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by Frondo 7y ago
It sure wasn't like this for our parents. The UC system was close to free in the 60s. Portland State University's very first summer session was $50 for tuition and fees. Universities supported simply by taxes, not a byzantine syst
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by Frondo 7y ago
I think the scope of that fire is better attributed to: the police dropped a bomb from a police helicopter on the home where people were living, and it was a poor neighborhood that may not have had firewalls between dwellings. I've
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by Frondo 7y ago
It's even more complicated in Philadelphia. Most of the old row houses do share a wall, which leads to a quirk if you buy and tear down one house in a row: you can't reattach to the existing wall. Your new house just lost several
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by Frondo 7y ago
Governments are not by and large incompetent, nor are they responsible for craft commonly-used electrical wiring standards. That is, in fact, written by a private organization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Ele
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by Frondo 7y ago
I spent some time in Philadelphia, where nearly all of the housing in the city core is rowhouses or apartment buildings. It's fantastic . It makes a dense, walkable city, and people still get the amenities of their own house with a li
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by Frondo 7y ago
I did a double-take when I read the first sentence, then realized you were joking! For clarification (for other sloppy readers like me), actors are organized in the Screen Actors' Guild, and NFL players are represented by the NFL Playe
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by Frondo 7y ago
I think it's entirely plausible for a tech worker's union to build public support around any number of popular causes, e.g. "want facebook to stop listening in on your conversations? FB Local 404 did that for you" or &qu
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by Frondo 7y ago
A union is a democratic structure itself, so it could indeed organize around workplace-specific concerns and its members could vote to abstain from larger political actions.
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by Frondo 7y ago
A union could also put an end to crunch time, a union could ensure better pay (or pay at all, to hear some salaried people talk about it) for on-call time, a union could protect politically unpopular people from arbitrary firing (i.e. they
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by Frondo 7y ago
The state should not be in the business of killing people.
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by Frondo 7y ago
I don't believe anyone is suggesting enslaving doctors and nurses, any time, anywhere. (I'll adjust this if you now come back and say you believe medical professionals should be enslaved as a form of national health care.) The dis
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by Frondo 7y ago
It's true that best value can be gamed, but any system can be gamed. When buyers can define some evaluation criteria like reviewing the bidder's past performance (delivery on-time vs late, cost overruns) in addition to current bid
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by Frondo 7y ago
Another way to do this involves a shift from lowest-cost purchasing to best-value purchasing. Under lowest cost guidelines, the agency cannot take any factors but price into consideration, leading to this garbage. With best-value, they can
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by Frondo 7y ago
Organize politically, at the state level, at the federal level, whatever you deem appropriate and achievable. Push for privacy laws, push for laws around data ownership. Develop a theory of "what should people own" and "what
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by Frondo 7y ago
These questions like "why doesn't she simply x or y" make me sad. The person in the article is poor, not dumb. She likely can't move. It's expensive to move, no matter who you are, and since she has two jobs, it see
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by Frondo 7y ago
Vancouver, British Columbia.
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by Frondo 7y ago
Thank you for elaborating. I'm actually more sympathetic to preserving identifiers now! I do think Twitter could handle this better. One problem with your distinction between names and identifiers is that, for Twitter, they're lar
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by Frondo 7y ago
I'm not trying to be argumentative, but I'm looking for something more than "it's possible to do this." Or rather, I don't think there's a need to go to such an extent to preserve old usernames and histori
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by Frondo 7y ago
Reading between the lines of gmueckl's post a little, it's not hard for most people, but there are several aspects to the process that would challenge people with one or more disabilities: > Mobility and dexterity, being able t
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by Frondo 7y ago
I realize you probably don't want to for personal reasons, but have you removed your father from your phone book? I didn't remove mine for the longest time, though his number has long been reused by someone else; I only did when I
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by Frondo 7y ago
Why should it be? We might not be running out bits, but keeping those bits maintained takes effort; it doesn't happen by magic. and I can't think of any form of identifier that guarantees uniqueness; even the stone markings on gra
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by Frondo 7y ago
I had an experience of total amnesia on LSD once. After a few minutes (objective, by a wall clock) of time-dilation experience (felt like 8 or 10 hours passing), I wandered upstairs and laid down on the bed. Again, a few minutes of closed-e
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by Frondo 7y ago
It absolutely depends on the anti-depressant. SSRIs, do not mix. NDRIs, lots of people report they're fine. Hopefully we'll get better data on what other chemicals are okay to mix as these things slowly become permitted to be the
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by Frondo 7y ago
You can see this in the video, even. The front wheels of the truck are rolling backwards as it's being pulled. Anyway, the bit about who's being pulled first also interests me; anyone else wondering about the difference of stati
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by Frondo 7y ago
A google union, or any tech union, can arrange whatever compensation scale it wants. Every union is a democratic organization, structured however its members want it to be structured. There is no reason a tech union would have a strict seni
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by Frondo 7y ago
Former private security guard here: in our training, we were told that we, as private citizens, could "arrest" someone, if you're willing to sign your name to an arrest warrant. You'd want to have the cops on the way, an
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by Frondo 7y ago
People aren't and will never be rational economic actors -- homo economicus -- and while we can chide them for making mistakes a rational person wouldn't, I feel like there must be a way to structure the world that doesn't se
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by Frondo 7y ago
Honestly, the unsatisfying answer is simply because they (i.e. those of us who didn't grow up on IRC, like marketing teams) want to, and are used to being able to do it elsewhere. I'm sure the people who include images in email an
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by Frondo 7y ago
The hacker seeking a technical solution is, I think, at least in part a consequence of the individualism that's so much a part of especially the Silicon Valley hacking era; along with the libertarian leanings of especially early hacker
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by Frondo 7y ago
I can't speak to federal-level contracting, and I can't speak to much contracting outside the Pacific Northwest and parts of the east coast, but this is largely untrue. In virtually every capital construction project I've see

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