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by shantly 7y ago
> Unions are a cartel of employees who use the threat of harm to limit the freedom of employers and individual workers from freely entering into mutually beneficial work arrangements. Individual workers are in a weaker negotiating positi
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by shantly 7y ago
I don't think it makes much sense to assume that all of what's not "surplus value" (the "due" return of capital, I take it?) is already captured by labor, which is what the claim that all the value one creates
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by shantly 7y ago
Maybe I'm unusual, but I avoid Java-based tools (like Bazel) because my Java environment often seems to be broken for any given piece of Java software, for one reason or another, and I don't want to add "make sure my Java env
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by shantly 7y ago
Moreover, I'm finding this notion that some economic actors have more "moral" right to a big slice of the profit-pie than others really hard to pin down. As in, it sure seems like the idea collapses as soon as you breathe in
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by shantly 7y ago
Do you also oppose companies negotiating "unfair" contracts that extract "too much" of some other company's profit? [EDIT] I mean... wow, is it immoral if an individual negotiates with the aim to gain as much pay as
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by shantly 7y ago
I find the format of code that comes from tools deriving CREATEs from live databases to be totally acceptable, usually. Then again I'm the kind of person who prefers team-wide auto-formatting and a strict style linter, so maybe that&#x
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by shantly 7y ago
I think it's mostly frustration when Apple leverages the fact that you can't (legally and without a bunch of extra & ongoing work) run macOS on non-Apple hardware to push changes people don't like to the hardware, or to c
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by shantly 7y ago
That doesn't mean there isn't more value to extract for workers—very probably there is—or more that could be done to even out availability of things like parental leave, for example, or that an easy, cheap, acceptable route to pro
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by shantly 7y ago
Those down files probably rarely receive as much implicit or explicit testing as the up files, too. I sure wouldn't trust them, in most cases.
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by shantly 7y ago
AFAIK the reason one does this is because one can (in most non-shitty databases cough cough ) apply most or all transformations to schema inside a transaction, and also write the current version in that transaction , such that if the tran
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by shantly 7y ago
It's a good way to be sure that the migrations lead to the same state as whatever you consider "current". Otherwise you risk diverging without noticing. Though you could probably safely sum up older migrations periodically by
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by shantly 7y ago
You can derive the current state (in CREATE statements and such) as part of your pre-commit build process if you really want it, no? Or interrogate any active copy of the DB to get it at any time.
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by shantly 7y ago
... uh, what?
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by shantly 7y ago
Lots of parallels with SAG, too, IMO. You don't have to bog down the top earners very much to keep a whole lot of people down the ladder from getting shit on too badly, and providing a ton of support to people earning their way to the
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by shantly 7y ago
I've seen places with separate unions for ordinary workers and for lower- to mid-level management. They have different incentives within the company so it's kinda hard to have the shoulder-to-shoulder, but ultimately both are much
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by shantly 7y ago
A union could ensure better QOL for tech workers by: 1) capturing more of the value the workers create for them , vs. for capital, in direct dollar compensation or in other benefits, by bargaining from a much stronger position than individ
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by shantly 7y ago
> There is an exception, though, which is that female engineers may still get promoted into management (...not going to speculate on reasons right now). This is one of those things I'd not go out of my way to bring up, for obvious r
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by shantly 7y ago
I took it to mean that the police might have to settle for actually serving a warrant to the person they're investigating or someone close to them, rather than some third party under a gag order.
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by shantly 7y ago
Yeah, I'm pretty sure most folks doing "real" work don't care who you are as long as you show up on time, get shit done, and aren't (the wrong kind of) an asshole. And the last part's negotiable.
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by shantly 7y ago
It's probably hard to get much meaningful info out of kids in the under-6-month range because their senses, including eyesight, tend to be, to use the technical term, shit .
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by shantly 7y ago
The generous view of the dads worried about sons playing with girls' toys (no quotes around girls', because I guarantee the marketers intended them that way) is that they're concerned it'll signal "ostracize me and
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by shantly 7y ago
Yeah you get paid the average cost of having that work done , not the average value at all . That may well be 10x what you're paid for the work, in some positions.
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by shantly 7y ago
See also: $120+ hoodies, certain hiking & climbing wear. You can spot the tech folks pretty easily and with reasonably high confidence if you know what to look for. There's a uniform, a look , and that's even the ones who don
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by shantly 7y ago
In Fussell's Class he writes hopefully about his "Class X" (IIRC) that rejects class markers, but it's clear even just from his text that they actually don't, and from our decades-later perspective they've ob
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by shantly 7y ago
We got a puppy a while ago and holy crap, no kidding. If I were single, after that experience, I'd make sure never to walk anywhere without a puppy. Never had so many strangers strike up friendly, longish conversations out of nowhere.
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by shantly 7y ago
For those playing along at home: Machine made, decent leather from cows (not anything unusual), shoes, not boots: ~$200-600 Same, but handmade: ~$500-900 (usually the leather’s a little better too, though) Then there’s custom fitted, probab
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by shantly 7y ago
Folks were going nuts over $2000 “tech fashion” jackets in a thread yesterday. And wearing half a grand is about the lowest you could possibly get away with to be in something tailored and not-obviously-cheap, and that’s probably still gonn
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by shantly 7y ago
Nutritional value's decent, in terms of vitamins & minerals and such. Calories being near-zero is a huge bonus, for those on an American diet—lots of people would pay extra to eliminate the calories from some of their food, keeping
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by shantly 7y ago
"The future's USB-C! Convert!" "So, the iphone charging cable will connect to USB-C?" "What, are you crazy? Literally everything is USB-A."
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by shantly 7y ago
It's be less ridiculous if the iphone didn't come with a USB cable . It did, though, just the "wrong" one (I understand from elsewhere in the thread they've finally fixed that, however).

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