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by nickff 4mo ago
What is the benefit (to the company) of paying to train a junior, which costs their wage, along with a significant proportion of a senior’s wage, if there is no long-term savings on the junior’s wages later on? This seems like a prisoner’s
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by nickff 4mo ago
People job hopping when they get past 'junior' status is what seems to have caused the reluctance to hire juniors, especially combined with the surge of 'opportunists' who started getting comp-sci degrees when it became
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by nickff 4mo ago
I agree with you, and think that despite all the hype about targeting and data mining, platforms like YouTube are horrible at determining people’s interests. Re-targeting does seem to ‘work’ better, but it is also extremely wasteful because
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by nickff 4mo ago
The high share prices do subsidize Meta's share-based compensation, which seems to make up a substantial portion of the total wage bill. High and rising share prices also allow Meta to purchase other companies with Meta shares, instead
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by nickff 4mo ago
> "This creates a prisoners’ dilemma: every firm rationally automates beyond the socially optimal level, because the individual incentive to cut labor costs always outweighs the diffuse, shared consequence of eliminating consumer sp
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by nickff 5mo ago
CE itself is the least of the issues, and is indeed relatively low-cost for mass-market consumer goods, (this is not true for niche products,) when it is taken into account in the original product design. From my perspective (as a non-resid
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by nickff 5mo ago
The EU's approach to imports from PRoC is the regulatory equivalent of trying to 'test your way to quality' (which Deming showed to be nearly impossible). Attempts to use regulatory fines and prosecutions to ensure compliance
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by nickff 5mo ago
Every major PRoC company is required to have CCP ties; in addition to 'paying for facilitation' by local officials, a certain percentage of their employees must be CCP members.
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by nickff 5mo ago
Canada has little used for airborne early warning outside of NORAD; the country has little independent air defense, and has not performed any foreign air superiority missions since the Cold Warz
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by nickff 5mo ago
The comparable aircraft is the more modern E-7 Wedgetail, which has many features that are superior for Canada's use case (notably including range and NORAD integration). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_E-7_We
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by nickff 5mo ago
> ”So, what you’re saying is you believe the bar for starting a union is being murdered, tortured, or enslaved?” No, I’m not saying that, and if I were, I’d clearly state it.
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by nickff 5mo ago
I agree that everyone deserves to be paid according to their contribution, and have their employer follow all relevant laws. I am not aware of anyone being murdered, enslaved, or even tortured by the Foundation. This group seems to be tryin
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by nickff 5mo ago
These employees trying to organize seem to be ignoring that they don't actually provide the majority of the value that Wikipedia benefits from, volunteers do.
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by nickff 5mo ago
> "Wikipedia’s workers are fighting to unionize because the institution hosting the world’s encyclopedia has started acting like a regular employer at exactly the moment when the world most needs it to act like something better. &g
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by nickff 5mo ago
What is ironic about this? I am not trying to be difficult, I just don't understand. There is definitely a huge gap, where hardware people spend a great deal of time creating and testing things, that they then want to manufacture for l
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by nickff 5mo ago
The economic motive for offshoring would remain (though slightly mitigated), unless that country’s demand (in each regulated sector) was much more than rest of the world’s. I personally doubt that most places are even willing to implement s
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by nickff 5mo ago
Congress has been delegating huge amounts of power to the administrative state (via the Executive Branch) for longer than Donald J Trump has been alive.
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by nickff 5mo ago
When the administrators/bureaucrats (whatever your preferred terms are) have very limited and defined powers, I agree they are different. When the administrative powers become wide-sweeping and ill-defined, the powers are difficult to
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by nickff 5mo ago
My points are not whataboutism; I’m saying this was predictable, forecast, and inevitable. Whataboutism focuses on tangential (or unrelated) things.
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The Salmon Arm Salute is still remembered in the West: https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/a-b-c-museum-says-its...
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by nickff 5mo ago
This is also very foreseeable for an administrative state, and this slippery slope has been predicted for over a century. Rule by administrators (or bureaucrats) is just as opaque/unaccountable/corrupt, and as the extent of their
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by nickff 5mo ago
As a non-Albertan, this seems like a great bargaining ploy to get some leverage against the Federal Government, just like Quebec did. Most political parties in Canada seem to ignore and exploit the West most of the time, whereas they treat
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by nickff 5mo ago
> "There are very little, if any, regulatory burdens in place here." Speaking as someone who works in a small company that designs and manufactures embedded devices, I can tell you that many of the 'minor' regulation
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by nickff 5mo ago
The problem is that it is increasingly difficult to survive as a small business (due to constantly increasing compliance/regulatory/legal burdens), so it makes sense to ‘sell out’ as soon as possible (or just give up early). The r
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by nickff 5mo ago
The reason people laugh at Allbirds is that they don't have the money or expertise to build a competitive offering.
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by nickff 5mo ago
Absolute immunity is much broader than qualified immunity; the former generally applies to government officials (judges, prosecutors, legislators, etc.), and the latter applies to law enforcement officers (e.g. police).
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by nickff 5mo ago
As far as I can tell there are three groups of respondents (in this respect): - 0.4% saw and reported - 44.6% saw and did not report - 55% did not see (but may have erroneously reported, though that seems unlikely) If this is correct, 44.6%
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by nickff 5mo ago
> ” In The Daily Princetonian’s 2025 Senior Survey of over 500 seniors, 29.9 percent of respondents reported that they had cheated on an assignment or exam during their time at Princeton. 44.6 percent of senior respondents reported knowl
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by nickff 5mo ago
Desalination is not the only application of seawater electrolysis.
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by nickff 5mo ago
HN has definitely experienced a marked decline in quality over the last 15 years, (since the account I am currently posting from has existed,) I know this sort of remark is discouraged by the guidelines, but the trend is substantial enough

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