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Yeah, how is this relevant to the thread? It's not about why you think we should have unions. It's about the claim that there's no possible rational reason for these workers to vote against the union.
Possible. As others have noted, WalMart has done similar things.

I think a retail/warehouse workers' union only really works if it's a national sort with local chapters so that a company can't hire except through a union.

I'm not saying such a situation isn't rife with its own problems, but as long as these unions are essentially on a per-location basis, a company with the resources can always close one location and open up down the street to avoid the union.
"Feelings don't care about your facts" or something.
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Completely off the track but from that Launch post:

>>> Moving server apps close to users is a simple way to decrease latency, sometimes by 80% or more.

I am willing to believe, but ... what about all the time I spend cacheing, optimising my SQL indexes, buying new RAM.

Does sending a packet a few thousand extra miles.... oh never mind I think I am answering my own question.

It would be interesting however to have a service that does latency testing for different sites from different locations. Now maybe I could use fly for that?
Friction is difficult to model and is the dominant source of uncertainty.
> That's not arbitrary code in the security sense though

Yes it is. It's not system level, but it is indeed arbitrary code - users have no lasting visibility into what it's doing, and little ability to control it.

> It's the very narrow range of things which are permitted to run in a javascript sandbox

Browsers have had a pretty naive threat model, up until recent Firefox with its new resist fingerprinting feature. Seemingly innocuous things like reporting your window size are vulnerabilities that are being used to track you, because the groups who designed the various web APIs had no security mindset besides sandboxing. One of the chief browser makers is even an unabashed surveillance company! It's going to take a long time to close or mitigate all those holes.
To summarize, Apple acting anti-competitively (lock users to iPhones by treating Android users as second class citizens) is okay because:

1) they might fix it at some indeterminate point (do you have a source for how this will work? or some evidence pointing this way?)

2) they don't benefit by porting (uh, why is Apple Music on Android then? and yes, this is why you act anti-competitively)

3) there are other chat apps (but literally every other chat app you mention is cross-platform)

This is a very weak reply to the allegations alleged in the article.
Reasonable point of view. However, have you asked why Bessemer is a dying city and/or a slum? Was it always a slum? Were there no businesses there since it was founded and incorporated?

And if it was such a hell hole, why did Amazon choose to open a warehouse there? Out of the goodness of their hearts? We need to ask questions as to why Amazon had to become a "savior" for the City of Bessemer. Not just focusing on effects but looking into causes too!
A near supernova would also be extremely disastrous and also kill Mars. Perhaps global warming on Venus scale?

Just playing along...
Meanwhile this monkey is playing Pong with his bran: https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/8/22374749/elon-musk-neurali...
That's a story about overzealous productivity metrics coupled with a non-thinking management class. It's hardly an argument for or against being able to identify bad performers.

I know porn when I see it, but I can't (easily) make an automated system to detect it and I'd struggle even more to make that system make intelligent actions on successful detection.
Saw this at r/Costco from an employee who worked at a unionized store, straight from the source...

"Next, the union dues. I know this isn't a problem at every location but mine is part of the local teamsters union, and having to pay $450 in initiation fees and $40 on the regular adds up, especially for someone who is in real need of the income. I wouldn't be complaining if I saw the tangible benefits the union provides, but after speaking to several coworkers, many of whom have worked at my location for 20+ years, I am of the impression that the union does not actually do anything to improve working conditions at Costco. If anything, it seems to me that the union locations simply serve to protect the wages of those who are not unionized by playing into Costco's desire to prevent the unionization of said locations. Yes, the union makes it harder to arbitrarily fire people, "guarantees" you won't get scheduled for 7 days straight (have seen otherwise at my location), etc. In my view, this only contributes to my previously mentioned point that many long-time employees feel protected from termination regardless of how they perform or act, and as such they bring subpar attitudes, service, and effort into their work."
Have you worked in a large unionized organization? I've worked in both. Unions are worse.
Or the interceptor in one of the GotS:SAC episodes.
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And even worse, schools can't be shut down. It's okay for companies to have unions. In the worse case, the company closes doors, so ultimately the union needs to work with the company one way or another. In government entities, unions are tumors as they don't need to worry about their employers going down.
did they hit or miss?
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/302/5643/276
Meanwhile this monkey is playing Pong with his brain: https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/8/22374749/elon-musk-neurali...
Join me on the downvote train. Where Hacker News explicitly likes to downvote us without any accountability. I suspect this is why Reddit is a much more diverse group of people than here.
You can support the status quo without taking an extreme position.

