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by delazeur 9y ago
I was a Nucor engineer in the early 2010s, and all their rolling mills had them by then. Things had changed a lot since the '90s, though. The old guys talked about having to manually replace the electrodes in the arc furnaces, which
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by delazeur 9y ago
"Illegal" and "criminal" are not the same thing.
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by delazeur 9y ago
Every American steel mill I've been in or heard about has cages that people have to stay inside if they are near the part of the line where this can happen. (Presumably an OSHA requirement, but I'm not 100% on that.)
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by delazeur 9y ago
Yeah, and that's not even remarkable. 70-90% of employees in a modern manufacturing facility will be in maintenance or support roles.
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by delazeur 9y ago
Overgeneralizing a bit, my experience has been that people tend to be much better at spotting foreign propaganda than domestic propaganda.
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by delazeur 9y ago
> Well if it was written out would it matter? Yes, if N.W.A had been used as a precedent to support the Slants it would matter whether or not N.W.A. was written out. The more fundamental question of whether slurs should be protected i
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by delazeur 9y ago
> Blah, blah, informed electorate. Meanwhile most people have little or no grasp of the basics of political philosophy and economics, the history of both, are terrible critical readers, know little about the actual structure and function
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by delazeur 9y ago
> I would rate Chinese people the most independent-minded group of citizens in the world. Chinese people are incredible at recognizing propaganda and superficial arguments that bear limited practicality. That's a very weird statemen
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by delazeur 9y ago
> nobody that i know who has student loans can afford to pay that much per year I think that's cumulative cost, not annual cost. Hard to say though; it's not a very good figure.
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by delazeur 9y ago
You are never going to be able to negotiate for yourself on an equal footing with a corporation, but unions can achieve a close approximation.
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by delazeur 9y ago
Oh, come on. It has not been that long since we found out that major tech companies were colluding to suppress SWE salaries. Have you already forgotten?
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by delazeur 9y ago
Right. If someone is going to make that argument, they should be expected to at least explain why something won't scale up.
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by delazeur 9y ago
No, trench warfare predated Bismarck, although it didn't peak until after he died. Vicksburg and Petersburg are good examples from the U.S. Civil War.
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by delazeur 9y ago
If that was true, we would expect the American Bible Belt to have some of the cushiest prisons in the developed world.
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by delazeur 9y ago
No. Thinking out loud is not the same as communicating a thought process.
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by delazeur 9y ago
There is an enormous difference between a person taking a minute to collect their thoughts without speaking and a person being unwilling or unable to communicate. I can't be sure, but it sounds like at least some people in this thread
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by delazeur 9y ago
Anecdata: most of my employers have offered good (but not the best) insurance. If you didn't use it, the employer and employee contributions together were probably something like $10k-$15k. If you did use it, the employee contributio
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by delazeur 9y ago
That article doesn't actually back up your claim. ("The waiting lines in the UK for surgeries make it more likely you die before you get it in time if you have anything remotely serious.") At best, it has a speculative quote
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by delazeur 9y ago
1. Good insurance is unavailable to many, many people in the US. 2. Good insurance is extremely expensive. If your premiums for good insurance are low, that just means your employer is paying a lot. I don't see much substantive dif
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by delazeur 9y ago
Instead of providing a source for your original claim, you just made an additional unsourced claim.
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by delazeur 9y ago
I'm in a similar position to you (I grew up on free lunch and now have a well-paid engineering career). But your or my existence and success doesn't negate the trend; there will always be outliers. I don't think I've e
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by delazeur 9y ago
Source? If true, why does the UK have a longer life expectancy than the US? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expe...
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by delazeur 9y ago
Some percentage of kettles were not well made and did not last. All the kettles that did last were well made. It's wrong to look at the population of kettles that lasted, observe that they are all well made, and conclude that all k
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by delazeur 9y ago
> Before, a single kettle could last generations. I'm personally very disturbed by the idea of more and more people getting many deliveries every single day. That kind of consumption is insanity and just think of the carbon footpri
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by delazeur 9y ago
If you only consider salaries at major companies in SF/Seattle/NYC/Chicago, or you only look at the salaries of graduates from top programs, then sure. But the average programmer, graduated from an average school and working
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by delazeur 9y ago
Yup. Gonzo: of or associated with journalistic writing of an exaggerated, subjective, and fictionalized style. bizarre or crazy.
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by delazeur 9y ago
> we still don't know for sure whether there are no negative consequences That is a carefully-worded statement that will always be true about everything.
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by delazeur 9y ago
I am a chemical engineer currently working in a consulting niche (air emissions control and regional air quality management). My interviews have very consistently been designed to test my writing and public speaking skills, which are admit
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by delazeur 9y ago
> I've seen this statement made routinely for two decades online and have never once seen it supported with anything concrete. I find that hard to believe. References for this claim are readily available.
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by delazeur 9y ago
> to use an example another commenter made -- an appliance manufacturer contracting with electrical utilities to subsidize the cost of electricity used by their appliances Is that something you are claiming currently occurs, or something

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