Jochim

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by Jochim 5y ago
> But how come you have to figure out if food is safe just because it is not the government who certifies that food?! Because rather than trusting a centralised entity responsible for food safety I now need to figure out which of the 5,0
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by Jochim 5y ago
> Do you think people manufacturing the products you buy are interested in poisoning you? Would they do it? They would lose all their customers, their reputation would be damaged... no, I do not see it. There's a long history of bus
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by Jochim 5y ago
See also the trend for offshoring production to countries that lack any safety standards or worker protections. The only real progress has been that some companies try to cover up that they're employing child labour by doing it through
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by Jochim 5y ago
> Are some of these drivers not working for other companies also? In that case they really are freelancers/entrepreneurs not employees...I think the decision will be appealed. That's a pretty bad test on it's own. Plenty o
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by Jochim 5y ago
- Have your shifts cut in retaliation because you couldn't/wouldn't come in to cover on your day off.
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by Jochim 5y ago
I mean the FDA explains exactly why on their website[0]. Livestock are much bigger than humans meaning the medication has a much higher dosage and even if the active ingredient is the same the delivery mechanism doesn't have to be, whi
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by Jochim 5y ago
The influence exerted is usually orthogonal to the traditional goal of improving the conditions of the working class. Instead identity politics focuses on a platform of "more POC female dictators" rather than one that actually fig
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by Jochim 5y ago
Does no one know how to proceed properly or are existing management just not willing to listen to the rank and file? I'm watching this happen right now as a third party. The C-suite have brought in a bunch of expensive contractors who
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by Jochim 5y ago
High density doesn't mean only building housing. You can build housing around a large park that gives children a safe place to play and explore. Shops within walking distance allow them to experience some responsibility running an erra
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by Jochim 5y ago
I took this to mean that the board will never explicitly tell you to break the law. They'll just make it impossible to carry out your job unless you do. Then, when the hammer falls you're a "rogue employee" that the comp
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by Jochim 5y ago
I had to do this recently on an old Dell XPS 9530 circa 2013. It had been sitting in a cupboard for a good year or two and when powered on it produced no video output, or BIOS/POST screen. The backlight for the screen didn't even
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by Jochim 5y ago
The software developer who is WFH can do much worse. But for some completely unknown reason no one seems to be suggesting that they should be heavily surveiled...
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by Jochim 5y ago
> I'm genuinely shocked to see so many people disagreeing with this premise. Very few people will voluntarily perform shitty, low-status jobs unless you motivate them. Motivating them is the key word. Right now we depend on people b
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by Jochim 5y ago
I learned the common search algorithms in school. I haven't had to touch them since, if you asked me to write psuedo-code for them on the spot I'd almost definitely fail to implement them properly. There's a huge difference b
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by Jochim 5y ago
> This is a good soundbyte, but misses that the world overall is getting richer and safer every year. The UK is not getting poorer. The US is not either. There's always going to be someone, somewhere who falls through the cracks. Th
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by Jochim 5y ago
It might be more productive if you explain what it is about GP's post you actually disagree with. Personally I find the fact that we've set up a system where a few rich guys can burn obscene amounts of money in a dick measuring co
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by Jochim 5y ago
If the purpose of a fine is to disincentivise certain behaviour then the degree to which it does so should be of the same magnitude for everyone it applies to. If the magnitude is not equal then all you're doing is discriminating again
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by Jochim 5y ago
The most important competitive advantage is having the money to buy someone who knows how to do things for you. The second most is knowing people who have already bought someone good at the job. It's why the rich don't manage thei
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by Jochim 5y ago
I didn't intend to speak to the relative scale of the problems, merely that we shouldn't ignore that it's still a problem and we should still be trying to improve. My original wording wasn't great at conveying that.
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by Jochim 5y ago
The difference is that a white person in a black neighbourhood will be put in danger by the criminal activity of private citizens. A black person in a white neighbourhood will be put in danger by an agent of the state who is purportedly res
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by Jochim 5y ago
Generally things are "better" here but that doesn't mean the problems don't exist. They might just be less severe or be expressed in a different manner. "Exactly" was probably the wrong word to use. The sentime
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by Jochim 5y ago
My point wasn't the treatment of Snowden but rather that the claim that: > Inside the USA? The rules are far more clear. Is false. The NSA was/is carrying out a mass spying operation over a number of years and involving hundred
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by Jochim 5y ago
My point wasn't that these things happen disproportionately in the west. It was that to imply, as the GP did, that these issues do not exist or are not problems in the west is both incorrect and damaging. Corruption is a pretty good ex
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by Jochim 5y ago
On an individual basis the rules are often vague and selectively enforced. As a collective institution there was the whole Edward Snowden thing where he pointed out that the NSA had definitely not been following those rules and no one who k
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by Jochim 5y ago
It's kind of intriguing to me because, as a member of a western society, I think we place largely the same expectations on people to conform, the only difference is in how the enforcement is applied. In many countries, cities, and neig
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by Jochim 5y ago
Should your bank prevent you from spending that pound if the transaction is for something illicit? If your bank knows you've stolen that pound being used to purchase a legal good/service, should they allow you to spend it?
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by Jochim 5y ago
The problem with running your own DC is growing past your planned capacity. There's often a huge delay between developers having to put up with the VM infrastructure having to put up with under-resourced machines and more capacity bein
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by Jochim 5y ago
It's extremely common for companies to underpay their long term staff. I've been at my current place for about 2 years and after my latest cost of living raise of ~5% I'm still earning 5-20% under what recruiters reach out to
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by Jochim 5y ago
What's so difficult about having an internal jobs board? It seems like a fairly common thing at companies big enough to be bothered by this, and smaller companies can get by with an email of open positions.
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by Jochim 5y ago
While I'm glad this one person has decided to do what in my opinion is "the right thing" it's also a prime example of how horrifyingly unbalanced our system is. As a result it's difficult to feel celebratory since t

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