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This is just how labor unions roll in the Nordic countries. McDonalds learned this in Denmark [1]. The sooner Tesla realizes they need to negotiate labor contracts through the unio…

I don't know if you should knock government investment in technological development, seems to have worked pretty well for COVID vaccines, space shuttle for the Moon, and brutally c…

911 generally does perform their job well. Your issue is with the police and is valid, but there are many other public services an operator will route to you (ambulance, firefighte…

Not sure that protection is a utility, but even then I think the reason Cloudflare gets criticism/critique (not harassment...) comes as a result of the online nature of LGBTQ commu…

Yeah, it's even in the OP: "Users saying that it's a good idea / product after a demo doesn't mean that the product has PMF. Users desperately wanting to use the product and pay fo…

You're right that a quote is not necessary, but GP was describing what needs to happen for a quote to become a contract. The quote's existence is the premise.

Have you checked out https://www.nushell.sh/ ? It seems like exactly what you're describing. Although I know of people who are happily using it as their main shell, I only really u…

If you finished that paragraph (or even that sentence), you would have found that the author agrees with you! > It takes years of practice to become a terminal guru, but here's the…

Wages are certainly included in the conditions of work, some would say they're among the most important!

The whole point of a union is to have a way to challenge management effectively if their work conditions are worsened in the name of "efficiency". This comment drastically underest…

Well, it seems like you can't do those things when you're asleep... I suppose either you find a way to move those responsibilities to when you're awake or you can't use this techni…

I actually disagree with 2 parts of your premise 1. I don't think we're actually talking about that much power, in most instances the issues amount to "not behaving professionally …

As curious as I am about what you think snitching to Paul Graham would accomplish here, the comment is likely downvoted because it undersells the importance and stickiness of defau…

What features do you gain by architecting tmux/screen that way? It seems like you'd lose a nice feature, the ability to persist sessions' appearance after the client exits

I agree (I think), we need either free college or a livable minimum wage or both to solve this problem. Disagree that we need to have any low-paying jobs at all, but I suppose your…

I think it's true, just meant to be a little less literal. Things like communicating over the internet, taking notes and yes, automation are all useful. However, when they start, t…

Yeah, I heard this a lot about go. Agree that gofmt is a good call, but it’s not hard to get that one right. I’m seeing more and more of these “included batteries” being deprecated…

"Arriving in droves" is much more telling about the external conditions of the job market. I think it's safe to say that it sounds like a good gig before you have a good understand…

I think it's probably most accurate to say that there are democracies of different sizes. Your country is a more of democracy as more people have equal agency over their government…

What? It's not that there's just one Zuck, it's that there are fewer Zucks than parents. The strategy would be the same if there were 5 Facebooks competing for market share.

We can quibble over words for sure, but you're certainly implying that if nothing is done, these folks will bully people into having a bad sense of humor. Like I said, that seems u…

There's a whole lot of ad hominem in this argument. Are you scared that the CoC crowd is going to take all the funny away? That seems unlikely to me.

Ah I see, well in that case I can tell you that the author of that article disagrees with you. It's true that I don't share those same worries about cancel culture with you, my poi…

In the context of the article, the author makes it VERY clear that they mean the specific process that they underwent. Is there another take I'm missing?

From the article: "I would rather not have to write this post at all. However I know that people will ask about why my talk isn’t available on the JupyterCon site, so I felt that I…