CharlesColeman

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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> The tuning chip costs maybe 50 cents or something. Just have 3 or 4 of them and pretune the next few channels. That's 50 cents the shareholders can pocket, and everyone has already inured themselves to the slower experience. Isn&#
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> Since Wikipedias concentration of labor itself is a source of declining participation[1] it's doubtful that continuing this behavior will result in something else than a death spiral I'm not as interested in the viability of
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> Just spitballing, but it'd be nice if Wikipedia worked a little more like Linux distro repositories. Keep the tightly curated articles in a "core", but leave room for "community" or "nonfree" collecti
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> Maybe there's no cost to a page sitting on Wikipedia describing, like, some guy's special attack from Naruto. There is a cost, but it's measured in hours of maintenance labor not bytes of storage. If Wikipedia wants to m
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
Wikipedia can actually be pretty schizophrenic on the issue. Depending on timing and the interest groups involved, it can go either way. I've personally given up on editing Wikipedia (too many fanatics with infinite time), but IMHO it
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> You don't get to co-opt internal tools to post your interpretation of federal labor law, or to send a message to the management team, or whatever else her motivations were. That's why she got fired. > This kind of thing wo
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
So you can't answer the question, then. > Do you really need someone to tell you that if you work on security it’s not your told to disseminate information about hiring? Maybe if you're fully indoctrinated into a particular cor
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> This was an activist power-play. Every article that is written about this lists the action as activism. Again, why pretend otherwise? When you use the words like activist and activism you evoke images of people pushing for new things t
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> So, yeah, maybe apply some logic. If the employer owns your brain 24h/day maybe the hourly rate your are getting is not such a great deal. > And don't get me stared on clauses the survive the contract, including multi-year
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> internal security mechanism Correction: an internal message display tool. > for your own pet activism > push your slogans Correction: a warning not to break federal labor law, which Google is actually required to provide. https:
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> Certainly though if someone started putting in notes at the top of some of the pages to push a political agenda that would be an abuse of the process, wouldn't you say? Just to be clear: the message she communicated wasn't ab
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> Some things are just common sense. It wasn’t her role to disseminate information about any type of compliance outside of security. As a professional, you should know what’s appropriate in a workplace based on your position. "Commo
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
I understand and agree with many of those points. I think that if software engineers unionize, there should be a lot of innovation and experimentation in union structure and practices to address them. The other thing is that I see a lot of
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> having one lawyer trying to get the best deal for 5 of his clients, even if one is innocent and the other 4 guilty That's stretching the analogy too far, and adding biasing details to force the impression that unions are bad. Here
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> Is she part of the company’s legal team? If that's was an actual requirement, can you make or point to a statement in an official Google capacity that states the notices displayed by the tool she maintained had to be written or pr
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> Why would anyone want a cloud based, proprietary, non-free, non-oss password manager is what I really want to know. Former reputation and inertia. I use it, and when I started it seemed to have the best reputation for ease of use. I
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> On the one hand, if true, all Bloomberg had to do was produce evidence; a single compromised server. They didn't. If the story were true, under what circumstances could Bloomberg reports have come into possession of a compromised
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> If it hasn’t been solved yet, it’s probably not that trivial. How many is “too many”? What happens if I change one attribute every week or so until I’ve completely changed the product? The problem seems trivial, especially for a compan
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> So that means she should be able to inject her opinion on any site that she doesn’t like? Just to be clear: her "opinion" is "don't take actions that would cause the company to break federal labor law."
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> I like this. Where is it from? It appears to be from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadestown_(musical) It looks like it's sung in the voice of the Fates from Greek mythology.
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> She was using a security tool to spread her message. Does that seem appropriate to you? Yes, of course. Apparently this "security tool" exists to notify Googlers of policy, and the notification just linked to a Google policy
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
Sorry, my mistake :)
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> It's coopting an internal tool for political messages then implying "it passed PR" means you had permission from where it should come from. No one's saying it "passed PR", it passed the review process that
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
Edit: I agree.
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
>> Why would any sane person be against unions? > Because they, like any other organization, tend to become corrupt and exercise their power to the benefit of the "party insiders", at the expense of the everyday member. A
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> It feels like a lot of astro-turfing going on here. Why would any sane person be against unions? Going to work without a union is like going to court without a lawyer. Are there incompetent lawyers? Does it cost money to hire a lawyer?
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
It sounds like she went through a code review process for the change, would that count?
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> I don't know about you, but "Googlers have the right to participate in protected concerted activities." seems pretty political to me. It's about as political as informing someone they have a right to be paid the min
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
IIRC, an employer has to make the content available in some form in a place where employees will see it, not just anywhere. Traditionally it's a wall display of posters in a cafeteria or break room. Trying to fulfill the requiremen
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by CharlesColeman 7y ago
> Indeed. Though personally I feel perhaps Boeing should be left to fail, I'm considering going long if the stock slides further in the short term because I anticipate some form of bailout/buyout. I don't want to see it wi

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