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lupusreal commented on SEC approves Texas Stock Exchange, first new US integrated exchange in decades   cbsnews.com/texas/news/se... · Posted by u/pseudolus
crowcroft · 4 months ago
I don't think the NYSE had any DEI requirements, but the NASDAQ created a rule where boards needed some minority representation in order to be listed. That rule was challenged and overturned in court though.

> On August 6, 2021, the SEC approved Nasdaq’s proposed diversity rule for companies listed on its exchange. The rule required Nasdaq-listed companies to (1) publicly disclose board-level demographic data annually and (2) have, or explain why they do not have, a certain number of diverse directors on their boards. Companies with more than five board members were required to have two members from an underrepresented group, including one female and one person who self-identifies as Black, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, Alaskan Native, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, biracial, or LGBTQ+.

https://ogletree.com/insights-resources/blog-posts/fifth-cir...

lupusreal · 4 months ago
Sounds illegal, no wonder the courts tossed it.
lupusreal commented on A Clausewitzian lens on modern urban warfare   mwi.westpoint.edu/a-claus... · Posted by u/bryanrasmussen
lazide · 4 months ago
I don’t mind Islam at all actually.

I’m pointing out that a discussion about ‘high ground’ that ignores that it’s a subjective discussion where there are numerous other factions with wildly conflicting views of it is not a useful discussion.

And that the Islamic vs Western world split is a classic example where people seem to insist on projecting their western (often Christian derived if not strictly so) views onto a rather diametrically opposed set of values and then acting surprised when ‘the other side’ goes ‘WTF, no’ or even acts in ways that they consider abhorrent - but are not surprising if you actually know what is going on.

That people even consider this a religious flamewar (apparently) is quite hilarious because if you actually read the Koran and Hadiths, or have spent much time around many Muslim societies these aren’t even (generally) contentious things I’m talking about!

For example - you just don’t draw a picture of Mohammed. Especially not if it’s making fun of him, but even if it’s flattering, just don’t.

If you’re in a culture that has major Muslim influences, this is very very obvious. It’s not a flamewar topic, but it doesn’t come up much - for the same reason most people don’t talk about slapping strangers in the face either.

It’s still a thing. As are the calls to prayer. And not gooning on random Muslim women. And a hundred other things.

lupusreal · 4 months ago
The janny smacked you but I thought you raised a valid point. The "moral high ground" is and has always been subjective. Do the ends justify the means? Depends on the ideology. Is a soldier surrendering a dishonorable act, or should he be treated with professional dignity? During WW2 the Japanese thought that surrender was dishonorable and treated POWs very poorly. They also deliberately shot at combat medics, they didn't have any sort of taboo against that. Nor did Europeans, until most of the way through the 19th century, think much about leaving wounded soldiers to lay dying in the field, or even casually murdering the wounded as they lay helpless after the battle was already decided (these sort of behaviors lead to the creation of the Red Cross.) In all of these cases it wasn't because those people were fundamentally evil. They were acting according to the norms and expectations of their culture. When two sides with radically different norms encounter each other in conflict, both can feel as though the other is depraved. But that's not necessarily an accurate reflection of the mental state of the other guys. American soldiers in the Pacific thought that the Japanese were savage animals, but with cooler hindsight we know that the Japanese had and still have a strong sense of honor. The catch is that it is, or at least then was, a very different sort of honor that held people to different expectations than Americans were accustomed to.
lupusreal commented on Doctorow: American tech cartels use apps to break the law   lithub.com/how-american-t... · Posted by u/ohjeez
anigbrowl · 4 months ago
Many people here seem to think a customer clearly stating their preference is inherently angry and unpleasant to front line workers. It isn't.
lupusreal · 4 months ago
Indeed. I think anything short of tossing your drink at McDonalds workers probably doesn't phase them. They deal with much worse shit from the public than somebody snarking at the premise of having an app.
lupusreal commented on Doctorow: American tech cartels use apps to break the law   lithub.com/how-american-t... · Posted by u/ohjeez
supportengineer · 4 months ago
McDonalds is a real estate business. I recommend you check out the 2016 movie "The Founder" which is the story of Ray Kroc. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Founder

lupusreal · 4 months ago
Ostensibly ;)

