures, and yet they have a life expectancy that's a full 5 years longer. That's the power of universal public healthcare.

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    16 hours ago

    *cough*

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  4. 15 hours ago

    "'This car is as smart as Siri' sounds like a threat, not a selling point." 🤣

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  5. Dec 8

    Eight out of ten Danes are ready to get the vaccine as soon as it’s available to them ✌️❤️

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    Dec 8

    HEY for Work is available via invite and will be opening up fully early in 2021. Hear and talk about building an email service for the workplace:

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  7. Dec 8

    Tips-stealing delivery service DoorDash attempts to break law on fee-caps meant to protect restaurants from 30% shakedown racket with "premium bullshit" program. Local legislators say NOPE 👏

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  8. Dec 8

    "Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and others behave just like the railroads did 100 years ago. Instead of physical infrastructure, like bridges and tunnels, the digital platforms leverage network effects that shield them from effective competition."

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  9. Dec 8

    Arnold's pervasive argument is that we cannot get relief from monopoly abuses by hoping for individual customers of monopolies to change course. Only enforcement will curb the hurt.

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  10. Dec 8

    The psychological diagnosis offered by Arnold of why we pretend to oppose monopoly yet embrace its damage is piercing:

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  11. Dec 8

    Even the damn illustration that accompanies the article is a zinger for today.

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  12. Dec 8

    Thurman Arnold is searing in his critique of how commentators and the media in general has run interference for big tech monopolies. Again, this was written in 1938!! There truly is nothing new under the sun.

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  13. Dec 8

    This was written in 1938, but could just as well have been written today. The monopoly abuses of Big Tech is an echo from the ages.

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    Dec 8

    Best of Rabois Vote now ⤵️

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  15. Dec 8

    So Uber's main business is in the toilet, will remain there for the foreseeable future, and now they've sold off the promised land of a self-driving and profitable future. What a dumpster fire.

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  16. Dec 8

    The moral cop-out of all surveillance makers is "well, surveillance software doesn't spy on people – PEOPLE SPY ON PEOPLE". GTFO you creeps.

    Replying to @paulihuhtiniemi @dhh
    Welp, nice try Clockify.
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  17. Dec 8

    The surveillance regime marches on. This is Clockify promising a road map of ever-more oppressive and dehumanizing tracking of employees. If we're just being HONEST here, I'd like to see this blown into a million bits. Source code encrypted and the key lost. Just awful.

    Yes, I'm sure these kind of creepy features are exactly what's needed for improving your team's productivity (sorry, "accountability"). I guess someone should read book or two from
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  18. Dec 7

    But this is different! When we fish in the family tree, it’s not in service of our own business. Just the donor class buying laws. For Uber, I’m sure this is cheaper too than spending $200m on ballot initiatives. Why buy laws if you can buy enforcers.

    "[Kamala Harris' sister] Maya Harris has participated in conversations with allies aimed at boosting her husband [Uber chief legal officer Tony West]’s candidacy for attorney general, according to people familiar with the calls."
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    Dec 7

    This subtweet of from the Flickr CEO should be getting more attention. Google's "Hey, Google Photos is free! Store unlimited photos!" bait and switch (they're now charging) is one of the most brazen monopolistic moves big tech has pulled recently

    Replying to @jeremy0cc @thomashawk and 2 others
    We have no plans to add a 2TB limit. Or any limit. Our Flickr Pros pay us, we make money when they do, and everyone is happy. We also don't do evil things with their photos.
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  20. Dec 7

    Example of synthesis: The majestic monolith growing into the citadel.

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