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From the official union website's list of values

> Social and economic justice are paramount to achieving just outcomes. We will prioritize the needs of the worst off. Neutrality never helps the victim.

For my eyes, that is absolutely dripping with progressive ideology. If I am going a union I want it to be non-political. This seems more like a progressive advocating group than a software workers guild. Count me out.
It means potatoes; their reputation is covered in potatoes.
My point is that the statement has been the case so long that it’s true even for some grandparents; quite in contrast to the idea that we are “finally” there.
Do you have any sources that support that from the countries that have unions for software development. Because that is something I would be very interested in reading.
China is definitely facing some fundamental issues now - #1 being their aging population. Their demographic profile is a major drag on growth and will only get worse over the next few decades.

When you have an aging population, the young need to take care of them, and when the old outnumber the young that tends to result in angst as the young are not as well off as those who came before them.
I disagree, particularly as someone who worked fror a firm making over 1000000 per employee.

It's hard to square that kind of return only benefitting shareholders. You'd be hard pressed as an employee to get a 3% raise or whatnot to keep up with inflation, or you'd have the call center people making pennies, or micromanaged down to the second, but over a milkion per employee was earned.

There is a certain point where one has to stop and reevaluate the nature of the value transfer going on. That same business ate years of my life keeping it afloat, but at the first opportunity for equity holders, dropped the floor out by sellout. Not that I'd want to go back given the business model but it does lead to somber reflection and a heartfelt contemplation of tge advantaged position held by the middle-man.
(Disclaimer, I have not used the app)

Presumably it outputs multiple images combined as a pdf/word as opposed to just images.
probably work for the police at some capacity

but its way underpaid as compared to my hitech salary ,i dont see myself surviving this hard a hit to my savings
Also it would be nice to have the possibility of dragging the calendar events to extend them both in the same day and along the week.
No, a one sided test is also appropriate. I tend to default to two sided tests because the acceptance of one sided tests varies by field.
Stopped reading this after two shockingly irresponsible statements. The author is grabbing random disasters to support his argument without any proof.

1) Toyota's unintended acceleration: Brakes failed once in a while, so rarely that the problem was basically impossible to reproduce. The author notes that the car's software was "spaghetti". He does NOT prove that the latter caused the former. He doesn't comment on whether other car manufacturers suffered similar problems, and whether their code was also of low quality. FWIW, there is speculation that Toyota's problems were caused by cosmic rays flipping bits.

2) The Boeing MAX crashes: Again, the author claims that bad software was to blame. As is widely known by now, the causes of the crash were: 1) Boeing putting much-too-large engines on an old plane design (737) because this was cheaper than designing a new plance from scratch; 2) the weight distribution caused by this design led to stalls; 3) software was designed to override controls to deal with stalls; 4) the software was led astray by bad sensor input, and Boeing made sensor backups optional; 5) In another attempt to cut costs (retraining), Boeing claimed that the new model would be operated just like the old model, causing them to suppress information on the nature of the override and the methods for dealing with it. Again, this is all well known. Using this tragedy to slam object orientation is just breathtakingly wrong and stupid.
can you elaborate on the basis for this? it sounds interesting, but the rationale isn't obvious.
That depends on the union. A miner's union doesn't need to protect all mining companies, just the ones that treat their employees best. Your argument only holds if the union is specific to one company.
Iraq began as an invasion in March 2003. The invasion was exceedingly well planned and executed with minimal cost in a very short time frame, but the planning did not account for the resulting occupation that followed.

Key figures in Iraq, such as Ali Al Sistani, pressed US civilian authorities to stand up an interim government until a permanent government could be drafted. The interim government stood up in May 2004. But by that time Iraq had become a political vacuum with disastrous results. Various external political factions from terrorist groups and nation states were massively importing arms and radicalized youth to instigate internal tribal warfare and acts of terrorism.

Shortly after the interim government stood up GEN Casey took over command of coalition forces in Iraq and promoted a hand's off policy and letting the Iraqis clean up the mess, which further compounded the internal problems when Iraq really needed a strong occupation force to stabilize conditions until conditions allowed the capabilities for self governance. GEN Casey was replaced two years later in 2006.

In mid-2006 it really looked like Iraq was on the verge of civil war and the US completely reversed policy by late 2006 announcing a troop surge in 2007. The successful command policies of COL HR McMaster were given some credit for exemplifying a successful approach. GEN Petraeus took command of coalition forces in Iraq and advocated a policy of counter-insurgency (COIN) that made significant advances at reducing internal violence and building trust in internal institutions. Over the next two years the surge declined to prior troop levels with forces more engaged in peace keeping and stability missions.

