kethinov

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by kethinov 6y ago
Saying you don't need a union because your wages are good is like saying you don't need democracy because the king is nice to you. All that can change very quickly, and when it does, you're going to want the power that collec
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by kethinov 6y ago
Anyone who doesn't want higher wages or better working conditions isn't defining their self-interest very rationally. And anyone who doesn't believe the union is the best way to get there is probably being persuaded by anti-u
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by kethinov 6y ago
I prefer indoctrination that improves people's wages and working conditions as opposed to the present anti-union indoctrination that only serves to empower bosses at workers' expense.
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by kethinov 6y ago
Well to be clear, I would agree with you if I agreed that closing up shop was actually likely. If we assume that just the very act of forming a union, regardless of its demands, would inevitably lead to closing up shop, then of course I agr
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by kethinov 6y ago
It's not reasonable to assume the hypothetical retaliation you mentioned is likely because there's no evidence that it is. It's certainly understandable why someone would fall for that argument, because it is persuasive on an
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by kethinov 6y ago
They had anti-union propaganda everywhere, even in the fucking bathroom stalls. Plus it's a very conservative part of the country that has been drowning in anti-union propaganda for decades on top of the fact that the average moderate
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by kethinov 6y ago
"We can't win, they'll just crush us" is 1. wrong on the facts more often than people think and 2. even when true, a good argument for organizing more effectively, not giving up and accepting the shitty status quo foreve
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by kethinov 6y ago
"The best outcome is no democracy and a benevolent king that gives you a fair deal so you don't want elections. Democracy has huge tradeoffs and is better only as a last resort." You're right. It's ideological. And
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by kethinov 6y ago
Closing it would almost certainly be a lot more expensive than meeting union demands, so I don't think it's reasonable to conclude that is likely. Regardless, it's a decent argument for a nationwide union to avoid race to the
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by kethinov 6y ago
Aside from the common sense that collective bargaining obviously puts you in a stronger negotiating position than individual bargaining for the same class of job, there is also plenty of data out there showing that unions deliver results. A
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by kethinov 6y ago
What set of facts could possibly have made unionization a bad idea? I genuinely can't imagine a single hypothetical which would make voting against this a good idea and would love to hear one.
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by kethinov 6y ago
That's a false dichotomy. The solution to a badly run union is to run it better, not dissolve it and surrender all your power to your boss, just as the solution to a badly run republic is to elect better leaders, not abandon democracy
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by kethinov 6y ago
They looked at the issue and felt incorrectly that it would not be better. Look, I get the good intentions on all the discourse about not judging what's in another person's interests because you can't possibly know what they
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by kethinov 6y ago
CACI International Inc. - Dayton, OH (ONSITE) and Rome, NY (ONSITE or REMOTE) CACI helps the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory explore, prototype, and demonstrate new technologies, enabling the Air Force to maintain its technological advan
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by kethinov 6y ago
I've never been a fan of the term sea lioning precisely because of that characteristic of the comic. People who expect to go through the world declaring strong opinions and then immediately refusing to explain it or engage with counter
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by kethinov 6y ago
I've worked at a half dozen companies and I've never worked in an office that wasn't inferior to my home office. Even when I was poor and my home office was my bedroom shared with my wife, that sure beat the interruption farm
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by kethinov 6y ago
CACI International Inc. - Dayton, OH (ONSITE) and Rome, NY (ONSITE or REMOTE) CACI helps the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory explore, prototype, and demonstrate new technologies, enabling the Air Force to maintain its technological advan
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by kethinov 6y ago
Building a shared runtime for Electron so that each Electron app no longer needs to bundle Node.js and Chromium. It would significantly improve the performance of a framework now used by countless apps. So far as I can tell, this has been o
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by kethinov 6y ago
CACI International Inc. - Dayton, OH (ONSITE) and Rome, NY (ONSITE or REMOTE) CACI helps the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory explore, prototype, and demonstrate new technologies, enabling the Air Force to maintain its technological advan
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by kethinov 6y ago
I would still be using Adium today if they had made it a fully featured Matrix client. I moved to Element instead, which is nice, but I always liked Adium's UX better. Anyone know why support for Matrix was never added to Adium? I neve
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by kethinov 6y ago
CACI International Inc. - Dayton, OH (ONSITE) CACI helps the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory explore, prototype, and demonstrate new technologies, enabling the Air Force to maintain its technological advantage. We are seeking an experi
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by kethinov 6y ago
The latter seems unlikely to me. If we stigmatized or outlawed geopay, the net effect would be rising wages across the board because companies would not want to be locked out of hiring good people in HCOL areas. That or the cities would emp
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by kethinov 6y ago
Sounds like a good incentive to just pay SF wages to everyone which any company currently in SF clearly can do. Those that aren't in SF already can't afford SF talent so it makes little difference. It's not like there's
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by kethinov 6y ago
Buried in the article they also talk about cutting the pay of people who move away from big cities based on their "geopay" scale, a new trend that I have a hard time seeing as anything other than corporate greed we should vigorous
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by kethinov 6y ago
There are other public servers. Matrix is basically like email. Pick whatever server you like and talk to whoever you want on any other server.
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by kethinov 6y ago
Continuous inflow isn't the problem, outflow is the problem. With no outflow aside from evaporation, it would just get continuously saltier.
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by kethinov 6y ago
To play devil's advocate, maybe DHH hoped it would get rejected so he could launch his protest campaign, then when Apple approved the app only to turn around and reject an update, he was given an even more exploitable situation than th
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by kethinov 6y ago
I gave my first negative review to a seller ever last month after having been a member of eBay since a year or two after its launch. The item shipped was literally broken. Rather than fuss with the return process, I just left them a negativ
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by kethinov 6y ago
Connections. The majority of promotions to management or senior management levels that I've seen in SV (including when I worked at eBay) were the result of knowing someone with the power to make it happen for you.
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by kethinov 6y ago
Originally the php module on npm was used by a separate project that attempted to implement a PHP parser in JavaScript for Node.js, but was never finished. One work in progress version was published, then the project remained stale for 8 ye

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