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by JPKab 5y ago
I’ve worked a lot of low status customer facing jobs, including at Walmart. I also used to build houses as a carpenter for a GC. I’m fully aware of what it’s like to work for dehumanizing employers in dehumanizing industries with bad pay
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by JPKab 5y ago
Or maybe, just maybe, the news doesn't typically report on standard USPS actions, but chose to latch on to these specific actions due to the timing causing people to jump to conclusions and therefore click on the link. Have you ever he
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by JPKab 5y ago
There's absolutely no evidence of this. It's been a popular talking point for a long time, but note how nobody making these assertions can provide a single, specific example of this phenomenon. They will instead resort to talkin
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by JPKab 5y ago
The politicized nature of discussing the post office in its funding has contaminated the brains of many people. The load that is distributed by the postal service has changed in nature dramatically to be far more packaged intensive and far
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by JPKab 5y ago
I don't think it's clearly the result of what you indicate. I'm no GOP fan at all but having done a lot of work with the federal government a very constant theme in politics is this idea that if only federal agencies are give
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by JPKab 5y ago
I agree that Tesla dropping FSD would take a while. In addition to the huge sunk-cost and investor expectations, they have an entire strategy (via 3 year vehicle leases which are currently offering no-buyout for customers at termination) o
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by JPKab 5y ago
Indeed. I respect designers, but they can go too far (jony I've with the obsession with thinness). Basecamps business isn't at risk from that change. Marketing: No comment.
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by JPKab 5y ago
I really appreciate your extremely informative response. I think you hit a very good point with the pioneer attacks and it's a higher cost as the team gets larger. Funny enough I experienced the pioneer tax myself one time but for a di
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by JPKab 5y ago
Fair point on Rails core contrib. I was definitely wrong on that.
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Age or price of car aren't what I mean. Poorly maintained, allowed to fall into disrepair, bald tires often. Losers don't take care of things. Conversely, I love seeing well maintained older vehicles.
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by JPKab 5y ago
I didn't have a problem with the statement. I disagree with catering to candidates own biases though. If a candidate assumes my startup is bigoted because it's all white, despite talking to us, I don't want them here. Stereo
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by JPKab 5y ago
Current engineering team is 2 women, 2 men. 2 over 50, 2 under 40. All white. Leadership team is mostly female, only 1 male, who is CTO. 1 is Latina, others white. In the past, I joined a company where entire leadership team was Indian a
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by JPKab 6y ago
The woman owned and founded startup I work for is completely unable to hire the diverse candidates we have interviewed because they are completely unaffordable at a startup. Why is this? Because executives at various massive tech companies
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by JPKab 6y ago
I'm at a startup (tiny) now, and thanks to DIE bonuses and hiring emphasis n at FAANGs, diverse candidates have never been more unaffordable. Thoroughly middle of the road, PHP programmers who can't do front end at all, demanding
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by JPKab 6y ago
The Jehovah's Witness comment was so on point. I grew up with a single father, who was prone to religious fanaticism. Plenty of fundamentalist, culty churches. When I was a teen, my father met a radical vegan animal rights activist, s
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by JPKab 6y ago
I worked years ago in defense contracting, and remember being treated in a hostile fashion for admitting I was an Obama supporter. Mostly good people, but super isolating when they would talk politics. And I should note, that the pattern I
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by JPKab 6y ago
In places like New York City the unions are easily able to stop the work of any private contractor. The private contractors know this and collaborate with the unions on ensuring that they are able to ensure that the contracts mandate union
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by JPKab 6y ago
I agree with your statement here, but it should be noted that it's important to have smart minimum wages adjusted for regional cost of living. In the US, the minimum wage hikes can often result in local reductions in employment in the
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by JPKab 6y ago
Your response was well-reasoned and thought out, and I certainly wasn't TRYING to imply it was mostly unions. But having done work in the past to do detailed analysis for the WMATA (they run the DC metro system) on various understaffin
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by JPKab 6y ago
The article lacks precision in the fact that it's not necessarily "American" construction costs, so much as "why are construction costs in large American cities so costly". DC, NYC, LA, SF are not representative of
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by JPKab 6y ago
I worked in this space in one of the biggest issues is the kind of company and the kind of dysfunction within this company that causes them to think that hiring consultants externally is a good idea. It's almost always not a good idea
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by JPKab 6y ago
You're on point with this. I think we can all agree that the accusers in the Salem witch trials couldn't have been telling the truth, unless they were hallucinating (there's a theory that lysergic acid in grain could have cau
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by JPKab 6y ago
My brother was suicidal at one time due to the accusations, and more importantly, the fact that everyone immediately believed them. When his wife got the idea to call the daycare and ask if they had video footage, he thought for sure he&#x
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by JPKab 6y ago
I should note that my brother thought exactly the way you did, before this happened to him. Just an FYI. He didn't move to Portland randomly. He's the most liberal of the liberal. Just remember that you almost never hear media
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He was told his case was legitimate, but the cost was too much for him to afford. Also, large corporations have massive legal teams. The narrative that is widely believed is that "the cost of making an accusation is so high that nobod
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by JPKab 6y ago
The cost was hundreds of thousands of dollars, and the company would have fought it for about 3 years, based on the advice of the wrongful termination specialist he consulted. He would have been bankrupted, and did what most people do, and
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by JPKab 6y ago
So in your judgement, a person who is accused is guilty if they don't retaliate with a slander/libel lawsuit? Did you ever stop to think that maybe, just maybe, lawyers and filing lawsuits might be expensive, prohibitively so? Th
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by JPKab 6y ago
John Wayne Gacy was convicted in a criminal court of law, with rules, where he was presumed innocent until proven guilty. You attempt to draw a connection, but it's a false analogy out of the gate.
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Behavior like this should be punished within the framework of the civil and criminal court system. The court of public opinion has no rules as to the validity of evidence introduced, and relies on informal enforcement mechanisms as well, w
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by JPKab 6y ago
A massive company that makes overpriced, low-quality athletic products that double as status symbols, which they manufacture overseas (often using child labor) but then sell for massive markups in the US, Europe, etc. They have an extremel

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