But yes, good movie too.

lupusreal commented on Doctorow: American tech cartels use apps to break the law   lithub.com/how-american-t... · Posted by u/ohjeez
dreamcompiler · 4 months ago
> The McDonald’s-backed company Plexure sells surveillance data on you to vendors, who use it to raise the price of items when they think you’ll pay more.

Finally I understand why when the McDonalds app was introduced it asked for permission to access my contacts. Of course I refused and deleted the app immediately. But to this day whenever I go to the McDonalds drive-thru the first question they ask is "Are you using the app today?"

McDonalds seems to care so much about their app that I wonder if selling personal information makes them more money than selling hamburgers.

lupusreal · 4 months ago
It sure seems like whenever a corporation grows old, large or expansive enough, it will inevitably morph into an spy agency. Even what is obstensibly a burger flipping business wants to spy on people.

Earlier this week I was in a regional gas station getting lunch, they've got maybe 30 or so locations scattered around this part of the state, and watched them tell an old man that he couldn't get a loyalty card from them anymore because they only do apps now. "But I don't have a cellphone" - "Uhhh... You can also do it online?"

lupusreal commented on ICE bought vehicles equipped with fake cell towers to spy on phones   techcrunch.com/2025/10/07... · Posted by u/mdhb
chneu · 4 months ago
To put into perspective of how insanely huge this is, Trump is about to bail out US Farmers who have been hit by Trump's trade wars. How much? $10 billion.

That means trump is spending 17x the farm bailout on ICE. That's insanity.

That $10 bil is coming out of our pockets.

lupusreal · 4 months ago
Insanity is a politician actually doing what he said he'd do, and was elected to do.
lupusreal commented on SEC approves Texas Stock Exchange, first new US integrated exchange in decades   cbsnews.com/texas/news/se... · Posted by u/pseudolus
piltdownman · 4 months ago
Run by Blackrock & Citadel, instigated in part to circumvent DEI protections, in a State that can’t keep their power grid stable, promising less regulations for the people running it and listing their companies on it.

Simply put, this is Republicans pushing for “Y'all Street". Target one will be earnings reports, but the eventual push will be to not be overseen by the SEC in some important capacity.

lupusreal · 4 months ago
> DEI protections

Forgive my ignorance, but what does that mean in this context?

lupusreal commented on Synology reverses policy banning third-party HDDs   guru3d.com/story/synology... · Posted by u/baobun
rickdeckard · 4 months ago
While I see where you're coming from, in my experience ESPECIALLY Customer-Support is usually happy to have a clear-cut criteria to reject support-requests as "officially out-of-scope".

I wouldn't be surprised if the decision was made BECAUSE Customer Support highlighted the support-effort to debug all these unique customer-setups within warranty, and then someone stepped in and proposed to kill two birds with one stone and only support own HDD's...

lupusreal · 4 months ago
Customer support who are happy to leave customers high and dry and rinse their hands of the problem are basically soulless already; they care more about their own immediate convienence (while still on the clock!) than they do about the human being on the other end of the phone line.

Now, it's probably inevitable that many of them will be this way, but what I'm saying is keeping these customer service reps satisfied with easy dismissals isn't actually the lifeblood of the company. Happy engineers who derive satisfaction from the quality of their work on the other hand are extremely important to the long term viability of the company. If you tell the engineers that you're compromising the utility of the product they worked so hard on, to screw over paying customers, for the convienence of the soulless customer service reps who just want to play solitaire on their computers instead of helping people, the company has a real problem.

u/lupusreal

KarmaCake day3094November 10, 2023View Original