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by britch 4y ago
I don't think it's more complicated than money in either case. Businesses are increasing consolidated and have market pressure to show not just profits but increasing profits year over year. Government agencies are affected by a c
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by britch 4y ago
For me the question is Would Apple have introduced these perks without the union? It's not the union that's preventing these things from going to the unionized workers. It's the company. My guess is that Apple would prefer th
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by britch 4y ago
I don't mean to derail discussion of the article, but that quote is just a flatly true statement, no? It's literally the first line in the English wikipedia article >"The military dictatorship in Brazil (Portuguese: ditadu
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by britch 4y ago
wages are one thing, working conditions are another. It doesn't matter how much you pay me if I can't see my kids and have to pee in a bottle.
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by britch 4y ago
I'd argue they know pretty well who it impacts and who it does not. It's not ignorance that leads the fed to take actions which affect the lowest earners more than the higher earners.
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by britch 4y ago
As I understand it the idea is that raising interest rates makes cash "expensive" to incentive businesses to reduce immediate costs--lay people off. Hold on to the value-holding assets (property), get rid of the immediate costly t
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by britch 4y ago
Uninviting someone to a party would be curating his own life. Firing people is a lot more than that lol
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by britch 5y ago
This is how the NLRA has been set up unions in the US--generally to make unions weaker. Other countries have sectoral bargaining, which is what you describe
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by britch 5y ago
My understanding is that unions in the US are much weaker. It's hard to talk about all of Europe because...there's a lot of countries I'm with different histories, laws, and culture around this. In the US a union is tied to a
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by britch 5y ago
Pay and Benefits are one thing. Working conditions are another. You can pay me 15 an hour (Only $30K a year) but if I have to pee in a bottle or don't have enough schedule consistency to see my kids it's not worth it. Amazon may p
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by britch 5y ago
Interesting, thanks for sharing this. I'm curious how you know you've "worked enough"? I find that I'm someone who works well in nonstandard hours and would like to take this approach to work. At the same time I fin
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by britch 5y ago
Can I ask, what do you see as the big cost for education that needs to be driven down? My sense is that education budgets are pretty variable by the taxes in a region.
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by britch 5y ago
Can you elaborate a bit?
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by britch 5y ago
Seems like some parents are heard pretty loudly. High Schoolers have staged walkouts in response to omicron in some cities. Seems disingenuous to say only teachers have been heard.
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by britch 5y ago
What a strange piece. Putting the reader in the master's perspective certainly is a choice. It fails to investigate that almost anyone in its ostensible audience of corporate managers is both a "master" and "slave"
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by britch 5y ago
I think you are right about this. Life may have had less of what we think of as "work" now. The part that I think is interesting is, as we progressed technologically, where did that time non-conventional working time go? It used t
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by britch 5y ago
I like the "collaborative-newspaper" idea a lot. Though I haven't used it much, this sounds like substack + RSS, that only refreshes once a day. It's missing some interactivity I suppose
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by britch 5y ago
Winners usually frame their fights as ones for freedom and liberty, and emphasize their enemy's use of censorship and re-education camps.
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by britch 5y ago
I agree with this a great deal. I think I had a strange perception of development coming out of school. The job of a developer is to build something useful (valuable) for the company, imo. The barrier to building something useful is rarely
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by britch 5y ago
I agree with your point that there is right answer for a lot of these things. I'd love to read a blog testing the contradictory cooking claims ;) My suspicion is that most of the contradictory advice is for things that don't matte
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by britch 5y ago
Yes, 15mph is not the theoretical max speed of a bike. For me, on my $300 Trek hybrid, traveling on flat land, that's about as fast as it can go. I'm sure someone in good shape on a nice road bike can go faster.
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by britch 5y ago
Not OP, but had the same experience For me I think it's two factors: 1) Quick out if you don't like it. Load the next thing is really quick and easy to do. Just flick up and boom it's the next thing. Right now there are no ad
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by britch 5y ago
>> It is really surprising if you go on the road and see something foreign, and it’s coming at you at 15 miles per hour. > If it's going down the bike lane on the wrong way then I agree, that's bad and should be corrected
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by britch 5y ago
> the $45 billion in rental assistance allocated by Congress to address the crisis. That funding is unprecedented: Renters were given just $1.5 billion during the Great Recession That $1.5 Billion is over a trillion in 2021 dollars. $45
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by britch 6y ago
I'm not seeing the connection between your comment and the Gerbu's firing. As I understand it Gerbu was hired as an academic to do research into AI ethics (her field of study). She was fired, in part, due to a disagreement around
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by britch 6y ago
For what it's worth, Coinbase must "allow" those discussions by law in the US. In my mind, that's the kind of thing you say in a staement like this to protect yourself from a lawsuit. I doubt Coinbase thinks employees ad
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by britch 6y ago
I'm not certain I agree with OP, but you could call workplace diveristy seminars or code bootcamps reeducation programs. (Not that I think either of those are bad things) The words "reeducation program" don't frighten me
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by britch 6y ago
I didn't get that sense from the post. I took that they were advocating for basic HTML/JS when appropriate. A reminder that it's still a valid way of doing things. If you're building an app, yeah use React. If you want t
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by britch 6y ago
I think I see where you are coming from. I'm not advocating for changing "abort" or "kill" and agree they go too far. I disagree with your point that it has nothing to do with racism or human slavery. The name maste
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by britch 6y ago
No one is arguing take the word slave out of the dictionary or history books. We can call these things whatever we want. It's a name for an abstract concept. Why not change it to something that does not refer to one of the most barbari

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