Takumidesh @ Takumidesh @lemmy.world

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If I write a book, I get to control if I want to write another book or not. The success of the book doesn't dictate my control over my own writing process (individual agreements not withstanding)

Copyright has for the more than the last century been established to be 50 years longer than the life of the owner, meaning copyright deliberately exists to ensure the creator retains control for their entire life (and then some)

As far as parents go, a patent is not a requirement to make a product and gives no say in your use of your widget that you have patented. If you so choose you can patent a widget and give up trade secrets in exchange for legal protection against appropriation, but that has nothing to do with control in how you operate (it only limits control in how others operate).

I can invent a widget and not patent it and I am still allowed to sell or not sell, manufacture or not, or whatever business decisions I deem important. I can keep it a trade secret and bring it with me to the grave.

But in many cases their vote/say would decline to insignificance, literally being pushed out of their own company because they made good decisions.

Should a general in the army get demoted to private because they led a successful operation?

I don't even know how you would define this for private companies. You would have to devise some arbitrary valuation and then remove some other arbitrary chunk of a persons stake in the company.

Besides, this doesn't even solve the money problem anyway, a multi billionaire can just do what they already do and own hundreds of millions in equity in several companies and assets.

Why do you think autocratic control of a company is worse than other forms? You say it's "probably good practice", but as we can see with publicly traded companies which generally are run by committee and owned by millions of people, the quality of a company isn't really dictated by that, in fact, in the case of Tesla, this was voted in by the shareholders, by a wide margin of 72 percent, so the majority of stake holders voted for this. Yes Elon has a big vote at 13 percent, but this means that 59% of stake holders wanted this, Tesla btw, is > 40% owned by retail investors (e.g. regular people) and so this is the result, a majority decision, mostly made by individual stake holders in the company. Many institutional investors actually voted against the pay package.

Saying 'why is this even a question' when someone inquired for more information after you present a radical change to a worldwide economic concept, is just rude and thought terminating. Instead of encouraging discussion, you want to shut people down so you can get feel good points.

If you think there is only one good way to run a business and it happens to be the way you thought up, I encourage you to self reflect.

I think the vast majority of people are more interested in talking to people they know in real life.

Genuine question, do you think that person is obligated to lose control of the company?

Tesla is incorporated in Delaware.

Voter registration may also affect relationships (professional or otherwise)

5 Mbps is slow enough that it should be considered a free tier, like, basic service for being alive tier.

That's because the country's name is The Democratic Republic of the Congo.

I don't know of any country whose name doesn't officially include 'The' (such as The United States, or The United Kingdom, or the aforementioned Congo) and gets an article superficially added.

The only reason I can think of for Ukraine is that it used to be part of another country and it's just a holdover of when it was called 'The Ukrainian Socialist Republic'

As far as the presence of articles (or lack thereof) in Russian, I'm aware, but we aren't talking about the Russian name of the country, so much as the English.

The United States, which is plural, you are referring to the collection of states.

Did they demand change or did they belittle their peers?

If you will a steam account to someone, there is a chance that there are disputes/claims for the account that need to be settled in court.

This is such an asshole take.

99.99 percent of people are just doing what they can.

Just about everything and everyone works for, with, or adjacent to a heinous company.

Everything is immoral, including your comment since you used a computer (which was unethically developed and manufactured, and since critical advancements in computing were sometimes made by bad people, it's now impossible to create a truly harm free computer. This software (lemmy) is connected in some way to bad people, either its users, contributors, or the contributors to dependencies ( or the contributors to their dependencies, and so on).

Waxing on about how joe blow worked an office job that made someone rich so he could save 50 grand for his kid and how that makes him a bad person is just needlessly cruel.

For most things you throw away, you can maybe get 50 cents at the a scrapper, of they even take the item

Nothing is free. Equipment costs money and time to build, operate, maintain, and repair.

Yes smartphones and tablets have replaced desktops for most general users.

This is something people fail to realize, and I think part of it is because Linux people tend to surround themselves with other Linux people.

I have been helping my friend get into Linux, we picked a sensible distro, fedora, with the default gnome spin. He loves the UI, great.

But there is a random problem with his microphone, everything is garbled, I can't recreate it on my hardware and it's unclear.

He reads guides and randomly inputs terminal commands, things get borked, he re installs, cycle continues.

He tries a different distro, microphone works, but world of Warcraft is funky with lutris, so no go.

The result is, all of this shit just works on windows, and it just doesn't on Linux. Progress has been made in compatibility, but, for example, there was a whole day of learning just about x vs Wayland and not actually getting to use the computer. For someone who has never opened a terminal before, something as simple to you and I as adding a package repo is completely gibberish

Yes you can learn all of this, but to quote this friend who has been trying Linux for the past two weeks "I'm just gonna re install windows and go back to living my life after work"

When you have 20 years of understanding windows, you need to be nearly 1 to 1 with that platform to get people to switch.

Also, women tend to have better natural color distinction, they more prominently have a genetic mutation that adds a 4th color cone.

Additionally men are significantly more likely to have some form of colorblindness.

Age also can have an effect on your perception of the world as well as the objective quality of your vision.

Finally, describing the subject of the sentence is normal.

So once everyone has done it at least once and every item has a warning that the item changed in size without the price, what do we do?

He is a Doctor Of Philosophy in Philosophy?

All PhDs are philosophy degrees.

I didn't know about alien, that is pretty cool.

However this bit from the readme is hilariously on brand for Linux:

"To use alien, you will need several other programs. Alien is a perl program, and requires perl version 5.004 or greater. If you use slackware, make sure you get perl 5.004, the perl 5.003 in slackware does not work with alien!

To convert packages to or from rpms, you need the Red Hat Package Manager; get it from Red Hat's ftp site. If your distribution (eg, Red Hat) provides a rpm-build package, you will need it as well to generate rpms.

If you want to convert packages into debian packages, you will need the dpkg, dpkg-dev, and debhelper (version 3 or above) packages, which are available on http://packages.debian.org"