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No, you have no such guarantee that a union candidate will be any more experienced than a non-union candidate. Using Hollywood and IATSE(The Editors Guild) as an example, some requirements in order to be considered for membership are:

>"Editors must demonstrate 175 days of non-union work experience within the last three years, prior to the date of application."
and

">Colorists must demonstrate 100 days of non-union work experience within the last two years, prior to the date of application."[1]

Each of those is less than 3 months a year. I have many friends in that Union as well as SAG that have other pursuits but always make sure to do the minimum number of hours in order to maintain Union status in order to maintain the benefits. The only guarantee you have is that a union candidate has more hours that a non-union candidate working on union movie productions.

>"... as an employee I know a movie using non union labor is not going to run as smoothly."

Do you have any evidence that movie production in countries without unions runs less smoothly? For instance New Zealand’s uniquely non-unionized film industry has produced many blockbusters - the "Lord of the Rings Trilogy" and "The Hobbit Trilogy" being good examples. Is there any evidence that actual "boots on the ground" movie production ran any less smoothly? Would the latter trilogy have even been attempted had the former trilogy been so problematic as a result of it being non-union labor?

[1] https://www.editorsguild.com/Join/Join-West-Coast
We implemented a passwordless, OTP-to-email login system, and doing user research, people just complain it's too complicated. They don't like logging in to their Gmail and (as others have mentioned) waiting a few moments. It's especially bad on something like mobile. People like to use passwords, apparently.

I see passwords as reducing security (we have a low-security product so people can reset with an email, so security-wise, the upper bound is your email security), hence we used it. But people prefer the "remember the secret" shortcut!
> Why shouldn't workers seek to capture as much of their labor as possible?

That is not a fair framing. Labor is not the sole cause of profit. Imagine a company that spent billions to automate every process requiring only a single human to push a button every 10 minutes to produce its output. This company would be making "billions per employee", but it wouldn't make sense to pay that employee billions for that job.
... and likely that this post is part of that attempt to publicize the effort.
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The point of unions is obviously for employees to unite in order to strengthen their bargaining power.

Engineers at Google are very well paid and have very nice perks (at least that the general perception), so I think what many people might wonder is what better deal do they feel they need strongly enough to unite in order to get it?
As a native speaker I needed subtitles.
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Yeah sure. But you can win any debate by picking the most insane examples of why something is bad.
More consistent wind due to a lack of elevated land to slow it down via friction.
For the same reason little shops pay protection money to gangs. Just because the money went somewhere does not mean it was the best place. Absolutely, the company likely was acting in bad faith, but it is not guaranteed. Maybe merit increases means they have to cut something else that affects their ability to complete, or maybe it just means less bonus for executives. Just saying that there are two sides. It is not always an evil company. I guess this is an argument for collective bargaining. I’ve never experienced its benefits however, and have seen negative effects.
The point is that joining a union shouldn't necessitate supporting a certain political party.
Do these conspiracy theories appear organically or is there a special nudge to make them stick?

Who nudges the conspiracy theories to stick?
Who is the “Google” that you say wanted the leftist culture?

Is it the shareholders? The majority of shareholder ownership in Google is held by wealthy non-employees, who probably didn’t want a leftist culture.

Is it the executives? Seeing as unionisation probably reduces their power and their pay, they probably didn’t want it.

Is it the rank-and-file engineers? These people tend to be left of centre, and the younger ones are likely quite socially progressive, but anti-capitalist? Not many. Seems wrong to generalise that they want a leftist culture.
wouldnt the turbines be safer if they are spinning instead of being parked?

you could just disengage the dynamo..
Hey HN- this is a side project I’ve been working on for the past month or so. I built it because I’ve had some frustrating experiences with curbside pickup over the past year and believe texting > phone calls.
The crime is not by the journalist who reports it, but on the person who breaks classification.

In this sense, Snowden is more guilty than Assange.
No one knows? Most likely a man like that is probably dead at this point or being held against his will waiting to die.
Maybe, but if that were their real goal, they’d lose all the activist language and moral judgments.
What is legitimate, though? If Hasselhoff picks up a converted Trans Am it’s his personal KITT car, but doesn’t otherwise have any other relationship to the show. There’s no indication this is the car from the show nor is there an indication as to how long Hasselhoff had owned the car. Arguably he needn’t even be the owner; it could be “DAVIDS PERSONAL” simply by virtue of the personal delivery by Hasselhoff of the price is high enough.
Seems to me that the organizers are using a union to push their own personal agendas (which they otherwise don't have the power to push) which seems like the perfect way to form a corrupt union that harms workers.
Unions are political groups not not necessarily ideological.
E2E encryption while having a useful search engine seems pretty hard to do from what I'm understanding.

