thwayunion

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by thwayunion 4y ago
In terms of day-to-day life-feel, it's more about the children being self-sufficient. Raising independent children in cities is the default: as young as 10, they can safely use trains and busses, hang out at city parks or friends place
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> And it is clean. Dang. Most city's are filthy. I have to wash my shoes every time I go to NYC. NYC (and Manhattan in particular) is filthy even by big city standards.
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> or if you don't go to church This is something to be very careful about. If you aren't religious -- or, actually, if you aren't evangelical protestant or maybe in some places catholic -- there are many, many rural comm
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by thwayunion 4y ago
N=1 and all that. The grass is always greener. I found rural life alienating. Any semblance of intellectual life revolved around the community church and religion. Being in nature and out of the city was nice, and having lots of living spac
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by thwayunion 4y ago
It's not good or bad, per se, unless it's actionable and quantified. - quantified: What's the difference in default probability between ranks 1-8 and rank 9? what about between rank 10 and rank 200? Without quantifying or at
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by thwayunion 4y ago
I don't mean to pile on, but dear god . Others are characterizing this as naive. To be a bit blunt, "naive" is a charitable interpretation of the author's intent. TL;DR: if you swipe left on web3-cum-gtp (sic) people
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by thwayunion 4y ago
Data and IP sovereignty makes this increasingly difficult, and in many cases the internationality of the talent simply doesn't buy you any savings (eg any model beyond 100b params or so, anything where you need 9 9s, etc.). Source: bee
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by thwayunion 4y ago
> dismiss The best defense is a good offense. You should just be asking for dismissal. You should be be counter-suing for legal fees + k*N, where: - N is l.b. by the total value of your possible employment contracts, including any acti
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by thwayunion 4y ago
Not an apologist, but warehouse and data center real estate seems inversely correlated with RTO? The article isn't about their office space...
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by thwayunion 4y ago
> "We believe that employees are much more likely to understand our unique culture and become part of it if they are surrounded by other Amazonians in person" Sounds like a cult.
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Totally agreed. My advice is targeted at laborers and employers who can afford the fight. BTW, there's a lot of money to be made here by an enterprising lawyer. The laws have been moving fast and most companies -- even those that shoul
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by thwayunion 4y ago
Inapplicable in my case. First, the state's statute is extremely clearly worded. The amount of judicial activism required for me not to win some substantial monetary damages -- at least a multiple of garden leave -- would go far beyo
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by thwayunion 4y ago
Counter-sue for damages consisting of the total value of my foregone compensation package (which are typically 2-4 year packages). Triple real damages because enforcing a prime facie unenforceable contract is an unfair and deceptive busines
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by thwayunion 4y ago
> What if the law changes and now it's enforceable? Before that happened, I'd remind my lawmaker of both my generous giving and also how valuable my personal time and network has been, relative to any campaign donation, in te
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by thwayunion 4y ago
> Doesn’t this effectively target all the best employees? No, because a huge percentage of the best employees are on H1Bs and have no choice but to stay. Big tech might have some issues when the carpet gets pulled on H1B rules XOR H1B
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by thwayunion 4y ago
> non competes can still hurt candidates big time once they go back to the job market because many companies actually have provisions to disqualify those coming in with the extra baggage of a non compete. Get a lawyer, ensure it's
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by thwayunion 4y ago
Do both. Getting your hands dirty is the best way to understand how something works. Think about all the useless SE and PL work that gets done by folks who never programmed for a living, and how often faculty members in those fields with 10
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by thwayunion 4y ago
Of course you can! It's what we have in the US. Don't confuse capitalism -- the ideology of capital -- with marketism or competitionism or dynamism. If you take it as an axiom that capitalism is an ideology designed to acreed econ
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by thwayunion 4y ago
> Big corps (like HashiCorp) make their margins on SWE and FOSS' backs - do you owe them the same ire as landlords? I don't have much respect for people who make their living off of capital rather than labor.
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by thwayunion 4y ago
One of my landlords was a guy like "Alex", and had a similar fate. I can't say I shed a single tear for him or Alex. What services did Alex render in this story to justify being a "rising star"? That one account lik
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by thwayunion 4y ago
> What you need is your legal team to tell you how risky it is, and management to decide how risk averse they want to be. No. 1. Even if you're not going to do any mitigation, you do need engineers and researchers to help do the
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by thwayunion 4y ago
What a strange comment section. A customer service chatbot telling your customers that an issue is solved, when the issue isn't solved, is a core product failure. It's also a Responsible AI issue. A code generation model suggestin
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> You are absolutely free to never associate with them as an employee, however. Important distinction. You do not have that freedom in the USA. The Constitution is very clear on this question: Congress has the right to demand your forc
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by thwayunion 4y ago
The 20-30% appreciation is in specific markets. Definitely not all markets. Several housing markets are already down from 20/21 highs and lots of markets are trending downward. Again, securing financing in 20/21 was great but b
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by thwayunion 4y ago
> Did you buy real-estate in 20/21 when the mortgate rates were 2%? If you didn't that's a terrible decision. Meh. Securing financing in 20/21 was great but buying in 20/21 was kind of terrible. Everyone I know
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by thwayunion 4y ago
Well all the numbers I've ever seen have been just shy of 80, and 8/80 = 10%, which is 2 digits. So there are two possibilities. One possibility, I guess, is that both your and parent are using some sort of counting system we&#x27
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by thwayunion 4y ago
The companies are petulant as well. Punishing and retaliating against union organizers is petulant and childish. Hiring someone for 32 hours a week, and then refusing to schedule them for the last 8 hours to avoid turning them into a "
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by thwayunion 4y ago
Count the number of management layers and the percent of MBAs in roles managing non-analysts. That tells you everything you need to know. You can abstract away from FAANG and generally observe that companies with "professional manager
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Good luck. The dominant economic ideology in the USA is capital ism, not market ism.
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by thwayunion 4y ago
The elitism tends to show up once you've been around the block a few times but before your ego and position is secure. Years 6-8 or so; ie, post-doc age. Not really properly mid-career, at least outside of "retire at 35" FAAN

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