vooffle's comments

On: EU suggests breaking up Google's ad business in preliminary antitrust ruling

[vooffle]

Microsoft gets a free pass because they're a 1-stop shop for governments and companies running offices. A walled garden is useful when non-technical people have to keep information somewhat securely.

Google's search and ad dominance on the other hand are less convenient for governments.

On: EU suggests breaking up Google's ad business in preliminary antitrust ruling

[vooffle]

If Google's ad business was split from the rest, it would mean the ad business having to pay the search engine business and other Google businesses to advertise on them.

On: Macroeconomic changes have made it impossible for me to want to pay you

[vooffle]

The economy, consumer confidence and investor mood changed. The way you make investors richer changes depending on inflation.

[MomoXenosaga → vooffle]

Do people on HN not read history books? This has happened countless times before.

Or was it assumed that those in the tech industry were a "protected" class of people for whom the rules do not apply?

Hell one of the best things about capitalism: everyone is equal before the dollar and everyone is expendable.

[agentultra → MomoXenosaga]

Everyone that is disadvantaged by not holding any of the power is expendable. And expend those in power will do in order to do the bidding of their investors and keep their compensation + bonuses well padded out.

You never see CEO’s take pay cuts, lose compensation, or executive teams get, “right sized.”

It’s always the workers who get the shaft first.

Given that a lot of this is driven by a hedge fund, isn’t this how IBM was gutted back in the day?

[hypertele-Xii → MomoXenosaga]

And expend you they shall. Faster and longer and cheaper, unless a union demands otherwise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fi...

[zwily → vooffle]

Well, interest rates. But that’s driven by inflation.