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by thebradbain 3y ago
A big range like that means you should feel more than fine selecting the average— so $400k— at the minimum. Anything less and you’re essentially admitting you don’t think you’re worth what the salary range is. Personally I would ask for cla
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by thebradbain 3y ago
As a Texan who moved and bought a home IN California, you’re forgetting about CA Prop 13 (which has its own giant set of problems)— in California, property taxes are not re-assessed after the purchase of the home. In Texas, they are every y
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by thebradbain 3y ago
Almost like we should just blanket-provide the same amount of aid and safety net to everyone, cut out any and all pre-qualifications, and completely change our tax system to ensure all costs are recaptured by a progressive tax system. That
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by thebradbain 3y ago
You can’t game something when the maximum award is still designed to be Not Enough On Its Own. That describes quite literally every US government aid program— from food stamps and school lunch debt at the very bottom of the financial ladder
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by thebradbain 3y ago
As someone whose partner works as a writer in Hollywood — the strike’s AI-demands weren’t “resistance” to AI, as studios and certain circles were reporting. It was a protection of payment: specifically, ensuring AI itself could not be given
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by thebradbain 3y ago
Yet it can’t be used to stop California vehicle emission standards, which is why almost all car manufacturers in the US make cars up to California’s higher standards, because they’re so big.
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by thebradbain 3y ago
Unions don't set pay-levels, just minimum pay and percentage pay increases, generally. Furthermore, just look here in California to multiple successful white-collar unions: the WGA (writers), the DGA (directors), and SAG (actors). If y
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by thebradbain 3y ago
^Texas has property tax on individuals and businesses (in fact it’s one of the highest in the nation) Texas does not have income tax
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by thebradbain 3y ago
Wow, as someone who follows the construction progress of Los Angeles' Purple Line (the only heavy rail transit line currently in active boring in the US) I did not know how fast that even reaching the speed of a snail would be: If we
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by thebradbain 3y ago
Congrats! Then it is impossible for you to be underwater on it.
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by thebradbain 3y ago
As someone close to the industry, this was an interesting thing to think about -- but without some other, huge structural changes to the industry, it won't really happen. 1) Distribution is where studios' value-add really comes th
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by thebradbain 3y ago
Gemini did not collapse though. Genesis, a lending company that Gemini held deposits customers who opted into their “Earn” program, collapsed. Gemini the actual NYC-compliant exchange is still solvent (and afaik still compliant)
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by thebradbain 3y ago
WGA is a guild, technically, not a union — because most writers are 1099d by studios, not actually full-time employees. Hence the need for collective protections, as contractors in the US have much less guarantees than W2 employees, and thu
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WGA wins viewership-based streaming residuals, AI limits in Hollywood strike(latimes.com)
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by thebradbain 3y ago
This chart is annual income, not net worth – in Los Angeles, for example, the median 2bd starter home is over $1 million, while in many states $300k is enough for a 3-4bd home with a yard and a garage.
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by thebradbain 3y ago
Have them join the union then, or make it a program sponsored by the city workers (who else to better manage it anyways than those normally responsible for trash pickup?). That was also apparently one of the reasons that NYC could “never” h
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by thebradbain 3y ago
And yet if we look around, in any city or town in the US, it’s easy to see there’s still garbage needing to be picked up; old buildings falling apart; sidewalks and roads in need of repair; the need for more libraries and parks, more librar
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by thebradbain 3y ago
Regardless of the fact that California is much, much more strict in what they allow, to the point where oftentimes a company’s lawyers won’t even try: Fine. Don’t fight, I agree, that would be an unfair fight and a waste of time/money
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by thebradbain 3y ago
I wrote the comment above, though I'm not the author of the code that you appear to think I am. But I am in agreement with him. > Their employment contract for-sure states they own any work produced by you during your employment, an
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by thebradbain 3y ago
Cool -- if one of the companies wants to issue a takedown request, they're free to make the case for it. It's funny there's this idea that a company _might_ be potentially injured over code they do not want or know they had b
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by thebradbain 3y ago
Because it’s beautiful. Where else can you ski and go to the beach on the same day? Or be in hours proximity to not just one, but three world-class national parks within a day-trip from some of the largest and most metropolitan cities in th
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by thebradbain 3y ago
Pro-union sentiment is the highest its ever been since 1965 and growing. https://news.gallup.com/poll/398303/approval-labor-unions-hi...
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by thebradbain 3y ago
Truthfully, based on the state of our sidewalks in the richest cities of the US like NYC, SF, Chicago, and LA— we need to be replacing them maybe not every two or three years, but at least every 5. Right now it seems like 20, if we’re lucky
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by thebradbain 3y ago
Except the only demographic of net in-flow _moving to California_ are those in the top 5% or so. https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-skelton-income-t... Note: this article is from 2019, which is obviously pre-C
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by thebradbain 3y ago
Suppressing tumor growth is how you kill cancer, is it not? Cancer cells themselves, like the original cells they mutate from, don't live forever. Depending on which type of cell we're talking about, they can die within hours (e.g
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by thebradbain 3y ago
I didn’t say it wasn’t pleasant— there’s so many ways transit comfort and safety could be improved — but it’s really not as bad as people who have never taken a train or bus, and never will regardless of how comfortable it is, say it is
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by thebradbain 3y ago
The funny thing is that a lot of the “crime, drug use, and general anti-social behavior” on transit is overblown in the very minds of people who don’t take transit regularly. Sure, in the US it’s nowhere near as pleasant as it could (or sho
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by thebradbain 3y ago
They’re not asking for sympathy. All employees in any industry, union or not, have the choice to work, or not. Actors here are just collectively using that power to withhold their work in order to negotiate a better deal, as is their right.
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by thebradbain 3y ago
Yup— that’s what I meant. dates and engineers don’t work well together
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by thebradbain 3y ago
Producers are often studio executives, who are on the other side of this debate. Directors are not on strike, as they are the closest of the unions with studios and have never been on strike in the history of their union. I don’t understand

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