Manuel_D

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by Manuel_D 10mo ago
What third party is enforcing an anti-poaching agreement? Can you back up that claim with evidence?
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by Manuel_D 10mo ago
> Employer-bound health insurance in the US Benefits are part of an employees compensation package. A competing offer could have even better healthcare than Id. > Industry blacklists to exclude uppity employees and union members. This
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by Manuel_D 10mo ago
You're asking me to prove a negative. Bosses at other companies have been caught locking employees in factories and physically preventing them from leaving. Can I say for certain that this didn't happen at Id? No, but anyone makin
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by Manuel_D 10mo ago
I'm not disputing that employees have right to try and form a union. I'm asking people who are insisting that Id employees are not free to accept competing offers to back up those claims with evidence.
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by Manuel_D 10mo ago
> There was a big case with Apple and other Silicon Valley corporations were found to have colluded to not hire employees working for any of the other companies. And there's some factories in Asia that confiscate foreign worker&#x27
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by Manuel_D 10mo ago
This collusion affected 8 companies, and stopped over a decade and a half ago. Is there any evidence that Id employees are being subject to this kind of no poach agreement?
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by Manuel_D 10mo ago
Do you have evidence that Id is being subject to some sort of no poach deal? Nobody doubts that employers can curb worker's ability to accept competing offers. The question is whether there's actually any evidence backing up the
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by Manuel_D 10mo ago
Still not even remotely comparable to owning human beings as property. Regardless, the government cracked down on this behavior (which affected 8 companies) and it stopped in 20009 as per your link.
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by Manuel_D 10mo ago
Except unlike slaves, these software developers are free to quit and take a competing job offer.
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by Manuel_D 10mo ago
What's keeping any one of these Id software developers from accepting a competing job offer elsewhere? Yes, there are scenarios where employees are stripped of agency. E.g a factory owner taking and holding foreign worker's passp
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by Manuel_D 10mo ago
The workers aren't drones, they have the agency to choose another job. If a company is underpaying workers relative to the rest of the market, they'll struggle to hire and retain employees without the interference of a union.
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by Manuel_D 10mo ago
To be clear, that claim of 4,000 comes from a member of Hezbollah: > According to the Lebanese government, the attack killed 42 people,[11] including 12 civilians,[12] and injured 4,000 civilians (according to Mustafa Bairam, Minister of
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by Manuel_D 10mo ago
> i.e. intentionally creating a state of terror That's not really a good description of terrorism. Terrorism is going after non-military targets, or at least indiscriminate targeting, for the express purpose of causing terror. If an
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by Manuel_D 10mo ago
It very much is. Free VPNs almost always have some sort of catch. E.g. HolaVPN users agree in the ToS to become an exit node for other VPN users: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hola_(VPN) If social media is so compellin
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by Manuel_D 11mo ago
I'm still not following. Ads for a pickup truck are probably more likely to feature towing a boat than ads for a hatchback even if they're both capable of towing boats. Because buyers of the former are more likely to use the vehic
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by Manuel_D 11mo ago
Something like >80% of men consume sexually explicit media. It's hardly limited to involuntarily celibate men.
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by Manuel_D 11mo ago
Really? Even the CS140 series had hundreds of students. I don't think I remember any CS class that had fewer than 70 students.
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by Manuel_D 11mo ago
So it's not really an accommodation that's required by the ADA, but an advantage over the baseline?
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by Manuel_D 11mo ago
So under this regime Meta, or any other social media site, can do pretty much any recommendation system they want, so long as they have a UI cluttered with labels and confirmation prompts disclaiming that liking someone, joining a group, ad
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by Manuel_D 11mo ago
Moderating and ranking content is distinct from editorial control. Editorial control refers to editing the actual contents of posts. Sites that exercise editorial control are liable for their edits. For instance if a user posts "Joe
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by Manuel_D 11mo ago
I'm mostly interested in getting concrete answers as to what people are referring to when they talk about "algorithmically served" content. This kind of phrasing is thrown around a lot, and I'm still unsure by what peopl
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by Manuel_D 11mo ago
It's still unclear what choice Hacker News and other sites will have to make to retain section 230 protection in your proposed solution. Again, something like counting the number of views in a video is, in your framing, not an activ
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by Manuel_D 11mo ago
> Even that, I don't think is entirely true. I'm pretty sure they use signals as implicit as how long you took to scroll past an autoplaying video, And? These are still user's choices. They choose how long to view videos o
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by Manuel_D 11mo ago
But Meta's content ranking would conform to this too: in theory a user that had the exact same friends, is a member of the exact same groups, had the exact same watch history, etc. would be served the same content. Although I'm pr
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by Manuel_D 11mo ago
To be clear, even the front page of Hacker News is not just a simple question of upvotes. Views, comments, time since posting, political content down ranking, etc. all at a factor in the ordering of posts.
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by Manuel_D 11mo ago
So a simple "most viewed in last month" page would trigger a loss of protection? Because that ranking is determined by number of views, rather than a proactive user decision like upvoting.
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by Manuel_D 11mo ago
So to be clear, anything other than a 4chan-like unmoderated chronological feed results in loss of section 230 protection? Heck, even 4chan wouldn't qualify, because despite considerably looser content rules they still actually do perf
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by Manuel_D 11mo ago
So Hacker News should lose section 230 protection? Because the content served here isn't served in chronological order. The front page takes votes into account and displays hotter posts higher in the feed.
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by Manuel_D 11mo ago
They the controls do exist, just not at the capacity required to do it for literally every single hour of footage recorded by body cameras. Hence why they do respond to requests for specific incidents but not blanket or bulk requests. If
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by Manuel_D 1y ago
Understand that only ~6 TWh of lithium batteries have been produced to date. As in, every single year of production combined adds up to less than 6 Twh. Moore's law largely stemmed from the fact that making a processer faster also mean

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