manfredo

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by manfredo 7y ago
Sued for what? If I form a union with my co-workers and demand $1,000,000 salaries it's illegal for the company to say "nope" and hire someone else? Management is under no obligation to accept union terms, and is free to hir
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by manfredo 7y ago
> Right, but the fact that there's any movement in the industry at all, stories generating discussions such as this one, groups like the Tech Workers Coalition gaining attention, etc., can mean there's some trend shifting. Unle
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by manfredo 7y ago
This incurs extra labor cost - the whole point of automating a system is to avoid the manual labor. At this point you're no longer making your system tactful, you're just eliminating your system. Furthermore, it just substitutes o
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by manfredo 7y ago
There still aren't any high profile tech unions. Glitch is 120 people with the highest estimates. Kickstarter is 258 as of March 2020 [1]. These are small companies - medium at best. By comparison there are over a million software deve
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by manfredo 7y ago
Just because you're seeing more news stories about unionization or organizing, doesn't actually mean that there's more interest in unionizing and organizing. It just means that people producing news are writing more stories c
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by manfredo 7y ago
Game developers' experiencing the misery of crunch time and layoffs is something I've heard about firsthand since the early 2000s at the latest. Reading accounts from earlier games' development cycles suggests that this has b
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by manfredo 7y ago
It's not a bad idea to conjecture about, but it's not very useful as far as implementations go. Brainstorming possible ways in which users might be offended by software and trying to mitigate said hypotheticals is not very product
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by manfredo 7y ago
> Employees usually receive shares as comp, don't they? Non-voting shares, yes. Voting shares are usually only given to very senior people, if ever, and not nearly enough to form anything close to a controlling ownership of the comp
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by manfredo 7y ago
Or game developers can just hire non-union employees. The reality is that game development studios can get away with poor work life balance because there's people who are passionate about making games and are willing to accept poor wor
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by manfredo 7y ago
> Even if someone did genuinely want to switch, game development skills aren't necessarily easily transferable to other kinds of development, even if it helps. This needs a lot of qualification. Even someone doing scripting probably
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by manfredo 7y ago
Making games is a lot of people's passion. This inflates the supply of labor for game development, which reduces cost (as well as lowering expectations for stability, work life balance, etc.) It's hard to negotiate for good work l
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by manfredo 7y ago
It is a 20 year old company, but according to what I can find it's still between 11 and 50 employees.
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by manfredo 7y ago
The important sections extracted from this rather hard to read PDF: > Solitary confinement, also known as segregation, is the total or near-total isolation of prisoners, often in small cells for 23 hours a day. The United Nations Special
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by manfredo 7y ago
The end of human industrialized civilization is only a reasonable outcome as a secondary effect (e.g nuclear war destroying most of society). And even then I'm dubious if we'd reach human extinction rather than just the end of ind
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by manfredo 7y ago
> People are willing to suffer short-term privations, especially when they are afraid of getting the coronavirus. People are not willing to suffer for years to reduce their carbon footprints. The French suffered higher overhead energy co
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by manfredo 7y ago
Flying accounts for ~3% of carbon emissions, of which business flying is another subset. The aggregate reduction in economic activity is significant though. Oil prices are halved from their pre-outbreak levels.
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by manfredo 7y ago
Don't confuse disagreement on the severity of its consequences with disbelief in the phenomenon itself. For the coronavirus, it's an infection with a mortality rate ~20x higher[1] than the flu concentrated among people older than
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by manfredo 7y ago
No, they shared it with university researchers for academic purposes which is what users agreed to. Said researchers turned around and used it for commercial and political purposes. Sharing the data with Cambridge Analytica (for the purport
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by manfredo 7y ago
> But I don't agree Facebook isn't to blame. > Power comes with responsibility. At least that is what most countries believe. But the question remains unanswered: what is Facebook to blame for? What responsibility did they
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by manfredo 7y ago
The reality is that putting the blame on Facebook instead of Cambridge Analytica is more of a stretch than people think. Remember Cambridge Analytica's main founder, Aleksandr Kogan, was working at the psychology department of Cambridg
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by manfredo 7y ago
This information was not published by Facebook - Facebook's data sharing agreement was that this information would be used only for academic purposes and not shared with any third parties. After discovering that Kogan had violated thes
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by manfredo 7y ago
Right. But the point is, depicting this as though Tesla bought $50M in solar equipment and just left it to sit in a warehouse is misleading. In reality, Tesla bought a company which bought another company which had $50M in solar manufacturi
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by manfredo 7y ago
> Can you show me where I claimed Apple made such a denial? Here you write that gaslighted (denied) customers regarding the battery's impact on performance. > If consumers were aware that their phones were actually suffering from
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by manfredo 7y ago
Plenty of cheap <$300 phones crap out after a year or two of use. You don't hear of them because they're not Apple.
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by manfredo 7y ago
Show me where Apple said "battery life does not cause your phone to slow down". This is what was alleged - that Apple denied battery life causes phones to slow down. Apple wrote this letter to appease customers, because they don&#
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by manfredo 7y ago
How is it "straight up denying the actual problem" when high usage is listed as one of the points? You use your phone a lot, the battery life degrades, and your CPU is throttled because the battery cannot produce sufficient charge
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by manfredo 7y ago
Not only does your quote not say what was alleged (that Apple denied that battery usage was a factor in slowdown), it actually says that Apple placed high usage as one of the factors.
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by manfredo 7y ago
Can you show me where Apple denied that battery age affected the iPhone's performance? I see this allegation repeatedly in this thread, but so far it goes unsubstantiated.
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> Other phones don't have the issue because they didn't match a tiny battery with an over sized CPU. It's not a question of if it's a question of when . All battery powered devices are subject to the limits of batt
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A "better battery" would have been a larger battery, which makes the phone bulkier. This isn't a good or bad choice, it's a tradeoff between form factor and battery life. This is a good choice for customers that want bul

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