In 2009 coalition forces were drastically reduced in what was called a withdrawal. By that time Iraq was no longer on the verge of civil war. Conditions were improving and permanent government institutions were coming online. Unfortunately, the withdrawal was too early. Newly established Iraqi military forces were still conducting peace keeping and stability missions and had not matured enough yet to focus on national defense. This became apparent with the ISIS invasion of Mosul.
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I agree. I’m indifferent to private sector unions. None of my business if it isn’t my workplace. But public sector unions are a path to corruption. Both major parties exploit these so I can’t blame a single party here either.

What better way to consolidate power than by aligning with a public service union and “bargain” with them while being incentivized to grow membership in that union to further consolidate power.

If anything I’d support public sector unions if members were not allowed to vote for offices that represent their “management” or control their budgets.

Could you imagine a private sector union appointing the management of the company they negotiate with?
>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.

Why not?

Why should it go into the shareholder's pockets instead of the people who actually do the work and create the value? What if the people actually working were to, I dunno, seize the means of production or something?

To be clear while I understand that there are many reasonable objections to socialism it bothers me that your comment presents capitalism as self-evident. Even if you believe that it's the best (or at least least worst) system, you should always question it.

If a company generates billions in profit the question of how this profit is divided among the owners and the workers should forever remain an open question I think.
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> In the UK at least judge's are for the most part demonstrably non-political.

This is not about UK judges being political, but rather about judges being pressured by governments to do what's convenient for the government.

In this particular case, the outcome is surprising.
Granted, it will vary person to person for a lot of good reasons, but it seems to me like the average white-collar tech worker out have a lot more personal savings than the average blue-collar factory worker.
Legislating away cold-call marketing is already done; it hasn't stopped it from happening, since it's almost impossible to trace the culprit.
Here are some numbers on single core power consumption, ⅌ https://www.anandtech.com/show/16214/amd-zen-3-ryzen-deep-di...:

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X: 20.6W for a single core at 5050MHz, 49W for the whole package. (And it’s generally the package figure that you care about.)

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X: 17.9W/54W at 4875MHz.

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X: 17.3W/37W at 4825MHz.

AMD Ryzen 5 5600X: 11.8W/28W at 4650MHz (though the highest core reading is 13W, at three cores loaded).

You’re both correct: by simply restricting that power envelope by 40%, you shed a lot less multi-threaded performance than people realise, and no single-threaded performance.

Look at the 5950X figures, and you observe that at about 120W, it can run 6 cores at 4,650MHz (27,900 core–MHz), or 16 cores at 3,775MHz (60,400 core–MHz).

Expressed one way: by dropping the frequency by 20%, power per watt increased by around 2.7×.

Expressed another way: let’s skip a 65W envelope—put this particular 105W chip in a 40W envelope and you lose only 20% of your six-cores performance. Seriously. But I’m not sure what the curve would look like if you load all 16 cores at a 40W envelope, what speed they’d be going at.

(But do remember that “TDP” is a bit of a mess as a concept, and that we’re depending on non-core power consumption being generally fairly consistent regardless of load.)
Meant is more hypothetically, not as if it is a current fact.
> The other side is to be a large enough entity to influence elections and then “negotiate” with those you helped get elected.

That's the nature of politics. Businesses and business leaders lobby politicians and donate to their political campaigns too. It's strange to single out unions when there are so many different kinds of political interest groups, often with much more money than unions.

Public employee unions are bad, but the Tavern League, for example (I'm from Wisconsin), is ok? The National Rifle Association is ok? The National Landlord Association? Businesses and interest groups of every kind are donating money to the politicians who will directly regulate them. Why specifically exclude public employees from that?
I have observed that speed of change in supporting facts is very important in Internet conspiracy theories (CT) vs. the old conspiracy theories.

It goes like this: you find a surprising fact that, if true, will support the CT. You go to investigate it, which, of course, take some time. You realize that the fact has a normal explanation but, when you go back to conversation of the CT, that's not a relevant fact in the conversation anymore. There is a new fact, or more, supporting the CT. Start the process again. It's impossible to catch with the fact that it's, at the moment, supporting the CT.

I think, this is different from the old way conspiracy theories, where people just believed highly improbable things.

