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by wyager 2y ago
Yeah but the question is "are there any examples where unions obviously helped the workers". You responded "blue collar unions", where there's a pretty common perception that they did help, but when it comes to wh
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by wyager 2y ago
A lot of these pro-labor-reg people argue (and I agree with them!) that the ROI on additional hours worked past 40 is pretty bad. If this is the case, then someone working an extra N hours a week won't actually move the needle that muc
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by wyager 2y ago
But tech isn't a blue collar industry, and this is about tech unions.
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by wyager 2y ago
> demanding 80 hour weeks IME, most of the people in tech who work extremely long hours have not actually had this "demanded" of them by anyone, and in fact either want to do it or have sort of hallucinated themselves into a co
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by wyager 2y ago
Interesting. Basically moving the proof-of-work off the user's phone and to a dedicated mine. Websites could just have a lightning wallet or something and auto-charge the user 1e-7 bitcoin to access the page.
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by wyager 2y ago
Miri is better than any C tool I'm aware of for runtime UB detection.
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by wyager 2y ago
Wireheading humanity into population collapse via pervasive sexual hyperstimuli (which is realistically what is on the table here) is basically the definition of "harmful". This is just silly because it only takes one AI company t
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by wyager 2y ago
All software development is ultimately dominated by complexity management asymptotics. Every tuple of (engineers, organizational structure, choice of language, ...) Generates a function mapping from <complexity of problem> to
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by wyager 2y ago
> You had to be genuinely gullible to vote for Trump this time It seems like he's mostly doing what his coalition was hoping he would do? Certainly to a greater degree than in 2016. I have not seen any credible indications of post-e
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by wyager 2y ago
Both parties actually target a bimodal IQ distribution. The D distribution covers most of the left tail and the upper-mid, and the R distribution covers the lower-mid and most of the right tail. You generally expect interleaved affiliation
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by wyager 2y ago
To Republicans' credit, they have not flipped on states' rights even when they dominate DC. Maybe this is a good time for everyone to (pretend to) be aligned on states' rights and ram through some measures to that end.
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by wyager 2y ago
> Anyone in a swing district interested in securing re-election should be considering it. Trump alone could easily tank almost any R congressman's reelection chances, and with big money backing him now, they can afford to bankroll t
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by wyager 2y ago
Out of curiosity, how many weeks/months of late vote counting did that take? At the time the election was called, and for at least a couple weeks after iirc, he was ahead.
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by wyager 2y ago
But the people who did vote for him explicitly voted for all the stuff he's doing right now. Nothing that he's currently doing is surprising , except maybe for the fact that a politician actually followed through on so many campa
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by wyager 2y ago
What's beautiful to me is that that combustion turbines have the simplest possible thermodynamic cycle in theory (a steady input flow of X fluid/sec at pressure P, and a steady output flow of Y>X fluid/sec at pressure P),
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by wyager 2y ago
> Rust has approximately 1.5 advantages over C/C++ I can think of at least 3 that deserve a whole integral bullet point: * ADTs * Hindley-Milner/typeclass type system * Lifetimes and affine types And a bunch of minor ones that
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by wyager 2y ago
I think people mostly realized that the more immediate priority is establishing Bitcoin as an international reserve commodity. Its usage as a currency, either directly or via intermediary layers, is kind of secondary to that. Bitcoin is mak
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by wyager 2y ago
The resource usage is not senseless; it's the core aspect of Bitcoin that makes its security model so trustworthy.
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by wyager 2y ago
If you get your ethics from some class you took in college, you definitely shouldn't be given authority over anything important
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by wyager 2y ago
This is perhaps more analogous to an immune reaction to a(n attempted) Cultural Revolution.
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by wyager 2y ago
This is exactly the type of thing that Trump said he wanted to do. Who is protesting that who wouldn't be unconditionally protesting Trump anyway? Plus, with the federal NGO money spigot cut off, a lot of the NGOs that organize protest
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by wyager 2y ago
Have to start somewhere. Pork barrel patronage slush funds are an easier jumping point than welfare benefits.
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by wyager 2y ago
> And life SUCKED then More than 100% of the net improvement is from tech and medical R&D, not the bloated military-welfare apparatus.
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by wyager 2y ago
Agreed with the article, but to add to: > The ability to update the firmware may also be locked down. You should have full control over firmware updates. Bizarrely, for DOCSIS modems, even if you buy your own modem, the ISP has control o
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by wyager 2y ago
> It’s surprising that in the US where you have the right to protect your home and privacy even with lethal means, the same measures don’t extend cybernetically. Americans do have a constitutionally protected right to use cryptography. Y
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by wyager 2y ago
> This lethal defense thing has been all about pushing more and more guns on people for financial profit The American firearms/ammo/accessories market is only about 1/3rd the size of the American cosmetics market. American
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by wyager 2y ago
Good. Companies screwing each other over like this creates huge social benefits. This is one of the best mechanisms capitalism has to externalize surplus value, a la "commoditizing your complement".
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by wyager 2y ago
The first few paragraphs of this article suggest the structure is not "here's a well-reasoned economic argument for why ad taxes are utile", but "I hate Google and similar companies, so we should screw them over with pun
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by wyager 2y ago
It's not a "breaking point", it's the market rate. There's no landlord cartel; anyone can easily defect and lower their own prices. The entire food production and provision supply chain has razor-thin margins. If yo
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by wyager 2y ago
Despite constant moaning about the US not engaging in monopoly-busting anymore, that doesn't actually seem to be a problem in practice. In reality, comparative advantage and specialization dynamics do not uniformly equilibrate on monop

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