I switched from Notion to my own electron-based markdown editor just for the peace of mind of not having my notes stored in clear on someone else's server.
What if you're a candidate for employment and can negotiate more individually, as a non-union member?
I think it's pretty hard to claim that the reason there are bad teachers is because it's hard to fire them because they're unionized.

There are a lot of potential reasons:

- The pay is crap

- The "prestige" is crap

- The barrier to entry is low

In Finland, for example, there are excellent teachers because the profession is treated as on par with doctors. I don't think it's fair to blame unions for this difference in culture.
Especially in a geographically pretty small country like the UK, NIMBY (or indeed anyone else's back yard) may be a perfectly valid argument. These things are big and somewhat noisy.
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By being there, and in this industry within rounding error of everyone has the choice to go find another job--you've already committed, personally, to responsibilities for some externalities. At Google, they may be considerable, and they may have large echoes.

Personally, I would feel obligated to make right something I did that I thought wasn't good for the world at large.

Relatedly, this is why I pick my employers (and, when consulting, my clients) very carefully.
Anyone can explain why using a NoSQL database was a limitation? He says that they had to switch to a RDBMS for offline usage, but why couldn't a NoSQL dataset be saved locally for offline usage?
...only because his treatment in the US would be inhumane.

And nothing else.
The company is slowly dying internally from ideologically possessed people.

Not that that is a bad thing, the great people there will leave for better things.
By "pale-skinned" you mean women ? https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/04/google-found-it-paid-men-l...
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I absolutely adore this space. Adding the time dimension to graphing tools is crazy powerful. I've done something similar a while back that allows you to produce sound (shameless plug): https://noise.sh (and previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24441518)
That's an excellent question. I believe non-visual moral rights are not recognized in the US, and I'm not sure they've ever been tested for software in any other Berne Convention signatories.
I wonder if there has been a trend away from work that encourages collectivism, and if that is relevant here. In the 50s, for example, over 30% of workers in the US belonged to labor unions. Many, obviously, had also recently served in the military. The public sector had just been expanded radically by the New Deal.

I can imagine that having a tangible cultural impact, particularly around our sense of collective ownership and duty.
This looks really promising. I love the idea of a condensed math book (hopefully a refresher) on all the things I ought to know.
Unions don't _have_ to affiliate with Labour (or another party) but they often do.

> I don't think that a google employee has much in common with traditional populations of leftist party aligned unions like the factory line worker or coal miner.

Not right now, sure. But the fact that this group felt the need to unionize suggests that something is changing.
My bad, I should be more careful around trump supporters, I know they’re allergic to facts.
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Unions also fuck non-union members, which in turn creates a lot of economic deadweight and inefficiency.
They could at least admit she was terminated and not this “accept resignation” hogwash. I have no issue firing a worker who encourages peers to put less effort into the job. But at least say you’re doing so!
I'm pretty sure that if I typed foo in my browser back in the early 2000s I'd go to foo.com or www.foo.com. Now I type foo in Chrome, see the logo for foo, but end up at a Google search page. This is very clearly a step back in terms of user experience.
Seems simple enough to simply require either the buyer, or the seller, or the importer, or any stranger to pay the VAT.

Simply have some kind of QR code which is issued by the government and stuck onto the package representing the VAT paid. Anyone can log into a government website to pay moneys and get a code. Have an API for companies to self-issue codes too.

If anything arrives at the border without the code affixed, someones gotta pay the taxes before the goods are released.

It's awfully similar to a system existing in postage for centuries... Stamps!
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You bought used RAM DIMMs and were surprised that they failed?
Public unions are a bad idea in general. The citizens collectively employ the government, and that government shouldn’t have a right to organize against the people whom it serves.

So in my opinion, these two examples of toxic public unions shouldn’t be applied to private unions.
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Please do! It would fit my preferred window layout so much better.
No way. The government is not that low yet
The article mentions Linear as the "sublime text of issue trackers". Just in case anyone is interested in this space, Kitemaker (YC W21) is considerably more keyboard friendly. Much like Superhuman, you can do literally everything without the mouse.
Isn't this a set it and forget it, issue ?

All that is in play is defining what a monopoly looks like, and codify it into law.

