Manuel_D

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by Manuel_D 2y ago
Race is a protected class. Wealth is not. A bank can require a certain amount of money to be deposited in a checking account to qualify for certain cards and benefits. They can't just say "this card is for X race only".
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The counterargument is that the large donations (often $10M or even $100 M and above) that wealthy doners give to help their kids get admitted enables universities to grant generous scholarships to smart but not wealthy students.
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I'm beginning to question how feasible it is to enforce these non-discrimination laws in university admissions. Yale's first class after SFFA vs. Harvard saw a dip in Asian enrollment, despite ample evidence to suggest that remova
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
FIFA and Bayonetta got around this because you're actually playing a subset of the main game during loading. Not a separate game.
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Cherry picking a couple exceptional unions doesn't alter the predominant trend. On the flip side, we have teachers unions and police unions with seniority based pay. And they're much larger than athletics unions. The National Bask
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
Yup, Ridge Racer was the game that prompted Namco to file the patent: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/12/loading-screen-game-pa...
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
That's interesting. Gameplay patents are difficult to enforce. The handful of successful gameplay-related parents have some technical element to them, e.g. running a mini-game while loading a level was patented on the grounds that runn
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
I have been making the same point this whole time: the aversion to unions stems entirely from economic reasoning, not some "personality/sub-cultural disdain" for unions among the majority of software developers. In particular
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
My point is that the sizeable majority of the disdain for unions stems from economic reasoning, not some personality or sub-cultural factor. Let's revisit the original comment I responded to: > It's a thought, but ceteris parib
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Right, and my point is that is it completely explained by economic reasoning. One way or another, you are rejecting the notion that software developers are capable of arriving at anti-union positions on the basis of economic reasons alone.
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The two are not mutually exclusive. The incentive for seniority-based pay is that low-performers are dissatisfied with lesser career advancement, so they form a block within the union electorate and vote in leadership that flattens pay. You
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I suspect that models will become smaller, getting pruned to focus on relevant tasks. Someone using an LLM to power tech support chat doesn't want, nor need, the ability to generate random short stories. In this sense, AI is akin to ca
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
There's more to a union than just negotiating on behalf of employees. Unions have quasi-government status wherein the National Labor Relations Bureau can just step in and force the company to make business decisions. Furthermore, union
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There is a decent body of evidence suggesting in-person work is more efficient than remote work: https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2023/06/28/t... At the scale of Amazon, it's hard to
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
You've edited or deleted your comment at least 3 times since I typed my reply. Regardless, I'm just going to highlight the relevant parts of the comment I responded to: > It's a thought, but ceteris paribus, software engin
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
There's no law saying a union can't fight for things besides salary. But in practice that's what it's often about. Take the NYTimes tech worker union, for example (previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombina
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
No, it's solidly within the calculus of economics. Why are you concluding that rejection of unions are due to a cultural or personal disdain for unions, and rejecting the possibility that software developers disapprove of unions for ec
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
From Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_pay_gap#:~:text=In%20... . > In the United States, for example, the non-adjusted average woman's annual salary is 79–83% of the average man's salary, c
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It's rendering at 1080p docked vs 720p handheld.
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The issue is that handhelds are limited by their batery capacity. Running a steam deck at full power will exhaust the battery in ~2 hours. The ROG ally X outperforms the steam deck, but at the expense of nearly 2x battery consumption (25 wa
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
It's not a straw man. In the UK, the government has stepped in and mandate that two different jobs be paid the same, in the pursuit of pay equity. Specifically, they forced Next to pay their warehouse workers and retail workers the sam
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Continuing to operate a Tor node after being informed by the government that it's being used for illegal activity means the operator did this "knowingly". It's even more egregious than a drug mule transporting an unmarke
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Women are actually more likely to reject a man on account of working in porn, than men are to reject female porn actress. https://x.com/PaulaGhete/status/1832391170619490813
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But is that really a valuable goal? The market determines wages, and usually it's willing to favor sacrifices like a 24 hour oncall rotation. Don't those people deserve for the value of those sacrifices to be reflected in compensa
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Because the reality is that when you adjust for type of job, experience, and hours worked the wage disparity effectively disappears: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2017/08/01/are-wome...
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
Most tradespeople are not unionized. Even the most highly unionzed trade - electricians - are only 1/3rd unionized. The most unionized jobs are not tradespeople, they're teachers and police officers. https://smartestdol
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The above commenter is asking for relevant facts. If Job A pays more than Job B and there's a larger proportion of men in Job A then men's average pay will be higher, but both genders are receiving equal pay for equal work. If any
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"Wage discrimination" as described in the article is not an unfair or illegal practice: > “Algorithmic wage discrimination” refers to a practice in which individual workers are paid different hourly wages—calculated with ever-c
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Taxi medallions were (and AFAIK still are) required to respond to people hailing a taxi from the street. It is not required to book a ride via phone or internet. Uber and Lyft drivers never needed taxi medallions.
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Uber still benefits via a bigger cut from higher rates, so long as that's the market rate that people are willing to pay (if they start getting undercut by a competitor that's a different story). In my view, the fact that taxi dri

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