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by zjaffee 4y ago
It's questionable as if spark every would've been nearly as successful of a product if they had done this. Sparks success is that it came out of Berkeley, was better than traditional map reduce in a number of ways initially, but m
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by zjaffee 4y ago
I've worked in this space in the past, and I think the big weakness of databricks is that for them to be successful as an independent company, they need to charge a lot more than AWS/GCloud/ect, and while historically they ha
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by zjaffee 4y ago
NY should pay for single payer in part by raising real estate taxes, it's the only clear way the state has to avoid capital flight in the way you're describing here. This said, a big thing NY benefits from is that a lot of people
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by zjaffee 4y ago
Money can be a proxy of power, and you're right about all of this, however money alone already isn't the entirety of it. Money managers tend to have far more power than many of the otherwise richest people in our society. Society
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by zjaffee 5y ago
In the US, federated labor which used to sometimes be organized under the name guild were merged with industrial unions under the umbrella of the AFL-CIO in the US.
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by zjaffee 5y ago
It's a matter of near totally shutting down their operations in NYC or not, a place where Amazon is currently the largest retailer. They might be able to stop gap it by sending all their packages in NYC through UPS/USPS, but it wo
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by zjaffee 5y ago
8300 is just the size of the bargaining unit, there are almost certainly far more people working there than just that.
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by zjaffee 5y ago
There are certainly areas where this isn't true in the tech industry. It's very rare that an engineer can just say that they will no longer be willing to do on call work for example while staying on a team that maintains an online
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by zjaffee 5y ago
That's just blatantly false, unions absolutely make sense for skilled labor. This isn't to say tech workers should unionize, but teachers, public defenders, subway engineers, high skill building trades, skilled workers in film are
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by zjaffee 5y ago
NYC is one of amazon's largest markets, and this is the biggest warehouse in the city. There are 8300 employees in the bargaining group which doesn't include management, engineers who do repair work for the robotics and so on. The
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by zjaffee 5y ago
My mom's been in a union for 30+ years and is absolutely a fan of it despite not always liking every decision they make. It's like hating democratic governance, not every democratic decision made is one you're going to agree
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Amazon's NY union moves closer to a win, count continues(reuters.com)
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Lowering the cost of driving doesn't mean there will be less jobs in the transportation space, if anything it means there will be more jobs. Truck drivers jobs are the monitor and secure the shipment just as much as anything else. Taxi
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by zjaffee 5y ago
There's a difference between conservationism and environmentalism as it relates to climate change, and this comes up every time there's a debate like this. Most environmental advocacy groups are much more concerned with conservati
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by zjaffee 5y ago
The prime example I can think of where this makes sense is if you're going to get a haircut, it allows the barber to not need to buy a square attachment for the iphone they already have.
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I don't think they're competing against each other. TikTok is competing against youtube, which are both competing against traditional network television such as nick or disney. Fb and Instagram's lack of growth has little to
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by zjaffee 5y ago
Honestly the reason I use facebook still is to consume content from people I don't know, facebook groups are the only social thing left on the website, and the rest of it I use for fb marketplace which at least in my area has totally s
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by zjaffee 5y ago
Allowing the large and hard to replicate systems of human organization that are American corporations to collapse would be far more damaging than anything else. Even if you give people money to spend, if you let big business collapse domest
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by zjaffee 5y ago
In the 90s and early 00s people would download all sorts of apps from the internet and would inadvertently be installing viruses, they think their app review process prevents this entirely. Fear of downloading viruses is something a certain
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by zjaffee 5y ago
This is truthfully not a big problem in the tech industry when compared to other industries, the big exceptions to this in the tech industry are the much older tech giants like IBM, Cisco or HP whose entire growth model is acquisitions. Com
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by zjaffee 5y ago
Not sure if this is still true, as most of these sorts of companies have gone public, but there was a period between 2015 and 2019 where these sorts of late stage startups were paying comparable base salaries but were giving what was essent
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by zjaffee 6y ago
I virtually never go on reddit these days, but when I do it's often because I want to see peoples thoughts on a particular topic. i.e. skiing in x place, buying x product, what's the general consensus on x movie, ect. I imagine a
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by zjaffee 6y ago
Yup, basically anything either left or right of center is kicked off the platform. And even then they're very pick and choosey over that stuff.
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by zjaffee 6y ago
Yeah because he was left with no other choice, the total fuck up of the Reality Winner story massively hurt his reputation with intellegence community whistleblowers.
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Greenwald released a story that got Lula Da Silva released from prison and seriously damaged the Bolsenaro regime in Brazil. He has an outstanding reputation all around the world and is trusted by left leaning allies all over the world doin
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by zjaffee 6y ago
NYC has a very complicated system of buying and selling air rights which is what I was thinking of when I wrote this.
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by zjaffee 6y ago
You can still have homes up to the full size you're talking about so long as they're multifamily, if anything that's better for multigenerational homes...
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by zjaffee 6y ago
And we are seeing massive outbreaks of COVID-19 on college campuses now that some are reopening, these laws were first put in place for related reasons...
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by zjaffee 6y ago
Sometimes we need to relearn from the lessons of the 20th century and not go around and build tenements again. Minimum standards are a necessary thing for long term sustainability of cities and are especially important as things pertain to
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by zjaffee 6y ago
You do own the views in numerous cities due to historical precedent, and cities cant change these laws as it would be considered unconstitutional taking.

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