joshenberg

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by joshenberg 3y ago
If you had foreknowledge that your employees wanted input (via a union) on employment conditions, and then you unilaterally push an arduous employment condition on them, you have violated the spirit of what they are seeking.
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by joshenberg 3y ago
People with loooong memories will say that Islamic Palestine arose after the forcible removal of Jewish culture from the area after the Jewish wars against Rome, at which point the Romans relabelled the area from Judea to Syria Palestina.
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by joshenberg 4y ago
The administration change indeed has a lot to do with this. New chairs at the FCC (Rosenworcel) and FTC (Sohn) have a much more antitrust bent than in the past. The layoff announcements are connected if you take it that M&A in big tech
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by joshenberg 4y ago
Would an eGPU enable certain laptops to do this? I get that that's 'cheating', but also is it? I need a shit ton of peripherals to run my Mac workstation
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by joshenberg 4y ago
God knows China and the US were not bringing the consumer protections!
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by joshenberg 4y ago
Durable isn't a great word for what Facebook has become. It's been LinkedIn-ified - the entire notifications category is filled with useless recommendations and suggestions rather than meaningful updates from connections. And they
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by joshenberg 4y ago
Worse, the MP was clearly giving them the run-around from previous meetings. Sending police to ask questions the citizens themselves likely answered in their emails, or answerable via telephone, is an escalation of this tactic. Political a
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by joshenberg 4y ago
I take so much shit for 'ruining the group chat' when it's always the complainants devices that is blocked from sending high resolution pics to poor people. Drives me fucking bonkers when I point out that their reactions to
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by joshenberg 4y ago
Gets even worse on mobile. Android supposedly lets you turn some types of notifications off, so unscrupulous companies put all their notifications, ranging from necessary to pure advertisement, under one type. Looking at you, UberEats. The
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by joshenberg 4y ago
Can confirm this is my stack at a fortune 500 web/entertainment company.
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by joshenberg 4y ago
I don't find these examples particularly compelling. Likes to cite examples of overreach but never describe the counter arguments. i.e. peremptory strikes. Jury selection was clearly, with many many examples, used in the past to create
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by joshenberg 4y ago
"Get lawyers involved" certainly shouldn't include situations where you simply CC them and they don't respond. No legal advice is given.
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by joshenberg 5y ago
The existential crisis of Judaism is indeed a core issue, although I am of the opinion that it does not justify the tactics and laws present. That does make it an Apartheid state. However, OP used no semantic sleights and the suggestion he
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by joshenberg 5y ago
The demographic difference between the two is staggering. If all Palestinians received right of return to Israel, Jews would immediately become a political minority. The Germans had no equivalent statistical reasoning other than racism. Thi
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by joshenberg 5y ago
Especially in tennis where tournaments are designed to be 'open', that is semi-professional and allowing for amateur entrants. If he were professionally affiliated with a particular country, that might be an extenuating circumstan
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by joshenberg 5y ago
Exactly. Running 'the world's largest vaccine information campaign' rings hollow when it's really a mitigation effort. That's akin to saying that the Valdez tragedy and subsequent clean-up made Exxon the top enviro
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by joshenberg 5y ago
That's what I wonder. Early VR adopters/technologists hate what happened to Oculus and there aren't a lot of newcomers to that market. I don't think cheaper headsets are going to fix that in the near future so I don&#x27
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by joshenberg 5y ago
Quote from the St Louis Post Dispatch article is even more groan-worthy: "In the letter to teachers, Education Commissioner Margie Vandeven said “an individual took the records of at least three educators, unencrypted the source code f
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by joshenberg 5y ago
Depends where we source them, for example American-made clothing is already prohibitively expensive to the economic demographic segments that are targeted by UBI experiments.