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by ahelwer 6y ago
Sure. Pretty easy to beat the standard set when there's no union though, which in my experience is "your manager listens to your concerns and explains to you why it isn't a problem". The parallel power structure offers y
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Unions are democratic organizations. Employees elect the leadership, which can effectively advocate on their behalf for changes to company strategy in addition to general compensation & working conditions issues. So yes, by creating a p
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Sounds like greater line employee input in the direction of the company would be a good change, then?
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by ahelwer 6y ago
No, the juries decided whether the people violated the laws as written. Their decisions have no bearing on the validity of those laws as such.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
This is a very unrealistic idea of how these cases usually play out. I linked this article elsewhere in the thread: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/fbi-entrap...
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by ahelwer 6y ago
The people generally aren't seeking weapons to harm other people, or at most have very angry thoughts about some target. The feds do their research. They gain their trust. They play on their fears & desires. They suggest the crim
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Hacking a computer system is wholly different from convincing someone to carry out an attack. You are prescribing trying to goad the mentally ill into violence instead of providing them medical treatment. On a smaller scale, try subjecting
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Being the criminal complaint, all this stuff was written by the FBI. We'll see how it actually goes at trial. The grandparent isn't just making stuff up; the feds have done this before, continually https://www.buzzfeedn
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by ahelwer 6y ago
As someone with quite a few left-wing friends, this comment was pretty funny to read. I have no idea why people think they can pick apart the inner machinations of the minds of people they've seemingly never spoken to, not into whose i
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by ahelwer 6y ago
The term you're looking for is model-based testing, where a formal description of the system is used to generate sequences of events which are fed as input to the system under test; the SUT state is then checked for equivalence to the
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by ahelwer 6y ago
This is great, and replicates a feature I really like about PRISM: the ability to step through your model's transitions to see that they do what you think they do (and are enabled when you think they are). I notice in the screenshots t
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by ahelwer 6y ago
I biked to work year-round in Calgary, Canada every workday during a 16 month internship. Including during heavy snow. Tungsten-studded bike tires made it easy. This was before the current era of electric-powered fatbikes, which easily hand
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by ahelwer 6y ago
That's the sort of comparison you can only make over the entire population. Looking at it from the perspective of an individual, it's a raw deal if my general fitness is improved but then two years later I get hit by a car and wal
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Can anyone give ballpark effort costs for writing a parser with a context-free grammar parser generator vs. parser combinators vs. by hand? I know good error messages are the main benefit of writing parsers by hand; can you also get those w
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Anyone who travels on glaciers outside of tour groups is (or at least should be) trained in crevasse rescue. That's part of the deal of being on a rope team, everyone can rescue everyone else if one of them falls into a crevasse. These
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by ahelwer 6y ago
The focus on the acrobatic nature of these thefts is kind of funny. You can find these skills & equipment (safely scaling a wall, rappelling down a rope, ascending a rope, hauling a load up a rope) in any climbing gym in the country, es
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by ahelwer 6y ago
The point is there was no punishment for that! Nor for the many other things he has done! People closed ranks and it was as if nothing happened. Now the final bill has come due. And you start talking about statute of limitations. This is so
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Here are some possible intermediate consequences: Stallman publicly admits wrongdoing, apologizes, specifies what beliefs led him to think those actions were appropriate, how he came to understand those beliefs were wrong, and what steps he
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Okay? Irrelevant to anything we've been talking about here. Go send hatemail to those outlets or something. You seem to have a lot of grievances which ignore the reality that Stallman is utterly unqualified to serve as a leader of a pr
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Again... we are talking about a long pattern of behavior. The entire point here is that Stallman faced no consequences for that incident! None! Intermediate consequences would have been nice, but none occurred! So here we have the tidal wav
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Were you also employed or involved at their place of work where they were in a position of authority? No? Then why bring this up? Anyway, we are talking about intermediate consequences.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
We aren't talking about prosecution! We are talking about him facing any consequences whatsoever! The idea that you don't view that situation as threatening is just so myopic. People who are unstable enough to threaten suicide bec
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by ahelwer 6y ago
This has been an established pattern of behavior reported by multiple women over time, fitting with what we know about his interactions & attitude toward female colleagues. Zooming in on a single incident to cross-examine it like a cour
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Yeah, except even that has not happened over the long history of Stallman's bad behavior. People close ranks and support him. So finally he goes and defends pedophilia or whatever right in the middle of a huge scandal about academia&#x
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by ahelwer 6y ago
It's way more than the Epstein thing. This has been going on for years. Telling an undergrad he would kill himself if she didn't date him is one example.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
This isn't an attitude, it's a response to the reality that intermediate consequences are never implemented. Solve that problem and you'll solve this cancel culture stuff people are complaining about.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
I've been talking with friends about this issue and it really seems to come down to this: for some reason "intermediate" consequences are just impossible to implement in bureaucracies or organizations in general. Clearly Stal
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by ahelwer 6y ago
I enjoy public lands quite a bit; people really should adhere to Leave No Trace[0] principles quite strictly - which says to urinate at least 200 feet from water sources. People always want to be a lawyer about why each rule does or doesn&#
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Well, this is where we are. Delivery drivers are being crunched to make deliveries. Having someone pee in your yard just comes with the territory. Don't try to get them fired if they do that. I assure you many dogs pee in your yard any
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by ahelwer 6y ago
We agree on the best outcome. What should workers do in the meantime?

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