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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
James Damore was not fired for signing a letter of protest. James Damore was fired for using junk science and wildly misinterpreting other studies to fit his conclusion that half of his coworkers didn't belong at Google.
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
"but the same people probably won't care about the privacy of Chinese citizens, ever." I mean, I'd like them to be able to have it, but I have literally zero impact on any of those discussions. Since I can't really
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
Anybody? Clearly not. But you are right that the people capable of doing that are not just from Stanford. That just doesn't change the parent's point.
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
"Unions are incentivized to bargain for as much compensation as possible" Yes, they are. And companies are incentivized to bargain for as much profit and as little employee compensation as possible, yet people here seem to conside
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
"I just find it alarming that when people criticize capitalism, they usually advocate for some variety of full blown socialism, which has been tried many times before and failed disastrously every single time." Scandinavia says hi
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
Which is a quote that has absolutely no bearing whatsoever on the current situation. Nobody said anything about free speech.
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
There's a huge difference between signing a letter arguing against capitulating to state censorship, and authoring a memo using junk science and taking studies way out of context to say that half your coworkers don't deserve to be
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
It seems like putting the entry point at the top would make the code easier to read, at least in the annotated form you provided. Gist doesn't really have a good way to read from the bottom up like suggested.
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I don't think so. Their service was used to steal someone's phone account, which was then used to steal someone's money.
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
"And then diminish it to zero again because yes it should be possible for employees to do that." Absolutely not. It never should be possible for a single employee to do that with no checks at all.
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
"Should? Hard to answer and not too practically relevant." Considering that's kinda what you're arguing for when you say that they should just quit, yes, I would consider it relevant. "People also sometimes willingl
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
That doesn't mean Capitalism can't do better. I'm extremely tired of this "Capitalism did good things once! Why are you criticizing Capitalism?" trope when talking about the very obvious flaws of it.
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I think it absolutely should be. They're benefitting from the company doing better (in fact, in many cases, they're benefitting despite the company doing shitty), why should the actual workers doing the actual work not benefit as
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
I think the problem with that is, in the US at least, once a company starts issuing a dividend, it is expected to keep issuing that dividend, no matter what. And not only to keep issuing the dividend, but to increase it over time, too. Comp
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
I mean, it's at least free cake. And an hour or so where you don't have to do work.
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
No. This is horribly, horribly naive. Not everyone is in the position where they can just up and quit like that. Does that mean those people should get fucked over?
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Most would probably say no.
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
Agreed. I'd wager that most people on this board, if they fuck up at their job and get fired, are not going to get any kind of golden parachute. They're just going to be kicked out on their ass.
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
"Yes its a big number, however I don't see anything wrong here." You don't see anything wrong with a CEO taking home insane amounts of money while his average employee can qualify for food stamps?
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Decades of propaganda telling them that unions are responsible for all the ills of labor right now, instead of having the company own up to their own misgivings.
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That can just as easily be explained by government officials not doing their duty, and not funding the obligations they promised. During the boom times, they assumed growth would always be huge, so they diverted money meant to go to these f
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
Well, with most unions, I as a worker have the ability to affect union leadership and policy. I have very little or zero ability to affect management policy.
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
"It seems as though the assumption is that higher pay for bosses comes solely at the expense of line workers." Yeah, it does. Money given to bosses and shareholders is money not available to pay workers.
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And then increase it again by arguing that AT&T should never have made it possible for employees to do this.
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I could reasonably argue that they should not allow any employee to give out my details, such that they can intercept my messages, to anyone. And by allow, I mean even make it possible.
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
"The dude who carries a gun because he has to carry a ton of cash to fill up ATMs will be arrested" Those people don't take the subway. They drive in armored cars.
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
To be perfectly honest, a lot of your complaints sound like, "Why do I need someone who is an expert in plumbing to fix my pipes?" "Why do I need someone who is an expert in medicine to diagnose my illness?" "Why do
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
I don't know if this is a good time in history to be referring to "experts".
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
There seems to be this odd sentiment in the comments here that, unless you're an absolute tyrant, then you must be a weak leader, not directing people and not holding teams accountable. This concerns me greatly, because thinking that &
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
Wasn't that something that happened in Snow Crash ?

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