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by ketzo 5y ago
Honestly... I tend to agree. In a nation with such massive wealth inequality, in a city where people are living in tents under highways, I see people complaining about $300k TC as a "lowball offer." From an individual perspective,
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by ketzo 5y ago
I don't think your argument quite works in this case. > Someone who has a child and pays for childcare, or a parent in a nursing home that they pay for, is getting less purchasing power for the same salary. This is not what purchasi
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by ketzo 5y ago
> will find their wages stagnate as well. I think the passport makes a pretty huge difference. The barriers to moving from North Carolina to California – while high – are nothing compared to the process of immigrating to the United State
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by ketzo 5y ago
What would they be striking for? Collective bargaining is just that – a bargain. At the end of the day, the goal is to come to some kind of agreement. I guess the answer is that, assuming the union were national, they would try to set natio
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by ketzo 5y ago
To play devil's advocate: someone who is in NC (or a lower cost-of-living area), if they're paid the same as someone in the Bay Area, is effectively being paid more for doing the same work. Their purchasing power is significantl
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by ketzo 5y ago
> A load of companies get together with the aim of making sure they don't pay a penny more than anyone else etc. Are you referring to a general suspicion you have, or a specific case? Because this is categorically illegal, and has b
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by ketzo 5y ago
The current back-and-forth over regionally-adjusted pay for workers is one of those arguments where I truly find it very difficult to come to a conclusion. On the one hand, the logic of the employees is pretty irrefutable: why should anyone
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by ketzo 5y ago
I’m truly not trying to be rude or snarky, but there are a massive number of people living out of cars/RVs/vans in California already. I don’t have a source for this, but I’ve lived in LA and the Bay over the last 3 years. You j
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by ketzo 5y ago
I think "the bank with a problem" is the government, in this case.
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by ketzo 5y ago
I am not an expert, but any advertising >>> no advertising. I would go with your first instincts, slap some cash down in a few different places, and start refining later.
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by ketzo 5y ago
wow, you're not joking. search {"median" height} and the first result is mean height. that's infuriating.
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by ketzo 5y ago
Except that something was done to prevent it happening again - the person was almost immediately fired. The author is arguing that prevention in the interview process would do more harm than good, particularly because there are already
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by ketzo 5y ago
This is super, super tangential, but I know that certain word sounds have very similar associations across almost any culture; “mom”, for example, sounds soft and warm to basically anyone who hears it, while “flak” sounds violent or harsh
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by ketzo 5y ago
On the flip side, though, I think it's important for the code that you send to other engineers for review to be at least kind of polished, because otherwise you risk just wasting other people's time. If you get feedback on your
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by ketzo 5y ago
This person is asking for money in order to help provide a service… and that service is “stop other people from asking for money to provide a service.” Hard not to feel a little irony. There are approximately three outcomes here. 1. Googl
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by ketzo 5y ago
Are we calling Gab/Parler “competition” now? Do they even have revenue , let alone profit? Seems like a big reach, bordering on disingenuous, to attribute Twitter user growth/revenue slowdown to conservatives mad about being “unf
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by ketzo 5y ago
Yeah, the idea that employability necessitates a decline in romantic prospects is so comically backwards that it's hard to even take seriously.
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by ketzo 5y ago
Men – and people – should not need to be exceptional just to be happy. Hard times make a few strong men and a lot of very, very miserable ones.
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by ketzo 5y ago
I think it's hugely disingenuous, to the point of bad faith, to pretend there's not a massive difference between the internet in the U.S. and in China.
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by ketzo 5y ago
Woah, really? That's super exciting.
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by ketzo 5y ago
It would have had to pass through a major news organization's in-house fact checking apparatus. I know CNN is pretty liberally biased, and blind trust in news organizations is a bad idea. But I think it's disingenuous to say that
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by ketzo 5y ago
Our Slack is very similar, but no one's ever laid it out explicitly (at least not to me) - I love that.
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by ketzo 5y ago
I guess if everyone else feels the same way? It does sound like kind of an all-or-nothing situation, but for the right person, "coworker who is guaranteed to never ever ever bother you" might be kind of nice?
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by ketzo 5y ago
Engagement is a good word for what I'm missing. Talking with work people - even if we're not actually talking about work - makes me feel more engaged with my day-to-day tasks.
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by ketzo 5y ago
I'm sorry to hear that. My team is actually excellent about communication for ongoing work, and I still feel the way I do - I'd be waaaay worse off if I felt like people were forgetting about me. If I could offer some unsolici
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by ketzo 5y ago
We actually did this a few times and it was really nice! Current living situations make it a little impractical, but we should try doing it again some time soon, that's a great idea.
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by ketzo 5y ago
I can see what you're getting at, and I thought it was the issue for me, but I've come to realize that it's not a loneliness/lack of socialization thing. It's just that I really treasure in-person interactions with
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by ketzo 5y ago
Yeah, my work-life balance has been great as a result, and I've been able to spend a lot of time with friends and my partner. So that's something I'm actually very grateful for. But at some point I realized that I really miss
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by ketzo 5y ago
At the start of the pandemic, I knew I would miss working with people in person, but thought I would be totally great with WFH. Now, I know that I badly need some amount of in-person time with my coworkers on a weekly basis, or I go crazy
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by ketzo 5y ago
It seems like you disagree with all of the quoted sections, but it's unclear what you think the actual truth is. Would you elaborate?

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