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by 0x262d 6y ago
my least favorites are the generic "difference between" sites, none of whose domains I can remember at the moment. but they really drive me nuts when I want to find results from people who actually know what they're talking a
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by 0x262d 6y ago
I think there's truth both in the incentives listed in the article and in this explanation, and there is a complex and varied set of cynical reasons that explain any large move across many employers like this. The real lesson is not to
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by 0x262d 6y ago
Oh, yes. That's been used to drive down the standard of living in the US (including within it) forever. That's why competition is bad for labor. The only real escape from the market's race to the bottom is a democratically pl
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by 0x262d 6y ago
I don't understand, disincentive for who, to comply with what?
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People seem to want to downvote this. A similar contradiction exists with automation, which the article explains a little. Automation should be a good thing. It means that if we could all feed ourselves and make commodities yesterday, after
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Their jobs were most often outsourced by US companies looking to get higher profits from cheaper labor. It would be a lot more effective to solve this by enforcing equivalent, high working standards across the world, rather than blaming Chi
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by 0x262d 6y ago
Important to understand with all the US-China stuff - working class people in both countries should mutually benefit from higher productivity, the open development and sharing of technology, from trade, etc. The only thing driving a rift
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by 0x262d 6y ago
That's really interesting to hear, I had always wondered how bad things can really be. I guess the answer is "as bad as money can buy" which I should have expected. Thanks.
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vi mode plus swapping my capslock and escape keys are by far the best thing I've ever done for terminal productivity. it kind of sucks on shared dev servers though.
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Lol this comment is absurdly condescending. I think the issue is more with picking "abnormal" as a goal, from reading this book, and then trying to develop abnormal traits to get there; in contrast to being intrinsically motivated
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by 0x262d 6y ago
Yeah, this sounds like a slightly more demented, self help-ey version of Outliers. The actual bullet points here are less weird than than "be abnormal", they're more pretty standard entrepreneur-oriented self help fare.
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Yeah, this doesn’t seem to have any definition up front of capitalism. If I defined it it would involve mostly wage labor by people who don’t own enough property to support themselves, as well as predominantly private investment of capital
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To try to preempt one counterargument: such a system doesn't mean we can no longer have "competing" software projects that do similar things if it is beneficial to compare different approaches. We can easily do that if it&#x2
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Tech is an area where the contradictions inherent in the liberal approach to regulating companies are most clear. Liberal theories of nice capitalism require multiple competing companies on "fair" grounds. But it is obviously anno
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by 0x262d 6y ago
can I figure out if my company is doing this? will Interguard show up in Task Manager somehow?
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by 0x262d 6y ago
Honestly I'm not having a great time. I'm typing this from my work computer at midnight because I didn't get much work done today or yesterday. I live in a small apartment with my girlfriend only, so don't have distracti
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Ask HN: How is work from home going several weeks in?
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> Today we are making some of the code that we can afford to open source available on our GitHub page. It is useless by itself and is heavily tied to our infrastructure, but you can star it to make us seem more relevant. Good, less satir
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by 0x262d 6y ago
I posted a reply to my own comment elaborating on this a bit. I definitely agree that OP should get active and try to help this process. But I also think that expecting success for warehouse workers short of their own militant organization
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by 0x262d 6y ago
I'm starting to reassess my comment. On some level it's true, worker organization is absolutely key and there's no way around that. But it's also important to focus more on what you (the OP) can do. I think that as an Am
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The interesting thing about capitalism is how it is driven forward by its own internal logic and motion of ever-expanding profits, which in the long run doesn't allow the middle class to comfortably exist without chipping away at their
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by 0x262d 6y ago
I agree this is a real effect - to some degree. But the degree to which it causes them to reform is the level of bad press/taking shortcuts which optimizes profit. Not abusing their workers in factories, well, that's a lot of work
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by 0x262d 6y ago
Yeah that's absolutely important, and donations like that have been important for keeping strikes going. But unfortunately we're not at that point yet.
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Honestly, you have pretty little real leverage. Warehouse workers are going to have to form a union and threaten to really shut down amazon's profits, in order to defeat these profit-motivated outrages. It's always been like this.
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by 0x262d 6y ago
I guess you don’t know what astroturf means. or shill.
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I'm surprised that the number is that high and very skeptical of it, but I don't have time to investigate at this exact moment. Regardless, they all have vacancy decontrol, which is a gaping loophole that nullifies the effectivene
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taxamazon.net/about
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The left politicians I’m referring to have their hands completely tied by the centrist majority who won’t act on this, and people who profit from high rent turn around, point to the lack of political action they caused, and say it means the
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by 0x262d 6y ago
Someone downvoted this. If they disagree they should source it. Amazon spent $1.5m on the city council elections in 2019, I believe about $300k in 2018, and $300-400k in 2017 on the mayoral race. The rate at which they spend on such thing
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by 0x262d 6y ago
Well in Seattle, their homeless charity money is less so far than the money they have spent against the politicians trying to do anything about homelessness besides passively asking for business to "be responsible".

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