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by gwright 6y ago
> Any economic system has at least some people who generally do not produce things -- babies and the elderly. In capitalism, you also have the unemployed. There is a big difference between people who are incapable of producing things (pe
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by gwright 6y ago
There are people today not returning to work because unemployment plus the $600 extra/week from the COVID-19 program means that it makes more sense to just be unemployed. I'm not saying this is directly analogous to what might hap
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by gwright 6y ago
This comment tickled something in my memory: All Circuits are Busy Now: The 1990 AT&T Long Distance Network Collapse http://users.csc.calpoly.edu/~jdalbey/SWE/Papers/att_collaps...
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by gwright 6y ago
Angrily? Defensive? When I pointed out that "systemic racism" means different things to different people and that lack of agreement on that point made it difficult to have a meaningful discussion, you told me to "Go educate
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by gwright 6y ago
Obviously the answer is to not criminalize the gatherings at all.
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by gwright 6y ago
Why did you assume that my comments about the violent mob was in reference to peaceful protestors? I was clearly talking about the looters and vandals that have used the legitimate protests to shield their activities. Is it that hard to dis
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by gwright 6y ago
I did not say either interpretation of "systemic" was wrong, just that they were not identical. Both interpretations can be used to have meaningful discussions but only if it is clear which definition is being used first. And than
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by gwright 6y ago
> Especially when his opinions are factually unfounded and result the gross misuse of public resources. Factually unfounded? It is pretty clear that opportunists and provacateurs have used the legitimate protests as a shield for their il
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by gwright 6y ago
> 1.) I don't agree with taking such "both sides" a view of equating the two: BLM protests are about protesting police brutality, religious congregations are not It isn't a matter of equating the perceived importance
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by gwright 6y ago
It is pretty clear that you and the parent's author aren't using the same definition of "systemic". It is very difficult to devise reasonable plans of action when the core terms in the dispute are ill-defined. There also
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by gwright 6y ago
So funny to hear your story about your canoe trip. When I hiked the AT in 2002, I spent the first several days having the same experience you had. I thought I was hearing things, then I thought I was much closer to civilization that I expec
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by gwright 6y ago
This seems overly simplistic to me and premature. You are declaring "null and void" something that you haven't seen (at least I was unable to find the actual text just now). Obviously any President has lots of legal option
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by gwright 6y ago
Well I guess we are in agreement but I found your formulation confusing. In particular "It's the wrong place to look for limitations of presidential power" is what I was responding to. Given your followup I now understand wh
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by gwright 6y ago
> The Articles of the US Constitution aren't an enumerated list of illegal actions. It's the wrong place to look for limitations of presidential power. The US Constitution is indeed an enumerated list of federal governmental po
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by gwright 6y ago
Define "controlling", define "power", define 'not needed for the functioning of the business". Define "power tripping". I'm not sure how to draw any meaning from your statement when the terms yo
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by gwright 6y ago
> He believes that human lives are more important than property rights. How do you justify creating a total ordering of rights in this way? And why do you think that there is no intersection between these two sets: "human rights&quo
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by gwright 6y ago
"market rate" is a metric that incorporates candidate salary expectations and geographic cost of living adjustments as well as many other things such as tax considerations?
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by gwright 6y ago
So what? I'm not arguing against remote work. I'm arguing against the religion of "universal remote work". One size doesn't fit all. That should be completely uncontroversial.
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by gwright 6y ago
I find your mode of thinking frightening. You are insisting that you have discovered a universal truth about working relationships and that anyone who disagrees with your religion is "on a power trip". Does your thought on this ma
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by gwright 6y ago
You've divided the working world up into "decisions makers" and "peons" and you want me to view your thoughts on this as reasonable? And is there some law of physics that I'm not aware of that neatly divides al
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by gwright 6y ago
This is just sloppy logical thinking. Even assuming your statement that "all...megacorps are staring to embrace", it is not reasonable to then conclude that any alternate opinion about remote work at all is wrong thinking. By
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by gwright 6y ago
Where do you get so much self righteousness to conclude that your assessment is appropriate for all companies, all positions, everywhere? And why does there have to even be a single "formula" for work in any case? I find that atti
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by gwright 6y ago
I don't understand the need to insist on the righteousness of your particular opinion with regard to remote work. To conclude that an organization that doesn't meet your expectations about remote work as you is "all about pow
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by gwright 6y ago
Where are you going with this? It isn't really controversial at all that a business needs to pay state taxes associated with their employees resident in the state. We can speculate about some alternate tax regime that didn't have
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by gwright 6y ago
The tax authorities won't see it that way.
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by gwright 6y ago
> Are you stating that cost of living impacts your skill level? Not at all. If all things are equal except the cost of living difference then a company can get X units of value at a discount by hiring the person with the lower cost of l
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by gwright 6y ago
> Cost of living should not dictate your value to the company. Your "value" to the company depends a lot on your compensation and your compensation depends on the marketplace for other developers with similar skills.
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by gwright 6y ago
The more interesting question is not whether that was your experience but what the aggregate data might say about that. It seems to me that companies that don't make that adjustment are spending a lot more on labor than they need to, b
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by gwright 6y ago
I think it is a mistake to conflate the intrinsic value of a human with their point-in-time value as labor in a business relationship. They are very different things. In a business relationship both parties need to find a price point that
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by gwright 6y ago
the most obvious modern use case that comes to mind is maps or more generally geospatial visualization tools

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