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by zimablue 8y ago
Except that you have no way of proving that and it would be illegal for them to ask. What it actually does is leave you do the work/pay taxes for your colleagues reproduction holiday.
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by zimablue 8y ago
It doesn't tell you how to work less or how to improve your life. It's specifically about legislation to try and reduce the gender pay gap by changing the law.
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by zimablue 8y ago
Just cap it, if you make more than 100k you don't really need it anyway.
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by zimablue 8y ago
This is more of a problem of our current system of maternity leave being company funded rather than publically funded which would actually solve this problem overnight.
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by zimablue 8y ago
And you think 11 billion is a good number? We couldn't support the 6 billion at western standards of living.
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by zimablue 8y ago
As I said, we generally don't post company minutae unless there's a link to tech or startups. It's not opposition to seeing the post, it's opposition to the general trend of putting gender culture war articles otherwise
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by zimablue 8y ago
It sounds good but it doesn't actually hold up... So if being born means that I have to approve of any measure which causes more births, then logically I should be in favour of for example reducing contraceptive programs in Africa, etc
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by zimablue 8y ago
No, the tyranny of the majority is NOT the safe thing to assume in a democratic system, or that that would be the right thing. Our systems are build to insulate decision making from 51% splits. But we're not arguing that we're abo
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by zimablue 8y ago
It's only "economic sense" in a VERY narrow viewpoint where you assume that you're going to disallow immigration AND assume that your social security system is offset by a generation AND assume that economic measures lik
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by zimablue 8y ago
This is a choice we made in how we structure our governments though that doesn't make much sense on it's own. We could easily have a system where each generation pays for its OWN social security, you just let the government screw
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by zimablue 8y ago
It pushes you towards having kids because you're effectively already paying for them. It wouldn't be enough to completely change someone who was very opposed to it but it's by no means neutral. The proposal the guy made in a
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by zimablue 8y ago
That's actually a pretty clever idea, nice.
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by zimablue 8y ago
But it's not about that, it's about a proposed law. Anything to do with how to run companies isn't hacker culture, we don't spam posts about the best offshore tax arrangements and the advantages of different board struct
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by zimablue 8y ago
But women don't have to have children, in fact it would be much better if they didn't. You write your post as if it's all miraculous conception. Women can make a choice to do something that will impact their career negatively
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by zimablue 8y ago
The downside is that it forces people who don't want children to pay for other people's children, at a time when we should be trying to reduce the population and not increase it. Having children is not a public service, it's
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by zimablue 8y ago
Can we stop linking and upvoting these article on HN, I've seen several in the last few months. I don't see a clear link to hacker culture, if anything it's less relevant to developers as we often have some form of flexible w
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by zimablue 8y ago
Sorry to be that guy but you're making a clear logical fallacy. The argument is "should we subsidize children" and you're substituting "does society want to subsidize children" and then for THAT you're sub
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by zimablue 8y ago
Water crisis contributes to Syria/ISIS contributes to migration is one where I think the cause-effect is quite clear, I could be wrong.
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by zimablue 8y ago
You're right on Norway being a member of the ECHR, I wasn't sure as I stated in my post, but you're vastly oversimplifying by implying there's no connection https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-
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by zimablue 8y ago
Fortunately we're something like (top of my head) ten times as important to the EU as either of those, and so even the most hardened remainer would privately admit that we should have more leverage in negotiations. Presumably Norway is
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by zimablue 8y ago
I think you're kind of splitting hairs, all policies can be viewed as outcomes. "Bring back grammar schools" is both a policy and an outcome. "Improve education" is only an outcome because it doesn't discuss ho
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by zimablue 8y ago
This is actually terrible, for one thing the bridges don't move independently, you click one and another moves, making it FEEL deceptive and not allowing you to easily work out the whole problem space or why. They should move independe
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by zimablue 8y ago
It's a bit much to say that being deflationary kills a currency, metals were used as currency for a long time and they were deflationary mostly.
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by zimablue 8y ago
Datomic can be run on top of SQL, which is kind of ironic I guess. relational algebra => implemented incompletely in a SQL RDBMS => with an /actual/ logic programming language thrown on top of THAT using a couple of tables a
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by zimablue 8y ago
Kind of a circular point here because the whole argument on the other side is that equal representation is not a good yardstick. What if it takes an incredible amount of unfairness and discrimination to get the ratio to 60 40? You'd st
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by zimablue 8y ago
Think about what you're saying. If you read British history, the empire before this one, we used military dominance to force China to allow our companies to deal opium to their society, totally ravaging it. You're makinga similar
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by zimablue 8y ago
Genuinely ignorant question, what's the difference with C from this perspective? I thought the whole point of C was to be a common language.
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by zimablue 8y ago
As you've noted yourself, if you allow markets most of the rest kind of emerges. Futures and forwards are pretty natural, unless you somehow stop it, large scale loans are no less natural than small scale loans, products between indivi
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by zimablue 8y ago
I await your plan for a society with no markets.
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by zimablue 8y ago
https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/13/8592817/rat-patrol-new-yo... The guys who do this professionally/successfully in a sparsely populated place with everyone helping and the advantage that rats can&#

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