eddtries

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by eddtries 3y ago
Yeah I agree, I was responding to > If legislators feel strongly ideologically about an issue, no amount of lobbying will make them vote the other way.
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by eddtries 3y ago
The thing that I find shocking about lobbying is just how cheap it is. In the FTX trial the amount they spent lobbying politicians for pro-crypto laws was released and we're talking low five figures. SBF even said lobbying was very che
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by eddtries 3y ago
How do you explain big Pharma lobbying to stop reducing drug prices? For example, Democrats who held up drug pricing reforms were the largest beneficiaries of lobbyist money. https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-
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by eddtries 3y ago
I think there are some things the 'elite classes' know of and do that most people just aren't aware of and have no access to. For example certain private clubs in London, dinning clubs, certain student groups at Oxford/C
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by eddtries 3y ago
> interesting work on the forefront of technology What sort of interesting work is not possible in Sweden? I've worked in many tech hubs and am now in Stockholm; Oxford, London, Palo Alto, etc, and haven't noticed anything
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by eddtries 3y ago
I'm saying I don't think Sweden would be impacted by losing a tiny bit of its GDP in exports in order to protect its work culture, but I also don't believe it'd ever come down to that anyway.
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by eddtries 3y ago
Sweden exports 3x more to the US than the other way around, and of those $15B in exports it's primarily critical infra like trucks, medicine, and refined petroleum. I don't believe the US would "retaliate" because Musk d
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by eddtries 3y ago
> discouraged workers from wearing safety yellow because he dislikes bright colors I know for a fact Musk wears hi-vis vests so that sounds at the least hyperbole
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by eddtries 3y ago
We know of Egyptian doctors by name from a similar timeframe away in the past, so I assume they very well will! Especially because we’re better at archiving stuff deliberately now. For example Imhotep and Hesy-ra are both a doctor and denti
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by eddtries 3y ago
Thanks for the context :)
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by eddtries 3y ago
I’m new to Sweden so I don’t know the technicalities of voting but I assumed that’d be the case, to get banned from a union seems to be very extreme
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by eddtries 3y ago
If you care about the security of OpenAI, you care about the EOL of 14 year old Java 5
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by eddtries 3y ago
Actually I don’t know if they’re on top of or a total replacement, but even as a replacement I’m happy! I work as a consultant so it’s always a little risky finding clients, but my annual take home from the previous year covers the downtime
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by eddtries 3y ago
You’ll never win an argument that has such different cultures in the comment section, sadly. Not only are there the US ideas of unions here, but also Musk fanboyism. It’s a lost cause!
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by eddtries 3y ago
Not doubting that! I’m doubting they outright ban members based purely on numbers of MPs vs number of employed workforce in unions
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by eddtries 3y ago
Sorry I meant a reduction of salary, my take home is $80k lower
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by eddtries 3y ago
But what are your thoughts? They’re pretty legitimate
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by eddtries 3y ago
I may not support that party but it is huge; it’s not a fringe party. I’m surprised unions don’t allow them, it’s the second largest party and 90% of workers are in unions. I’m skeptical of the original point
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by eddtries 3y ago
Yeah, there’s only like 130 of them
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by eddtries 3y ago
America pays more but has less of a safety net. I moved from Palo Alto to Stockholm and while I’m paid far less, everything else is cheaper or free. And I get twice the holiday. And I get a years paternity leave. And I don’t have to live in
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by eddtries 3y ago
I pay a couple dollars a year in Sweden and my union offers unemployment insurance, 80% of my salary for six months if I’m laid off. I’m okay with that annual membership if that was all I got :)
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by eddtries 3y ago
It’s to force Tesla to sign the collective bargaining agreement for mechanics, guaranteeing a minimum salary/holiday allowance/pension
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by eddtries 3y ago
I’m not the best systems dev, when I get these options I pick easy!
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by eddtries 3y ago
Thanks!
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by eddtries 3y ago
In Sweden there’s not many laws in place for employees, there’s collective bargaining agreements that unions ask for instead. For example there’s no minimum wage, but the unions get a fair living wage for employees. Union / Employer re
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by eddtries 3y ago
Do you have an example? For my case it was an internal lambda service that could add functions with specific intervals to the time.Ticker match, basically you edit a config to add a path to an executable and an interval and then I added it
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by eddtries 3y ago
I think he definitely went off the rails with spending on himself, but he absolutely donated the way he said he was too. There were a lot of questions from charity founders who received funding wondering if they should give back, and there
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by eddtries 3y ago
Yeah I was designing an internal lambda server so mostly parallelism, all I had to do was have a dynamic match and everything else was out the box for the load I needed
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by eddtries 3y ago
Japan is improving here thankfully! I’ve heard of workplaces that have drones fly around buzzing at 6pm to try kick people out
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by eddtries 3y ago
The thing that made me love Golang was the Time channel, where you can have a channel execute a function every X milliseconds, without having to worry about blocking threads with time.sleep() etc. It made a lot of stuff I wanted to write

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