hnal943

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by hnal943 10y ago
Eh, some barriers to entry are artificial, some are not. Even artificial barriers are difficult for a single moustache-twirling monopolist to bring about on his own.
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How's the UAW doing? Is it possible that there are factors outside of unionization that affect how these workers are paid?
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It's silly to point to a cohort of high-skilled non-union workers that are highly paid and claim that is an argument for the unionization of high-skilled workers.
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Those that still have jobs. Employers commonly reduce the number of jobs available when those jobs become more expensive.
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The word you're looking for might be "toil".
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Competition drives down prices. Everyone likes that fact except for when it is applied to their own price.
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Unions do not have a good history of preserving value, at least not in the USA.
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You're a component in a value creating engine which includes the ability to hurdle those barriers to entry, which means you don't get credit (on your own) for the total value that you are able to produce within that system.
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You see this effect on Kickstarter also. The people who stand the best chance of funding large projects on kickstarter are people who have already proven their abilities outside of that format.
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I was just listening to the Mad Dogs and Englishmen podcast. In the most recent episode they point out that the American Revolution was different precisely because it wasn't a make-a-society-from-whole-cloth revolution like most, but
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by hnal943 10y ago
This is a great point - if you're married, budgeting is more essential because you can't do a defacto budget in your head. If anyone is interested, Dave Ramsey has some really great advice for how to sell your spouse on budgeting
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Even if you are "upwardly mobile" your expenses will tend to increase with your salary. Being disciplined with your spending will allow you much more freedom in your life.
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I have the same story, but my first program was for solving systems of equations using a variety of methods and showing its work each step of the way. Same as you, I learned the material far more thoroughly than had I studied it in a conve
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But that's still a moral statement - one that privileges utilitarianism above other philosophies.
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Most if not all laws are moral statements. Who may kill and when? How much can the government compel someone to pay for general services? What types of business practices are allowable in our society? All moral questions.
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You also lose the social interaction that gave motion controls their (limited) success. Wii Sports is fun because it's a light social activity like card games or horseshoes. VR is currently an anti-social activity, even moreso that n
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Why do terrorist want to attack France? Turkey? Is it the same reason they want to attack the US or are they all different?
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Why should we accommodate public urination? Just because someone does something, does it automatically mean it's dehumanizing to deter it?
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Dark patterns attempt to trick the intended user. What is the trick being pulled on the intended user here?
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Correct. The article kept referring to "targeted individuals", but in fact it was behavior that was targeted by the design. Disallowing bad behavior is ethical and reasonable.
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Why do you think they'd have to be sleazeballs to do this? Everyone is screaming at them that the industry has a "woman problem" and that it's their fault for not hiring enough of women. It is more a case of the squeak
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Arguing she was misinformed is different that arguing she made a decision you don't agree with. What did the guidance counselor say that was incorrect? Her decision to choose a different career where she wouldn't have to worry a
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"Doing what they really want" includes deciding on the type of work environment you want to have. Relationships matter - I know my own happiness with the jobs I have had has hinged more on the people working there and less on the
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to howls of "VOTER SUPRESSION!"
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You're really going to accept this version at face value? Seems like a hyperbolic description to me.
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Yes, but the original claim was that the French Revolution codified the idea of the separation of powers, which is clearly false. The evidence of that is that America already existed with this structure and was obviously known to the west.
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Net zero? Do you mean that just as many US citizens are illegally emigrating to Mexico? Or that no Mexicans are coming illegally to the united states?
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What's the point of writing this article now, after all of the legitimate candidates have fallen? What do you want us to do?
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...Really? Hitting rock bottom to me implies they lose everything. I don't think the majority of people that are fired lose everything; there's a reason they were hired in the first place and other companies can see that value.
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Good point. I'm a dev lead in an "enterprise" company (retail). I spend my time in Balsamiq Mockups and Visio. Meeting topics are usually complex enought that we spend the time discussing a single diagram/flow.

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