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by null000 8y ago
So that the USA can do the exact same thing to other countries? I have zero reason to believe that the us intelligence apparatus won't be exactly as intrusive as chinas when it comes to inserting themselves in tech companies, and plent
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by null000 8y ago
It strikes me as a little disturbing that there's yet another company trying to move it's customers as far away from "owning" things as possible.
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by null000 8y ago
Or you can just do mail in ballots. Washington state, for instance, sends out ballots to all registered voters twoish weeks in advance of each race, and achieved almost 80% turnout for the 2016 election[1], for instance, which we'll pr
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by null000 8y ago
This is similar to if the NYT ran discriminatory ads - which is an actual case from the 1980s and resulted in both notable fines, and the NYT having humans review housing ads for discriminatory practices, such as having an unrepresentably w
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by null000 8y ago
> this would decimate the market I realize this is an unpopular opinion, but I don't necessarily view this as a bad thing in aggregate. The market's been doing great lately, and it's largely been on the backs of the workin
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by null000 8y ago
> it's not exactly the cause... American corporations exist only because shareholders/VC firms invested capital in them. There's a pretty big difference. Shareholders/VC firms investing capital in them allows the comp
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by null000 8y ago
It used to be that you could do all those things, get married, have children, and still live a decent life and retire on a pension. The fact that we have to expect anyone to be perfect if they want to have savings when dedicating fully 1&#x
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by null000 8y ago
I think the point was more - if you take the average American paying $1-2k for healthcare per month vs Germany's $0 for healthcare per month, then that alone wipes out the difference in compensation (ignoring the fact that they have c
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by null000 8y ago
There's always assassination. Look a the Roman Empire - most of the truly catastrophic emperors were either assassinated, or nearly assassinated before they died of other means. Not that I'm advocating we go back to that or anythi
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by null000 8y ago
What bothers me in the context of regulation is how it seems like regulations as a group are frequently called out as "bad and unnecessary", but when it comes to specifics (i.e. specific unnecessary regulations or proposing target
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by null000 8y ago
Link for the interested https://www.livescience.com/33039-why-do-mattresses-have-do-...
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by null000 8y ago
ITT: People who maybe got one or two wrong, but really really don't want to have been wrong. Come on people, this is just loosely correlated with donating time and money to charity in a study that has decent odds of having primarily be
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by null000 8y ago
Pretty much. I've told amazon in particular I have no interest in working for their company because of how they treat their employees. Of course, that hasn't stopped me from getting hit up by at least 7 more recruiters from Amazon
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by null000 8y ago
I'm concerned by the fact that this response to blue LEDs, while founded on reasonable sounding theory theory, doesn't seem to have much high quality, real-world data AFAIK (e.g. insomnia in houses with blue LEDs vs not, compariso
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by null000 8y ago
You can barely pay what it takes to just exist on a minimum wage full time job these days. I wouldn't expect tuition to ever drop to the point where people can get through college on summer jobs or part time work without a serious shif
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by null000 8y ago
If it can't be built with labor compensated by living wages, it probably doesn't need to be built all that bad...
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by null000 8y ago
> If you make construction like a video game, “young people” will flock to it That's not why "young people" aren't getting into construction. Fact is, there are easier jobs that pay about the same that are way easier
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by null000 8y ago
> generally well-paid [1] Three seconds on google suggests that they make <40k in my area, typically. That's definitely not well paid, especially for a job that's fickle and physically demanding. Hell, that's barely a
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by null000 8y ago
It's really not compelling them. Employees are free to bring their food from home, or order outside the shopping center. It's keeping a handle on incentives, which is what any good government should be doing - incentivizing behavi
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by null000 8y ago
My fiance worked at a company that had pretty much literally this system, just without the "free" part of it. Go online, pick food from one or two places, get a text when the food arrives for the office. My understanding was that
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by null000 8y ago
I see these types of comments, and I have a really hard time viewing them as anything but pretty entitled. I mean, yeah, it's unfortunate for those who won't get free lunches anymore (I'm currently part of the group that does
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by null000 8y ago
Seems a little early to say this with certainty, no? The thing hasn't even finished being built AFAIU
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by null000 8y ago
> this really seems like an oversight of local restaurants being unable to adapt to the market they have I mean, how are you supposed to compete against cafeterias that get to literally embed themselves in a campus? > At my start up w
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by null000 8y ago
> putting tech kitchen workers out of a steady, consistent job From what I understand, pretty much 100% of the work is fulfilled by contractors. While I could be wrong, that's not what I would call a "steady, consistent job&quo
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by null000 8y ago
The main problem I have with H1-B visa use cases (or at least my perception and understanding, based on the fact that I regularly see 8x2 grids of H1-B visa application stacks that go as deep as 2 novels posted as required by law at my wor
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by null000 8y ago
Media comes in a lot of forms these days. I've definitely read a book in the past year, but - especially if you restrict it to written word (e.g. no visual novels) - there's a good chance that the 3 otherwise reasonably intelligen
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by null000 8y ago
> WeWork isn't forcing employees to be vegetarian (it's not like a hiring requirement) They're making a portion of wages/compensation contingent on eating vegetarian. If someone doesn't want to eat vegetarian whe
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by null000 8y ago
It's pretty normal when traveling on business or especially going out as a team or a meal with clients. I've yet to have a job as a software engineer that hasn't, although there's usually an implicit or explicit cap.
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by null000 8y ago
That's just a completely disingenuous comparison. It's pretty normal for companies to pay for work-related food, just as it's pretty normal for you to pay for food you eat on your own time. It's pretty not-normal for com
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by null000 8y ago
Some people can't handle alcohol. Others can usually handle alcohol, but it really only takes one time to be an issue. Get large enough, and serving alcohol at company events guarantees at least one, sometimes more, HR headaches, stati

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