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by pizzetta 9y ago
Pastry, I would guess Austria since they have Wieners --what we call "Danishes". which is confusing since for us in the US "wieners" are "Austrian" sausages... but in Vienna, they are again called Danish pastr
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by pizzetta 9y ago
What would you do about PHI leakers, computer operators at hospitals/clinics, who leak celebrity information. Sometimes it's not for profit and one can't just block access as access is necessary to process the patient, for e
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by pizzetta 9y ago
I'll grant you that --but while that protects domestic workers it may hurt domestic industry in that some things would be cheaper to develop in locales with less unionization or simply lower labor costs.
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by pizzetta 9y ago
I could argue that if unions were strong and everyone had to belong to a union to participate in an economy the unions could see an advantage to controlling how you contribute to FOSS because your "free" contribution to FOSS impin
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by pizzetta 9y ago
I wholeheartedly agree we spend much of our technology on both frivolous stuff and dangerous stuff (things that are detrimental to the wellbeing of people in general) -but the good offsets the negatives, I think.
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by pizzetta 9y ago
>I think most groundbreaking research is government sponsored And I think many of the researchers are the oft exploited grad students and the like who are not typically bound by union agreements --some staff and contractors may be unioni
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by pizzetta 9y ago
I imagine the progress in microprocessors, photolithography, search, education, power generation, drugs discovery, communications, etc., etc., do have a measurable impact on progress of the species. Imagine if tech were stuck where it was i
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by pizzetta 9y ago
Imagine if unions were strong and IT were unionized. How would you imagine the progress we've seen in information technology? The impact on progress should not be discounted as an externality. Imagine if taxicabs or any livery servic
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by pizzetta 9y ago
I've seldom had a cyclist stop for me at a crosswalk (when crossing), when they either have a stop sign, or I had the green but there were no cars in the opposite direction. It seems as though they felt I "got in their way"
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by pizzetta 9y ago
I agree that providing dinners is kind of symbiotic. The worker gets free dinner and in return the employer gets outsized compensation in the form of work (symbiosis is not equal). That said, I never feel obliged to stay just because there
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by pizzetta 9y ago
Isn't the purpose of dinner to "feed" those who stay late knowing there is food and know that they won't have to go hunting outside to see what joint is still open (specially in the suburban campuses) rather than being a
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by pizzetta 9y ago
It might be politically motivated in that China shows a different way to progress but while they have lifted hundreds of millions out of utter poverty, their recipe to success includes union-busting, child labor, long work-hours, etc as wel
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by pizzetta 9y ago
Maybe Ghana as well or even Egypt.
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by pizzetta 9y ago
That sounds kind of nice --but this can lead to a very sterile and stifling environment. It has the potential to be overbearing, if abused.
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by pizzetta 9y ago
I think this has great potential in in the ER and in Surgery to ensure the basics are followed and forgetfulness does not allow for obvious mistakes --but at the same time allow for on the spot decisionmaking for the surgeon when things don
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by pizzetta 9y ago
Seems like the biggest issue is that employers are not willing (rather than unable) to re-train a workforce to be competent at new jobs, or to make the jobs attractive enough for people to want to work them. The answer from cops very often
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by pizzetta 9y ago
Not excusing the incident but the fuller story is a little more complicated than the police shot someone just because: "The incident happened Thursday when Sanchez's next-door neighbor, Ben Ledford, was allegedly "firing up t
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by pizzetta 9y ago
When it shows less bias than a human judge. Can also be tied to the failure rate of appeals.
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by pizzetta 9y ago
Instead of asking to stop its use, why not ask that it be "supervised" up to the point where its results beat the average judge in a given area of law?
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by pizzetta 9y ago
When you are a kid you can get into the wrong crowd and easily want to explore stupid things (bullying, drugs, bias, prejudice, etc.) Adults don't have the luxury or excuse of youth to say, "it was a stupid thing to say, but my th
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by pizzetta 9y ago
While the right to be forgotten can recall "sanitization" or some kind of censorship, kids should be able to have their histories and everything associated with them pre-adulthood expunged. As kids we all did silly and regrettable
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by pizzetta 10y ago
I have to think this is not their mode of operation, but if it is, what the hell, Uber? If they actually do something like this as matter of course, goodbye. That's just unacceptable and very dirty.
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by pizzetta 10y ago
For that matter they could move up to places with better weather like Eureka or Reading. However, given that companies prefer to stay in the local scene and there is underutilized land, it would seem like something worth looking into given
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by pizzetta 10y ago
The biggest constraint would seem to be political or specifically lack of willingness to update building codes in one of the largest cities by area in ca -SJ. Land is so very underutilized in San Jose. Its development on the surface looks
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by pizzetta 10y ago
Fjiord means firth (sea bay, strait, inlet, maybe even sound, etc.) Fixed misspelling of strait.
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by pizzetta 10y ago
I both like the idea of unions on the one hand (have greater group self-determination) but on the other hand it can lead to ossification and ultimately our own demise (through complacency, irrelevancy, protectionism, etc.) I do like the ide
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by pizzetta 10y ago
Some of those numbers seem to be affected by significant world events (world wars, economic depressions). I wonder if filtering out some of the EOs specific to those kinds of things might smooth things out a bit?
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by pizzetta 10y ago
Globalization (perhaps not actual globalism) has lead to billions of people being lifted out of abject poverty. They have not become middle class consumerists themselves, but globalization has lifted them out of abject poverty. One may ask
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by pizzetta 10y ago
Knowing family in N.E. where it rains, and snows quite a bit and remains damp for most of the year (ponds) the construction type doesn't seem to be deficient in that sense. They are however, not the same construction as older house fr
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by pizzetta 10y ago
IIRC, Japan also has more cooperative unions where Unions and businesses seek the long term viability of a company as well as worker welfare, even when that results in people idling at the windows.

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