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by surement 4y ago
Gross lol. But more seriously, there's nothing "wrong" with liking what you like. The overcomplicating crowd these days is more into catching the complexities of various growing regions and processing methods in light roasts.
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by surement 4y ago
do you have data to back that up?
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by surement 4y ago
> and what happens when you can't find one? sounds like what you're saying is that without this employer, this employee would have a worse or no job; if you start from that and then give them this job then it sounds pretty posi
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by surement 4y ago
> they're super strict that's literally every factory ever, I really don't see how commuting is Tesla's problem, and I've never heard of a factory offering a bus service to employees, an amazing employee benefit
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by surement 4y ago
The 5% of economists who suck up to politicians are always able to find data that shows that if you set a floor on the price of labor it somehow doesn't affect demand. The other 95%–the ones who aren't grifters–know that the only
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by surement 4y ago
I don't know that reference but no one we're talking about here is under threat of death from their employer. You are an intellectually dishonest person.
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by surement 4y ago
yeah you clearly don't understand what the alternatives are
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by surement 4y ago
if the "employer-employee relationship" was not a positive sum transaction then it wouldn't happen
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by surement 4y ago
> conditions creep in due to there always being some people who'll do the job anyway don't worry, minimum wage laws keep those pesky people unemployed
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by surement 4y ago
> The point of a union is not job security. It's about giving workers collective power they may not otherwise have. No, it's about giving workers currently employed by the company collective power. This means keeping potentia
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by surement 4y ago
why would it be illegal? employees are welcome to find jobs elsewhere
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by surement 4y ago
> yes and no Having to understand monad transformers or another kind of effect system to get anything working is a heavy load that's unnecessary in other languages.
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by surement 4y ago
Be concrete and point to specific unreliable information in the thread or to conflicting information elsewhere. Until then I'll put my money on falcon-backed securities.
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by surement 4y ago
One of the frustrating problems with this is how underreported it is. If you can offer more reliable information, then link to it.
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12 points by surement 4y ago|8 comments
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by surement 4y ago
by 2010 IRC was largely replaced by social media except for niche communities, sorry you were on there in the wrong decade
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by surement 4y ago
The problem is companies do DEI as marketing, and equal opportunity is invisible. If there are fewer black ballet dancers it doesn't necessarily mean that there's discrimination or racial barriers, it could just be that black peop
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by surement 4y ago
I've never heard this and there were plenty of girls on IRC
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by surement 4y ago
right, there's no way that tech companies laying off people means fewer seats sold for other software providers
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by surement 4y ago
if you don't have money to pay employees then they're out of a job, and if you don't grow you don't get investors and don't hire people please explain how "humanity" solves this
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by surement 4y ago
what about accountability to the people who took a risk investing in the company? maybe the CEO didn't predict the future however many months or years ago to get to a point where no layoffs would've been necessary, but maybe this
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by surement 4y ago
pair programming is not a replacement for code reviews; the two people who worked on the code will have the same blind spots (even if the quality of the code is likely going to be better) and a fresh pair of eyes will offer the same benefit
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by surement 4y ago
In my experience, these types of people never really learned software engineering beyond "don't repeat yourself." They learned to code and they're smart enough to come up with clever solutions to complex problems. They d
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by surement 4y ago
> Your take seems kind of at the conservative end of the spectrum. Nah. Their take is from an engineering standpoint. The type of brilliant people they're talking about can reason about terrible code, but most software engineers are
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by surement 4y ago
> These jobs are a trap You always have the option of not taking the job and look for a higher-paying one.
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by surement 4y ago
> EDIT: On closer inspection, I think this is intentional HN rage bait. do flag stories like this
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by surement 4y ago
even jobs with no career prospects provide experience leading to useful skills, at the bare minimum how to behave with coworkers people have the option of taking those jobs or not so I'm not sure how this is "preying"
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by surement 4y ago
> This "living wage leads to inflation" story is right wing fearmongering. No, it's a misunderstanding of supply and demand. When you raise the price of something, doesn't matter if it's labor or oranges, demand
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by surement 4y ago
> if they did get a living wage then prices would go up and the living wage would be more and the cycle would repeat... that's not how the world works if they were paying them a "living wage" then they wouldn't hire l
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by surement 4y ago
if your solution to overly generic names is names that are meaningless without context, you probably have bigger problems

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