whyaduck

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by whyaduck 8y ago
If they were unionized it would be much easier to understand what they're getting themselves into. Union contracts are typically public, unambiguous and well enforced; certainly better than relying on "company policy" to judg
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by whyaduck 8y ago
It was a 3 month project I finished 8 years ago...I guess my memory failed me.
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by whyaduck 8y ago
SFTP - I can't say what's happening today, but 8 years ago this was the only channel available when I added an ACH payment system to B2B accounting system. 80 column text files SFTP'd overnight to the company's bank. I a
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by whyaduck 8y ago
This reads like an explanation to a sample question on a standardized test. This isn't a formal debate and no one gets points for logically correct but empty observations. I still don't know what the specific alternative to "
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by whyaduck 8y ago
Real vs. fake? Paid vs. unpaid? NYT vs. ??? I feel like I need a semiotics text to figure out what's actually being implied here.
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by whyaduck 8y ago
You described them as "paid". The opposite of _that_ would be unpaid. But the larger issue is that I don't really know what you're comparing professional journalism to. Is there actual volunteer journalism that attempts
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by whyaduck 8y ago
What are unpaid journalists? Do they have editors and publishers to answer to? Do they have journalistic standards to uphold? Do they answer to anything other than advertising revenue? I don't understand what you're actually contr
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by whyaduck 8y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by "involvement"? He was with the agency for 2 years from 2001-2003 and for 2 years in the 1980's. I understand that e.g., prosecutors become defense attorneys and vice versa, but in those case
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by whyaduck 8y ago
The "Antitrust Group" at Paul Weiss isn't in the business of trust busting. That's the group that defends businesses accused of antitrust violations. Not my first pick for head of an agency that is chartered with protect
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by whyaduck 8y ago
I'd trust his assessment of an aircraft's airworthiness as far as I'd trust his assessment of structural stability of a skyscraper.
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by whyaduck 8y ago
From the article: Joelle Emerson, chief executive of Paradigm, a consulting company that advises companies on strategies for increasing diversity, said the pay gap correction only served “to benefit a group that is dramatically overrepresen
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by whyaduck 8y ago
I expect that support, consulting and development could all be part of their commercial agreement.
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by whyaduck 8y ago
The regulations could have been reworked to exempt individuals using smartphones. I don't think it's that hard to write a reg that makes that distinction.
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by whyaduck 8y ago
I'm all for requiring businesses to get explicit permission from me before they can make the little box in my pocket buzz and interrupt me.
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by whyaduck 8y ago
So policies that result in under-representation of POC are neutral, but changing hiring & retention practices to improve diversity is a defacto quota system?
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by whyaduck 8y ago
The hiring pipeline is discussed explicitly in the article, and comparison to national demographics is legitimate.
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by whyaduck 8y ago
And corporate diversity goals are based on the pipeline, not the general population. Lots of folks in this conversation seem to be making utterly incorrect assumptions about programs that they seem to have deep contempt for. Unsurprising.
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by whyaduck 8y ago
Regulation isn't censorship. The FCC has been regulating broadcast news for decades in the US. The bullet points in the article are so far from "censorship" that anyone jumping to that claim is hard to take seriously. Also &q
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by whyaduck 8y ago
In most cases, building roads isn't the solution to congestion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand Mass transport improvements and zoning reform are far more likely to make cities more affordable and liva
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by whyaduck 8y ago
Alright, I'll probably get warned or downvoted for this, but here it goes... Stop sea-lioning.
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by whyaduck 8y ago
Not my point. How could anyone possibly spend 40 hours a week for 3 months to sell a single home at that price in that market? It's not a realistic characterization of the job.
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by whyaduck 8y ago
An average of 3 months to sell a single $1M house in the Bay Area? $60k sounds like it would translate to a pretty good hourly rate.
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by whyaduck 8y ago
And it causes misery and costs lives. Personally, I don't find "it won't be a mass extinction event" to be a convincing argument to ignore climate change.
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by whyaduck 8y ago
I've got 3 of these in my house already, and I was thinking of picking up a couple more as back-ups, but they're already sold out on the Google store. Unfortunately, I'm not aware of any other small, "cast-able" de
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by whyaduck 8y ago
On many models keyless entry and remote start are options, rather than standard. If you park in a garage at night, then this particular attack isn't much of an issue.
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by whyaduck 8y ago
Is the NDA preventing pictures, video, or even discussion of the service in effect for paying customers?
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by whyaduck 8y ago
Not from the article: people who were in the top quintile or 1% in 1987 are far more likely to have retired early than those in middle or bottom quintile. Tell me about their wealth, not their income.
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by whyaduck 8y ago
Hiring isn't as simple as paying the least possible in the current climate. Significant variance in salary among people with similar jobs will be an issue (people talk). Additionally, labor surpluses don't last forever. Low-ball s
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by whyaduck 8y ago
Blatant straw man. There are moral implications to building weapons of annihilation in exchange for wealth. Also, Lockheed's role in Manhattan Project era nuclear weapons development was non-existent. And the delivery aircraft was man
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by whyaduck 8y ago
Capitalism is capitalism. It's limited by laws and culture. In the US, that means it's limited by laws - Wall Street doesn't care about culture.

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