should be an easy fix for google's algorithm though. google can easily detect text in an image and reject it.

speaking to the larger issue of bias in tech firms, one trend that might help is the skyrocketing cost of living in california. given how mature communications technology is today there's no good reason to keep all your developers physically in the same city, and there are tons of economic incentives to moving to less population dense areas.

if you have to have an office, why not have it in utah? or rural texas? and why not let devs from all over the country work remotely?

it'll save money, and break up a lot of the group-think.

of course the trend in tech firms isn't telecommuting but building company towns. basically slave plantations for H1Bs where they work a few hundred meters from where they eat and sleep.

so i'm not optimistic that telecommuting will change the big firms (the left put a lot of effort into capturing them and aren't going to give that up easily). but smaller firms are not going to build traditional offices in california simply because they can't afford it anymore.

lol I watched that Rip'n Chicken review. I have to watch it again now to try to determine why it could possibly have been flagged.

He's so completely harmless.

Like Mr. Rogers tier harmless.

I don't agree that there is no reason at all to keep all your staff in the same city, I work for a large corp and we have 3 large offices around the same city and even that 1 hour travel time between the offices can make it difficult to have productive meetings, and when your team is larger than about 10 people everyone jumping onto a video conf can still be less than productive, just watch any online debate of more than 5-6 people and it can turn into a shitfight

in such large voice conferences, have software that has one person in control of the meeting who can enable or disable the microphones of others. there's no need to interrupt or interject. people at the meeting should be listening to what each other are saying, not looking for an opportunity to take control of the conversation.

but most communication doesn't need to use such a format.

if it's a 2-4 way conversation there's no need for such formality, and there might not be any need for voice at all.

i just think it's silly that companies that are ostensibly dedicated to new communication mediums are addicted to face-to-face conversations and refuse to use new technologies.

what you're talking about is for presentations, if there's people in the meeting with no input to provide they're wasting their time being there

so if you go into it saying everyone's mic is disabled you're basically saying their input isn't needed... if you go to a school room raise your hand to talk then meetings are very slow and take longer than they need

not saying their input isn't needed, but that they can and should wait a few minutes to give it instead of interrupting someone else

might just be my personal preference, but i hate listening to debates where people keep interrupting each other

impossible for someone to get a complete thought out before someone else forcibly interjects.

but already you're describing something that wouldn't happen in a normal conversation.... some people need to be interrupted, they're overly verbose or go off on tangents, i see it all the time no one in the room cares what the person is saying because its irrelevant to the topic

I've been good friends of about 10 years with the guy I now work for he's always spending 15 minutes covering something that should take 5, everyone knows it, he knows it so people interrupt and say yeah we all get it, next topic

but when I dial into the meeting, that's hard if not impossible to do because you can't read the room and see if people do in fact get it

yeah, that's why there's one person in charge of the meeting who controls the mics

yeah, its the manager of the team who has the problem, so not a good solution

well, i'd say a bigger problem is forcing developers to live in trailers because they can't afford rent where the meetings are held

yeah that doesn't happen where I live, the opposite is true we don't have enough desks for everyone to work from the office, housing isn't a premium but office space

i'm not talking about where you live then. i'm talking about where all the big tech firms are located where the cost of living is ridiculous.

my original point was that big tech firms have an inordinate amount of control over media, and that they are biased ideologically because their employees are all from one or two extremely liberal cities. the argument i was trying to make was that the cost of living in these cities might force the companies to disperse geographically, thereby alleviating some of the ideological bias.

teleconferencing technology is just something that enables that. i'm not advocating that everyone everywhere should only teleconference.

as an example, reddit. reddit has 230 employees, and their office is in san francisco. now there's a certain number of those employees that have to be there physically because there is hardware they have to work on. but there's a lot of those employees that really have no need to cart their meat into a physical office. the labor they do can be just as easily done from anywhere else, and it would be a cost savings for everyone involved if they worked remotely.

chicken is racist

California is racist😂
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/05/31/number-one-in-poverty-california-isnt-our-most-progressive-state-its-our-most-racist-one/#1ba85f3a5cd9

some people arent doing as well... and some of those people not doing well are not white... therefore racism... its so clear to me now

Typical democrats. Enslaving their voters while whispering in their ear that they're winning. So devious.

Speaking of inflated pricing and mortgages, I think we're due another recession. Been almost ten years since the last crash.

nooooo I just bought 😛

so did my friend, in Las Vegas of all places. rip.

anyway the cycle goes wage inflation first, then boom, then recession

we're certainly seeing that here in Seattle.

so i think we're in the wage inflation cycle... you need confidence before a recession happens... otherwise they are too prepared for it

if everyone thinks there is going to be a recession.. then companies prepare for it.. and then it doesnt happen