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by GavinMcG 5y ago
HN isn't limited to tech. Plenty of people, tech-oriented or otherwise, find high-profile criminals fascinating.
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Resources maybe, but not necessarily experience. Very little actual organizing has been done over the past several decades. McAlevey's book No Shortcuts is worth a read on this front. Also, the RWDSU is not affiliated with the Teamst
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Organizing involves building close relationships amongst a larger and larger network of people. The President flying somewhere doesn't do that. The article describes this. The Democratic party often confuses activism and media presence
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Yes? Organizing is very very hard. There are lots of people bad at organizing who still are capable negotiators and who understand my interests as a worker and how to protect them.
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There are a lot of reasons not to take much away from the Bessemer vote. Well ahead of the vote there were lots of signs that the organizers hadn't, you know, organized .[0] Humiliated, absolutely, but by their own ineptitude. [0] ht
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It sounds as though "just mean" is an obvious impeachment in your view, and if your position is that we shouldn't write and publish mean things, then...well, that's fair. I'll agree it's mean. But in many ways
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But DFW writes for himself by doing what he's demanding : exposing his consciousness, his self-commentary, his inner life. Also, that line ("The author's primary allegiance seems to be to her family and friends") is une
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That's good, since it sounds like there's less water available than there was in the 50s. Still, it strikes me that even if Arizona isn't itself a disproportionate consumer, being between the water source and even larger cons
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Yet Maricopa County, Arizona (Phoenix) had more growth from 2010 to 2019 than any other county in the U.S.[0] Clark County, Nevada (Las Vegas) wasn't far behind. [0] https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases&#x
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Earlier this week, the ACLU published this[0] article, "The Problem With Censoring Political Speech Online – Including Trump’s". More substantively, they recently filed a brief[1] supporting Americans for Prosperity (the Koch brot
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If you've got a stock Android device you've obviously consented to Google running some code, and even updating to add new code after you bought it. On the other hand, apps are restricted based on permissions, and Google bypassing
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[Edit: the comment originally said their question wasn't implying anything] Of course you're implying something. If nothing else, you're implying the one might imply the other, and that the implication is worth attention. T
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"Arbitrary" is doing a lot of sneaky work here. You're implying that the law would somehow allow Google to manipulate investigators. But the law has broad allowances and exceptions in lots of areas, and competing permission
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It was 102° F in St. Louis today. Not hard to imagine 20° hotter on some roofs.
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Don't forget National Wildlife Refuges!
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They're hardly amusement parks. Many don't have gates, but the most popular ones do need to control the flow somehow. There are roads, and trails, and sometimes lodging. People can buy souvenirs from affiliated nonprofits. Aside f
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Sure, but odds are a good number of them were motivated by three or six month buyouts more than culture. And we're talking about a grand total of like 18 people here.
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How exactly do you shorten trails, or race courses?
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Eh. Were many users affected at all by the shakeup? Seems like a vocal minority of employees left and that was that.
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Did you? In the example section, there are four statements, repeated with an additional three, along with an introductory statement - about three paragraphs in all. There's an additional paragraph later on (the third one under "Wh
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I can't tell whether you're just nitpicking my choice of words, or whether you're actually arguing that the article is "about moral decision-making" and should therefore reference utility theory, which is the substa
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> purports to teach about moral decision-making Where? The author's stated purpose is "I want to help people work out what they really think and mean." Decision-making isn't on the table. > The kind of black-and-wh
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The comment is referring to the predecessor in the UK, the GDS.
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The insults aren't necessary and aren't a good fit here: > Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the c
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Main thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27453226
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What if? Most jurisdictions assess property taxes annually, and many of them regularly reassess the property value on which the tax is calculated, rather than waiting until a sale to reassess. One question is whether we want to encourage pu
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That comment is entirely unhelpful, and a net negative with the condescension. If you think someone misunderstood, help them by restating the idea in a way you find more understandable.
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The jury acquitted anyway, but do you think Emmett Till's killers should have been able to present a "he was black so it wasn't murder for me to lynch him" defense? We ask juries to render a verdict based on the law.
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Are you suggesting he's senile? Stupid? It's not clear why you'd think someone with Biden's political experience would be unaware that the President is the head of the executive branch.
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I don't think the managers the article describes are making the distinction you're making. They're concerned about the loss/thinness of culture, not only company-wide but also at the individual office level. It's al

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