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901.
by grumple 6y ago
Firstly, unions prevent abuse. This includes unjust termination (for a million different reasons), handles disputes with supervisors where the individual employee otherwise has no power, such as the HN post the other day about the extremely
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by grumple 6y ago
The NBPA has overseen a huge increase in NBA player's wages over the past few decades, both at the top and for the average or minimum player. Yes, there's a salary cap, but that actually helps the vast majority of players, because
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by grumple 6y ago
I don’t think this is correct. Maybe that’s for some place where there’s forced union membership? I’ve worked at places where certain departments were unionized (for example hospitality) but others were not. Far below any such 30% threshold
904.
by grumple 6y ago
VM for a mobile app?
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by grumple 6y ago
I have experienced abuse at the hands of supervisors (generally disrespectful / belittling behavior). You have to have a special kind of privilege to have not experienced this sort of thing. I haven't ever experienced such a perva
906.
by grumple 6y ago
The author is trying to maintain some anonymity. That would not be possible with specific details.
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by grumple 6y ago
> Fixing a bug or delivering a feature where you haven't documented the process, (how the criteria were decided, when it was tested and deployed) is as good a running a web site nobody visits. This is patently false, as evidenced by
908.
by grumple 6y ago
It’s not just that the political leadership was lacking; our media and the people of the US also collaborated in this failure. There is no sense of community or duty amongst our people, only selfishness.
909.
by grumple 6y ago
Gonna go out on a limb here and say this is a spurious correlation. Those nations differ from us immensely in their diet and overall food consumption, and perhaps more importantly they have universal healthcare and likely exercise more.
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by grumple 6y ago
They aren’t sharp. Doesn’t seem like a realistic concern tbh.
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by grumple 6y ago
I feel bad for not following up with recruiters. They are people trying to make a living. Unfortunately most of the jobs they have just aren’t interesting or high paying enough to lure me away.
912.
by grumple 6y ago
What do those people work on?
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by grumple 6y ago
Are there not any apps that do this? I notice that signal unlocks when you unlock the phone; are there not e2e messaging apps that require authentication (whether passcode or biometric) on unlocked devices? Just checked, Signal has this; do
914.
by grumple 6y ago
This headline is nonsense. The article basically comes down to: Robinhood users may get slightly worse prices on trades. If your trades comes down to a cent or two, you shouldn't be using Robinhood. If you're actually investing, a
915.
by grumple 6y ago
This is a continuation of existing Rails ideas: "This is a conceptual continuation of what in the Rails world was first called RJS and then called SJR, but realized without any need for JavaScript. The benefits remain the same" [1
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by grumple 6y ago
If you knew about it or should have reasonably known about it, then yes, you should.
917.
by grumple 6y ago
It's like cable tv has come full circle... you pay for tv without ads, then they start having ads. Facebook will never stop collecting data on its users as long as it exists.
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by grumple 6y ago
US law does not matter to law firms in Delhi...
919.
by grumple 6y ago
On PC. Bugs are in line with other games. Not nearly as bad as the original Fable or Watch Dogs (and Watch Dogs Legion), for examples. I do seem to get stuck in “can’t save” or “can’t run/crouch” mode occasionally, but a quick reload f
920.
by grumple 6y ago
If a surgery’s effectiveness has not been evaluated vs a placebo, you cannot assume it to be effective based on anecdotes. Obviously there are many surgeries that are effective (repeating broken limbs, emergency surgeries, etc). Those surge
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by grumple 6y ago
Build a car around them?
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by grumple 6y ago
From the article: > But genetics may also make them particularly susceptible to SARS-CoV-2, the pandemic coronavirus. They have three copies of a gene on chromosome 21, TMPRSS2, which codes for an enzyme that the virus hijacks to help it
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by grumple 6y ago
Yes, it is rather specific to COVID-19. From the article: > But genetics may also make them particularly susceptible to SARS-CoV-2, the pandemic coronavirus. They have three copies of a gene on chromosome 21, TMPRSS2, which codes for an
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by grumple 6y ago
> I read that article, and it doesn't seem like some grand revelation. Does every article of interest have to be some grand revelation? Science is all about incremental gains, with very rare leaps. Part of the why was very interesti
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by grumple 6y ago
Unfortunately, much of the world is built like this. Those who draw attention to failures get blamed, not rewarded (even from a young age: "he who smelt it, dealt it").
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by grumple 6y ago
When AWS had their major outage a few weeks ago, comments indicated that the status pages are updated manually at these companies. It's heavily influenced by contractual and internal political factors.
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by grumple 6y ago
> Unauthorized videos are taken down with vigilance This is not universally true. For example, you can go on YouTube right now and probably find all sorts of music videos not hosted by the actual artists, so long as it’s older or more ob
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by grumple 6y ago
You can use the time to work on existing projects and/or with other people.
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by grumple 6y ago
A few points on this: society doesn’t make speed limits, municipal administrators (and sometimes small town police themselves) do. The speed limits are often set by observation, and they intentionally leave a large number of drivers over th
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by grumple 6y ago
Having sexual harassment allegations against executives taken seriously was an example. Ensuring that you can’t be fired for unionizing is another.

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