My point is that rephrasing what it is doesn't change what it actually is.
I believe what GP was alluding to is that if a workplace is unionized, the worker does not have a choice of wanting to be a part of the union or not(in a non right to work state), and so essentially a monopoly. IF the worker wants to work for that employer, he can only do so via the union. No way for the worker to work for the employer and not wanting to do absolutely nothing with the union.
> So let me get this straight: companies shouldn't be investing money into revitalizing impoverished areas?

No, they should do so, just not be so exploitative about it (e.g. deliberately going into areas full of desperate people, for the reason of using that desperation to exert maximum control with minimum accountability).
Or just right thinking rather than self serving. Every man for himself is a political position - not the inevitable reality some would have you believe.
Which was also hacked in pwn2own but that's not a big story for some reason https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsofts-wi...
From the article:
“A lot of us are in agree­ment that we don’t need any­body there to speak for us and take our money,” said Cori Jen­nings, 40 years old, who works at the Besse­mer fa­cil­ity and voted against union­iz­ing. Ms. Jen­nings said she and many of her col­leagues were also ea­ger for the na­tional at­ten­tion to fade: “We want our lives to go back to nor­mal.”
If college is free (or loans are forgiven), people who never went to college would have to subsidize those who did.

If healthcare is free, people who are healthy have to pay healthcare for those who aren't.

I'm not taking a stance one way or the other on these issues, just trying to illustrate the argument.
Meanwhile this monkey is playing Pong with its brain: https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/8/22374749/elon-musk-neurali...
I heard by a few UX designer that they prefer Adobe XD as a design tool actually over Figma, but the cost is why they use Figma instead.

I find it a glaring ommision from the article analysis that it didn't even mention Adobe XD anywhere? It seems to me maybe newcomers are only competing against price and nothing else?
Nah, most jobs in super markets would net you the same (if you have no experience.) Germany here.
How so? The SaaS model lets you price segment more flexibly. You can do a free (or very cheap) loss leader version that has a more limited feature-set (that students & hobbyists don't need) and a non-commercial license. Charge more for larger shops that need collaborative/more professional features.

Just because Adobe is doing the transition poorly (albeit you wouldn't know from their share price), I don't necessarily buy that it's a fundamental flaw in the SaaS business model. Indeed Figma & Canva are both SaaS companies themselves. As MSFT has shown, it doesn't take much for a giant to come back. I don't think Adobe is particularly cash-strapped so they can weather out a bunch of mistakes/internal realignment.
Glad you ignored the part about grooming gangs.
I have no knowledge of Boeing's internal state, so tried to get a proxy of their general attitude [0].

Every company big enough will have its share of shitty issues, but even taking it with a grain of salt it doesn't look to me like a company that needs no employee representation to counter-balance the management.

[0] https://violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org/prog.php?parent=b...
See the other replies about mass incarceration based on skin color. At least China is figuring terrorism without dropping bombs on people they don't like.
Once the workers organize as a union, the company is forced to treat everything as a negotiation with the union instead of the employees. The union views their job as to always ask for more and push back on the employer, so the employer is incentivized to hold back raises, benefits, and concessions until it's time for negotiations. Giving away all of your bargaining chips before negotiations start is not a good strategy.

When you see headlines about unions negotiating certain benefits or raises from employers, it's often framed as a victory that wouldn't have happened without the union. The reality is more nuanced, as the union's existence forces the company to play hardball during negotiations so they have something to negotiate when it comes time to do the negotiations.
Then I encourage you to take up leadership to get some development going on the bare metal xorg server. Odds are, within a year or two, it will need serious patches to keep working with up to date kernels, mesa, and nvidia drivers.
Sure, and healthcare isn't "literally free" in loads of high standard of living first world countries. In France, for example, there's a 20% coinsurance that's paid on all treatments. With a few exceptions, most single payer countries have co-pays.

Amazon's plans can be found here: https://www.amazon.jobs/en/landing_pages/benefitsoverview-us

These plans are extended to every single Amazon employee, including the warehouse workers. Most of the warehouse workers we're talking about would probably choose the Kaiser HMO that has $0 deductible and 100% coverage; all they would pay is $30 co-pay. This is more or less how the single payer healthcare works in Australia, for example.
free? they’re paid for by taxes.
well, often the benefit of listing out as much evidence as possible (basically, look at the facts on hand) is that it can help clarify WHICH theory makes the most sense
An aphrodisiac AND a contraceptive? Helluva plant...
Good design can dramatically reduce, if not eliminate, most human vulnerabilities.

