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> Union contracts with the company typically bar the company from keeping or entering contracts with non-union workers that have different terms from those of the union. I believe that's incorrect. IIRC, the contracts apply the spe
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> False. What we can do is look at real life examples of how contracts in other unions have turned out. That is a good baseline for what we could expect from other union contracts. Ok, then. There are a lot of "other unions,&quot
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> Sounds like the cart before the horse. Tell me I'm signing up for something that I have no idea how it will turn out, and then present me with a take it or leave it contract months later. And I'm stuck. That's not a reas
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But the point is using dead drops doesn't attract attention unless you already have it. > I agree number stations are overkill but perhaps some similar methods...like cartels using email drafts to communicate That's basically a
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> Maybe, instead of an exclusive monopoly, ownership of IP grants an inventor a share of revenue from any products using that IP for a limited time, like a royalty or a license. Then they could make money while the community innovates on
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>> 1. The inventor would pay the R&D costs with no good way to recoup them, because he'd be competing against knockoffs who didn't have to make that investment, and can price accordingly. You'd be putting the actual
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> The lack of a monopoly creates competition which accelerates innovation and leads to cheaper, higher quality products for the consumer. The person who invents a product should simply be one competitor in the market, they can have the f
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> If what you are communicating needs to be guaranteed to never be crackable, you only need to use the oldest and most secure way of communicating before the days of internet and computers: short wave transmitted one time pad codes. I&#x
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> It is in fact a conspiracy theory. But a small reminder that conspiracy theory doesn't tell you anything about the truthfulness, e.g. that the Iraq War was based on made-up evidence was a conspiracy theory. I think that's int
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> Extradition was specifically blocked on the grounds of a particular regime he might be subjected to (to be fair, probably the only legal grounds on which he had any chance of succeeding). That leaves the US with a way out if they want
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> No rational person should want to die unless their life is full of suffering and they have no hope of recovery. Or, no rational person should want to live, because life is mostly drudgery and inconvenience and it also includes a fair a
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> I don't believe it's hard to pick up a heart attack using a wearable. But I don't think many heart attacks are picked up with wearables. > Record everything, if something is different see a doctor should both meet thi
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>> maintain some level of underdog cachet > ??????? They were clear underdogs in the 90s, and it's maybe only in the last decade or so that they've been in dominant mega-corp territory. I'm sure a lot of people stil
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>> I’m sure if the author wasn’t dependent on having a visa they would of left much sooner than they did. Companies know they have unfair leverage on employees dependent on sponsored visas. Employees on sponsored visas have very littl
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> That is a common but very shallow take on Steve Jobs management. Yes, there are instances of him being abrasive, but he led some very successful tech development efforts which involved getting people to come together around difficult g
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> Honestly why do people think that cannot happen at Apple ? That kind of thing can happen in any company. Apple is thousands of employees, it only requires a few bad people to create a situation like that. That's mind boggling, esp
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> To add a little detail to what others said, amphetamine and its salts are explicitly a Schedule II controlled substance in the US. Though, Schedule II means it has accepted medical uses, so it is not illegal . For instance, lots o
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> Wouldn't it be better to replace the EU with an expansive multilateral free trade treaty that encompasses the same states? Why do we need an additional layer of government? I don't know much about it, but I suppose if you wan
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> I'm not sure Duty had anything to do with nationalism, though there definitely was a "Duty to one's country" that everyone had. It seems to me that duty has more to do with collectivist feeling in general than natio
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> The UK has already left the EU and absolutely none of the doomsday scenarios warned by the remainders has come true I'm not sure what those exact doomsday scenarios that you're referring to are, but for practical purposes my
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>> I'm trying to imagine a physical product that is worth transporting on an interstellar level, rather than locally manufactured. It seems to me that the only thing that would ever be exchanged between solar systems, would be in
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> Bad government or single party rule? I’m astonished the media does not write more about California’s near-absolute, Democrat party control over its government. I don’t care which state you live in, or party you support, single party ru
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> Yeah seriously. What a weird false equivalence to try to suggest. Honestly, it's probably part of a real justification narrative for trusting things like QAnon and talk radio over the mainstream media. If you do that, you at leas
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> Manufacturing requires capital. We’ve had some of the highest effective tax rates on capital in the world for a while, and the Trump tax cuts didn’t help that much. IMHO, that's mistaking a boogeyman for a cause. The real cause h
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> There is a name for that. It's called Chinesium. That reminds me of a scene in Back to the Future where 1955 Doc Brown mocks a failed Japanese-made component based solely on his stereotypes, and 1985 Marty corrects him and says th
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> There was a general claim from the late 80s to 90s that the invisible hand of the market would eventually move Americans to higher paying fields while allowing low wage international competition in manufacturing. Yeah, that was super s
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> Yeah exactly metrology is really hard. I'm a little confused. Do you mean metallurgy?
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>> Production of both the ARJ21 and C919 have relied on foreign suppliers for parts to build the braking system, engines and hydraulic pressure components. Chinese manufacturers have been able to make the less essential components, ac
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> Copies of 50/60's engines from France and Russia? You have to start somewhere. I mean, it's not like new software developers start off writing state of the art programs. They write a hello world program like everyone el
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> The distinction you're making doesn't appear relevant. If you're an employee and your company merges with one of equal size, your vote is diluted by half. If you're a shareholder and your company merges with one of

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