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by brimble 5y ago
Are either of these cases of unions aiding a non-member, which is the topic of the sentence you quoted? I can't read all of the first one—which is an opinion piece anyway, as is the second—but the second doesn't seem to be about t
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by brimble 5y ago
It's much riskier and costlier for employees to report that kind of thing, in a non-union shop. Union shop, if you're sure what you've been asked to do is a violation of rules, you tell your boss no, then to fuck off if they
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by brimble 5y ago
> Comparatively, European unions are much "weaker" - or maybe more accurately their purview is much smaller. They control smaller geographic regions, and in general, all of the heavy lifting for healthcare and pensions and work
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by brimble 5y ago
Do you think a government that was very popular and that most citizens thought was pretty damn good, would have any trouble if it made paying taxes optional?
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by brimble 5y ago
They also often provide legal help and various sorts of insurance. They'll also usually provide representation & assistance for workers who come into conflict with management, which can be super important when it comes to enforci
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by brimble 5y ago
Non-elite private schools often have worse comp and/or working conditions than public schools in the same area. Which is surprising to some who assume "private school = big bucks", but there are lots of charter schools or rel
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by brimble 5y ago
This seems to vary a ton state-by-state or even city-by-city. I can confirm that in my (red, midwestern) state the teachers union is totally fucking worthless. NEA's a little better, but neither is interested in actually working agains
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by brimble 5y ago
It's definitely not. People have just gotten used to very short and simple sentences, these days. Some would call a high percentage of all sentences written before, I dunno, 1970, run-on sentences, plus a good deal of the writing in
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by brimble 5y ago
Lemme see if Garner's Modern English Usage names it... Well, for one thing, the section on "which" begins: "This word, used immoderately, is possibly responsible for more bad sentences than any other in the language&qu
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by brimble 5y ago
There are multiple things in the first part of the sentence that "which" could denote. "Amazon" is what's intended. You could fix this by breaking up the sentence, or by specifying what you mean after "which&qu
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by brimble 5y ago
David Foster Wallace loved to repeat the object (edit: or subject, depending on usage) after "which" practically every time he employed that word, which technique is usually overkill, but in this case writing it "[...] which
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by brimble 5y ago
I find the Mac version creates less strain. It does harm muscle memory, though, if you have to switch between the two often. On my Mac layout I basically never touch lower-left ctrl, just cmd (which is faster and requires less movement and
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by brimble 5y ago
> On linux, there are 30 different programs and config files to do it and the linux community seems to be perpetually at war with them, with 25 of them silently or loudly broken at any given moment. The only one that works reliably, setx
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by brimble 5y ago
All programs, not just CS, have widely varying quality levels, probably leaning toward "bad", on average (there are a lot of colleges and universities in the US). Fussell (and probably many others, but I've read him) blam
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by brimble 5y ago
Sometimes I look at the credits lists for very impressive, native 90s desktop programs, that were made in a reasonable amount of time by a small group of people who, at least to some degree, had worse tools than we do now, for a smaller mar
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by brimble 5y ago
The galaxy-brain plan is to start a SaaS for each thing, starting from the one with the fewest service dependencies to the one with the most, migrating earlier ones onto any services provided by later ones as possible/sensible, so by t
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by brimble 5y ago
I lived through this era and at one point worked at a phone company and never knew about this behavior. I'd hold the receiver until I heard the other person pick up, then hang up.
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by brimble 5y ago
Target and Wal-Mart also sell third party shit. It's easier for me to just buy directly from brands I like, or to shop for them on a couple outlet sites I trust (so far) to sell legit (overstocked or lightly damaged) top-quality stuff
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by brimble 5y ago
Apple's productivity and utility software generally tends to be my favorite around. It's a big part of what keeps me on the platform. Safari? Lightest-weight usably-well-supported browser around, by a long shot. Preview? Outstandi
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by brimble 5y ago
> 2. There is no argument here: if you can not control what and how your device operates, your freedom is being taken. You can argue that you don't value this freedom over the convenience it brings you, but this is at best an admiss
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by brimble 5y ago
It's been my observation over many years that Nvidia and ATI/AMD video cards are the source of a solid 50% of major computer problems. This seems to hold even for Macs. They're best avoided unless you really need them, at lea
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by brimble 5y ago
My trajectory was ~2000-2011 as a heavy Linux-on-the-desktop user (and Windows, for gaming), but quickly converted to Mac when was issued one at work after that, and that's where I've stayed ever since. I didn't even realize
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by brimble 5y ago
I haven't used it since ~2005, but at that time it was inexcusably slow. Notably, remarkably, shockingly slow. I would dread invoking it, it was so slow. 10x the time to do many operations, as apt/dpkg, and that's not an exag
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by brimble 5y ago
This does seem to be contrary to, at least, many people's intuition about how pricing does or should work. I've seen an awful lot of small business owners start out pricing at what seems fair to them, as a professional in their
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by brimble 5y ago
Modern UI is optimized for PowerPoint and for marketing page screenshots.
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by brimble 5y ago
Same. 7 was a huge step back. They've improved it somewhat since then, but it's still worse, and now there are like 100 new secret gestures that I'm always accidentally triggering.
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by brimble 5y ago
I'd love to see them repeat that, but comparing Material to native Windows forms circa 2000. Or even default browser-styled forms with no modification aside from making it match the general layout of the Material one.
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by brimble 5y ago
This was a while ago (years), but for a time, in gmail, if you tried to add a contact the form had an "add contact" button at the bottom that submitted your form and added the contact, and another identical button to the top right
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by brimble 5y ago
> Citation for this? As far as I know IQ isn’t a measure of intelligence (because intelligence is hard to define, let alone come up with a single number that quantifies it!) All you have to do is get a figure that mostly correlates fa
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by brimble 5y ago
Even descriptive dictionaries imply a certain amount of prescription, as: "prefer using words as they are herein defined, if you care about others being able to understand you".

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