Frondo

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by Frondo 5y ago
I don't see how a news entertainment program you saw many years ago actually addresses how well poor people are at making the most of their very limited dollars.
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by Frondo 5y ago
Do you have anything to back that assertion up, that the poverty jobs will disappear? The only articles I've ever found that say that come from the Heritage Foundation or the American Enterprise Institute, and neither of those is anywh
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by Frondo 5y ago
Since that is how the relatively uncontroversial minimum wage law (which has been around since 1938) works, yes, society has generally decided that we do want to tell people, "it is illegal to work for some very low wage." And, wh
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by Frondo 5y ago
What does this have to do with people who are making poverty wages?
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by Frondo 5y ago
Or raise the minimum wage, raising the wage floor for all workers, and putting more money in the hands of poor people (who are generally much, much better at managing it than anyone else, due to the need to.)
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by Frondo 5y ago
To reframe this on race, there's been a couple of (from an engineering perspective) gobsmacking demos of how non-diverse developers end up making something that just does not work for people who don't look like them. The soap di
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by Frondo 5y ago
For those not familiar with the lady he's referring to, her name is Justine Sacco. She was a senior director of corporate communications, and this (among several tweets making fun of people or places) is the one that presumably got her
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by Frondo 5y ago
I recently got an M1 mac myself and tried Safari out again -- I seldom used it on my 2016 Pro (preferred Firefox) but it's supposed to have stellar battery life, so why not give it a go? Nice that they've got built-in tracking pro
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by Frondo 6y ago
> Unions have things like the ability to force someone to join a union and pay dues Not in the US, not since 1947. The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 banned closed shops: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_shop#United_St
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by Frondo 6y ago
The Taft-Hartley Act banned closed shops in 1947: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_shop#United_States It's literally the first line of that section.
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by Frondo 6y ago
If we have a health care system that's effectively only available to the very well-off, that's not a good health-care system -- it doesn't even deserve to be called one.
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by Frondo 6y ago
For one of those -- homelessness -- the costs to society for not housing everyone exceed what it'd take to simply give everyone some fixed shelter. We still give medical care to homeless people, we jail them (at costs far greater tha
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by Frondo 6y ago
Dr Seuss isn't hate speech, there are a few racist caricatures in a few of his books, that the owners have stopped printing. A few private platforms have stopped selling those books -- not all of them, neither all platforms nor books.
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by Frondo 6y ago
Maybe if such comments were heavily moderated (or edited in-place a la the exile ) -- cooking is one of the things where even otherwise very reasonable people I've known have gone off the deep end over what seems absurdly trivial to m
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by Frondo 6y ago
We don't know the circumstances of someone working three jobs with three children - maybe they had a good job, maybe they were married to someone who also had a good job, maybe life was going swimmingly until someone in their family go
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by Frondo 6y ago
If "being canceled" means that people say mean things about you but you face no material consequences, maybe it isn't the awful thing it's made out to be.
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by Frondo 6y ago
Or if you're setting up a SaaS application where some of your customers will want integration with their own SSO. We don't have developer time to spare implementing that sort of thing but Auth0 lets us do it as one of its built-in
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by Frondo 6y ago
The kinds of people who are moving a billion dollars cash and don't want any record it through the traditional financial system have another solution if someone fucks with the deal -- they kill them. Everyone else will do whatever kind
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by Frondo 6y ago
Here's a short history (from a university professor whose "current research areas include transnational organized crime, human trafficking and the sex industry, and drug trafficking by teenagers in rural Kentucky") that suppo
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by Frondo 6y ago
I have to say it doesn't strengthen your case to say "the damaging ones are public, the good ones are private." That's asking for a lot of trust in an organization with a public history of doing damage to societies, like
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by Frondo 6y ago
The Facebook engineers who tweaked the news feed to change the ratio of positive to negative news absolutely are partly responsible for that. Remember this one? https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/30/technology&#x
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by Frondo 6y ago
Under the NLRA, you are never required to join a union. You may be required to pay union dues, and the union will still represent you in collective bargaining, but that doesn't make you a union member.
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by Frondo 6y ago
Another thing here is -- I'm not sure how many people here have had to sort through their parents' and older relatives' stuff after they're gone, but I'm sure it's more than a few. How many kids will want Dad
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by Frondo 6y ago
Taft-Hartley banned the "closed shop," where you must join a union to work at a business, in 1947. You will never be forced to join a union anywhere in the US to work at any given employer.
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by Frondo 6y ago
Growing up in the pacific northwest, I don't think this is a most people thing. :) everyone I know walking around there cares about wet feet, since it's likely to happen 270 days out of the year.
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by Frondo 6y ago
Or put another way, why is it okay that baker can refuse to bake the cake for a gay wedding, but Apple must be compelled to work with Parler?
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by Frondo 6y ago
To the free speech absolutist, everything should be allowed everywhere. To someone like me, private corporations can kick people off their services at their pleasure -- and if that did become a problem (but not before), I'd suggest reg
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by Frondo 6y ago
Trump supporters and Christians: you'll be fine. Not everyone in the world will respect you, and some may disrespect you specifically for that part of your identity. Try to live and let live.
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by Frondo 6y ago
If any sizeable portion of internet users were also visually impaired, and on a stack similar to yours, you'd certainly see scams targeted at you. Good for you for being so far off the map, though, that is a good protective measure.
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by Frondo 6y ago
Entirely anecdotal, of course, but several of my republican relatives (big family) moved to Idaho a year and change ago -- shortly before the covid era. The last family gathering we all had together, pre-covid thanksgiving, they all spent m

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