chimeracoder

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by chimeracoder 8y ago
> That's pretty spurious reasoning. Do I not have the right to do what I want with my money because I have to give part of it to my landlord? If your rent is automatically withheld from your paycheck as terms of your employment and
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by chimeracoder 8y ago
> Why is it that conservatives, when discussing any other aspect of a job (pay, working conditions, abuse, etc) will say that "you have a choice; you don't have to take the job," but when it comes to unions, suddenly ever
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by chimeracoder 8y ago
> Rent-regulated apartments, often the only homes in New York that people of modest means can afford, are vanishing as gentrification surges inexorably through the city’s neighborhoods Rent regulation in NYC is easily the least effective
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by chimeracoder 8y ago
> And also negotiates on his behalf for better working conditions and pay. Sounds like he doesn't believe that they do, and would prefer to be left out of the bargaining unit. > At the end of the day, that person wants all the be
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by chimeracoder 8y ago
> It is law that everyone gets the benefit from a union’s collective bargaining. No, it's not. It's the law that unions must represent anyone whom they claim as part of their bargaining unit. However, unions have great freedom
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by chimeracoder 8y ago
> Once I earn the money it is my money and no longer taxpayer money. I fund the union with my money. The union does not receive money apportioned by the government. You can't have it both ways. If it's the employee's money
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by chimeracoder 8y ago
> People are not forced to join unions. This is completely false. People absolutely are forced to join unions. Furthermore, the overwhelming majority of union members - over 90% - never voted in a certification or authorization election.
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by chimeracoder 8y ago
Janus is about a case in which a person is being forced to pay money out of his paycheck to a group who directly lobbies for policies that he does not support. > Why shouldn’t a union be political? By that argument, why shouldn't th
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by chimeracoder 8y ago
> Am I correct in my understanding that a mitm attack that starts with the initial messages could work and the only way to prevent this is to verify the safety number out of band? That's pretty much inherent to any E2E encrypted sy
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by chimeracoder 8y ago
> Just ask the Palestinians if land is fungible. That analogy would only make sense if Palestinians were being offered similarly-sized and similarly-resourced land, to compensate for what was taken away from them at the beginning of the
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by chimeracoder 8y ago
> Gotta love corrupt America. Ah yes, as opposed to all the other developed European countries, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, etc., which all signed the TPP/TTIP, which contains similar massive copyright extensions.
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by chimeracoder 8y ago
The phrasing of this question is absurd. The most reasonable interpretation is "should ISPs be allowed to charge more for higher speeds", which is already the case, and has nothing to do with net neutrality. Honestly, it's ac
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by chimeracoder 8y ago
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> Isn't it more likely derived from honeypot It's almost certainly derived from the Howey Test.
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by chimeracoder 8y ago
> What would this mean for usage of the Mickey Mouse character? Would people be free to use images from the older cartoons in new work? What about more recent updates to the character's design? Copyright protects the exact expressio
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by chimeracoder 8y ago
Yes - the most recent extension to copyright in the US expires on Dec 31, 2018. Unless Congress passes another extension, a whole selection of older works will pass into the public domain for the first time in decades on Jan 1, 2019. In the
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by chimeracoder 8y ago
> There is no prison industrial complex in The Netherlands, as all prisons and jails are owned by the government. There is no incentive to increase the inmate population. This is really off the mark. Having prisons and jails owned by the
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by chimeracoder 8y ago
> Seems like the real ruling is that the federal government can’t compel states to implement/enforce non-federal laws. I wonder if that will affect things like the drinking age... (IANAL). IIRC, that's done by allowing states t
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by chimeracoder 8y ago
> I’m of the impression that the wealth difference between the western world and the rest of the world is primarily a biproduct of the industrial revolution You cannot separate the effects of the Industrial Revolution on Europe from thei
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by chimeracoder 8y ago
> I suspect that many schoolchildren in the South can also remember the echos of segregation Remember? You can see it now. Not just in the South, but in every state. In fact, Oregon is probably the state where segregation and its effects
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by chimeracoder 8y ago
> You mean, we ended it in the United States. Other countries ended slavery before we did. Sort of? The major European powers "ended" it at home by outsourcing it to their colonies. It's not like Britain, France, Belgium,
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by chimeracoder 8y ago
> The single biggest problem with reparations, is that it would bankrupt several of Europe's leading economies, those that were responsible for hundreds of years of slavery and the forced transport of millions of African slaves to N
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by chimeracoder 8y ago
> The population is rather segregated, if a kid needs to be bussed an extra 30+ minutes each way it's not nessisarily worth it. Yes, decades of redlining and other less explicit policies have created a situation in which residences
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by chimeracoder 8y ago
> Corruption isn't the only logical conclusion. It's foolish to pretend otherwise. Instead of blindly speculating on what could be true, when you've already said that you're not familiar with the topic, how about do
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by chimeracoder 8y ago
> It's good to know that Aurora will try. It's not like it needs to be reliable or anything. "Reliable" isn't a binary concept. There's no service that is 100% reliable. Having a solution that works 99.99% o
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by chimeracoder 8y ago
> And I think it could convert those in the anti camp. Some are against Net Neutrality because they see it as government control of the internet (it is not). They need to recognize that FOSTA is directly what they perceive Net Neutrality
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by chimeracoder 8y ago
> They should take a look at FOSTA if they want to know what government controlling the internet really looks like. Unfortunately, that's not a winning argument from a rhetorical perspective. Almost every single person in both the H
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> I don't understand why New York has two employees per train. Nearly everywhere else in the world has 1. Because the TWU penalizes the MTA financially for technological advancement. They are incredibly powerful, mostly because neit
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by chimeracoder 8y ago
> That question should be directed at you. It should be obvious this is a nuanced and complex issue. You accept what appears to be a one-sided view. Do you believe that should increase or decrease your trustworthiness? I don't know
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by chimeracoder 8y ago
> TFA explicitly states TWU wants to keep safety improvements. That's literally the job I would expect for a union. Safety is already worse in NYC than other areas. You're actually going to accept the reasoning they give uncrit

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