Frondo

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by Frondo 8y ago
Puerto Rico is a part of America, just not a state; Puerto Ricans are American citizens.
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by Frondo 8y ago
It's not a matter of being offended if you just want some gray-hat to mind his own business.
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by Frondo 8y ago
Anyone can choose their employer, it's the employer who can't pay less than some amount we as a society deem is a necessary minimum. If anyone's going to have their freedom restrained, let's let it be the folks running b
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by Frondo 8y ago
One quick note on point 10: the question of whether owning a gun makes you safer isn't a politically contentious one -- it is a knowable fact in the realm of empiricism. Whether individuals should be allowed to own guns, without regar
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by Frondo 8y ago
He wasn't kicked out -- he resigned. And it was for political reasons that stood to directly affect an unknown number of his employees, the people whose lives would be directly affected by his donation to the anti-gay marriage thing; i
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by Frondo 8y ago
When it's been studied for effectiveness, it turns out AA works for between 5% and 10% of the people in it; as it also turns out, that's about the same percentage of people for whom any group support program would work. This isn
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by Frondo 8y ago
Every union is a democratic organization that is free to define its own rules about pay, time spent on the job, etc. There is no reason, philosophical or technical, why a software dev union would need to have rigid 9 to 5 hours or wages bas
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by Frondo 8y ago
AA isn't so much a recovery program as a submarine Christian conversion program; it's seldom better than nothing, and often worse. Very consistently and well-marketed, though. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine&
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by Frondo 8y ago
Not free and no one's saying that. Free at point of service, like the NHS or the Canadian health care system, yes, but obviously everyone knows we'd pay for it with taxes. We could just do it, cover everyone, for less than we&#x2
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by Frondo 8y ago
I've known a few people who were fine on 4 hours a night. just the way they were built. for me, less than 7 and I simply can't concentrate on anything all day, til about an hour before my next bedtime...
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by Frondo 8y ago
That's what society is; what I want looks quite different from what we have, but the basic elements are in place. If you don't want to live in a society, there are certainly places on earth you could go to live out your days in is
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by Frondo 8y ago
Awesome. Transfer that wealth. Shareholders add nothing of value to any economic system. Transfer it all to the people who are making a contribution. But you said "people are voting for socialism" (in a discussion about some gr
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by Frondo 8y ago
The contemporary American conservative's use of the word "socialism" seems so meaning-free, it's a stand-in for "things I don't like" or "whatever libtards want". Can you elaborate on what social
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by Frondo 8y ago
Yes, that is what a society is; we all work to support one another in one way or another. The only real question is what that support looks like. For most of the Western world, it includes things like paying women for maternity leave, and n
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by Frondo 8y ago
I'd prefer primary/replica, because it's both more descriptive and, because Microsoft uses it, is already familiar to a huge swath of techies. Also carries none of the baggage of slavery.
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by Frondo 8y ago
When you die at any age, the rest of us walk away with everything you had. The big questions are how we divide that up (do we give it all to your children, do we put it back into the public coffers, etc). "You can't take it with
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by Frondo 8y ago
"People who don't check their phones after-hours cannot be trusted to lead projects with demanding clients." If you own the business, you're always on, yeah. If you're a worker, this is paid work. Pinning career adv
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by Frondo 8y ago
This is a misleading statement. Labor organizers represent a labor union that's trying to organize those workers -- usually with the goal of having that newly established union join up with the union the labor organizers represent, bu
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by Frondo 8y ago
"as intended" -- intended by whom, and for what purpose? It's their money, not yours, not mine, and they can do whatever they please with it. Let people be people, the world has more than enough to take care of everyone even
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by Frondo 8y ago
It is irrelevant. How unions structure their pay rules is entirely up to them. If tech workers unionize, they can decide whatever pay scale they want. Why do you think that is not so? And if they choose a pay scale based on seniority, lin
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by Frondo 8y ago
I dunno, and it doesn't really matter for this conversation. After all, why would tech workers choose that pay scale when putting together the rules for their union? (And, if they did choose that, whose place is it for anyone outside t
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by Frondo 8y ago
I didn't make any claims about the pay for all SAG members, but only that they are absolutely a union that highly ambitious, highly-paid people willingly join (counter to the parent poster's claim that unions don't appeal to
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by Frondo 8y ago
I'm showing one very easily understood counterexample to "unions pay based on seniority" to expand on the parent poster's "small and biased" sample and show that unions are what their members make of them.
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by Frondo 8y ago
It's not at all difficult to get well-paid and ambitious people to join a union. The Screen Actors' guild represents people who are as ambitious as, and far better paid than, the hottest tech superstars. What amazes me is, for ho
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by Frondo 8y ago
That is a small and biased sample, and ignores a union representing the most visible people in society: the screen actors' guild. Think Tom Cruise is paid based on seniority and not skill?
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by Frondo 8y ago
No offense intended, but I'd like to mirror a lot of other folks' responses here: everyone's body is different. I've tried a lot of different kinds of pot (it's all legal in the PNW) and I've never experienced
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by Frondo 8y ago
Anecdotally, I wonder how true this is. I'm two degrees separated from two people who were murdered--one was a colleague of my father (killer never caught, suspected they knew each other, though), one a friend of my sister (also never
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by Frondo 8y ago
"Kindly fuck off with your guilt complex." Ah, men, the logical gender, the rational ones, and certainly never given to fits of emotion.
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by Frondo 8y ago
Not sure about that alleged proper place of government (it is, after all, the thing we're supposed to vigorously debate, not declare as a just-so thing), but I'm all on board with getting subsidies out of sugar, corn, beef, and al
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by Frondo 8y ago
"when the buffalo herds died off" -- when they were slaughtered almost to extinction, in large part to decimate the Indians who relied on them for food. Check out the size of this pile of buffalo skulls, to get a sense of the scal

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