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by Frondo 7y ago
Millions is off by an order of magnitude. In 2015 it was estimated that around 127k homes still used coal heating. Source, found on a ddg search: https://forgreenheat.blogspot.com/2017/06/trends-in-heating-... Oth
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by Frondo 7y ago
The thrust of the NY Times piece was made clear in the first paragraph: FedEx isn't just following tax law, it's influencing it with a great deal of lobbying cash. It isn't a neutral player, but trying to rewrite the rules in
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by Frondo 7y ago
Portland used to be very well-served by an extensive trolley system, as well. This was also removed as city commuting turned to cars and gas-powered buses: http://www.pdxhistory.com/html/streetcars.html https:/&#
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by Frondo 7y ago
That has not been true since 1947, when Taft-Hartley banned closed shops. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_shop#United_States As for advocating for organizing at your workplace being unfair to your coworkers: they
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by Frondo 7y ago
"Unionization for programmers is about MORE money, LESS work, and LESS accountability." Correct, and it is certainly your right to wish for less money and more work, even if that is an unorthodox position to take. Perhaps unfair t
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by Frondo 7y ago
Unfortunately, the only reasoning I can see that "a union for programmers is a terrible idea" is that you "don't want to read newsletters or listen to speeches or be involved at all in the grubby etc". A unionized w
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by Frondo 7y ago
You can feel however you want about power, about not joining a union, about not paying dues, but the employer always has more power than the employee; they pay you a small fraction of the value you produce for them, you collect a paycheck
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by Frondo 7y ago
Safari's impact on battery life is amazing, and the main reason it's also my daily driver. I work a lot off of battery, and while Firefox recently got a lot better, it's still hard to trade a few hours of work time. and yes,
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by Frondo 7y ago
Oddly enough, I just saw this pop up on Reddit, as an awkward consequence of the vanishing/reappearing text messages: https://www.reddit.com/r/relationship_advice/comments/dsyzo1... tl;dr: someone thoug
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by Frondo 7y ago
Oh, and I was there when they made that switch, and you wouldn't believe the complaints people had. Endless litanies about how awful it was that trash was only going out once every two weeks. In time, of course, everyone adapted. But i
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by Frondo 7y ago
Or learn a little French, which is extremely not at all hard. I spent a few days there and by the end of my time was conducting the entirety of my simple shop purchases in French, despite not having studied it before.
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by Frondo 7y ago
I think that's a big part of it, the "they earned it" bit. I think there are two other problems: people don't realize what the government does for them -- this is the problem of the "submerged state" -- and peo
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by Frondo 7y ago
These, and most movies, are business products of the movie industry. He's talking about something different, works of art, and the movie industry isn't funding those much at all...because it's a business sector for making m
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As in the Russian word совет, lit. advice or council.
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by Frondo 7y ago
I don't know about that. My millennial friends, when we're buying beer, go for the 24-pack of keystone light. The craft beer's always a treat, like something you might get a four-pack once a month.
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by Frondo 7y ago
I'm not sure that's true about the boomers having access to affordable college. I had an ex whose boomer grandfather lectured us endlessly about how he worked hard all summer long to save up for college -- which, for him, meant a
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by Frondo 7y ago
Could the downvoters please explain why organizing with your coworkers is not an option, or not an appropriate option, instead of just downvoting?
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You aren't missing anything, there's a ton of misunderstanding around marginal tax rates; confusion that directly benefits the tax-cuts-over-all subset of American political actors.
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Or organize with your coworkers to bring the operation more in line with how you all would like to see it operate. Management needs labor just as much as labor needs a paycheck. It's a two-way street.
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by Frondo 7y ago
Sorry, I didn't mean to say that in opposition to you -- it was more of a preemptive explanation of why those came to exist, since on HN there seems to be a lot of opposition to freedom-restraining laws (like compelling business owners
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by Frondo 7y ago
We carve out those special exceptions for reasons of striving to create a fairer world for everyone: people in this country have historically been (and contemporarily are) discriminated against for race, gender, sexual orientation. The dis
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One of the better questions she asked was, "should a political party be allowed to run targeted ads at members of the opposing party, giving false information about the election date?" Zuck's response was, "well, I think
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by Frondo 7y ago
You know that statement, the plural of anecdote is not data? Lots of people struggle and what you're describing is just crab bucket. You struggled so you think it's okay if everyone does. It's not.
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This is a bad way to run a society, that everyone is "in a fight to the death," especially for the wealthiest nation in history. We're sitting on enough resources to feed and house everyone, and the rich would still be fabulo
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by Frondo 7y ago
The two democratic front-runners have solutions for this: * strengthen union membership (union jobs pay an average of 13% better for the same work, and that's with union membership at an all-time low in the US), * reduce the ability o
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by Frondo 7y ago
Where there are public spaces that aren't actively policed, with public outlets, that's where they hang out. I used to live in a neighborhood next to a public library with a sheltered area and an outlet, and every night there&#x27
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by Frondo 7y ago
We already produce enough food per capita world-wide for everyone on the planet to be morbidly obese. The problems are in distribution; they're political and logistical. That won't change until the people (both in the West and in
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by Frondo 7y ago
Getting in a car and driving a couple of miles through stop signs, traffic lights, winding suburban boulevards, and cul-de-sacs is more convenient than a five minute walk to the store? Or, if you're really in a rural area, getting in
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by Frondo 7y ago
I can walk 10 minutes to get on a train that gets me many places in the city, 5 minutes in a different direction to get on multiple buses to go places the trains don't. No need to worry about parking. Need something from the grocery st
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by Frondo 7y ago
I haven't, though I'm familiar with that use of "landed" for fish. As a lifelong native speaker (PNW English), I've also never heard "landed" used to refer to shooting down or capturing enemy airplanes. I

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