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by seibelj 4y ago
Why should me, as the owner, be unable to fire people trying to unionize? If someone doesn't like a job they can leave. The union is anti-freedom - it restricts what I am able to do with my property (my business).
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by seibelj 4y ago
That isn't "freedom" - that's coercion. If you want to bargain collectively, go ahead. But in a free country I would be able to fire all of you and replace you immediately.
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by seibelj 4y ago
Yes they can - once the market stops believing them, private equity takes them private, cuts costs massively and streamlines, then gets re-acquired or goes public again much improved - minus the founder.
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by seibelj 4y ago
To everyone reading this - we live in a free country. Nothing stops you from creating a new business as a co-op or employee owned collective or whatever. So many smart people here who are passionate about labor. Just make that into your com
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by seibelj 4y ago
I would be interested in something where I'm given a topic and position to argue for, and I argue against another person who has the opposite side, and then other people vote on who did it best. Obviously a lot of details there to work
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by seibelj 4y ago
"Almost 1/3 of San Francisco charging stations are broken" https://www.electrive.com/2022/05/13/almost-1-3-of-san-franc... There are... a lot of problems yet to be solved in the perfect electri
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by seibelj 4y ago
The “$80 is too expensive” comment is dishonorable. You can choose not to buy something - for books especially considering the library is free. If you think a corporation is evil, you don’t have to shop there.
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by seibelj 4y ago
There is misunderstanding of profits and software vs. hardware. During the early computer era, the most difficult and expensive problems to solve were in hardware. The profits flowed there. In recent years, compute was cheap compared to the
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by seibelj 4y ago
> Then she handed me a copy of The C Programming Language, which she had just stolen (though at $80, it’s not clear who was robbing whom to begin with). Code of Dishonor
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by seibelj 4y ago
That is hilarious - “all the problems of Europe are actually the USA’s fault!” Incredible
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by seibelj 4y ago
A firehose of ingestion is a specific problem that can be solved. But basing your entire application on a nosql data store is a mistake - quick and dirty now for pain and tears later.
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by seibelj 4y ago
Europe has many poor countries and even developed ones (UK) are having quality of life decreases due mostly to a lack of private sector success - the government eventually runs out of money without private business to fill its coffers. Happ
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by seibelj 4y ago
I work 70 hours a week and there is 0% chance I would do that without having significant upside in my firm. I get more money and I deserve it, this is a free country and I don’t want anyone’s potential capped (and certainly not my own!).
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by seibelj 4y ago
An underappreciated negative aspect of equality is total lack of enthusiasm and incentive. As inequality is a guarantee - no two people are alike in any aspect and neither are their abilities as an employee - mandating (either by gun or uni
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by seibelj 4y ago
> We love PostgreSQL which Supabase utilizes. We plan to do more research on scalability, since column-based databases can’t grow as big as their NoSQL counterparts. I would argue there are very, very few types of problems NoSQL solves
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by seibelj 4y ago
The safest play is to create all art as metaphor, just as the writers of great Russian literature did. You can’t be too plain spoken because that opens you up to attack by the mob. Rather, hide your meaning and the censors won’t feel it nec
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One in eight people in England on NHS waiting list as queue breaches 7M(dailymail.co.uk)
8 points by seibelj 4y ago|3 comments
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by seibelj 4y ago
Even if you lose all your property and declare bankruptcy, you can still drive a car, you can still work in food service, you can still drag yourself out of the hole. I hesitate to bring up religion here, but even if you are not religious t
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by seibelj 4y ago
I went to the one in JP a lot before it closed. Our main issue was that the produce was often rotten / moldy and there were flies inside a lot. It's hard to justify higher fees and being "more healthy" when all your food
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by seibelj 4y ago
My sincere belief is that there are a large number of employees whose total comp is over $400k and they provide far less value than that. But the arms race between FAANG drove up salaries to illogical levels. As people are pushed out they w
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by seibelj 4y ago
It’s sort of non-shitty which is a glaring indictment of the difficulty of solving problems with AI. Languages are a closed system, the cars have no chance
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by seibelj 4y ago
The US is the most deregulated, pro-market, capitalist developed nation of size and we are doing much better than the UK. Jobs are plentiful and our corporate titans continue to dominate global equities. Maybe the issue in the UK isn’t as s
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by seibelj 4y ago
I think if it was Donald Jr's laptop rather than Hunter Biden's the mainstream media would be going bananas over it.
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by seibelj 4y ago
How will this work when reality is partisan? The Hunter Biden laptop story was a debunked conspiracy by the “experts” until it wasn’t, and the recent Chinese election data stolen “conspiracy” (as declared by the NYT) turned out to be true.
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by seibelj 4y ago
That's what everyone says until the government defaults on its debt. The US is a special case because of our unique situation as the military superpower and reserve currency, but look at Argentina, Venezuela, and the UK for a counterpo
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by seibelj 4y ago
Only a fool thinks the ability to get a loan is equivalent to living within one’s means
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by seibelj 4y ago
Unfortunately we are constantly issuing new debt to pay back the old debt because the government spends far beyond its means. So it doesn’t help.
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by seibelj 4y ago
It's about averages. For certain groups of people, for certain amounts of time, people are willing to starve / freeze / have poorer conditions voluntarily. Under the threat of a gun they can accept it for much longer periods.
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by seibelj 4y ago
Highly exaggerated outcomes. But you can ameliorate increased heat, flooding, and pollution. You can’t fix freezing and starving to death. I’ll take the latter over letting humanity wither over some insane concept of “Mother Earth” as if a
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by seibelj 4y ago
There is energy everywhere. There isn’t a lack of energy. Energy shortages are political issues. If you want energy fast then coal plants are cookie cutter and coal is easy to store and ship. If you have more time then nuclear can go anywhe

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