AshWolfy

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by AshWolfy 6y ago
Strict civilian oversight, transparency, protections for whistleblowers, and culling much of the current leadership
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by AshWolfy 6y ago
My instinct would be to say to verify what they are saying, but it seems like we should just take advice from the people who we would verify with it in the first place
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or just people not paying attention
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by AshWolfy 6y ago
arent they an adware company?
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by AshWolfy 6y ago
They have ads, but they arent bad, aside from stuff like searx they are about the best ive used
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by AshWolfy 6y ago
I feel like the job of "paying people do things then taking the profit and credit" isnt the best allocation of resources
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by AshWolfy 6y ago
Science is built on consensus Also the fact that mask mandates are poorly enforced, or that masks arent a replacement for other forms of prevention, or that some materials dont offer the same level of prevention dont change the fact that ma
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by AshWolfy 6y ago
high prison sentences dont deter crime, people just assume they can get away with it
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by AshWolfy 6y ago
I wonder if theres a comparison of device by price point, because i bet apples advantage would be eaten up if they did
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by AshWolfy 6y ago
Is the M1 that revolutionary? It seems more like the culmination of technology that has been around for years. Rosetta 2 is the most impressive part, and even that is kinda the most obvious method of x86 emulation that doesnt suck
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by AshWolfy 6y ago
Ok but the fall of the bastile was an early milestone, it was over 3 years before the insurrection of august the 10th toppled the king
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The US is wealthy, has lower taxes, and lower happiness than similar countries
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by AshWolfy 6y ago
I only have my personal experience contrasted older swes. In the nyc area swes start at around 80k a year entry level, whereas a few years ago swes started at 120k+ entry level Maybe google is different, but industry wide wages are falling
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by AshWolfy 6y ago
Do high performers get paid less? Unions are ultimately democratic, besides job hopping not promotions were always the best way to get ahead in tech Also unions are democratic, and you only even have to pay agency fees
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by AshWolfy 6y ago
> One thing that wont happen: better working conditions. Some of these are true, some are not, but workers in unions make more money, have better benefits, and have better working conditions overall
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by AshWolfy 6y ago
Salaries are already well below what they used to be, and are continuing to fall Through actions against specific employers and minimum standards. If unions can have some control over wages, then the gate becomes irrelevant
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by AshWolfy 6y ago
Most of these problems are industry wide, poor work life balance is the rule in tech jobs, and jobs that are better have such high competition almost nobody will actually be able to shop around. Flexibility can be built into union contacts,
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by AshWolfy 6y ago
because they value the work you do more than the money they pay you
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by AshWolfy 6y ago
What do you think negotiations are for? Google will decide if accepting these projects is worth keeping their workforce and the workers will decide what they can accept working on for money
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by AshWolfy 6y ago
The answer is we have to place certain restrictions on what we can do, though tyranny of the majority is still better than tyranny of the majority
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by AshWolfy 6y ago
You should read this https://organizing.work/2020/12/there-is-something-missing-f...
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by AshWolfy 6y ago
Thats how you were already, working under a contract you had no input in
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by AshWolfy 6y ago
Nobody can tell you what a contract will look like because unions are democratic, all of us decide what we want, then send negotiators to get what we want, then we approve the result Thats like saying if democracy is so good, why wont anyon
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by AshWolfy 6y ago
Amphetamine sounds clinical to me, I used to take prescribed, 24 million people in the US, including me in the past, are prescribed amphetamines. I generally dont like obnoxious marketing either, but unless it is inappropriate for the setti
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by AshWolfy 6y ago
A number of powerful and mainstream people got caught up in cointelpro including members of congress, the naacp, and the sclc, including most famously mlk
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by AshWolfy 6y ago
Ryzen 4000 is competitive at 7nm, given how huge the R&D budget was and how long the development time was, if the M1 wasn't as good as it was it would have been a let down
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by AshWolfy 6y ago
Bitcoin isnt money, you cant pay for almost any house with bitcoin. Deflation also isnt good because that will cause debts to rise relative to wages. If houses cease to be a source of wealth that will mean ruin for million. What does storin
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by AshWolfy 6y ago
over half of homeless people in america have jobs, sixty to eighty percent dont have an addiction, seventy five percent dont have a serious mental illness and fifty five percent dont have any mental illness at all im sure for some people th
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by AshWolfy 6y ago
They could only afford to do so because the government subsidized it, at the behest of car companies. id check out strong towns research on how suburbs are unsustainable
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old reddit gang

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