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by ckw 4y ago
I think it’s not only very interesting but highly revealing that the same argument made in favor of the most iniquitous of all labor relations is reflexively used to justify gig work.
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by ckw 4y ago
The original comment said > I'd like to see the argument that those people who chose and choose to work at uber have worse outcomes than they otherwise would The reply: > this is the same argument that was used in favor of slaver
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by ckw 4y ago
The link has many examples. Gig companies must not be deceptive in their claims to prospective gig workers about potential earnings, and they must be transparent and truthful about costs borne by workers. The FTC will investigate evi
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by ckw 4y ago
I suspect you would not make this argument if the prospective employee were a four year old child and the service to be rendered was sweeping your chimney. But according to what principle do you distinguish the two cases?
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by ckw 4y ago
< I have yet to see a convincing argument, here on HN or elsewhere, about how these companies are taking advantage of workers. Some issues referenced in the link the FTC intends to address: Misrepresentations about the nature of gig
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by ckw 4y ago
I love Tenet, but it has the worst sound mix I’ve ever heard.
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by ckw 4y ago
The filibuster is not in the constitution. Currently, the senate has adopted a rule by which debate may be closed with 60 votes. So if one side has 41 votes they may, by convention, ‘filibuster’ (which entails nothing but saying ‘we filibus
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by ckw 4y ago
The sooner we transition, the sooner we’ll be able to become vastly wealthier: the GDP growth rate is highly correlated with the growth rate of energy consumption. The growth rate of energy consumption has been declining since around 1970,
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by ckw 4y ago
A supermajority is not required to pass a bill. If the democrats really wanted to fix healthcare they could vote to lower the Medicare age to zero tomorrow.
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by ckw 4y ago
The indentured servitude statement is apt: the GP implies that willful entrance into a contract of employment is by virtue of this willfulness incapable of being exploitative. But indentured servitude is entered into in the same manner, and
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by ckw 4y ago
The point is that indentured servants also willingly enter their contract. So if that is the standard—- that one who willingly accepts a duty is incapable of being exploited, then neither are indentured servants. In fact, according to that
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by ckw 4y ago
> i think the people who can be taken advantage of are those who cannot improve their situation If all the large tech companies conspired to halve wages by agreeing not to hire each other’s employees, and succeeded, would you consider th
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by ckw 4y ago
This is pure ad hominem. Are his claims false? Is his reasoning unsound?
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by ckw 4y ago
It is inconceivable that the official numbers (5226 deaths) are being understated to a significant degree, because if they were, a threshold would be crossed rendering containment impossible, and 2-4 million people would then die. January a
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by ckw 4y ago
UCSF professor Vinay Prasad making the case against the new boosters (and claiming that those responsible for these recommendations ‘exhibit a pattern of gross incompetence’): https://youtu.be/USKDUvKmN5Q
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by ckw 4y ago
It was co-founded by Henry Singleton. After the Academy, Singleton elected to study electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and graduated in 1940, receiving both bachelor's (Sc.B.) and master&#x27
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by ckw 4y ago
Adam Curtis likes the parody.
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by ckw 4y ago
Short documentary (Leaving The Earth) by Errol Morris about United Airlines Flight 232. If you haven’t heard of that, don’t google— watch the documentary. I like it because it’s the perfect rendition by two master storytellers (Errol Morris
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by ckw 4y ago
So your solution is in principle to incarcerate the overwhelming majority of users who suffer no ill effects… Do you also advocate for the criminalization of alcohol?
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by ckw 4y ago
The people downvoting the parent comment evince a stronger view: intolerance of tolerance of intolerance. edit: and arguably intolerance of tolerance of tolerance of intolerance.
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by ckw 4y ago
If there is no demand for the output of the machine, the machine will output nothing.
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by ckw 4y ago
Here’s the graph limited to ages 25-54: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS11300060 The shape is the same, with a peak at ~1999. There is a large difference between the labor force participation rate and the unemplo
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by ckw 4y ago
It is essential that the poor earn as little as possible so as to incentivize their labor, and it is essential that the rich earn as much as possible (by, for example, reducing their tax burden) so as to incentivize their labor.
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by ckw 4y ago
It tipped decades ago: in the United States, the labor force participation rate for men has been in secular decline since 1950 (and perhaps earlier—-the Fred data only goes back to 1948): https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series&#
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by ckw 4y ago
At some point around 2006 I could sort all Netflix titles by user rating and even better, what Netflix expected I would rate a given title. This expected rating became incredibly accurate after I’d rated 50-100 titles according to the extan
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by ckw 4y ago
* Public option: 68% support, 18% oppose. * Medicare for all: 55% support, 32% oppose. * Civil asset forfeiture: 16% support, 86% oppose.
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by ckw 4y ago
Video discussing the use of the sun as a gravitational lens to image exoplanets: https://youtu.be/NQFqDKRAROI
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by ckw 4y ago
I would alter that slightly: virtuous acts should be done whenever an opportunity arises. When we see particularly conspicuous acts of virtue, by which the practitioner benefits greatly, especially when the opportunity to avoid conspicuousn
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by ckw 4y ago
When I looked into it a couple years ago, around 1% of procedures resulted in markedly diminished quality of life, with the most extreme cases regularly leading to the suicide of the patient, so I decided against it. Periodically I look bac
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by ckw 4y ago
Something related I wonder about: consider seals, sea lions, elephant seals, walruses and whales. In those species are we seeing the process of the convergent evolution of a land occupying species toward a purely oceanic going whale form sp

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