Once that is set, it will be difficult to change without significant consensus. Making (weakening) changes after the fact would become toxic as it would look like corporate givewaways, optically not the best for any aspiring congressman.
What "under representation/abuse"? Contractors typically get paid a higher rate so they can pay for their own benefits.
That is profit, ie after the employee has been paid.

So the answer is they can afford to pay 300,000 more before the employee is too expensive (based on this comment anyway)
I really don’t understand your argument. NY and SF cost 4x for just housing from where I live, and the food & taxes are more expensive.

Call it cost-of-housing or cost-of-equal-expenses, or whatever but the name doesn’t matter. The costs to the employee are different

But I’m a remote employee right now and do want equal pay
We've done a /humans.txt for this in a now dead project.

http://humanstxt.org
I'd 100% donate to support his bail fund.
It doesn't. You can join a non-affiliated union or even opt-out of political campaigning and contributions.

It's just not all that common.
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Ideally a union should be working closely with senior leaders to find win-win situations for both employer and employee. An an obvious example would be preventing Andy Rubin from getting a $90mil payday for sexually harassing people. Clearly that's not only a serious injustice, but was ultimately always going to end up public and damaging Google brand.

If the solution is already of economic advantage for Google itself, you simply don't need a union since it is already in the economic self-interest of Google to apply the solution. Employees unionize to have leverage against the employee for topics that employees have an interest in, but are of economic disadvantage for the employer (historically in particular salaries)
You seem to be implying Google plays its white employee pays more because of overt discrimination, and that is impetus for a union. Any evidence for this belief?
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The timing is amusing.

There's currently a lot of criticism towards China for arresting journalists investigating controversial topics.

At the same time, the US is doing literally the same thing, little to no backlash.
* but when you already work at the company that pays and treats their employees like Google*

Oh how quickly we forget. It wasn't all that long ago that Google was involved in a massive wage fixing scandal (along with darn near every other major player in the "big tech").
Since that's profit, I would assume (based purely on the phrasing) that it's net of obligations like salaries.
My experience with unions is setting up a booth for a trade show and being unable to plug into the outlets myself because I had to wait for a union electrician.

Total scam.
Why is it bad to be forced to pay union dues if I'd rather not, but fine for me to be forced to pass on the profits I generate to shareholders when I'd rather not?
Its a deflection, not a fallacy.
Allowed by whom?
It's a human rights issue. The US doesn't have a very good record. The most usual scenario in which this comes up is in extradition cases where the person involved could face the death penalty (of life imprisonment I think too). It wouldn't make sense for the UK (where there is no death penalty) to extradite a person to somewhere they no longer have that right to life. This is just a natural extension of that policy.
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There were couple of days recently when almost zero energy was generated by wind: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/blackouts-fear-forces-pow... (an excerpt without being paywalled: https://www.thegwpf.com/britain-faces-green-energy-disaster-...)
> ATS is not really a theorem proving language

What is "real theorem-proving language" in this context? ATS has ATS/LF that is designed for writing formal proofs in the language.

http://ats-lang.sourceforge.net/DOCUMENT/INT2PROGINATS/HTML/...
Unions have also been centers of corruption and organized crime. This is what gave them such a bad name in the 1980s and is why it's so easy to "tie" anyone in construction to the mob, such as one famous person in charge these days.
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So, advertising created value here by convincing people to give their money for shiny stones? Instead of, you know, investing in health, education or a vacation? Overall, was it a net win? On the one hand, one company makes money, on the other hand, many people waste significant resources for a symbolic gesture.
So you want someone who can tell you what the yet-to-be-negotiated contract with your employer will look like? Maybe you should be looking to join up with the Mage's Guild, I understand that their magic can see the future very clearly.
>On what basis do you make the judgement that section 230 was intended to protect monopolies ?

Because section 230 protects everyone. There is no limitation in the law that says "if you have x% market share, you are not covered under the law."

My point WRT Prodigy/AOL, etc. was that there certainly wasn't the intent to exclude the large players (which is what you asserted without evidence). In fact, a major impetus for section 230 was the Stratton Oakmont v. Prodigy decision[0].

And so I'll ask you: On what basis do you make the judgement that section 230 wasn't intended to protect everyone?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratton_Oakmont,_Inc._v._Prod....
I find the timing for this news extremely amusing.

Currently, there's a lot of criticism towards China for arresting journalists investigating controversial topics.

