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by zaksoup 7y ago
> They would rather their workers risk death as opposed to paying money to cool them. Or rather, it’s cheaper to hire EMTs than it is to climate-control fulfillment centers. Frankly, that seems like the strongest indictment of profit-as-
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by zaksoup 7y ago
This is a great point and one of my biggest complaints with the hard-core FOSS/Copy-left software movement. More indie developers is a good thing, even if everything they make isn't necessarily all open source/free. As an asi
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by zaksoup 7y ago
This so much. All of this analysis is predicated on the idea that Amazon has made this value for its owners through legitimate means and not by underpaying, overworking, and dehumanizing vast swathes of their workforce. It's so bizarre
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by zaksoup 7y ago
Are you implying that the unions asked Americans to boycott cars that weren't foreign-assembled crossovers? Your comment seems to not really make much sense since UAW and other unions are currently involved in calling for boycotts of M
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by zaksoup 7y ago
Why not both!?
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by zaksoup 7y ago
Honestly every time I hear somebody throw out a hypothetical example of “is this [RTR Requirement] too far” my reaction is immediately “wow that sounds like a fantastic idea”
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by zaksoup 7y ago
Plaid's entire ideology has always seemed back-asswards to me. As far as I can tell it boils down to 1) Ask users for their plaintext login details to financial institutions 2) Store those details unhashed because they'll be used
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Hands-on with Bethesda’s game streaming tech, Orion(polygon.com)
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Rage 2 is a fun game that makes me feel like garbage(polygon.com)
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by zaksoup 7y ago
> [...] and was killed fast. I'm /r/OutOfTheLoop... what happened that Hail Corporate was killed?
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by zaksoup 7y ago
You should totally check out our brigade network: https://brigade.codeforamerica.org/ While they brigades aren't always working on the same projects as full time staff they're often doing high impact work and are
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by zaksoup 7y ago
Hey, I'm on the team at Code for America that built these tools. I really appreciate your comment because you're exactly right - the issue is and has always been one of policy and implementation. One of the core parts of our missi
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by zaksoup 7y ago
Also, writing an op-ed for NYT is not "working for the gray lady"... Swisher founded Recode.
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by zaksoup 7y ago
wait, does plaid actually recommend that users disable 2fa?
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by zaksoup 8y ago
To be clear, our government is not funded through taxation. If the government is the sole issuer of a currency then the government is also capable of paying for anything and everything priced in that currency, full stop. To put it another w
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by zaksoup 8y ago
Taxes are explicitly and intentionally not fair. It's not fair that I pay taxes to public schooling when I could just send my kids to a private school. It's not fair that I pay taxes to the roads when I drive significantly less th
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by zaksoup 8y ago
Sure. I think we're maybe off-topic from my original point which is just that Tesla has done the OEM thing in the past and for whatever reason it hasn't expanded into a larger set of supply contracts. And yeah, I ended up with a F
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by zaksoup 8y ago
I don't disagree that they're great cars (I tried very hard to find and purchase a b class), but the reporting I linked suggests strongly that both Daimler and Toyota intended to continue the partnership past just the CARB complai
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by zaksoup 8y ago
Tesla tried this with Toyota on the Rav4 EV, for which Tesla provided battery and drivetrain. Toyota decided Tesla was so hard to work with that it was worth ending all future partnerships. Tesla also provided the full battery and Drivetrai
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by zaksoup 8y ago
It looks like the keyword search is only for political/national importance but you can still go to a company's page and see all ads posted by that page: http://zakis.cool/tvT36o
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by zaksoup 8y ago
Except my point is exactly this - if you can only guess at the salaries of average and low performers than you have nothing to suggest that they aren't, in fact, paid more than you, and a union coming in would boost your salary and n
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by zaksoup 8y ago
I'm not sure I agree with you. By my understanding an atheist would accept the claim "there is no god" An agnostic rejects both "there is a god" and "there is no god" I do like the way of framing these
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by zaksoup 8y ago
It could also be because everybody got an 18% raise across the board. This is an under-researched topic in employment statistics and I would love to see a better understanding of cause and effect behind wage discrepancies in union and non-u
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by zaksoup 8y ago
Which is what kickstarter employees are doing by joining an established union local. If you want to improve the unions we have then join them and run for positions in your local chapter. Advocate for the changes you want to see in unions.
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by zaksoup 8y ago
Parent to my comment was responding to somebody suggesting that consultancies provide "really good pay and benefits" and I was suggesting that this isn't true, currently, in the tech industry.
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by zaksoup 8y ago
As other commenters have said, the paper continues on to include an analysis that suggests the descrepancy is not due to some unique characteristic of the private sector but rather the concentration of union jobs in relatively low paying oc
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by zaksoup 8y ago
Thank for pointing this out. The 18% figure is from the global average and that analysis of the private industry number certainly suggests that as unions become more prevalent in higher-paying occupations the trend there will reverse.
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by zaksoup 8y ago
> Nepotism. We had an open position we couldn't fill for over a year because one of the union leader's son was graduating soon and that position was reserved for him. I don't know of any industry where this doesn't
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by zaksoup 8y ago
Except afaict the big agile consultancies underpay relative to tech industry big names. Source: fmr pivotal labs
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by zaksoup 8y ago
The 13th amendment to the constitution (emphasis mine): “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted , shall exist within the United States” I think it’s impo

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