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by yibg 6y ago
And you'd be completely fine with being passed over for a job because there is a quota for pink people and you're not pink? One can object to bad solutions to a problem without denying the problem itself exists. It's exactly
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by yibg 6y ago
Kinda depends on what you do and say as a conservative I guess. I agree that in liberal circles there is a bias against conservatives, but that's also because many conservative views are intolerant. Expressing "I'm a conserva
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by yibg 6y ago
This didn't happen in Germany, this happened in the US. For whatever reason unions behave differently here, and it's the union model in the US that people rightfully evaluate against.
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by yibg 6y ago
Isn't that a bit misleading? I don't have official bathroom breaks either, and I do just fine.
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by yibg 6y ago
Everyone points to SAG as an example of a good union. But how many of these are there? If there are dozens of examples of "bad unions" and a single example of a "good union", that doesn't exactly give someone voting
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by yibg 6y ago
You make it sound like everything is subjective and there are no bad or good workers. And since we can't accurately, objectively measure performance, let's just pick metric we can measure even though it has no correlation with per
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by yibg 6y ago
Mine is experience working in an union. I generally really disliked the effects of the union and saw no benefit to me at all. My career progression was capped, lots of nepotism (eg manager holding a position for his son), people are general
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by yibg 6y ago
It’s also not a requirement to have a phone, or internet, or electricity. Harder sure, but not a requirement right?
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by yibg 6y ago
Thank you. An unfortunate reminder how much we still don’t know about the human body.
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by yibg 6y ago
So sorry about your loss and thank you for sharing. Hope this isn’t too personal a question, but you mentioned her stomach stopped working. I was under the impression that with modern medical care people can actually live without a function
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by yibg 6y ago
As someone that grew up non religious I’m genuinely bewildered at the concept of (especially the Christian) God. I understand the sense of community and potential psychological benefits of “knowing”. But in terms of truth seeking, how can s
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by yibg 6y ago
Moral code is at least partially cultural. Somethings are consider immoral in some cultures while not in others. Although the major ones seem pretty aligned. However religion isn’t needed for it, as different people from different religious
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by yibg 6y ago
I'm not sure how I feel about this. On the one hand yes a lot of the tech companies can afford it and probably won't impact the bottom line to keep paying them. On the other hand, why pay the cost if it's not required. I used
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by yibg 6y ago
Right, of course the only choices we have are government provides housing or everyone sleeps on the street. Not like we have any examples of any other system.
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by yibg 6y ago
I lived in a country where housing (at the time) was provided by the government. It's not as great as it might sound. Want to move? Do the paper work and wait for a few years. Want a bigger place? too bad. Not to mention single room fo
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by yibg 6y ago
I noticed even with myself over the years I've flip flopped. At first I thought I can do lean FIRE, because I was never a big spender in the first place. As I get older I started to gradually spend more on things and frankly enjoy the
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by yibg 6y ago
In one of Dan Gilbert’s talks he cited some research around activities and how they correlate with happiness. Unsurprisingly people like sex and socializing. But “doing nothing” turned out to be about as enjoyable as work at the bottom.
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by yibg 6y ago
I would too. We currently have a situation (we use cheaper labor in developing countries to make stuff more cheaply). Some take issue with this for various reasons like exploitation, depriving local labor force of work etc. I genuinely woul
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by yibg 6y ago
Do you not buy anything made overseas that pays workers less than 80% of some us based rate? You don’t own an iPhone I assume? You don’t own anything with an intel in it?
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by yibg 6y ago
How much is a substantial fraction and who determines that? Is it a simple fraction or does it depend on the market and competitive landscape? Is it something governments should regulate or should consumers vote with their wallets? Companie
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by yibg 6y ago
That certainly would be great, but is it realistic? Manufacturing for example, is heavily outsourced to cheaper locations. We can certainly have all the tshirts we buy in the US made in the US. Hire locally, create jobs, pay a thriving wage
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by yibg 6y ago
What do you propose? Don't hire from cheap places or pay them the same rate as expensive places? If companies pays the same as expensive places, why would they hire from cheaper places?
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by yibg 6y ago
So basically “ We don’t like you; we want you to suffer.” We don’t bans or destroy things just because they contain narcissistic people. We certainly shouldn’t lump all social media into this camp.
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by yibg 6y ago
The system is working very well, just not for people you think it should be working for.
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by yibg 6y ago
Also offers are not symmetric for the same role. A candidate can receive and evaluate multiple offers and pick the best one. Companies cannot send out multiple offers for the same role and pick the best candidate that responds.
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by yibg 6y ago
I think there is also an increasing sense that young people should enjoy life and freedom. Travel, go on adventures etc. I certainly had that attitude in my 20s, and didn't want to be tied down. Seems like it's a relatively recent
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by yibg 6y ago
Depends on how you look at having children I think. If you: 1) See having children as a right and benefit to society, then society should shoulder at least some of the "burden" of it. By providing child care, (paid) maternity and
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by yibg 6y ago
Why is there this pervasive notion that there shouldn’t be any consequence to your words? You are free to vent all you want, and others are free to react to your vents. For example, do you really expect someone with white supremacist view t
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by yibg 6y ago
I'm not following your point here. Renting is not the same as owning correct. But the topic is rent control, how does ownership play into this?
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by yibg 6y ago
So, prefer security by obscurity?

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