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by r_smart 8y ago
|Don't frame this as a free speech issue. Freedom of speech is as protected in the EU as it is in the US, possibly more. Short of making a call to violence, I will never hear from an authority about anything I say or post online. The s
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by r_smart 8y ago
I currently have the most joyous of "unlimited PTO" policies. There's something in the handbook, which isn't that great, but I've been told that it's just there for documentation and we have no 'real'
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by r_smart 8y ago
>Even if you’re talented you probably know 0 people that can help you. Now your growth is prematurely stunted. This was my experience, and was challenging. At the time I was more inclined to the arts, but the problem is the same. Who can
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by r_smart 8y ago
I agree with some of what you're saying, but it's a mistake to just lump all of the government in as one huge entity. NYC != 'the government'. |Using that when its convenient and forgetting about it later is just not eth
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by r_smart 8y ago
Please point to where I said anything about right or allowed.
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by r_smart 8y ago
It's basically standard practice for any business to negotiate tax breaks for building in one place rather than another. I'm not going to spend any real amount of time tracking down theoretically publicly available documents on th
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by r_smart 8y ago
They may have gotten the idea while idling, but it still took work to design and test prototypes. This would obviously be more true for the many more advanced inventions that have come since.
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by r_smart 8y ago
But they probably did. It was just behind closed doors rather than publicized.
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by r_smart 8y ago
Because they don't know what the median income is or understand the hidden cost of all of the benefits they get?
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by r_smart 8y ago
"We have no vacation policy, you get as many vacation days as you want!"
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by r_smart 8y ago
I completely agree. And as far as I know, the Clinton balanced budget was kind of a red herring. I'm sorry I can't remember where I had run into that. Doesn't change your point, and at least it was something they considered u
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by r_smart 8y ago
I completely agree. I was just trying to avoid getting up on a soapbox :)
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by r_smart 8y ago
Imagine how much the conversation would shift if we instead focused on increasing tax revenue, rather than increasing tax rates.
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by r_smart 8y ago
Doesn't that just mean they'll widen the pay gap by not getting paid in October? Then next year they'll need to take two months off, and so on. At least they'll have plenty of time to post about it on Facebook :)
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by r_smart 8y ago
Booooo! Throws tomato
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by r_smart 8y ago
And yet, aren't emissions in the US down to 90s levels? Less pollution is always good, but let's not pretend like nothing has happened.
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by r_smart 8y ago
Riiiigggghhhhtttt....and at a selling price determined how?
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by r_smart 8y ago
>Renting a house shouldn’t be profitable If I can't make money by renting you my house, why would I incur the risk of letting you live in it and potentially damage the property rather than have it just sit empty? Why would I want to
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by r_smart 8y ago
Assuming the laws don't change. Also, you're just externalizing the cost to everyone who pays taxes. Not my favorite business model, but carry on.
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by r_smart 8y ago
Right, and you price the rent based on that risk profile. A price that is absolutely going to be higher than the mortgage, unless as another commenter pointed out, there are incentives & tax breaks that cover the cost you would otherwis
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by r_smart 8y ago
>Rent shouldn’t be anywhere near comparable to mortgages. How am I supposed to rent you a house if the rent you pay is less than the mortgage I have on the house? How do I build a pool of money to use for repairing the things that inevit
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by r_smart 8y ago
I got my last employer to agree to change the IP terms. It was a typo in their document nobody caught, that asserted ownership on everything. They were only too happy to fix it so it only applied to work done for them. I did have an industr
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by r_smart 8y ago
I can't reply to you below, so I'll do it here. Firstly, apology accepted. Easy mistake to make. Secondly, I just can't see us letting things go that far. We'll have to agree to disagree with that. I do agree that bindin
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by r_smart 8y ago
Would you care to assign any other positions to me? I feel like you've lost sight of me simply taking objection to this histrionic idea of companies forcing people to work for them for 1c/hr. It's never going to happen, and y
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by r_smart 8y ago
Best I could find is that unions in a given industry bargain for their wage. There is no minimum wage law that I could find. From what I read, it seemed to be the consensus of the unions that minimum wage law might actually hurt their barga
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by r_smart 8y ago
Did those sandwich shops have non-competes that forbade the employee from working for any other company no matter the industry, or just sandwich shops? It's still stupid, but the hyperbole above is about non-competes forbidding getting
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by r_smart 8y ago
Well, if it's good enough for Sweden, I don't see why not.
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by r_smart 8y ago
The parent was talking about people being forced to work for 1c/hr. It's an absurd claim, and that hypothetical person could walk into basically any other job. Preferably one paying more than minimum wage.
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by r_smart 8y ago
Well shit, if we're just making things up, then why stop there?
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by r_smart 8y ago
But not required to continue working there. It should be pretty easy to find a job that pays more than 1c/hr.

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