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Because the union is striking over it

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 process.

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 out and you get this group of criminals running free on legal technicalities."

If you are in a union shop and have a large contingent of unproductive employees, it happens for the same reason as non-union shops. You have bad management. Just Cause is almost entirely asking management to do a little paperwork and a little planning, things that are supposed to be their job anyway.

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 investment) don’t just want to wash away our past, they want to ensure they can keep operating business as usual.

DEI is insurance. Yeah the bad thing may happen but we paid for it before hand so we are insulated against further repercussions.

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 Irish sites are bots).

The experience of the internet will be bots and because the usefulness of the medium isn't going away, they will keep using it. Everything being bots will be normal.

At some point things like ubiquitous ads, smog, light pollution or dozens of corporate microphones in our house was something humans first started experiencing and having trepidations about. Then it got normalized. Sometimes we fixed it like smog or CFCs and sometimes it became one the largest sectors of our economy (ads). Statistically, it seems more likely that dead internet is here to stay

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 to prevent over exposure to UV rays. Low melanin skin is required in the northern regions to prevent under exposure to UV rays.

We saw a mass migration of eastern Europeans to the middle east mid 20th century and the result was the catastrophic increase in skin cancer rates.

We saw a mass migration of middle Easterners to great lakes region in the same period and we saw a catastrophic increase in depression rates.

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 context.

I can just take the scene of Musk being on a roof yelling at the crew to change how they install solar tiles late in the night and translate it to him berating a programmer in the office to make it look like x.com and not caring about the details.

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...

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 trappings of finance outside of mining.

Just note it is most likely the person who did this was poor compared to whoever was on the other side of this trade.

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 to remember in the USA

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.

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 the effects the slowest from climate change.

One way to accurately judge climate change is to count the number and frequency of extreme events. How many 100 year weather events have you seen? How many 500 or 1000 year weather events have you seen? How many once in human history, like the drought in China have you lived through?

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, many of them would say too much federalism. Individual provinces have more individual authority than even US States and most controversial policies (1 child, social credit, lockdowns) you hear about are provincial and not federal policies.

NFL teams provide their own footballs.

Source: https://operations.nfl.com/gameday/pre-game/nfl-game-ball-pr...

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.

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 term without the holders knowing or being interested in the particular stock.

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?

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 get a Lyft or Uber to airport and actually expect to make it timely ever time.

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 can take. The later allows much more aggressive and radical maneuvers.

That means, compared to playing Go, the robot pilot can be comparatively much worse than the human and still win decisively by taking advantage of high g maneuvers.

Dart never shipped to mainline chrome. Developers could download a special version of chrome with Dart.

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 specific websites better.

This is the exact behavior that created the stimga of Microsoft's IE. We need more standards and collaboration and less browser vendors working to create their own specific experiences.

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 endorsements.

2.) Your connected with people who are a combo of being a bit clueless and want to be nice. It prompts you to endorse people all the time. Like my sibling comment's anecdote, you often get endorsed for random things from random people who have no clue what the skill is, but want to be nice.

If women were making profit off the health care, then yes.

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 card had been used.

Yes, you can opt out of going to Disneyworld.

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's not a true delisting, but the option to have your name disassociated from content.

[1] http://www.bbc.com/news/business-28130581

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 if it's possible for that type to be out of the range of your constraint.

If that's so, it throws an error. At that point you simply have to compose your types and functions so they match the constraint, and you know you are safe.

> 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 takes too much effort for most everyday interactions.

Whether it be standard small chat, quoting cultural media, or reciting social group in-jokes, much of human interaction seems to also take a "bags of tricks" approach.

Sure, but if you have access to $300 million and want to tumble $1 million, wouldn't it be hard to track you?