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by bduerst 7y ago
I had the opportunity to work with a dozen or so phds as an undergraduate, both in academia and in the industry, and what I saw was that the vast majority of them were not happy with their careers. Even the ones who were gainfully employed
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by bduerst 7y ago
I tend to agree, but how would you weight it between states? Per 1000 capita in the source state or the destination state? Also that would overweight the low pop density states, assuming there's a baseline immigration rate, painting
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by bduerst 7y ago
You're cherry picking the statement by quoting it out of context, which shows the law only applies to one (coercion): > No employer shall coerce or influence or attempt to coerce or influence his employees through or by means of t
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by bduerst 7y ago
This is becoming ad nauseum. You're missing the point about how the law applies differently to company policy and actions, but my guess is that you desperately want them to be the same hence your repeated arguments and confirmation bi
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by bduerst 7y ago
I didn't make the laws - this is what they are. GP is making the appeal to legality which is wrong in this case. The law is to prevent employers from extorting all employees into taking political action under threat of termination. T
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by bduerst 7y ago
Do you know the difference between threatening someone to coerce them into action, and actually doing it for said actions?
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by bduerst 7y ago
That's a lawyer's marketing blog selling his services to sue for wrongful termination. The labor code § 1101 they cite is the same thing : it applies only to employers using threatening to terminate in order to coerce political
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by bduerst 7y ago
I'm not claiming anything, just explaining the law you cited. Being fired for your political actions is entirely legal in at-will employment states like California. The law you cited does not apply, except to companies that use company
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by bduerst 7y ago
How do you know that it is Mozilla's company policy? That is the distinction based on the law that you cited. Firing someone for a reason in an at-will employment state does not suddenly make that reason part of the company policy.
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by bduerst 7y ago
> Then why was it so important for gay marriage to have legal blessing? Because it is currently illegal in many places? >It is if it becomes the norm (and it has, and it has lead to a Chilling Effect, and the blowback is going to be t
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by bduerst 7y ago
Only in enacting company-wide policies to coerce political participation. Terminating employment for political actions in an at-will employment state like California is still legal. From your article: >On the contrary, political beliefs
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by bduerst 7y ago
Appeal to legality isn't proof of moral superiority. Racial segregation was also legal via Jim Crow laws, and people still hold the political opinion it should still be despite society changing and moving forward. It is also not censo
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by bduerst 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
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by bduerst 7y ago
An open-source software development company, which is influential on web standards.
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by bduerst 7y ago
Yep. Advertising exists because of information asymmetry in imperfect markets. Until humans know everything about every good or service in every market, there is going to be a demand for advertising.
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by bduerst 7y ago
Title is misleading - the inverse correlation is between advertising spending and life satisfaction. This could be indicative of ads causing unhappiness, but it could also be indicative of increased social media use, which also causes unh
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by bduerst 7y ago
Apple was like Tesla in 2009. Now the only way that Apple is like Tesla is if Tesla was also a utilities company that managed powerplants, which had a different pricing scheme for it's car customers.
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by bduerst 7y ago
Or sharing kickbacks to consumers to increase their buying power, which isn't extortion or illegal.
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by bduerst 7y ago
Most Magazines and Newspapers would stop too, since they're subsidized by advertising. Broadcast television and radio would cease to exist as well.
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by bduerst 7y ago
The OEMs will just add the uninstallable flag functionality back because Android is open source. The only way to prevent OEMs from doing that is to tie it to the Google Play Services agreement which will, again, open Google up to yet anothe
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by bduerst 7y ago
Windows is proprietary though. If Google starts dictating too much of what you can and cannot install on Android then they'll get dinged with another anti-trust suit.
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by bduerst 7y ago
No, online ads do not get an exception with the FTC. The FTC enforces truth-in-advertising laws on ads across all mediums. Edit: FCC -> FTC
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by bduerst 7y ago
I have a hypothesis that technological progress and egalitarianism are correlated, but it's not provable.
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by bduerst 7y ago
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that is still a terrible user experience, which is why Microsoft and every other search engine in China do not attempt to do that. That's why this is a red herring. The problem you want
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by bduerst 7y ago
Apple makes Chinese iCloud user data at rest available to the Chinese government. They've come a long ways from fighting the FBI back in 2015. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/03/app
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by bduerst 7y ago
That's an article about a car enthusiast club in Vancouver, not Google employees.
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by bduerst 7y ago
Censorship is a red herring. It's the Chinese firewall censoring the sites, so even if Google did link the site in the search results, users wouldn't be able to click and access it. The bigger issue with project dragonfly was shar
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by bduerst 7y ago
FTC is supposed to enforce truth-in-advertising laws regardless of the medium (television or online).
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Then in that hypothetical you just pay a little more for an uber/lyft. That's the benefit of not being locked into an asset.
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by bduerst 7y ago
No, it's not. An ad's destination page is subject to Facebooks advertising policy: >During the ad review process, we'll check your ad's images, text, targeting, and positioning, in addition to the content on your ad&

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