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by excursionist 7y ago
'Choosing' a union or whether to be part of one is not any harder than 'choosing' an employer.
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by excursionist 7y ago
What's the difference between 'monopolization of workforce' by a union, vs by a corporation? A union should be democratic, but if the workforce is split into many smaller unions it loses negotiating power.
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by excursionist 7y ago
> It's so difficult to find food in groceries stores in America that isn't loaded down with sugar, starch or high fructose corn syrup. It's not hard, you just go to the fruit/veg/meat/fish sections.
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by excursionist 7y ago
Beyond Meat claims its 'better for you' right at the top of their products page: https://www.beyondmeat.com/products/
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by excursionist 7y ago
> Nobody has ever claimed these things are healthier. That's just not true, the supposed health benefits are touted everywhere. Beyond Meat literally claims their products are 'better for you' at the top of their website.
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by excursionist 7y ago
https://edwardsnowden.com/donate/
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by excursionist 7y ago
> I hope one day there can be an Elm-like experience for backend development as well. Haskell?
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by excursionist 7y ago
The whole idea of copyright is unsound, so arguing about it's 'intricacies' is pretty pointless. Garbage in, garbage out.
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by excursionist 7y ago
That's not quite what Chomsky says... > The concentration of wealth and enhancement of corporate power translate automatically to decline of democracy. Research in academic political science has revealed that a large majority of vot
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by excursionist 7y ago
> > Are you suggesting I had the gullible interpretation? Yes. > What action would you suggest is the appropriate one to this PR move? When these corporations put their money where their mouth is, we can start to seriously conside
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by excursionist 7y ago
Your statement is wrong because there is no reason to believe or any evidence to support the following statement: > The point of this statement is to signal to the public, that the elite are ready to give them what they want and understa
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by excursionist 7y ago
What? Corporations have always been spending time & money on PR. Are you asking what the purpose of PR is? I see no reason to assume altruistic motives are involved.
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by excursionist 7y ago
I think you are misunderstanding the purpose of this cheap PR move.
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by excursionist 7y ago
How are externalities considered in shareholder value?
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by excursionist 7y ago
Depends how you define 'biggest time stealers' - tv and video games are huge time stealers for many people. And the fact that drugs have a chemical effect on the brain does not mean they are necessarily worse than, say, watching s
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by excursionist 7y ago
> Cannabis, like any recreational drug, steals the most precious resource we have: our time. Everything 'steals time'... watching TV, reading books, listening to music, working a job, etc. > Life is the best teacher and recr
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by excursionist 7y ago
Yes, but rust can be seen as an alternative to C++. They are closest in terms of features/power/performance.
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by excursionist 7y ago
> If complexity is based on how likely a syntactically correct program is also logically correct, then type systems remove a lot of complexity. Types are not really at the syntax level. I would measure the complexity of a language by the
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by excursionist 7y ago
I would argue it was, and still is, simpler than modern C++.