- I'm just shocked people aren't clueing into the fact that tech companies are trying to build developer dependence on these things to secure a "rent" revenue stream. But hey, what do I know. It's just cloud hyper scaling all over again. Don't buy and drive your own hardware. Rent ours! Look, we built the metering and everything!
- Forget it. DoA due to Bank Secrecy Act, compliance costs (AML/KYC), money transmitter licensure, and the fundamental structure of the U.S. financial system
You could make a self-hostable solution, but the rest of the financial network would basically either refuse to accept your packets without sufficient proof of regulatory compliance in order to preserve their own good standing with regulators. It's a pretty jealously guarded sector, because it sorta has to be to make fiscal crime tractable.
I mean... Go for it if you want. Just be aware, your resulting impl cannot be legally employed without a money transmitter license.
- Given this admin? Yes.
- This isn't a court of law. This is real life, bucko. You don't operate for your own protection on the good faith you think the rest of the world has for you, you plan on capabilities. What you call baseless, is you screaming into world that "you can't prove it, therefore it isn't". Wrong. We have eyes. We have seen the nature of the people we share the world with, and it tells us, that these bastards will happily collude if they think they won't get caught. They got caught doing it before when they had the benefit of good faith. It is 100% valid that the labor force integrate the learning with regards to capital's tendency to duplicity into their operating loop. I will no longer engage with attempts to convince the uninitiated to close their eyes and "just trust bro". Well over a decade being that guy and getting used.
If you're a junior, or someone trying to get into the field. I can't tell you the right path. But I can tell you, the people with the purse strings care only about that purse, and parting with as little of it's contents as possible, and getting as much out of you in the process of doing it. I can tell you I made the decision over 10 years ago to go the non-organized route. It worked. For a while. But at great personal cost medically, and likewise when I inevitably had to make the choice between becoming the better cog for the market, or being there for the people who matter most to me.
Don't delude yourselves. Organize. The people hiring you do. You must as well. Organize enough, and we as a society may finally recalibrate enough to achieve a new equilibrium that doesn't involve mulching each other for the sake of Mammon and Moloch.
- And I'm telling you that what you're asking for doesn't mean a lick. Someone already pissed in the pool. Once you know it's been done, you can't uncrack that egg.
Plan on capabilities. Not "what you feel like they might draw the lines". Odds are, your feelings are in error, and they are capable of much worse. And if they're actually decent people, to everyone, all is good. If all they want is to juice the most out of the most gullible/naive, that's what the union is for.
We cannot have nice things.
- In the U.S. capital got sympathy striking illegalized as part of the Taft-Hartley Act around WWII, because labor exploiting network effects was just to unconscionable for the time.
- So you walk in to negotiate with your capitalist overlords with an equivalent number of lawyers that they can field? Oh, they don't pay you enough to do that? Oh, you need to be working while doing this? Oh, you just got replaced because the default T&C's weren't good enough for you?
You are not a temporarily inconvenienced millionaire/billionaire.
- Forming a corporation is a power grab by capitalists. Doesn't mean the labor force has to entertain or facilitate their delusions of grandeur.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
For the uninitiated.
- Doesn't need it to justify unionizing. Unionizing is a right, and it was previously not exercised because there was no evidence of the will of the market to defraud or conspire against workers. It is now written plain for all to see that indeed, these types of arrangements are kept in board members back pockets. It is not their job to protect a companies interest in renumeration execs and shareholders. It is their job to get their share in spite of the management class's proven track records of the proclivity to engage in shenanigans and lies.
The fact you can't understand solidarity is your problem, not theirs.
- Oh, yes, because we've never seen a case where large companies entered into no poach agreements to suppress worker wages, right?
Oh wait... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
Quit the gaslighting.
- >You cannot respond to your entire gamedev team refusing to work other than by replacing them or by getting them to stop striking.
Funny thing. Pay people fairly and don't abuse them, and they don't strike. If they are striking, I have a lot more suspicion towards management than the workers.
- Absolutely not. Perverse incentives, ho!!! Not paying you for a chance to be alienated from my own damn labor.
- The original detention was politically motivated, and completely violated all semblance of due process. I can forgive the court for dipping their toes into the political pool this once to remedy and send a message to the executive that this will not continue to fly.
- Look, I've gotten cartel beheadings and beatings on a YouTube search query for Jack Russell terriers.
Don't throw shade. If you haven't gotten "How the fuck did that get there?", consider yourself lucky I guess. Best I can figure, terriers have some unintentional shared vector space with much more unpleasant content.
- Note: this article focuses on women, but many of the experiences are also shared by men in slightly differently emphasized forms. This is basically a physical manifestation of Jung's process of individuation.
Feel free to look it up.
- No Stasi. No Salem witch trials. Thank you. Do not need to retread that ground.
- No. What is this revisionist nonsense? Where the hell did you think the meme of "On the Internet, no one knows you're a dog" came from? Conventional wisdom was alias up, or maintain a well-known handle. Do not use or share personal info. Ever.
- >Slippery-slope arguments,
Slippery slope arguments exist because the act of governing has the tendency to converge on ratchet effects. It never bloody loosens, do every damn inch has to be treated with maximal resistance.
The only real choice left is to accept a minimalized compliance system that just squeaks by mister to be accepted by the big guys, (which still leaves the risks of the rest of the system eventually locking you out), and places a significant burden on you, the business owner to learn a lot of financial minutiae that has nada to do with your business other than integrating into the financial system), or just stick with a payment processor who already exists (not solving your problem).
Absolutely sucks, but that's what our system has evolved to.