moorhosj

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by moorhosj 7y ago
Every barrier we can out in place will result in fewer bullies making it through the funnel. It’s like a marketing funnel in reverse.
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by moorhosj 7y ago
==This ecosystem has made Silicon Valley what it is today.== I assume this is referring to the technological innovation and corporate profits of Silicon Valley. I would ask you to consider, from a broader perspective, what Silicon Valley is
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by moorhosj 7y ago
==then why have far older and desirable professions like law and medicine continued to be incredibly well paying?== These are actually two perfect examples to illustrate my point. Both industries are represented by organizations that system
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by moorhosj 7y ago
No goalposts were moved. I questioned the premise of OP's comment on whether unions can exist in a world where employees choose to switch jobs every 2-3 years. You responded with an authoritative answer backed up with zero evidence or
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by moorhosj 7y ago
==Do people actually think that software engineering is going to become a job that isn't skilled, and isn't sought after?== I'm not sure why you would be so sure it wouldn't. Are the software engineers of today truly tha
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by moorhosj 7y ago
Unions could help in each of these case, so you haven't answered the question or provided any evidence.
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by moorhosj 7y ago
==We can form a union when we need to form a union.== In my 35 years of life, it has become harder to start a union, so it isn't out of the question that it becomes harder and harder to start a union when software engineers "need
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by moorhosj 7y ago
But not all tech workers are programmers. To compare to another union, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) represents machinists from Boeing and Harley-Davidson, distribution center workers at IKEA, and a
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by moorhosj 7y ago
The vagueness is how the American legal system has worked since inception. I don’t see it changing now. Society changes faster than representatives can legislate.
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by moorhosj 7y ago
I think the point is that once the cat is out of the bag it’s hard to put it back. For example, at first more people were helped by opiates than harmed. As time passed, by the time we realized that relationship had changed, we already had a
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by moorhosj 7y ago
I think we read the same book. I don’t really think of Middletown as a Rust Belt city. It’s a town of 50,000 people. I am talking about big cities like Detroit, Milwaukee, Chicago, Cleveland and smaller ones like Youngstown and Erie. As som
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by moorhosj 7y ago
I think his biggest miss was failing to connect the region to the rest of the country. He could have easily compared Appalachia to Rust Belt cities facing urban decay but never made the connection. It could have made the story of the region
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by moorhosj 7y ago
You kind of hand-waved 70 years of economic history/decisions. How does “US jobs decline” match with an historically low unemployment rate?
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by moorhosj 7y ago
I would love to dive a little deeper on these strategies. How can I reach out?
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by moorhosj 7y ago
They have all the data to be able to make a relatively simple change like this. They don't want to, likely because it "drives engagement".
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by moorhosj 7y ago
You could simply add the number of distinct users replying. Seems like a pretty simple fix.
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by moorhosj 7y ago
==for the same reasons they fail to draw a line between their current insurer's negotiated rates and cost of care.== Insurance companies are not subject to FOIA requests like the government. People tie Medicare to the Government, why w
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by moorhosj 7y ago
==I'm interested to know why you think the government is incentivized to negotiate the best pricing for citizens. I can think of two. First, so they can spend the money on other things they want (military, social security, education, e
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by moorhosj 7y ago
I took the argument to mean that it is better to regulate bad things in a way that might be ham-fisted, but allow for future improvements than to do nothing about a known problem. The idea people seem to be repeating is that this will be in
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by moorhosj 7y ago
In reality, we can never know the full impacts of new legislation until it's released into the wild. You said yourself that "legislate first, fix later" makes you incredulous because you feel it is never fixed later. I am sug
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by moorhosj 7y ago
True, but the lack of a proposed alternative to government regulation is the equivalent of taking that position. Using the CFPB, as you suggested, is still government regulation.
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by moorhosj 7y ago
==The parent was suggesting to regulate first== The assumption is that introducing a bill to regulate dark patterns is the same as "moving fast". This bill hasn't even made it to committee [1] and darkpatterns.org was started
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by moorhosj 7y ago
I’m not sure anyone is suggesting that policy, but “do nothing” seems equally bad, if not worse.
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by moorhosj 7y ago
The question you are raising is really: Should we build government policy around promoting startups/ new business or protecting consumers?
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by moorhosj 7y ago
==But now that it's getting more popular, it seems to me the value of it being unique would get washed out fast.== Or, the prices will rise and Cameo revenue will increase. Each celeb has only so many hours in a day, so there is an upp
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by moorhosj 7y ago
==My sister, a public interest DV attorney, and her husband, a local journalist, bought their first house there; as you might imagine, neither are wealthy.== And I have two different co-workers and my tech company who have moved there in th
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by moorhosj 7y ago
It’s possible that pulling the plug was still the right move.
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by moorhosj 7y ago
==None of this has anything to do with crime in Chicago.== Sure it does. As working/middle-class jobs leave, neighborhoods who overwhelming relied on those jobs fall into a spiral of dis-investment, de-population and crime. ==the middl
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by moorhosj 7y ago
Demographics aren't just white, black, brown iot runs deeper than that. In Chicago's case, the city's workforce is growing younger and more educated at a rapid clip. Here's an article written today about it, "Chicag
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by moorhosj 7y ago
Right on time: Chicago’s new demographics: ‘A third San Francisco, two-thirds Detroit’ >His analysis of U.S. Census Data found that between 2005 and 2017, the city of Chicago’s 25-39 year-old age cohort grew 15.7 percent, while falling d

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