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by sjwright 6y ago
I agree with you in the case where a union was already in place when you joined. I'm talking about the situation where a new union is proposed in your current workplace. > Work somewhere else. You could equally say to any workers at
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by sjwright 6y ago
It’s not an argument, just an observation that you can’t eat Tesla shares. You seem to be replying as though I’m saying he’s not wealthy? Obviously he’s extremely wealthy by any definition. But most ultra-wealthy people are a LOT more diver
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by sjwright 6y ago
He’s only the near-richest man in theory. If he tried to convert all of his company ownership into cash, the company value would crash so fast that he would probably be lucky to actually recover one fifth of his theoretical wealth.
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by sjwright 6y ago
Is that sufficient reason to coerce others to participate? Why should people who want to collectively bargain have a veto over the people who don’t want that?
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by sjwright 6y ago
I have no problem with unions so long as membership is entirely voluntary for every employee. The problem I have is coercive collectivism. Also, is there any evidence that collective action returns a sustainably larger slice of corporate
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by sjwright 6y ago
Her biological parents died. The evidence is overwhelming that she shares the trait of old age mortality with (so far) all the other humans that have ever existed.
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by sjwright 6y ago
Pretty sure she’s mortal.
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by sjwright 6y ago
That's very cool. And especially thanks for surfacing the Wikipedia article.
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by sjwright 6y ago
I have exactly the same feeling about the form factor but even with the maxxed-out spec (2017 with i7 and 16GB of RAM) it feels underpowered even when doing fairly basic tasks. And though I'm sure it's mostly psychological, the ke
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by sjwright 6y ago
It's possible—nay likely—that I don't understand the true value of generics. It's something that I've looked into on occasion and it never seemed all that useful to me. Most examples I've come across in the past wer
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by sjwright 6y ago
I am genuinely unsure whether your RFC was intended to be serious or not.
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by sjwright 6y ago
Browsers have the benefit of massive interest in their beta releases. This substantially reduces the number of breaking changes which make it into auto-updated versions. Perhaps Docker could learn from this and only auto-update to version
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by sjwright 6y ago
I haven’t ever understood the argument against static typing. I’ve never declared a variable and not simultaneously thought “this is going to be a float, always a float, never not a float.” The only exception to this is untrusted input, but
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by sjwright 6y ago
The vehicle shell is sheets of structural steel. It’s not likely to deform usefully when it strikes a wayward meat sack. Combine that with the plethora of small-radius bends that can concentrate the damage quite effectively. I’ve no doubt t
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by sjwright 6y ago
Actually English does have a perfectly serviceable word, but for some reason no one is interested in calling at freedom software. yes it is grammatically awkward, but that’s a less worse problem than being semantically awkward, IMHO.
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by sjwright 6y ago
You wouldn’t replace mail trucks individually, you would fully transition each location as a unit. Also, you overestimate the complexity of installing charging points. In many cases the parking will be directly against the post office build
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by sjwright 6y ago
The use cases of vehicles are much wider than the use cases of TVs.
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by sjwright 6y ago
I was talking about the proportion of the worldwide fleet, not proportion of new sales. Remember, not all vehicles are passenger cars. And not all vehicles always near electric infrastructure.
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by sjwright 6y ago
My point is that there's a long tail of vehicles out there. Whether the fleet transition from ICE to EV is fast or slow, getting the long tail fully transitioned in a similar timeframe is implausible. Heck, we haven't even transit
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by sjwright 6y ago
Even if we get to 99% EV within fifty years, it’s going to be a long while after that before EV takes over 100.000% of ICE.
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by sjwright 6y ago
I still don't understand your point. For your argument to be valid, you'd have to assert that a factory can build new mail trucks faster than you could add charging points. There will be one factory pumping out cars on a specialis
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by sjwright 6y ago
There are always some number of reserved seats on a large, long haul flight. If your wife wasn’t found an alternative seat, that’s on the airline or it’s staff. Also it’s unlikely to have been upper deck gray water. More likely it was conde
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by sjwright 6y ago
I wonder how that would compare to the Fourier transform?
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by sjwright 6y ago
The only difference is that your identity could be disambiguated with one data point instead of three or four. I don’t see how that has any bearing on the functional aspect of any such hypothetical dystopia.
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by sjwright 6y ago
Is there any issue with minorities receiving birth certificates now?
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by sjwright 6y ago
Dense cities make the problems more visible and makes decentralised solutions less effective, but the problems aren’t inherent. There are plenty of well functioning cities with high population density. And there are plenty of low density ur
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by sjwright 6y ago
I think you underestimate just how many MacBooks Apple sells. There’s only so many affluent early adopters out there. And the M1 MacBooks are especially ideal for mainstream customers.
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by sjwright 6y ago
Coding for obsolete platforms is analogous to black-and-white film photography with lenses of fixed focal length. Restriction breeds creativity by denying you access to the full gamut of easy, low effort solutions.
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by sjwright 6y ago
I was speaking in absolute terms. When speaking in relative terms to a newly built fossil fuel plant you are most likely correct. You'd be hard pressed to find a plausible source of energy that's worse for the environment (immedia
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by sjwright 6y ago
Unless there’s a massive breakthrough in battery tech, the manufacturing of sufficient batteries would be a guaranteed environmental disaster.

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