It also makes it more appealing to more people, because, if you take it all globally and don't look carefully, it really looks like there is a lot of evidence.
The insinuation seems to be Trump. Sure, he has had buildings built/remodeled, but I don't see how you can say he is in construction.
I think it's counter-productive to label everyone who believes conspiracy theories "stupid". Not only does it make it more difficult to talk to and help change their opinion, it further polarizes use. Sure, I will readily admit that some people are just being obstinate and stupid, but when you have the places you get your news from feeding you misinformation, or worse, feeding you facts, but not all the facts, or the details get lost in transit (e.g. the cdc not recommending masks and then recommending masks), it's not hard to see how some things become ideas.

We can't help correct misconceptions if we believe they're driven solely by stupidity.
I agree with you about the overblown aspect of long term thinking... but I dont think you can fully discount it. Like it or not, a long term leader does have the benefit of seeing through long term ideas to the fullest. There is a lot of value in that, however that doesn't mean I'm fully convinced that winnie the pooh over there knows a good long term investment even if it threw honey in his face. A lot of their foreign infrastructure investments have been... either great genius we cant comprehend or they're complete idiots. There could be background plays that we'll never know about that actually do make them good maneuvers. As they stand, er, as they crumble from lack of use and maintenance, they dont seem good on the surface.

Now, the long term taking stake in foreign entities, that one... that seems smart on the surface. As to what end, dont know and without a long form of discussion isnt practical to talk about here.

House of lies... eh, barn full of horseshit if you ask me... but even horseshit has its uses... and flies. So many fucking flies. I hate horses.

That and dude yea, the mass stabbings are insane over there.
Nobody mentioned entitlement. That money labor left on the table.

Together they can get more of it.

Simple as that.
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Oh I thought this was Jon Skeet's "hello world" in 1 byte, written in his custom "H" language. Of course he could have done it in 0 bytes but that would just be silly.
What email service do you recommend?
we just have to wait til 2087
>I can't negotiate my pay directly with my manager.

Why not? If you go talk to your manager and tell him "I have another offer at XXX, I want you to match it or I'm leaving" what is going to happen?
> ECC availability matters a lot - exactly because Intel has been instrumental in killing the whole ECC industry with it's horribly bad market segmentation.

The phrase that strikes me is "horribly bad market segmentation". I agree 100%.

Remember when the Pentium/pro/2/3 could operate in single and dual socket configurations with ECC? The same CPU that plugged into your low end consumer board could also plug into a high end server/workstation board. All you needed was the right motherboard.
On the whole this is right, but over simplified - at least in my experience. I know first hand a bunch of people who lived in dumbo in manhattan 5-10 years before it became gentrified and there was a collective sense that it was just a matter of time before it became gentrified and everyone would make some money.

Artists aren't somehow totally oblivious or too high-minded to take this into consideration. It's a weird narrative that paints artists as totally separate from the system, which just isn't true
HN has desended to Reddit officially.
> I can't wait until this technology is perfected so that we can finally put an end to online disinformation for good.

Well, first you need to define "disinformation." It's a non-trivial, and probably a concept that's unable to be rigorously defined.
Google Workers Publicly Launch Union
Just because you aren't literally a slave doesn't mean you have to choose between two options you don't want instead of trying to get the third better option.
Zapier bring in 5.5M web users a month with this insane SEO strategy
The GP was making a joke.
I work for a retail app and can usually tell when we have or haven't been spending on FB ads when I check our usage numbers for the week.

They do work but like anything it's about choosing the right tool (platform) for the job. We wouldn't run ads on LinkedIn and B2B SAAS companies shouldn't advertise on FB/Instagram.
Heh, The TS1000 was also my intro to programming. I still have the manual that came with it, which taught basic programming as well as explaining how the internals were laid out.

I miss having good manuals.
I run an MTA sending billions of emails daily. Most mail is delivered in seconds, but there is a long tail that can take days (myriad of reasons involving recipient mail servers, dns, sending behavior , etc). It would not be fun to have your log in attempt come in a couple days later. 99.9%+ you will be just fine, but how do you handle those people who fall through into long-delay land?
It's either reinvested or saved in the bank so it stays in the ownership of shareholders.

In general, reinvestment is preferred over dividends (or stock buybacks which is similar to dividends) when it's expected that the reinvestment will generate a good return in the future and this return would be given to shareholders.
>TIL: In 2019, Microsoft released the exFAT [1] specs [...] I.e. exFAT should now be preferred over FAT/NTFS for media used across different operating systems.

