Frondo

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by Frondo 9y ago
I'd love to do a lot more to my car, but I live in an apartment in a crowded part of the city; no garage, no place for tools. Is there anything like the equivalent of a commissary kitchen, but for cars? Like a garage with tools where
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by Frondo 9y ago
Again, it sounds like you're trying to justify leaving money/time/autonomy/working conditions on the table. You want to do that? You do you. That's not the mark of a rational economic actor, willingly selling thems
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by Frondo 9y ago
OK, fine, so you don't think it'll work. That's a whole different story from "we shouldn't want more, we're already well paid". If I'm going to be an Adam Smith-style rational economic actor, I'
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by Frondo 9y ago
Between 30 and 50 fps on Firefox 58, on Kubuntu, on a slow-ass Intel Celeron 3205U (1.50ghz) laptop. Amazing. Just amazing.
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by Frondo 9y ago
Awesome. And yeah, I think there's a big element of fear to it--fear of losing what is, right now, a pretty sweet deal for a lot of technical folks. That fear isn't entirely misplaced, anyway; individually, any of us could get fi
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by Frondo 9y ago
Right?? Why do you think I'm writing about how much better we could make our working conditions, if we organized and negotiated together? These ideas and methods aren't new (organizing and negotiating together), and they've
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by Frondo 9y ago
As I said in another comment, there are other groups working to help lower-paid service workers organize. They're better suited to that task than I'd ever be. (And I'm not even a part of any union, I just think we in the te
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by Frondo 9y ago
I could do that. And, at the same time, my fellow techies in any given megacorp (I'm not in one now, used to be long ago) can start organizing and negotiating together, to establish better working conditions, better pay, more autonomy,
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by Frondo 9y ago
Look, frankly speaking, if you're content with your lot in life, that's great. I'm happy for you. Telling me to focus on the low-paid service workers is a nice distraction, but that's what it is: there are other groups
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by Frondo 9y ago
They aren't massive bird choppers. That's a persistent myth from some very early wind farm that used short turbines with small, faster-moving blades.
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by Frondo 9y ago
I'm soon moving into management and I still think unions would be a fantastic idea all across the tech sector. The whole of a business is already a collectively organized unit, by its nature. When each of us, each individual technicia
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by Frondo 9y ago
Ok, personally, I do care about the imbalance, and I strongly encourage my fellow techies to care, too. Why? Because when enough of us care, we can change the sandbox itself. None of this stuff is set in stone. Great that you're co
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by Frondo 9y ago
Dude, go find your own studies. The OP content is now at the level of "Sun is bright and hot" level of having been studied. At some point, it stops becoming on us to link to studies for well-documented stuff, and on you to show t
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by Frondo 9y ago
We could still pay people to do those jobs. We just might have to pay more for less desirable jobs, instead of what we seem to have now--the worst jobs are also the worst paid.
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by Frondo 9y ago
I couldn't finish Foundation, after making it nearly all the way through the book and finding the only woman in the story was someone's secretary. It just felt like very, very dated and boring writing. I don't feel like all
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by Frondo 9y ago
Depends on the views. I'll never hire a bigot, and I'll fire anyone on the spot who expresses bigoted views. I don't think that is "fascism".
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by Frondo 9y ago
A few months ago I flew across the pacific. I'd say half the passengers watched something on their own devices. That ship, of fewer devices, has sailed.
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by Frondo 9y ago
I'll pitch in for Uniqlo for jeans, too. I picked up a pair overseas last year and they aren't showing a single bit of wear, despite a LOT of use. Compared to my Levis, which start showing wear in the crotch after a few months,
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by Frondo 9y ago
A lot of it is how the police largely pick on the most vulnerable populations--poor people, minorities, ex-cons, people with drug problems, whatever. They're not dumb, they know that if they tried to shake down drug-addled sons of sen
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by Frondo 9y ago
In addition to what my sibling posters said, the crowd-sourced speed trap notices are awesome and very, very helpful for those of us that have to make long drives on the open road at times.
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by Frondo 9y ago
And, frankly speaking, we don't want them to refuse lawful orders to hand over data. We might not have a well-functioning justice system, but the alternative--when corporations could feel empowered to ignore it because they themselves
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by Frondo 9y ago
The leap you're making, that I don't understand, is that if people didn't have to work, they'd start having huge families en masse. Why do you think that would happen? Is there any basis for having that concern?
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by Frondo 9y ago
"due to that UGB" ... Man, developers always say that, and it's simply never been true. There's so much undeveloped land still within the UGB, and so many opportunities to build densely close into city limits--a lot of
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by Frondo 9y ago
Bigotry is not a reasonable attitude, and you can't reason someone out of an attitude they didn't reason themselves into in the first place.
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by Frondo 9y ago
Racism is not a political opinion. Political opinions are along the lines of "are my taxes too high" or "do we spend more on parks or on police". A belief in the inferiority of another race isn't political, it&#x27
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by Frondo 9y ago
Haha, a never-ending hell for the kids you leave behind when you die. Love it. It should email them monthly messages, too. "Your dead parents data is STILL SAFE."
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by Frondo 9y ago
Nothing is permanent, exactly so. Our ability to slog around drives full of data lets us gloss over this fact, but when we're dead, are our kids gonna keep slogging around our drives? Nah. Better way to get permanence in your life is
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by Frondo 9y ago
Most of the old people in my family are dead or dying of alcohol-related things, and I still don't give a shit if people want to do that over working as a dishwasher well into old age. Forced labor isn't dignified because we&#x27
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by Frondo 9y ago
Something I've come to realize: I don't care what greedy people want for society. I think their ideas are seldom any good, because personal greed is sort of the polar opposite of what society is all about, in a fundamental way.
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by Frondo 9y ago
"Most just piss their life away." This is totally not snark: how is this different from people without ambition who have a low-end service industry job and no ambition to do more than wash dishes or pump gas? Why would there be a

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