Tag: Mastodon

If a “fine” is less than the profit from the infraction, it’s not a fine, it’s a business expense.

If a “fine” isn’t a fixed percentage of assets, it’s not a fine, it’s a poor tax.

If a “fine” only serves to enrich the government, not to make those harmed by the infraction whole, it’s not a fine, it’s a revenue stream.

If a “fine” is adjudicated by people who profit from the business being fined, it’s not a fine, it’s a stock buyback.

– Intertial Invites på Mastodon (link til indlæg)

I don’t understand how COVID is spiking again after we’ve tried everything from pretending it’s over to pretending it never happened

– LordsofHardwired på Mastodon – link til indlæg

I’ve stopped caring about new tech and become more political because in general we have sufficient technology to make everyone’s lives better.

The problem isn’t that we don’t have enough or good enough technology. The problem is that the people in power aren’t interested in making everyone’s lives better.

– Mallory på Mastodon – link til indlæg

The bug in capitalism is the implicit assumption that people’s willingness to pay for something indicates it is of positive value. People are willing to invest in a Ponzi scheme because of the opportunity to get rich. That doesn’t mean Ponzi schemes have value to society.

Dare Obasanjo på Mastodon – Link til indlæg

Until I moved from the dead bird site to Mastodon I never realized that I had so much pent up civility.

– HamOnWry på Mastodon – link til indlæg

Funny how some people think a secret group of rich people control everything instead of the well known group of rich people who control everything.

– @Faktoider på Mastodon – link til indlæg

NOTE: your password must contain:

– an uppercase letter
– a lowercase letter
– a number
– the illusion of security
– a special character

– Eric Meyer på Mastodon – link til indlæg

The worst thing that ever happened in software engineering was when Kirk asked Scotty how long something would take and Scotty said thirty minutes and Kirk said you’ve got five and Scotty got it done in five and impressionable children watched this and grew up to become managers.

– Isaac Freeman på Mastodon – link til indlæg

[…] a lot of people keep thinking that (this iteration of) “Artificial*” “Intelligence**” is a good idea…
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*human led, biased
**parroting

Via Mina på Mastodon – link til indlæg