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by abduhl 3y ago
Relevant to this: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/international-student-cap-i... “Canada is on track to host around 900,000 international students this year, Miller said in an interview that aired Saturday on CBC
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“The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) report on the welfare and well-being of Australians launched yesterday found that prior to the pandemic, 13% of people aged 18 and over with a job reported working from home most days,
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In civil engineering there is a responsible engineer. Nobody cares what management says - business takes a back seat to public safety, the engineer is in charge. Designs and products are required by law to be backed by an engineer who is pe
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What part of this is random? Did you push prod code that contributed? You’re fired. The rest of your post is more of the same “it can’t possibly have been me!” This isn’t a the website went down problem. People didn’t get paid here.
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Why shouldn’t the contractor and junior IC also lose their jobs for this level of fuck up? This is literally someone’s kids’ food on their table. Why does anyone in the chain get a pass? Fire them all. For cause.
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It requires tech to move beyond the standard refrain that this is the manager’s fault. It’s hard to get somebody to accept liability when it can directly hit their pocket book.
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How many employees does your company have? Less than 50, ok maybe push the limit but honestly if it’s more than 25 people across the company your ability to get recognized is hamstrung by bureaucracy. Anything more than 25 people should hon
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“Now a group of researchers from the University of Zurich and Intel has set a new milestone with the first autonomous system capable of beating human champions at a physical sport: drone racing.” This is somewhat impressive but let’s be hon
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Let’s go through the comment thread here again: 1. Someone asked what protections an employee could expect to receive from an employment contract in a right to work state. 2. I responded that right to work is not related to employment contr
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I grew up what you’d call “lower middle class.” Your suspicions are incorrect. I’ve switched industries twice in my life to the tune of nearly a third a million in student loan debt. I know how difficult it is and how expensive it is, but t
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I don’t know what to say in response to your complaints except negotiate better working conditions next time you get hired. The company wrote it. You accepted it. You can always ask for different terms and walk away if they don’t agree, sta
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The employment of an individual that has an employment contract is governed by the strictest set of rules between the right-to-work state's laws and the employment contract. Literally every permissible provision of an employment contr
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Labor laws are arbitrary legal definitions. This lawsuit is the government enforcing labor laws. Notice they are NOT suing to force SpaceX to hire people non-ITAR individuals but rather to enforce the arbitrary legal definition of a US citi
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This type of language is found in many public safety type laws. It’s to encourage companies to cooperate with the public safety investigation without having to fear that their confidential information will be released. It may seem hostile t
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dude most software “engineers” copy paste code from stackoverflow and load up a library of functions written by somebody else I guess the code is from ChatGPT now so that’s a big advancement?
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If my greatest accomplishment in life is that I wasn’t Jimmy then I guess I’d die pretty proud of that.
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Well the root cause of this bridge failure was (1) the municipality’s choice not to pay for a geotechnical investigation and (2) not using extra helical piers, so why is this failure the structural engineer’s fault?
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All at will employees have the power to refuse to implement something when ordered to by their PM. Quit. “I was just following orders” doesn’t even fly for situations where refusal can get you strung up for treason.
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Isn’t the most effective way to do 4 to get your thing at the top of Google?
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NYC's subway system has nearly 1000 miles of track. The cost of that was spread over years. Similarly, the 68 mile network proposed here will be built over years. Based on Boring Company's own PR, it took them a year to build 1
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This is 68 miles of tunnel. This is an enormous length of tunnel, its scope is anything but small. I'm not sure what you mean by service requirements for a tunnel, but I assume you mean maintenance. Maintenance requirements for tunne
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Your articulation is not unique to large diameter tunnels, the generic costs you point to are endemic to any diameter tunnel in America and also to any infrastructure project in America that takes place in an urban environment. To say that
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This would be called a launch ramp in the industry. It is an adaptation of HDD approaches to larger diameter machines. It has been going on for decades. It is only viable where space and the final geometric constraints of the project per
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>> My understanding is that the problems driving large tunnel construction costs in the US are driven by a shortage of labor expertise, Labor bloat compared to other countries, and institutional inability to manage large projects and
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This is ridiculous misinformation. "Drills" come in every size already, from the 12-inch range all the way up to 60 feet in diameter. All modern "drills" that erect a liner behind them are electric - air quality and sa
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The Second Ave. subway cost explosions are driven by a combination of union grift, overly litigious third parties, onerous design requirements driven by politics rather than engineering, and the requirement of building stations in the middl
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Quotes like this really make me wonder about the people who say them in the moment. Do they realize how ridiculous the words they are saying sound when put in this order? “It’s not like a subway where you stop at a bunch of stops along the
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Sorry, this is just drivel. Trade happens between individuals or businesses, not countries. If the numbers don’t make sense for a business they will certainly “just decline,” although the numbers might make sense for another business. The l
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How often are you waiting to two weeks to see your primary care doctor? I’ve never had an issue getting an appointment the same week, if not the next day. I agree that wait times for specialists can be excessive.
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>> They could do that but would have to raise the base price. Why? The component is already in every vehicle. This is not like binning for chips: every vehicle must (and does) have the capability because it’s unknown whether a consume

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