OTOH, the US is doing literally the same thing, with little to no backlash.
Looks cool, good luck!
I'd say most shows fall short of The Wire. Game of Thrones was /good/ for the first three seasons or so, then got worse and worse. The last season, in my opinion, is so bad that in hindsight I wish I hadn't watched the entire show.
I think this is what's wrong with today's SaaS and web environment. People thing that by going with AWS, creating a complicated auto-scaling infrastructure that supports billions of user is the way to go and the most cost-effective way, but while doing so many forget that using the simpler solution that costs a bit more can actually save time and money.

What's the point of trying to save $1/month per user if you have no users yet and achieving this cost reduction takes one or two more years of development time.
They did a strike to get paid for streaming back when most people thought it wouldn't go anywhere. I think the industry is better off with them getting paid for what is becoming the default way to watch stuff.
I believe this is older. I first found this around 2002, and given that half the 1998-2000 internet was about Brittney Spears, it didn’t seem all that weird. Several female coworkers (Physics PhDs) showed me around 2005 without the slightest allegation of sexism, although they suggested I should make one based on male body part displays. If that exists, it wasn’t me.
That's profit per employee, not revenue per employee. Revenue per employee is much larger, at least according to this website [0]:

> Alphabet Inc's revenue per employee grew on trailing twelve months basis to a new company high of $ 2,143,353

[0] https://csimarket.com/stocks/GOOG-Revenue-per-Employee.html
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> FULLY FUNCTIONAL

With Turbo Boost and the molecular bonded shell that repels bullets and explosions?
That must be why Disney needs to buy Star Wars and Marvel, because they're so great at innovating their own content
« folks can jump on board and participate via their own servers, clients, bridges, bots etc »

Last time I checked, there was only one server really developped, not lagging behind, did that change recently ?
>What I meant is that it does change conditions for the worker as they leave for....

As they leave for, perhaps, a unionized job?

I was with you on the parent comment, but then had a think about it and I agree above, someone who leaves the company is a non-worker for the purposes of this argument
The audacity to say that when your very own blog includes an article titled "People who disagree with you aren't trying to make things complex. Maybe you're wrong."

There is a reason relational databases are the standard. It's one of the rare things in computer science actually based on mathematics.
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> If CCP want to prosecute Ma, he would be trialed live on CCTV similar to disgraced politburo members

That's not how it works for Chinese billionaires; it would elevate their status to that of CCP heavyweights. When their time comes, billionaires simply vanish:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/18/business/china-xiao-jianh...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/china-billi...
Adding a theory here... Jack Ma is the one buying all the Bitcoin.
Both Windows and macOS support calculations in their respective system-wide search bars (Win key on Windows vs Cmd-Space for Spotlight on macOS). They both support pretty cool stuff like sqrt(9), 13^37, but Spotlight edges it slightly by also support bit shifting like 1 << 10 == 1024.
No, that'd be a bad idea.

Keep in mind that the rotors and mechanical parts are subject to wear and tear.

A rotor that's feathered experiences less mechanical stress and thus lasts longer. Same goes for any other moving parts.

It's a measure to increase the lifetime and reduce the risk of fires (e.g. from spinning too fast due to lack of mechanical load from the generator).
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This looks fantastic!

We usually use Discord's share screen feature, but having more options are always nice, and I assume I can up the resolution/bitrate as I need since it's based on an OBS stream.
It’s a zero or one game for China —- they can make 10000 right decisions but the system could collapse with one, just one wrong decision. It’s not fault tolerant as the democracy system
I believe the claim here is that, people should have rights to their own strong ideological opinions, but not the right to enforce their own upon others.
Profit is after expenses, so employee can be $300k/yr more expensive before they are expensive to employ.
Exactly. Just another case of "640K should be enough for anybody".

But we have to admit that storage has leapt hugely in size and very rapidly. In 1990 or thereabouts, a common hard disk size was about 30 megabytes. Today I have files that are many times that size, and we think that that is quite normal. A mere five or so years later around 1996, that size had jumped to 4000 megabytes! These days my laptop has 6 million megabytes.

We can't blame filesystem planners for lack of foresight. They were blind-sided by progress just like the rest of us were.
After reading the NYT article and browsing their website - they seem to be mainly concerned with getting the company to bend to various social justice causes and getting the company to adopt politically motivated strategy changes. So I'm a bit confused. This doesn't seem like the purpose of a labor union in the traditional sense. What am I missing here?
That's a lot of whataboutism.

It's not like it's in the best interest of the workers to see the company go belly up. Or be less competitive. If the company can show that this is why they're defering merit pay there's no reason to believe that unions won't accept it and agree with them.

It gives employees leverage, and healthy competition in all aspects should just strengthen the company.