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by elicash 7y ago
> For instance, the successful applicant might have to get up early to start a shift on time or deal with a higher workload when the weather is bad. How do they feel about that and how would they go about it? [...] > A scoring system
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by elicash 7y ago
I don't know that I have much of a gripe at all. I'm just saying that if you want to figure out the best way to design the system, a cap is a reasonable thing to consider. Also, let's not pretend the payout that will also go
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by elicash 7y ago
I'm pro-cap. (For different reasons.) But (1) this case is a bad example of unnecessary litigation, and (2) there might be better ways than a cap to stop the litigation that you're calling "unnecessary." Maybe what you w
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by elicash 7y ago
This is a fair point, but an alternative venue from the one used in this instance can be fines by governments. Also, I think it's reasonable to debate capping fees by attorneys in these types of cases. You want the payout to be big eno
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by elicash 7y ago
This is surprising given this epidemic seems to mostly affect people over 30. Not saying it's wrong, I'm not a public health expert. Just surprised. Is it because they might be likely to carry and spread it without ever showing an
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by elicash 7y ago
And you think if she wasn't allowed to either have private health insurance (which is subsidized by others with health insurance) or have government-paid insurance, that she would suddenly stop smoking?
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by elicash 7y ago
Let's take smoking as an example. You think there are people out there who will smoke, knowing that it causes lung cancer, because they figure government will pick up the tab for the chemo? Bizarre, but ok, if so, why doesn't havi
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by elicash 7y ago
Another example: My dad is a letter carrier. He's off Sunday and then has a floating day off that changes each week. (Scheduled far in advance.)
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by elicash 7y ago
I'd recommend reading the article. It cites this study: https://files.meetup.com/1468133/LCAwhitepaper.pdf One can take issue with the study, but this comment doesn't seem to even grapple with it.
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by elicash 7y ago
Reminds me of when two people walking towards each other struggle with who is passing on the left vs right and go back and forth at the same time. The best strategy for a resolution isn't to be accommodating. It's to physically sh
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by elicash 7y ago
Is it? Seems like countering it might be a use-case only important to specialty buyers who want to get around this kind of protection. Even if it wasn't that difficult to counter, there might not be enough incentive for most off-the-sh
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by elicash 7y ago
Yeah, I think you make a fair point. Unions need to be representative of all parts of the workforce. The first things unions do when they start organizing is try to create a committee that includes all departments, people across race, etc.
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by elicash 7y ago
There's absolutely evidence that unions increase wages. 100%. I suppose you could argue that's happening out of employer generosity? And that they're more generous when there's a union?
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by elicash 7y ago
Basically every institution in the U.S. has racism in its history. But the reason the civil rights movement has been so aligned with the labor movement historically is because racial and economic progress are linked. That's one reason
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by elicash 7y ago
If that was true, Kickstarter wouldn't have fought it as hard as they did. The workers just gained additional leverage. What's the evidence that these workers have zero additional leverage?
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by elicash 7y ago
> They don't unionize though, they have a player's union. These are LITERALLY the same thing. There's nothing that stops ANY type of union (including public employees) from negotiating caps or rewarding top performers. The
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by elicash 7y ago
I brought up professional sports unions in the context of having a highly competitive group of workers who make large salaries, and that a union can still be useful in that environment as far as negotiations. That professional sports are mo
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by elicash 7y ago
Wish I knew more about it. Here's what the NFLPA has on their website: https://www.nflpa.com/about/history One of the reasons I like it as an example is it shows how much more a union can do than simply negotiate
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by elicash 7y ago
1. Why do tech workers need a union? If you want to improve your workplace, you have additional leverage to fight for changes if you're in a union. There's often very little you can do alone. This might be things like pay, or it m
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by elicash 7y ago
Now that there's union recognition, they will finally negotiate a contract. Sometimes, this process can take a very long time. This step hasn't begun yet.
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by elicash 7y ago
If I were to add a new branch, it wouldn't be a Space Force. It'd be a cyberwar force.
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by elicash 7y ago
The fine, it appears, is because users "were not informed." They "committed the crime of deceptive commercial practice by omission." Not because they slowed it down, contrary to the headline.
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by elicash 7y ago
It may be too late for you to ever see this, but it seems there are in fact other sources of discrepancies in the counts: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/06/upshot/iowa-caucuses-erro... There's also
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by elicash 7y ago
My guess is either (a) they're hand-counting all the paper backups, and/or (b) campaigns are chiming in and confirming or disputing results before the IDP makes the result public, which means more time for folks to weigh in and mo
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by elicash 7y ago
The only thing I want to add to this discussion is that even though there's no evidence any nation has ever hacked into our voting machines, we still need a paper trail . It could absolutely happen. We have over 3000 different voting
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by elicash 7y ago
I didn't downvote you (I promise!). And I hope I answered your question. For those who did, I think what happens is that it's hard to tell which people are and are not operating in good faith and sometimes people mistake one for t
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by elicash 7y ago
Right. I had understood that statement to mean that people were reporting bad data between those three results that were contradictory. That there was an issue on the user end, too. But it's vague enough that it could just mean that th
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by elicash 7y ago
> I definitely read that as the app is the way that results were reported That's my point. It's about how caucus managers tell the Iowa Democratic Party how many votes there were, for who, in each round. It has nothing to do wi
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by elicash 7y ago
Could be. I was basing that part of my comment on the statement they put out last night ("We found inconsistencies in the reporting of three sets of results"), but there could be additional info on that today.
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by elicash 7y ago
Oh yeah. Terrible decision-making. There shouldn't have been an app at all. And not only shouldn't it exist, it was poorly done. More details keep coming out about that: https://twitter.com/AdrienneRoyer/statu

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