socialismisok

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by socialismisok 4y ago
Fair. But every manager must be prepared to put one of their people forward, even if they ultimately don't have to in the session. The pressure is still there.
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by socialismisok 4y ago
Managers at Amazon are expected to put 5 to 10% on a PIP or manage them out every review cycle. No matter if your team is amazing or not, 5% getting cut.
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by socialismisok 4y ago
Because the workers produce as much (or more) in that arrangement.
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by socialismisok 4y ago
I owned a Tesla for years and had to constantly have issues fixed, including: Door handles failing to open doors, door handles failing to present, clicking and jerking when steering far to the right or left, dashboard and infotainment turni
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by socialismisok 4y ago
Huge plus one, we sold our Tesla because it was a reliability nightmare.
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by socialismisok 4y ago
They wanted to charge me $200 to complete this recall.
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by socialismisok 4y ago
The point I'm making is that they don't know that. It's all armchair CEOs. They don't have the information that WMF has, they aren't privy to the problems WMF faces. You think if WMF could run with half the expenses
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by socialismisok 4y ago
18m/year pays for maybe 40-60 engineers. An engineer might get paid 150k, but their salary doesn't include the cost of buildings, facilities, insurance, benefits, payroll, etc etc etc. But then you aren't paying for legal, hr
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by socialismisok 4y ago
If you rephrase that as, "10% of the donations we receive go to small grants in service of equity and education" I think most reasonable people would say, "oh, ok, I think most big charities do this". WMF passes 10% of i
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by socialismisok 4y ago
Ok, but servers are a small minority of their expenses. They pay 6 million a year in donation processing fees, 88 million in wages and benefits, 12 million in operating expenses, 16 million in professional services (presumably contract work
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by socialismisok 4y ago
I'm sure they do give to causes I oppose. They are still a net good. I'm not sure any charity I donate to doesn't give to causes I oppose in some degree.
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by socialismisok 4y ago
The average person is donating to the concept of Wikipedia. "I like this site, I'll toss them a couple bucks". They probably don't care how it's allocated at all. Like all donations, it's an abstraction - you d
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by socialismisok 4y ago
Electric cars are better than petrol cars for sustainability, but both are bad long term. While I generally feel fewer cars overall is the goal, incremental improvements to cars don't hurt. Electric cars have long had a reputation of b
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by socialismisok 4y ago
Do those things help Wikipedia? Like, if more people receive a stem education worldwide (especially in areas not well served today), doesn't that improve the health of Wikipedia in 15-20 years as we see the beneficiaries of those progr
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by socialismisok 4y ago
How much does it cost? And how much does it need to save to be able to operate in perpetuity? And how much should it be giving away to ensure that there's an environment of well educated people who can continue to tend to its needs in
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by socialismisok 4y ago
Again with this? WMF gives a small fractional amount to some causes some people disagree with. Nearly every charity I donate to imperfectly spends their funds. The question I have is: reading the title of this post, how many wikipedians are
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by socialismisok 4y ago
Do you have examples of celebrities rising to even a fractional percent of industry?
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by socialismisok 4y ago
We can start with: is the top N% of pollution generators, independently tracking particulates, greenhouse gasses, plastic waste, pfas, fly ash, water pollutants, etc. Make N% approximately 10%. You've then got a pretty good start on &q
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by socialismisok 4y ago
So, when I switched to keto and tracked everything I ate, you are absolutely correct. It's hard to eat enough calories some days. But when I'm not totally focused on eating clean, I will eat as much sugar as I can reach. Keto
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by socialismisok 4y ago
No. I will not eat industrially produced meat. I dropped that a long time ago. Meat from local farmers with ethical practices is a sometimes food. Dairy is sugar... I'll have some cottage cheese or other cheeses. And salty junk food (c
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by socialismisok 4y ago
Meat is tricky. I won't support industrial meat production, that's a hard line for me. Finding local farmers to supply meat takes time. But yes, that's an approach I could take.
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by socialismisok 4y ago
It's a bit inconclusive, I believe.
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by socialismisok 4y ago
But bell peppers have sugar, they are berries. I've done keto and had success holding sugar under, say, 10 to 12 grams. But getting to absolute zero and eating plenty of fibrous veggies is tricky.
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by socialismisok 4y ago
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the
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by socialismisok 4y ago
I'd love to have some help with this. I was able to drop meat, most dairy, and salty junk food without problem. I eat plenty of green leafy vegetables. But sugar. Fuuuck I cannot walk past sweets. Sugar has claws in me I cannot shake.
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by socialismisok 4y ago
Trusting all individuals to make safe decisions in a marketplace flooded with scams is just not scalable. You cannot educate every user in how to identify a scam. And excluding users who haven't gone through that education hardly seems
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by socialismisok 4y ago
97% of the things available in my vanguard or Charles Schwab aren't scams. It's preposterous to call a marketplace where less then 3% of the offerings are "legit" a safe market to use.
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by socialismisok 4y ago
From what I understand, SBF described the product as a Ponzi scheme in so many words 6 months ago, yet somehow attracted more money than Enron. Now he's fled to Argentina, and people are are missing billions. Apparently he even had a c
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by socialismisok 4y ago
We already eat various forms of algae. Some are quite nutritious, some give us tummy troubles, some at excellent sinks for CO2. I'm very curious if we could mass manufacture something like algae and then pyrolize it to get fuel and sol
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by socialismisok 4y ago
That's unfortunate. Both Google and Amazon gave my teams ample ramp up time. We used that to fix knowledge gaps and get people comfortable with our stack. And everyone was expected to learn new skills over time, no matter their level o

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