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by gyulai 4y ago
...there's an obvious zero-sum game involved when unions negotiate with companies. Think of other zero-sum games like negotiating a price. Have you ever asked a salesperson about a price and heard them say "..the highest I can p
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What else are they going to say in public? "Our plan is to engage in union-busting as much as we can legally get away with"? And what one company said is then compared to what another company actually did? Come on! This statem
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Well x-cracies are about power, not about money. I believe there are genuine differences in the extent to which organizations are transparent, both about power and about money. But even with full transparency, what is there to verify if t
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My perception of the word "meritocracy" is that it's usually used by an autocrat to describe his autocracy. A head of a hedge fund or start-up business might say "Come work for me, you will find it so rewarding, I'
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by gyulai 4y ago
I've recently read Developer Hegemony. While I agree with their critique of the status quo, I don't think their alternative approach works for software engineering in settings other than agency work for non-tech clients. Law firm
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by gyulai 4y ago
I found the opening chapters of "Computational Learning Theory" by Kearns & Vazirani [1] really eye-opening in this regard. It starts using the example of "rectangle" learning, where data points are encoded as points
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by gyulai 4y ago
Disappointing to hear that the ecosystem has fared that poorly. Are there really no companies doing this that aren't part of "surveillance capitalism"? When it first came out, I seem to recall that Norton was one of the com
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...the question is whether the historical context from which it grew is still in place today. Today we have at least three "layers" of social security in most European countries: The first layer is that government makes sure every
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Employment law is more like a grenade than a sharp-shooter rifle. It just deals out damage in all directions regardless of how it's used and where it's supposedly targeted. In a country like Germany, if you fire an employee and t
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by gyulai 4y ago
That sounds interesting. Did you run the simulation?
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I think this is referring to a widely used mental model in economics whereby you look at the allocation of resources "other than money". So if you look at a piece of farmland, you look at how many people it feeds and not so much
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by gyulai 4y ago
If you try to get ready-made talent from the outside you will face problems in the selection process and, as the article points out, there really is no good solution to those problems. ...so the alternative is to create your own talent a
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That sounds like the "internesia" of the original article. The problem is that, in most countries, employment law will make it pretty difficult to do this. Also, with deliberate high turnover like that, you'll find it diffic
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by gyulai 4y ago
My previous employer (the one I have been with the longest, at 3,5 years) categorically rejected paying for conference participation etc. The company would frequently get requests from organizers of conferences, networking events and the l
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by gyulai 4y ago
This kind of frightens me. It likely leads towards some kind of ageism, as students and teenagers are comparatively time-rich and can more easily find the time to build up impressive GitHub profiles. As you get older, projects like buildi
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by gyulai 4y ago
...sorry, just recounting something from memory I had read a long time ago, with the original source unavailable to me right now. Maybe the original had some bias, or I misremembered or something. Thanks for the correction.
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> In the wake of the financial crisis of 2008 (IIRC), the role of regular banking and hedge fund activities was split in two. This thing comes and goes in waves. IIRC the requirement that retail banking and proprietary trading not be mix
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by gyulai 4y ago
I wasn't contemplating a re-import of a car from a German manufacturer as sold in India back into Germany. I also wasn't thinking "luxury". I was rather thinking of getting a Tata or Lada or whatever the locals drive in
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by gyulai 4y ago
> generally viewed as good for both producers and consumers How so? All examples of price discrimination I can think of are basically forms of rent seeking where money is extracted without providing anything in return. Price discriminat
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by gyulai 4y ago
I agree with you. I simply have no words for how much this pisses me off. I'm seriously considering importing my next car from Russia or India or some country where consumers aren't as easy to abuse and defraud as they are in the
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by gyulai 4y ago
I don't know enough about the specifics of the OpenDoc thing to be able to comment on that. I also don't know enough about the specifics of what happened to that guy. Was he an Apple engineer? Do we know whether he got fired the
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by gyulai 4y ago
I wouldn't have thought that Linux swings a whole 1.76% (not being sarcastic here)
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...if you think about it, it's the phrase "sell 8 billion dollars of product a year" that does the heavylifting, where he sets up the overall tone as "Me: Successful business tycoon. You: Angry nobody." It would co
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by gyulai 4y ago
...well the brexit vote was split nearly 50/50. The brexiteers were "counter establishment". Do you think the vote would have been 50/50 if better together had run a campaign that was basically "We're Oxbridg
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> I think this can only be taken to a point before you realise you'll be wasting your time. If a waste of time is lack of progress towards a desired outcome, you'd first need to define what the desired outcome is. Arguments on
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by gyulai 4y ago
I think most people vote on agreement, but in my opinion HN would be a better place if, instead, people voted on the validity of an argument, the effort that went into producing it, the surprise factor of new information or (on the negative
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by gyulai 4y ago
Well, the first option is always to use cursor up/down and/or page up/down for scrolling. When that doesn't do the job then, yes, I use the scroll bar. It's because I've been using Logitech Trackballs for mayb
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by gyulai 4y ago
Oh, thanks for the hint. ...yes that does work. It said "scroll", so I tried cursor up/down as well as page up/down. Didn't even know horizontal scrolling with cursor left/right was a thing.
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by gyulai 4y ago
So I'm on desktop and don't have a scroll wheel or anything that does touch or gestures. Is this literally unusable for me, or am I missing something? ...I feel like a member of an increasingly marginalized group these days, but
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by gyulai 4y ago
I'd like to agree, and elaborate. The use of the "tech bro" stereotype in the article really rubs me the wrong way. It's a complete rhetorical low blow. It's identifying the opposite of the author's opinion wi

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