For example, phishing sites would be radically less effective if passwords are not a thing, and everyone logged in using hardware keys (e.g. Yubikeys) which cryptographically prevent phishing.
She’s not just a very wealthy person, she’s our monarch. You can obviously argue the system could be different/better but it’s not, and there is no appetite here to change it. That being the case I think her keeping her political views between the PM and herself is the better way to do it.
If you tried to continuously pedal probably not. However, I'm not familiar with this particular product but every exercise bike I've used you can just instantly stop for a second or two and then start back up. So if you intermittently needed to precisely click on things it would probably be fine. I'm not sure what type of work depends on continuous, precise mouse use other than maybe graphics or professional gaming. I'm sure there's others that I just haven't considered.
If you worked alone that might have worked. Sending/receiving files from someone with newer versions caused problems. I suffered through this once when doing 32page magazine layouts, and I was a version behind the printer. That experience alone convinced me to upgrade.
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> The best outcome for everyone is no union and a supportive employer that gives you a fair deal so you don’t want one

This is extreme wishful thinking. The very nature of corporations like Amazon is in conflict with giving workers a "fair deal". Thus, exploitative labor practices exist.
How long do you think people will survive if they aren't working? Not calling employment servitude is dishonest.
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Agreed, just because it exists doesn’t mean it was being exploited.

And these help patch not just the specific hole but the general approach of the exploit chain may expose a whole area the development team had not previously considered.
They had anti-union propaganda everywhere, even in the fucking bathroom stalls. Plus it's a very conservative part of the country that has been drowning in anti-union propaganda for decades on top of the fact that the average moderate American swing voter is also pretty hostile to unions and even a good chunk of the center-left side of the Democratic coalition is too.

Pro-union people have a lot of work to do to restore the reputation of unions more generally. We need to up our propaganda game a lot because we got crushed in the Reagan era and never recovered.
My guess would be because sats are not perfect spheres but - esp in the case of a rocket stage like here - complex objects which have non-trivial rotation patterns because the center of gravity might be off the visible center. So I doubt they model each and every piece of space junk out there to get a super detailed prediction - after all, what can you do if you know 95% it's going to be a hit between do dead sats vs if you know 80%.

Radar resolution of civil orgs might also be a limit.
It means the employer has to offer a sufficiently generous benefit so that enough of the company’s lower income employees sign up for it, such that it passes non discrimination testing rules. Which means the health insurance benefit must be good enough that even the lower paid employees find it makes sense to sign up for it.
I was part of a small union. I joined the bargaining committee, and ever since I have hated unions. It was incredibly stressful, and made me hate my job. Fighting for better wages/vacation with upper management, who showed how much they don't care about you, is very disheartening.

And in the end, all the bargaining didn't really get us any better than what we would have gotten without a union. So now I got a little raise and I hate my company and I'm telling everyone else how shitty the company is.
Are you sure this is realistic, or would it end up being a net negative for people earning above $20k-$25k? There are a lot of people who are opting out of paid employment, one way or another, under the current model.
Genetic sequencing. We will eliminate the embryos we don't want.
Are you saying the campaign cost multiples of their yearly labor expenditure, or the whole plan multiples of the yearly pay for one employee? If it’s the latter I don’t see how it makes them rotten. That’s an incredibly small expenditure, much less than would be paid in dues for instance
> but if enough of the workplace (50%?) join the union, the employer has to deal with them.

Fewer than 50% of employees voted to form a union, so the result isn't really any different.
Is it still next to impossible to cancel? It's been a while (I'm now a happy Affinity customer) but they had no self service cancellation and their offshore customer service team gave me the run around for days, at one point lying to me about deactivating my subscription when they hadn't.
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It's not strictly political activism though. It's companies that are making voluntary commitments to thinks like diversity and inclusion, managing their ecological footprint, supply chain transparency. And this is all happening due to pressure from employees/customers/shareholders. In some cases it's CEOs having a genuine concern for the country, but more often they are being pushed out of economic necessity.
Back when I used Netscape on DEC ULtrix, connected from a Windows X client some 20+ years ago, I sure would not have believed that one day device drivers would be written in scripting language and run in my browser.
Yeah, I'm pretty confused by the disconnect here. Harry and Megan was who I had in mind as a great example of how easy it is to leave. You just say "bye" and you get on Oprah, get exec positions at startups, get media deals... where is the downside?
America's "Rust Belt" cities all tend to have one thing in common: a large black population that originally migrated there in the 20th century for industrial jobs that largely no longer exist. Think Detroit with the auto industry. Camden NJ with New York Ship, Victor, and Campbell's Soup. Gary Indiana with US Steel, etc etc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Works

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Migration_(African_Ameri...
> There are many solutions to bike theft, but the only reasonable conclusion is that it is in fact not a problem. There is no amout of data, stories, or pressure that will make it a priority because it is specifically something that is managed.

I think you nailed it here. I never thought about it with this clarity.
I wouldn't exactly take Robert Reich's word for it...It's not so clear at all.

