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by jahaja 8y ago
It's really dystopian to me that somehow the people at the bottom of society are reflexively regarded as at fault, "they're lazy, dumb etc", rather than just a corporation looking to increase profits by scare tactics. Th
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by jahaja 8y ago
In Sweden, the default is to make everything public, public domain style, so with income taxes for example, the amounts are public, but the sources of the income are not (because of personal integrity, not to be able to map military, police
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by jahaja 8y ago
There are regular news articles in Swedish tabloids like "Who makes most money where you live?". So this isn't correct.
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by jahaja 8y ago
Since I'm doing the same thing but the other way around I'll trade you Swedish for German if you'd like.
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by jahaja 8y ago
That's such a shallow take. To bypass local labour laws as a business idea and effectively go back ~100 years in history is not objectively good. But perhaps it looks like it from the view of the upper middle-class who's at the be
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by jahaja 8y ago
> But only a university can get you a community, a network, a signal: you may call that prestige; society doesn't care. So more or less access to a country club. Isn't it?
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by jahaja 8y ago
That entire reply is a great example of "vague connections to AGI". I hope this AI hype cycle ends soon and funding gets diverted from tech to actual science in the medical field. But I guess that's unlikely. I see no obvious
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by jahaja 8y ago
These things are starting to get annoying. What's the plan here? Make a game AI MVP, make sure it wins against pros in a PR event, make lofty statements how promising the new AI revolution is & make sure to make vague connections t
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by jahaja 8y ago
Is the framing of this article normal in the US? Until a single paragraph at the end it reads like women are the sole parent. Also the complete lack of perspective of seeing parental leave as an end in itself, rather than some career crippl
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by jahaja 8y ago
How would you go about achieving these things through this conflict averse approach? I find it naive at best, and it's firmly in the best interests of business. I mean, this is why corporations in the US (and elsewhere) have fought too
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by jahaja 8y ago
Well, Pyrrhic implies that I think it's too great a cost because you'll take down the people with social issues (and more) along with the much fewer obvious freeloaders.
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by jahaja 8y ago
Doesn't change the current "conflict-of-interests" situation that I wanted to highlight.
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This is the good old, but ultimately petty, Pyrrhic victory of wanting to make sure to punish the few freeloaders.
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Emphasis on the "As an employer": > I run a very small indie game studio in Boulder, CO.
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Have you ever considered that you one day could be that "under performing" employee grasping on to their livelihood during a period of poor health, family problems etc?
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by jahaja 8y ago
SV Bubble? Maybe. But looking at it more long-term, aren't all the incentives there for programming to become a blue-collar (as in more modest pay) job? * Good to great pay both attracts more people and makes employers supportive of po
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by jahaja 8y ago
Do you think it's always worth the effort to get that lower false positive rate? Other professions seem pretty happy to do a trial/probation period after less elaborate interviews.
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by jahaja 8y ago
The ever changing field of diets must be the most shining example of the infinite need for people to come up with theories to justify their own quirky believes.
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by jahaja 8y ago
I thought it was self-evident that most western European countries have a long tradition of social democratic parties with strong trade union connections. Those politicians to vote for doesn't come about magically. In the US there&#x27
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by jahaja 8y ago
Uhm, compare western European labour laws with US labour laws?
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I agree that it would be hard to know an individuals specific contributions, but I can't see how a person can pass a good work-related interview if they're wildly under-qualified.
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by jahaja 8y ago
Sanity check for me is what every company in almost every field do. Basically the main reason for interviews to exists. To confirm that what's on the CV and so on seem accurate using an in-person interview. Assuming that you're Am
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by jahaja 8y ago
Why would that warm-bodies scenario even happen? I think there's an assumption here that these tests actually provide a lower false positive rate than a solid experience check or whatever non-puzzle interviews do. After all, one stark
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by jahaja 8y ago
So the idea is that a current job makes one more desirable, but we'll then discard that fact and still put you through an elaborate audition? Anyway, almost all jobs where I live comes with a trial period of max 6 months, albeit negoti
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by jahaja 8y ago
It's interesting that software interviews have degenerated into literal auditions. Just as with auditions, you need to train specifically for them. Is there really a reason why software jobs can't hire in a blue-collar fashion whe
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by jahaja 8y ago
I remember reading that the Greeks or Romans would probably consider today's average wage earner a slave. Interesting to ponder about.
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Flawed? Is that it? Most moral according to US citizens is a pretty significant blind spot.
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Compared with Sweden's left to right political spectrum the US has two firmly right-wing parties to choose from. I think that matters a lot more than a population number.
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by jahaja 8y ago
> I guess just a reflection of how steely-eyed these radicals were. Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of factors to take into account during that time ofc, most social upheavals will not come with an attached short-term economic benefit.
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by jahaja 8y ago
> To be fair, the Russians were the first to try this, so they didn't have anyone else to look at and learn this lesson. They were well aware of this [1]. That's part of the reason why most leading revolutionaries, including Le

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