FussyZeus

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by FussyZeus 7y ago
Except Google is one of many corporations that exploit passion for the work their employees are doing to get hundreds of extra hours out of them off the clock. You're right, it's very easy for them to say "only work at work&q
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
And a fox has every reason to make a "rule" that dogs can't go in the henhouse. That's why we don't let foxes guard henhouses.
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
All these 10x developers terrified they'd have to make a reasonable wage like the rest of us serfs. *By the way, that's very much sarcasm since a well organized union doesn't need to cap wages at any level. It's just the
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
Because adding harmless code and stealing plane tickets, hotel fare, and maybe a rental car are the same thing. How do you think old-school labor organizing went down? Do you think the bosses stood there smiling as employees handed out flye
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
I think it might be because of the ubiquity of music piracy during the 90's. In it's heyday, you could get anything off of Limewire, Kazaa, and of course Napster with extremely little effort. By contrast, pirating video didn'
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
Except that the very concept of a 10X developer, no matter what they themselves may say about it, is disgusting; it's a person who has, even if willingly, distorted their work/life balance to a point where they "go the extra
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
> The only excuse I read here on HN is that "I am a 10X dev and I don;t want the union to pay me the same as my colleague that is a lesser developer then me." And one could easily say this is a ploy by management-level people t
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
And this is an overly cynical one, painting all unions as the same despite them being individual entities, all composed of different people. Plenty of them have problems. Plenty more don't. Generalizing them all in this way is exactly
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
I don't know where this perception comes from but it's not true. Collective bargaining isn't about the entire employee pool being represented as one skilled homogeneous block. It's about giving employees a voice at the d
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
That is basically a union effort. The cognitive dissonance on display with regard to labor in tech is fascinating. Many have internalized the propaganda created by big business that "unions are bad, unions are expensive, you don&#x27
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
And they're also disgusting, poorly maintained, and full of drug addicts.
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
> Consider the average personal car is only in use 5% of the time. I only use my toilets a small fraction of the day as well, would you suggest we crowdsource them for greater efficiency too? Also this statistic presumes that cars work b
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
> That is an amazingly quick review of an appeal for something that is pretty complicated. In general the way large corporations have gotten so friendly with their regulatory oversight should be a cause of concern for everyone in every i
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
That may be true, but this is also the sole comment from this account, made to defend the ad policies of a company known to take veeeeeery large liberties with the data of it's userbase, both to enhance features and to sell ad targetin
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
To a point. While any given speaker should always endeavor to deliver their point for maximum effectiveness, by the same token, discounting or outright ignoring feedback simply because it's worded poorly or timed poorly is like rejecti
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
> It's very possible they are good at something youre not perceptive to. This is entirely possible but in the case of OP, and in the larger scope, it's irrelevant. If you have a product manager, for example, who's job it i
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
I don't. He can be a bit of a space cadet at times and sometimes get stuck on the wrong things, but I would never call him incompetent.
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
It feels like this comment and the other comments in this thread are all dancing around the same issue: The problem is incompetent people getting ahold of power in an organization. How that comes to pass makes little difference: maybe the
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
> America is certainly decades (if not centuries) behind in public transportation. However, these CityLab articles are doing a great thing by highlighting our unhealthy dependence on cars and making it a part of everyday conversation. If
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
Do you not like the "sound" of that? :D
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
That can go either way. The ones during the prime time hours like Alton Brown tend to be more practical recipes. It's the ones during like the 10am slot that do the complicated shit (which kinda makes sense since the people most likely
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
That's absolutely my ideal dinner. I enjoy cooking but I don't want to spend a ton of time on it. Season a piece of chicken or maybe a steak if it's a treat night, sautee some veggies, warm up some pre-cooked rice, and eat. W
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
I wonder how much of this is due to the proliferation of ridiculous recipes from the 70's and 80's. Like so much of that stuff is unhealthy as hell, takes FOREVER to make and involves a list of ingredients longer than my leg. Mean
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
You have to look at it as the companies buying ads pay more for users that are more likely to result in sales. Exposure increases this value just by playing a numbers game; therefore, the larger the ad network, the more they can charge. Tar
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
Don't forget Amazon's incomprehensible billing practices for AWS. It seems to be designed to be impossible to figure out what you're going to spend ahead of time.
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
> If you're arguing for something you need the full argument. No you don't. In fact, for many rhetorically primed things, such as opposition to Google, and especially in the realm of activism, explaining over and over why you&#
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
Don't forget the ever present hatred seemingly everyone who doesn't own Apple products or has any desire to own Apple products has for Apple and every product they make.
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
Unfortunately, at least when I last tried during Loki, it's also extremely limited. I couldn't even install Firefox. Software in general seems to be limited solely to their bespoke storefront, which I'm not opposed to on pr
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
Well, damnit. Thanks for the info.
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
I have uBlock running on Safari...? Newest version. Or is uBlock not the same as uBlock origin?

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