There's plenty of other variables to consider here and he just graphed two of them. Corporate taxes were much higher. Also it looks like share of income going to the top 10% hasn't really changed much at all in the last 100 years. 40% +/- 10%. That needle hasn't moved very far.
Either the vote is tainted or it's not. This one was.
So your issue is specifically with the mindset of the company, not the actions themselves? Why would a company ever do anything out of the goodness of their hearts? Shouldn't we just be looking at the result of them following market incentives?
Interesting, I haven't really watched Finnish TV past ten years. However it can't be too different from Tiresias, it was tall as well, and pretty big outline. You can see the 90s font here:

https://youtu.be/enNnlLcSl9I?t=90

Edit: Comparing 90s font to Tiresias, I would too like to have that exact font they used in 90s. E.g. big "J" is terrible in Tiresias compared to that.
I love this site. Even though some of the problems are trivialized by the browser's Developer Tools, it still has useful exercises.

I would have interns run through several of these when I worked for companies that had interests in scraping web data. It helped them get some familiarity around HTTP servers, JavaScript, and even a bit with file formats
To be clear, I didn't mean to compare a butcher shop to a Whole Foods, but rather to point out that not all food markets are live animal markets, and that blanket statements like "China does X" can gloss over the fact that every country has nuances.

Your link suggests that the primary factor of disease transmission in live animal markets is the exoticness of the slaughtered animals. It certainly makes sense to make a distinction based on that criteria, since, for example, I can find high traffic markets that sell live animals in North America as well, though typically they sell less exotic animals (most commonly, lobsters).

This distinction, I feel, is meaningful because of the implications: north american diet is relatively restricted in terms of meat variety (we do mostly beef, pork, chicken, maybe lamb and few other meats on fairly rare occasions - even chicken gizzard isn't commonly consumed, for example). I'm not familiar enough with China to say to what extent exotic meat consumption is cultural vs driven by necessity vs other factors.

However, I do still feel that it might be crass to say things like "well chinese people ought to stop eating weird shit and close those filthy markets", without understanding the circumstances that lead to the status quo, and consequently how they could be changed realistically. (To be clear, I'm not saying you specifically are making these types of comments, but it's not an unpopular sentiment)
Meanwhile here's a monkey playing Pong with its brain: https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/8/22374749/elon-musk-neurali...

Now you go tell the paraplegics that this work is pointless...
The objects are about 500 miles up in the sky, potentially thousands of miles from the sensors looking at them, and traveling at 15,000 miles per hour with respect to us. Think about how precise your measurements would need to be to accurately predict the objects' positions in 24 hours to the nearest foot!

And that's the difficulty with the simplifying (and wrong) assumption that that outside forces don't alter the orbit- even 2021, we have a lot of room for improvement when it comes to predicting many of the other factors that come into play, like solar activity and the Earth's climate.
Snarky replies aren't really helpful as an answer to a question - even if it was in loaded form.
You mean like all those inner city women who constantly vote for gun control despite easy access to hot lead being the best way they can protect themselves from violence?

Or are we talking about the hicks that vote against government healthcare and social safety nets despite the fact that they would themselves benefit?

"Voting against their interest" is just how the ivory tower crowd derides the poor for sticking to their ideological guns even when it doesn't benefit them. The poor have opinions and beliefs and making sacrifices in the name of their beliefs does not make them stupid.
Boat life is hard, she says.. “[you] just have to be really determined and tenacious to figure out a way to make it work.”
Their financials have done great since they switched. Strong growth in revenue, gross profit and net income.
Also, population for the city is near 25k. A small fraction of those folks enjoy the benefits of this healthcare given by working for Amazon.

Furthermore, it is a bad historical precedent to rely on employers for healthcare. This was a poor side-effect of the wage-hike stoppages during WWII that was later tax-exempted through federal law. It was never well thought out.

Finally, how many people in this town feel they have equal opportunity for social mobility? Decades of economic stagnation and degradation have thrown any plausible arguments towards a "meritocracy/American dream/everyone has an equal chance at success" out the window.
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Now we just have to wait ... for the actual driver. It's quite interesting how this was validated and merged all without a sample for testing.

Nvidia still have some way to go with their driver policy, but them contributing in an attempt to become a normal citizen of the Linux ecosystem is a sign that the "fuck you" days may finally be coming to an end which, as the owner of a laptop with an Nvidia chip, gives me a sense of relief.

As far as I know this is all still based on their non-standard EGLstreams platform, but they are working on a Vulkan allocator that supposedly fixes the issue and some contribution activity indicates that they may finally support GBM, which would make Nvidia cards "just work" without any special treatment, which I would of course prefer.