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Wow and it only needs a 7/8 super-duper majority to overturn.

I’d rather these ride-or-die Joe Biden-heads splinter off onto their own network instead. They could make it so whenever you start to even type “Hunt-“ you get a modal that says “Did You Know: Actually Energy Expert Hunter Biden added way more than $50,000/mo worth of value to Burisma.”

? Not entitled nor even saying it’s a good idea. Unionizers all recommend doing it in secret anyway. I was more interested in talking about the legality

It’s unfortunate, but this is useful in that it’s easier to pronounce than any other alternative. I guess MANFAG is just as good and saves the spice for the end.

My info was out of date but pre-Dec 2019 (Caesars Union Suit), electronic communication channels were treated like break rooms- if they aren’t already restricted to only work chat, and you could shoot the shit, then they can’t block or specifically spy (or appear to spy) on protected union activity. Post that ruling, I don’t really understand where the line is. Apparently if there is no other way to communicate outside of work with your co-workers, then they have to let you do it. Maybe you could argue that’s the case during coronavirus unless you can easily get everyone’s personal emails. Shrug

Looks like I’m out of date as of December after Caesars https://www.google.com/amp/s/onezero.medium.com/amp/p/8d5d92...

The other prong of this that is still possibly illegal though is spying on union-specific activity, and leaving that information out for employees to find, which fits under the criteria of making employees believe they’ll be spied on for unionizing - even not on company IT systems.

There’s already an NLRA complaint against amazon (source: Matt Bruenig on Twitter) over the Union-spy job posting. It’ll be interesting to see where that goes and if this gets tacked on.

Company documents can say whatever they want, but labor law wins.

Wrong on all counts except when you said you’re allowed to organize: https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/the-law/em...

> This includes your right to distribute union literature, wear union buttons t-shirts, or other insignia (except in unusual "special circumstances"), solicit coworkers to sign union authorization cards, and discuss the union with coworkers. Supervisors and managers cannot spy on you (or make it appear that they are doing so), coercively question you, threaten you or bribe you regarding your union activity or the union activities of your co-workers. You can't be fired, disciplined, demoted, or penalized in any way for engaging in these activities.

Since the old, crufty, established incumbents aren’t agile enough to meet the new requirements, seems like there’s a hole in the market for a disrupter.

OTOH all he had to do was throw in a quick throw away phrase and it was like a tarpit for you. You were so hung up on it you never got to explaining why his post was poorly argued.

He shouldn’t have been fired I think, but he also shouldn’t be a tattle-tale against his co-workers. We need solidarity with our co-workers + an end to at-will employment.

Relatedly (but not specific to this situation), if we had stronger employment guarantees people probably wouldn’t taddle to try to get people fired as much. Win-win-win all around.

Wow I never knew how much I loved typescript until reading this. Never had a blog post worth of complaints, at worst just cast to ‘any’, write a comment to recheck after the next update, and clock out at 5. And maybe pray for forgiveness from God for my code having side effects if I’m feeling guilty.

How charitable, now to implement that everyone has to prove their level of income and assets before receiving aid and will unnecessarily screw people on the margins in situations you didn’t imagine up front. Stuff like that gets implemented (usually, in America) as a non-refundable tax credit meaning the poorest get nothing as well.

Just cut the check, tax the rich, and don’t make more paperwork.

Interestingly the paper they cite for more-constitutional alternatives to a wealth tax actually includes a wealth tax in its suite of options and argues in favor of the constitutionality of a wealth tax (p 25)

E: I should add it disagrees with the central argument that this would be a “direct tax” and mentions ways the wealth tax could itself be structured to give the Supreme Court less of a leg to stand on. Personally I’d rather run a candidate that would even bring this fight in the first place. Maybe if it’s on the news then the >99% of viewers will realize that the <1% are able to beat them down easily in any legal fight imaginable despite their incredible small numbers and harmful distribution preferences.

Stuff like this is why I’m holding out for the Apple Card Pro.

It's 2019 and we're all posters now. Even the leader of the free world is involved with the kind of online disputes that internet addicts were having in the 2000s on vBulletin sites. Congress has had hearing from people mad that their posts weren't getting enough traction. It's hilarious but I'm no longer surprised when I find out someone famous is as 'online' as me now.

They majorly buried the lede in this article and species #536,112 is "human".

And that's why we see such a huge diversity of thought in mass shooters political manifestos, because it's random?

Well seeing as he talked extensively about Omar Mateen after that attack... yes. And the Canada Mosque shooter was a fan. And his quote about Muslims deserving to having their land occupied because they're uncivilized... and claiming during the run-up to the Iraq war that anti-war journalists should be tried for treason... I can go on.

Ha good to know. I chose not to do the on-site after they asked if a weekend was OK.

Nope. If I succeed I’ll just end up on the other side of the table interviewing candidates on weekends...

All of them?

Deal, I'll consider your coefficient adjusted then.

But for my benefit, can I just confirm my suspicion that you sincerely don't understand the difference between politics & personal marketplace decisions? Because if so that's some VERY strong ideology you've got going on.

Occam's razor. They are not 'scanning brain waves or some truly difficult method'. Not in this reality. You know it too. I didn't even have to suggest they built an Arab detector for you to bring it up ;)

I don't care about that hypothetical. Save it for your sci fi screenplay.

A fun example... click this and scroll all the way down: https://www.faception.com/our-technology

I need to start collecting a list to turn this into a proper Thing but I feel like whenever there's a way to use technology for evil there's a Tel Aviv startup that cranks it to 11.

No it's collective action vs individual self interest. Or actual politics versus consumerism. Not the same thing at all and should not be confused. If you think a charter or private school is the best for your kid right now and for you then that's one thing. And what is best for other families and teachers in your community may be another. You can support them politically.

Also who gives a shit about the hypocrisy of protest attendees anyway? It has no bearing on the what is right.

The author doesn't back up anything, quotes no theory on either side, no history or economic data. It contains killer anecdotes and gut feelings though - a ratio of about 100%-0% between navel gazing and chin scratching VS reading Marxist theory where people have, you know, talked about the thing you're talking about for over a century. It's particularly stunning that an essay on inequality does not mention the word "profit".

My favorite part is the killer anecdote that seals the deal at the end, which is basically the equivalent of "You dislike Wall St but you own an iPhone? Interesting". It may as well have been pulled from a boomer Facebook meme.

As a full-time tech worker, time management is just as important with your off-hours projects as it is in your 9-5. You can only do so much (time is finite) so it's important to know when to drop a side project when the ROI isn't quite enough (in this case I'm talking about your wife).

Not being able to hack out a project for days straight is simply unhealthy.

Here's my advice: Divorce your wife, and to feel solid in your decision going forward, write "I divorced my wife for this" at the end of the Github README.md for each of your stupid bullshit projects.

I hope David Cronenberg makes a movie about him.

Lining the pockets of the investors that own my labor is a reward in and of itself.

E: Just thought of a cool startup idea. Every day you and your coworkers can calculate (it might take some guesstimating) the surplus value you create and try to beat each other on a leaderboard. I'm imagining a possible JIRA integration.

People already do this, they're those "awesome-react", "awesome-redux", etc GitHub repos with the giant readmes and peppered with emojis. IMO it's kinda mean to sarcastically name them like that.