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by quandrum 2y ago
Because the union is striking over it
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by quandrum 2y ago
No, I want management to develop a system to determine who is low-performing, document when those workers don't meet the standards of performance, and reference those documents when they fire someone. It's just asking for due proc
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by quandrum 2y ago
Due process for employment is probably more important than fair pay in most union contracts. Your argument is in fact that exact same one that was used to argue against due process in legal proceedings. "In reality it doesn't play
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by quandrum 2y ago
I think DEI as implemented is worse than this. It’s a calculated, prepared defense against the possibility of future bigoted behavior. Corporate America (which increasingly includes universities whose primary business is endowment investmen
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by quandrum 2y ago
One thing I worry about is how normalized this will be for children and countries without regular internet access as they get regular internet access (or even have had it for a while: the report from OP states that 71 percent of traffic on
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by quandrum 2y ago
You have it reversed. The color of your skin determines how much UV protection you get. Skin color is 1-1 correlation to the average hours of daylight a population experiences. High melanin skin is required to live in the equatorial regions
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by quandrum 2y ago
It's probably worse with Musk. His executive style seems to be, from his biography, ignore a thing for a while until he gets in a maniac phase and then over the shoulder manage a thing until it's done, regardless of time or contex
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by quandrum 2y ago
In the case of Hamas, the US and Israel are the primary weapon manufacturer, as unexploded ordinance is the primary source of their explosives. https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/hamas-is-using-unexplo...
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by quandrum 3y ago
There's also the fact all the power draw of the traditional banking industry is also in the crypto and not accounted for in this analysis. Crypto still needs POS systems and accounts and large staffs in large offices and all the trap
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by quandrum 3y ago
Just note it is most likely the person who did this was poor compared to whoever was on the other side of this trade.
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by quandrum 3y ago
A lot of your complaints are with the libertarian nature of our government. The constitution protects private dictators from interference by the government, not citizens from interference by private dictators. It’s an important distinction
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by quandrum 3y ago
Evidence points to him wanting to use the potential of buying Twitter as a cover for selling a few billion in Tesla stock without impacting it's value.
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by quandrum 3y ago
Not many. We’ve consistently overshoot worst case predictions. Many of the heat waves, hurricanes and first fires we’ve seen weren’t predicted to occur until 2030s. People in North America and Europe of course enjoy the best climate and see
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by quandrum 3y ago
Xi is head of state as president, but not head of government (like King of England). Li Qiang is head of government as premier and is chief executive of the Chinese government. If you ask a Chinese citizen what their biggest problem is, man
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by quandrum 5y ago
NFL teams provide their own footballs. Source: https://operations.nfl.com/gameday/pre-game/nfl-game-ball-pr...
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by quandrum 6y ago
Why did everyone brush over the Italians finding it in blood samples from September 19, 2 months before the outbreak in Wuhan? Certain actors have a narrative they would like to push.
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by quandrum 6y ago
This is one reason to drive everyone's retirement into 401ks. The more stock that is held in 401ks, the easier it is for the hedge funds to manipulate stock prices with very few movements, because the majority of the stock is held long
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by quandrum 6y ago
Wage theft is the most common crime in the US, is estimated to occur to ~20% of all employees and equal tens of billions a year, and no one talks about it. How many union members do you think experience wage theft?
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by quandrum 9y ago
In fact, Ride-sharing is why I can take a car to the airport. My local taxi companies were so unreliable that I also drove and parked in long term for vacations. It's only on the last couple of years that I feel comfortable enough to g
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by quandrum 10y ago
For me personally, this is less exciting because AI jet pilots have a natural advantage. Human pilots are limited in maneuvering by the amount of force their body can take. Computer pilots are limited by the amount of force the airframe ca
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by quandrum 10y ago
Dart never shipped to mainline chrome. Developers could download a special version of chrome with Dart.
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by quandrum 10y ago
As a web developer, this article is almost exactly opposite of the truth. Safari is the new IE to me, and he reinforces my point. His example is that Safari opts not to implement web standards in favor of those things that make Apple specif
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by quandrum 11y ago
I think endorsements mean two things usually: 1.) Your good at gaming the system. In college, it wasn't unusual to see entire classes sit down, connect, and endorse for everything you had "skills" added for. Bam, hundred of e
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by quandrum 11y ago
If women were making profit off the health care, then yes.
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by quandrum 12y ago
Yeah, not as scary as a stolen credit card, but my Simple card was used by a bar tender to pay someone else's tab. I was able to correct the mistake before anything else happened because I knew before the receipt had printed that the c
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by quandrum 12y ago
Yes, you can opt out of going to Disneyworld.
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by quandrum 12y ago
Reading the blog about this example[1] actually heartened me that this is being done correctly. The blog remains in google under all obvious keywords. Google only removes it for the requested keyword (probably the commenters name). It'
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by quandrum 12y ago
Yes int x (>= 0, <=10) x = parseInt(getKeyboardInput) Dependent Type systems don't have to know what is possible keyboard input. They have to know what type the getKeyboardType function returns (and the parseInt), and
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by quandrum 13y ago
> because they often use huge databases of real human responses to construct their own Honestly, this often seems to be the conversational gambit of human beings. Coming up with genuinely interesting conversation seems to be a task that
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by quandrum 13y ago
Sure, but if you have access to $300 million and want to tumble $1 million, wouldn't it be hard to track you?

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