You seem to be very optimistic about how fast these get implemented into embedded devices.
Let's do it step by step, first let's get rid of all the dictators, there are still a few roaming around
I'd argue at least half of that tuition goes into interaction, tutorial, connection and other stuffs you don't get from remote education.

Actually in the long run those things matter a lot more than a few pieces of technology you manage to understand.
You should know the OBS team plans on deprecating FTL since Mixer was the only major player who ever used it, not to mention the fact that the server side of the tech is closed. The FTL implementation in OBS is buggy, and keeping it maintained is not worth the effort for a non-standard transport protocol.
Many people don't know how to negotiate (well), so they are at a disadvantage when entering compensation negotiations with a prospective employer who has HR/management that have the knowledge/skills to be able to negotiate lower compensation.

In addition, even assuming someone is a good negotiator, they generally can live without work for far less time than a particular employer can live without an employee filling a particular role. So people will often take a less-than-optimal compensation package because a job today that pays the bills is far more valuable than a job tomorrow that has the "best" compensation package.

I'm not saying collective bargaining is the only -- or even the best -- solution to this, but it's not as simple as just saying people should negotiate more.
It does - the point is that anyone can spin up their own Matrix server (or pick an existing one) and get involved; they don't have to use the fosdem.org one.

Separately, in terms of implementations: Dendrite is usable these days, albeit beta: https://matrix.org/blog/2020/10/08/dendrite-is-entering-beta, and meanwhile Synapse is stable. Conduit (https://conduit.rs) is making progress on federation (and works for simple use cases), and Construct (https://github.com/matrix-construct/construct) exists too.
Given the common advice to _always_ include a "default" label in your switches, I had formed the impression that entering a default-less switch with a value that doesn't have a matching case would result in undefined behaviour. This is not the case: it will simply do nothing.
I think we should all pause and consider how it is that at a 120k person company, an announcement by 230 people to unionize makes headline news.

Could it be yet another instance of a "journalist" acting as advocate?
Depends on how you define "user".

A developer is the "user"? MIT is freer for the dev, but the dev is free to restrict the end-user.

End-users are the users? GPL restricts developers from closing the source, empowering end users to become developers too.
This assumes that leadership has perfect knowledge of the situation, which is just never the case. Unions can be an additional source of information about the state of the company, for things that are not being communicated via the usual management structure.
Indeed. HR has incentives to side with the employer, where a union rep has incentives to side with the employee.

In Belgium, every company of a certain size is required to have a union rep. They provide a lot of services you would expect HR to provide: being the point of contact for complains, clarify certain rights and obligations, etc. Even when a national holiday falls on a weekend, the company has to agree with the union rep how that will be recuperated. Unions in Belgium typically do not negotiate salaries, except for cases where there's statutes involved (e.g. gov workers like teachers).
The choice he made was probably a reasonable balance -- the alternative was reinventing the filesystem, which was probably a bit out of spec for implementing the GUI format dialog. And eventually happened, but it took a while.
Deciding whether under s91 of the Extradition Act, "the physical or mental condition of the person is such that it would be unjust or oppressive to extradite him", is a very fact-specific issue rather than a legal question though.

The appellate courts are generally there to resolve legal questions not factual ones—I'd question the Assange case, or other similar cases would raise a similar legal rather than factual question.

There has been a trend towards applying s91 cases for defendants with autism spectrum disorders: the courts didn't in Gary McKinnon's case, but the Home Secretary (Theresa May, before she became PM) justified her denial of the extradition order on that basis. In Lauri Love's case, the magistrates' court allowed the extradition order but it was overturned on appeal in the High Court on the basis of Love's not being able to cope in US custody with Asperger's syndrome. In the Assange case, the magistrates' court followed this established and rather persuasive precedent.
Your first two reasons are not valid reasons for being a bad employee. Both are knowable before taking the job. If you take a job knowing the pay is bad and you justify being a bad employee because the pay is bad, you’re a shitty person.

The third reason I don’t think is true. Teaching is in the class of occupations that require government certification.
That's great, good for you! But E-mail is not guaranteed (nor designed) to be instantaneous.
That is definitely true, and unfortunately tech companies have been abusing H-1B laws flagrantly in order to hire trapped workers they can underpay. (https://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-accused-by-trump-administ... is particularly blatant.)

That being said, without the employees who could leave, but choose not to, Google would not survive. Hiring underpaid immigrants can only get you so far.
very cool - thanks for the pointer :) There seems to be a lot of Nix / Matrix crossover, although for hosting the Matrix bits of FOSDEM we'll be using Debian this time (especially given the crazy tight timeline).
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