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by cheald 11y ago
Well, you're talking about the effects of the threat of unionization, which I would agree is pretty clearly effective in driving labor costs up. I'm wondering more about the effect of established unions and companies or industri
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by cheald 11y ago
The conclusion of this paper is that the 15% gap estimate is likely far too low (he estimates its actually 21-28%). It also states that when gaps outpage gains, downward wage pressure on nonunion wages due to the "spillover effect&quot
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by cheald 11y ago
Could you link me to studies that show this effect? What economic reason would there be for this? It makes no sense to me that union creating more expensive labor would increase the costs of non-union labor, except insofar as they reduce th
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by cheald 11y ago
The ad companies have, IMO, brought it on themselves. Flash ads, Java ads, ads with auto-playing sound, popups that interupt the UX, insane analytics deliverables that can increase total page payload and runtime by multiples of the origin
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by cheald 11y ago
This has been my solution, too. It's much faster than Dropbox.
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by cheald 11y ago
Consider taking L-theanine with your caffeine. When taken with caffeine, it smooths out the jitters and produces a subtle sense of clarity and focus; it will probably improve your ability to think on less caffeine. http://www.sci
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by cheald 11y ago
I guess I haven't really encounted that. Blocking is something that I've always really reserved for spammers and the really blatant trolls, and those tend to be killed really quickly on HN as is. There are certainly commenters who
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by cheald 11y ago
Well, for starters, they may have useful and valuable contributions on stories which aren't about the hotbutton issues on which you find their opinions disagreeable.
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by cheald 11y ago
Rather than an approach like this, which can only serve to produce an echo-chamber effect, can I recommend the Hacker News Enhancement Suite for Chrome ( https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhan
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by cheald 11y ago
> If the US and its companies want to force their moral and legal standards upon us, we will force our standards upon them, too. This is incredibly silly reasoning. Google enforces the standards it chooses (generally American standards,
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by cheald 11y ago
FWIW, you can have 2 cc2.8xlarge spot instances for about $0.50/hour. $12/day isn't nothing, but it's pretty affordable. Stick your data on an EBS instance attached to the spot so you keep your data if the spot instance
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by cheald 11y ago
Don't confuse criticism with complaint.
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by cheald 11y ago
It's absolutely capitalistic, but there are many people who would call it economically inefficient or irrational. After all, a capitalist can choose to freely exchange his capital for higher-priced goods of the same quality as lower-pr
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by cheald 11y ago
To elaborate a bit on this, the term economists like to use for this is "alternative choices". The minimum price of the assistant is somewhere around how much it would cost to hire and train someone to replace her - that is, her
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by cheald 11y ago
I'm 32 and technically right on the oldest edge of the "millenial" generation, and have 3 kids (7, 4, and 1); it doesn't necessarily mean "people born in the mid-90s".
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by cheald 11y ago
That's...rather quite a strawman. There is a huge chasm between "Let's indulge all speech ever!" and "Let's not force compliance to our political opinions on our users". I suspect what you mean is that you
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by cheald 11y ago
The thing that GitHub has right now is the userbase - the network effect keeps people interested in their service. The technical value they provide is pretty trivially replicable (see: GitLab, BitBucket), but you can't code up a (real)
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by cheald 11y ago
Well, it cost them my $7/mo. That decision was very disturbing to me - I've always viewed GitHub as a content-neutral platform which provided a code hosting and sharing service. Yesterday's incident seems to signal that they
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by cheald 11y ago
I'm really glad to see this - RubySpec is a project that always seemed like a Really Good Idea, but the politics around it seemed to drag it down into not-productive territory. If it can remain a technically-focused project, it should
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by cheald 11y ago
GitHub making value judgments on the political correctness of speech in the repositories they host makes me extremely hesitant to continue to use them. I want my service platforms to be neutral to content, so long as it's legal. This i
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by cheald 11y ago
MYST was my first thought, too - games with "no combat, no health bars, and no death" aren't exactly a new innovation. According to Wikipedia, MYST is still one of the best-selling PC games of all time!
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by cheald 11y ago
Is walmart.com owned by a different company?
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by cheald 11y ago
It's a lot less hassle, effort, and stress to just use a service that actually wants my business, though.
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by cheald 11y ago
Because the C extension API isn't supported. Or to put it another way, you can call C libraries from JRuby, but you can't write C that calls JRuby. If you want to do that, you would replace it with a Java extension, instead. It&#
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by cheald 11y ago
FWIW, I've never had any luck with Theine or Drip. But --dev is good stuff - it basically turns off the JIT and invokedynamic, which are great for long-running processes but not that useful for shorter script runs or consoles. JRuby de
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by cheald 11y ago
It sounds like most of your issues are with JDBC/AR-JDBC rather than JRuby itself though, no? The startup time is annoying, though, especially in the context of TDD. I do know it's an area of active research, though. You should tr
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by cheald 11y ago
Well, it's fair to say "it works in MRI"; $1 being frame-local and thread-local is an exception to the rule, but it is How It Works. JRuby should behave similarly, full stop.
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by cheald 11y ago
One of the things I've most appreciated about the JRuby community is that bugs get fixed in a hurry. My first experience with JRuby was trying it, something not working, jumping into IRC to ask about it, and headius had it diagnosed an
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by cheald 11y ago
I wrote Manticore ( https://github.com/cheald/manticore ) because of my dissatisfaction with Ruby HTTP clients under JRuby; it uses the Apache HTTPComponents (completely sidestepping Ruby's stdlib http/networki
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by cheald 11y ago
You're right; I saw the initial story and then stopped reading everything about him, so I missed that the more polite elements were scrubbing his name. My mistake. If an HN mod sees this, could you anonymize that for me? The comment is

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