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by pkkim 10y ago
Firing someone because they were involved in union activity is extremely illegal. It happens only when companies are confident there won't be consequences.
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by pkkim 10y ago
Why is this on the third page when there are stories on the second page with fewer points and posted before this one? At least in December 2015, ranking was a function of those two things: https://medium.com/hacking-and-gonz
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by pkkim 10y ago
http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Tesla-employee-speaks... "Last month, five members of the Assembly wrote a letter to Tesla CEO Elon Musk referring to the confidentiality pledge and expressing concerns
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by pkkim 10y ago
And the Chinese worker should feel lucky his job isn't shipped to Vietnam!... And the Vietnamese worker should feel lucky his job isn't shipped to Bangladesh!... And the Bangladeshi adult worker should feel lucky his job isn'
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by pkkim 10y ago
tl;dr Worker at the Tesla plant in Fremont, CA wants a union at the plant. There are a lot of grievances, including: health and safety; questionably legal attempts to stop workers from organizing; low pay; long hours; management that doesn&
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Tesla factory worker calls for a union: “We need to stand up for ourselves”(medium.com)
123 points by pkkim 10y ago|157 comments
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by pkkim 10y ago
That's true to some extent. You should be able to choose a job that is a little less stressful but pays a little less, or the opposite. But there are a lot of caveats. For example: First of all, a company sets standards in wages, benef
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by pkkim 10y ago
Probably not for production use (as most "interesting" code isn't): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duff's_device
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by pkkim 10y ago
Great course! I'm using it right now and it's some nice hands-on practice. One nitpick: In video 14 about references vs copies, around 2:20, you say, "`team` is not the array, `team` is just a reference to the original array,
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by pkkim 10y ago
The upside-down "O Maners, O Tymes" is almost certainly a reference to "O tempora, o mores," used by Cicero to mourn the wickedness of his age (end of Roman republic).
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by pkkim 10y ago
Could be both, too. I'd also be interested in seeing the correlation between the political power that poor and/or non-white communities have in the area, and the likelihood that they get stuck with such things in their neighborhoo
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by pkkim 10y ago
It seems a little weird to be printing speculation on what the Korean source text of a translation must be like, when the NYRB should be able to find someone with a good background in Korean and English literature, who could compare the tex
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by pkkim 10y ago
That first one did a number on my back history, unfortunately.
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by pkkim 11y ago
Given how hard it was for me to do non cash commerce without a Chinese ID card, it's no surprise that you don't use those features. Do you use the app in English? Maybe the English version doesn't even have these features.
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by pkkim 11y ago
I'm not an expert, but I would suspect that life in North Korea is good training for being very careful with things like this.
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by pkkim 11y ago
Someone at the University of Utah produces and maintains a great piece of image processing software which unfortunately has a pretty complicated CLI UI. It can do this sort of thing and much more with a few commands. It's called Teem,
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by pkkim 11y ago
And your point is that capitalism will renew itself once more?
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by pkkim 11y ago
"Many who work in tech are living their lives as if it's the carefree Roaring 20s, while I'm more or less stuck in the Great Depression." Of course, the roaring twenties were themselves times of relative inequality, and
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by pkkim 11y ago
Funny phrasing. I usually think of third world countries as having drivers who are more aware of cyclists, and more bike-friendly roads in general. ;)
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by pkkim 11y ago
Holy shit, as someone who worked a tiny bit on that campaign, never thought I would hear Fisk and Crawford mentioned on HN.
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by pkkim 11y ago
I had the opportunity to speak with some Bangladeshi labor organizers who help workers organize unions in the textile factories there. It sounds like they are doing some great work[0][1]. Organizers' salaries are apparently well under
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by pkkim 11y ago
I've never read any book more than seven or eight times, but here's another view from a "centireader" (should that be "hectoreader"?): http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/09
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by pkkim 11y ago
I think there are at least two ways in which Uber is intrinsically better: One, Uber Pool, which uses network effects and a computerized super-dispatcher to let riders share cabs. Two, the concentration of capital in Uber compared to taxi c
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by pkkim 11y ago
It's funny you say that. I just spent about a month in China, particularly Beijing. Because Beijing is probably the center of tourism from overseas in China, you might think it's very touristy, and it is. But the domestic tourist