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by mjn 13y ago
Can't unions' opponents also lobby the government? The Fraternal Order of Police does lobby the government on criminal-justice issues, but so do large organizations like the ACLU, NAACP, National Lawyers' Guild, etc. on the o
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by mjn 13y ago
Here's a Microsoft Research paper on a very similar idea, from 2011: http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=1502...
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by mjn 13y ago
The motivation and comparison to existing alternatives is discussed a bit in these sections: http://www.swi-prolog.org/pldoc/man?section=ext-maps-usage http://www.swi-prolog.org/pldoc/man?section=e
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by mjn 13y ago
Yes, the procedures are negotiated between the unions and the employers. In the case of public-sector unions, the elected government is responsible for representing the public interest in the negotiations. The legislature can also pass laws
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by mjn 13y ago
The mere existence of a union shouldn't prevent dismissal cases from prevailing, though, unless something else is seriously wrong with the adversarial process. I'm represented by a union [1], and as a result I could ask my union f
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by mjn 13y ago
If that were the benchmark, Copenhagen is cheap! You can get a six-pack of Tuborg or Heineken for about $7-8, including tax, and any kind of normal local pub will have half-liters at $4-5 (though prices can go up to $10+ at fancy bars). Tha
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by mjn 13y ago
The U.S. labor movement did used to be stronger than it is now, but it was never really that strong. At the peak in the 1950s, about 35% of workers worked in unionized workplaces. That's a very low figure for Europe, where typically
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by mjn 13y ago
It's a few years old now, but Table 5 here is interesting from that perspective, showing percentage of workers in countries without minimum wages, who are instead covered by a union minimum wage: http://www.eurofound.europa.
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A shepherd who loves Twitter(theatlantic.com)
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Are there any studies on how effective each method is? It seems fairly complex, depending on how good the methods being dictated are, how price-sensitive consumers are (and how well-informed about what costs/saves money), costs of swit
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by mjn 13y ago
Out of curiosity, has anyone tried that strategy with any success post-Opera? They're the last I remember to sell significant numbers of copies of a browser. Depending on how you count, that ended in either 2000 (when they introduced a
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Who Takes Massive Open Online Courses and Why?(papers.ssrn.com)
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by mjn 13y ago
The classical frequentist interpretation of a confidence interval doesn't require invoking Fisherian hypothesis-testing. It's simply an interval estimate for a population parameter rather than a point estimate, which is semantics
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by mjn 13y ago
There's been a recent trend of museums having some of their paid staff contribute to Wikipedia articles relating to the museum's area of interest. Things like writing articles about paintings in the museum's collection, biogr
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by mjn 13y ago
This is the official policy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(organizat... The short version that will cover 95% of cases, though, is that it's less about "worthiness" and more about ex
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by mjn 13y ago
If they're not going to report on meaningful things what is the purpose of them still being there then? If you mean in terms of investigative journalism, probably not much purpose. But if you mean in terms of profits, they could run
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by mjn 13y ago
Weird. I've never bought an international AA ticket, but I've bought a few on United and Delta with a foreign CC, and never had a problem with that. I wonder why AA isn't just doing whatever the other US-based airlines do? At
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by mjn 13y ago
I agree, and I think that's true with startup / spinoff ambitions as well. The perceived peers aren't really Stanford+Valley, but rather the clusters of engineering/biotech/etc. spinoffs that top engineering schools
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by mjn 13y ago
For some use cases that would matter, but for a lot of C++ use-cases, no GC isn't really fundamental. Large codebases increasingly use the "C++ GC", aka RAII with std::shared_ptr, as the de-facto-standard way of managing memo
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by mjn 13y ago
It would be a crime anywhere, but not likely to receive a 10-year sentence. As far as I know, the only sentence approaching that length issued in Denmark for a non-violent crime in recent years was Stein Bagger, who was sentenced to 7 years
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by mjn 13y ago
Some background, based on quick research, not personal knowledge, so please correct if anything's wrong: This class of antibiotics, ADEP, was discovered as a naturally produced substance isolated from the bacteria Streptomyces hawaiie
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by mjn 13y ago
Not only transparent, but predictable: you don't have to read the fine print on each individual taxi to figure out if this particular fellow is charging you something absurd. That's something Sweden has run into with its deregulat
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FBI calls Ph.D. FOIA research a national security risk (salon.com)
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by mjn 13y ago
This really depends a lot on the business. Even for consultants, many companies prefer to split business and technical consulting, sometimes contracting them out separately, or sometimes just contracting one of them out as needed. In that s
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by mjn 13y ago
That's the general assumption, yes, though there's some debate over it. Denmark is currently discussing instituting modest co-pays for some non-emergency visits (currently there are no fees whatsoever, besides your tax contributio
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A bit earlier than 1989; the Left Party split with the Soviets in the 1960s, and became frequent critics after that. They were one of the loudest European left parties condemning the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia, for example.
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by mjn 13y ago
I've had only limited "2nd-hand-ecig" experience, but I didn't really notice anything at all from across the table, nothing particularly offensive in any case. Certainly wasn't anything like a person smoking!
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My guess is that's the majority view, though of the Danes I know (mostly younger and internationally oriented), they tend not to put as much emphasis on the language specifically, and more on culture. When there was some discussion ove
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by mjn 13y ago
Oh I agree, there's no doubt they're both mainly riding a populist backlash against immigration, especially Muslim immigration. I think the parties themselves differ considerably more than the broader wave they're riding, whi
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by mjn 13y ago
Interesting; I would say in Denmark it's no longer that common for large businesses to care about Danish language skills for non-service-sector jobs. Maersk, one of the largest employers, has even standardized on English as the officia

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