The point was more that a community can enforce that “if they don’t get it, no one will”, which I think would put a lot of companies off from buying.
It wouldn’t help the first few people get their home back, but after a couple rounds, the big corps will see that they end up losing money when the buy properties that are sacked a short time later. If there’s one thing that will make a company change its behaviour, it’s making them lose money through that behaviour.
I thought the same thing at first. However after reading another comment here I realised that a community can essentially sack the property if a huge corp buys it. Not much you can do if everyone around wants you gone so bad they’ll commit arson rather than let you stay.
That was my initial thought as well, but after reading the other comment about how a community essentially sacked a house after the “wrong person” bought it…
The only thing that intimidates soulless corps is the threat of losing money. If it becomes clear to them that whatever they buy at auction will be burned to the ground, they probably won’t be very eager to keep buying.
Recalling the videos of a single male lion pretty much ripping apart a pack of hyenas… Tigers are even bigger and stronger than lions, and wolves don’t have anywhere near the bite force of a hyena. I think you’d need a lot more than three.
Only string attached is that I’m required to sell them back to the company if I quit. I think that makes sense, since we’re not publicly traded, and want all shareholders to be people actively invested in the company.
I’m getting cheap options for a decent share of the company as part of my contract, so I will have a say in future development :)
To expand: I get very cheap options for a decent share of the company as part of my contract.
I’m at the start of my career and decided to join a startup now. I’m at a point in my life where I don’t need to support anyone other than myself, and can afford to work a lot for relatively low pay because it’s fun to build something new from scratch. I can afford that this flops.
In ten years, I’m hopefully in a place where I want/need more stability, free time, predictability, and better pay. Either the startup works out, and I can have that, or I’m hoping that the experience I get working on it will allow me to get a “normal” job when I need it.
Edit: What’s with people downvoting me for saying that I personally have joined a startup because I personally think it’s fun and rewarding? Jesus…
Do you have a source for this? My only reference here is hiking at > 10 000 ft (3000 m), and from that I can say that this seems very unlikely: If you stay at 3000 for a couple hours without acclimating first, you will definitely start to feel the effects. To be fair, you’re usually not moving around a lot in an aircraft, but a couple hours at 3000 m can make you feel sluggish and weak, and even a bit light-headed, you could even get a mild headache from oxygen deprivation.
Note that not everyone will see severe symptoms already at 3000 m. Plenty of people can go to 4000 m before seeing significant symptoms. However, given that I’ve never heard of anyone experiencing altitude sickness in a properly pressurised aircraft, it seems unlikely to me that they’re pressurised to 3000 m.
That can really depend. I’ve had both friends and family who have struggled with all kinds of issues. In every case I’ve seen so far, building a daily routine that involves getting out of bed and doing something that makes them feel useful/successful has been the cure.
It turns out that we’re social creatures, and succeeding at doing stuff that benefits someone other than ourselves often helps us feel like life has meaning. That in turn helps us get over/process whatever shit we have behind us.
By all means, the LinkedIn post here is dogshit. I do, however, believe that for most people, getting back to work/school is paramount to getting better. Research backs me up. I’m on my phone now, but if you’re interested, I’ll dig up some studies when I have time.
In all honesty, I love both rakfisk and lutefisk. They are fantastic and wildly underrated food. I will die on this hill.
Oh, and sursild, sennepssild, and all that other good sild stuff. That’s also awesome.
The swedes can keep the surströmning to themselves though. That shit is not fit for human consumption.
culturally appropriate
tasty
Screams in northern Scandinavian
Also completely neglecting that not all the energy in a slap will be transferred to thermal energy in the chicken.
Hard disagree. I work a lot with numbers, both hand-written and typed. I’ve yet to come across a situation where spaces are not sufficiently clear for readability. Using spaces for separation has never been an issue with letters, why would it be an issue with numbers?
I’ll be honest: It’s complete insanity to use commas within a number. If you need laughably high precision, use spaces for readability. If you need a lot of zeros, use power notation.
There is no excuse for putting commas in a number. I rest my case.
What you say is true, but doesn’t really answer “Could someone take down Wikipedia [without completely shutting off the internet]”. For obvious reasons, shutting internet access completely off isn’t going to happen short of an insurrection or a war.
Shutting down Wikipedia specifically is much harder. As others have pointed out, there are many thousand copies of Wikipedia lying around on peoples private devices. If Wikipedia were actually taken down (blocked by the government in some sense) hundreds of mirrors would likely pop up immediately, and it would be more or less impossible for the government to go after each individual site that some person decides to host, short of just cutting internet access completely.
In general I agree with this sentiment, but let’s be honest and remember that a lot of jobs are of the type “you are responsible for X, regardless of what time of day it is”. In a reasonable place, that of course comes with the benefit that you can take time off whenever you want as long as X is handled, but I actually prefer the freedom/responsibility trade off of needing to handle shit in the weekends when required, but also being able to not come in to work when I know stuff is running as it should.
I use LinkedIn fire the sole purpose of promoting my research and the FOSS projects I work on, with the hope that if the right people see it, it can help what I do make a positive impact.
In that case, high engagement means more people see my stuff, which means a higher likelihood of the right people seeing it.
However, I’m sharing stuff that I actually hope is useful to someone out there. For people just circlejerking it’s just for the ego boost.
That was really a fantastic read!