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Can you elaborate please?

> That solidarity was more naturally built in places like coal mines where workers were closely collocated and was more difficult to build in framework knitting, where workers were…

> Makes you wonder why no one wants to be his friend? Wow, what a way to be bitter and defensive.

It doesn't matter if GP is able to discern the difference, it matters if your CEO is forced to care about the difference.

To be completely honest with you, it's a bit of both. I realise that this idea is somewhat obnoxious, hence the gallows humour. At the same time, I genuinely don't think we have a …

Can't exactly help out with childbirth if you don't have an uterus.

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Ha, this has some serious There Will Come Soft Rains energy.

You jest, but I'd think it really is the opposite. Hard to care too much for a child if you've got five spare ones.

It is a problem, because all these people want a good standard of living which strains the environment.

Pray tell, what do you mean by "the rest of the world"? Surely it's not Western Europe, which is already being strangled by the cost of the welfare state?

Not gonna happen.

Even by your definition, HN is still full of off-topic politics these days.

I think there is progress on allowing agents to pay?

To butcher a famous poem, it's better to have hired and lost than never to have hired at all . Restrictions on letting go of enployees mean that companies are afraid to hire. They …

> What kind of people do you think are interested in this kind of rigid rubric? This is actually spot on. In my last gig I was working with the kind of people French job security p…

And the coal workers too. If the industry itself is dying pr mutating then the workers are screwed either way, union or no union.

This gets trotted out every time, but let's be realistic: you can't pay your rent in European good vibes.

History knows no conditionals.

It's still not clear to me whether union protection is going to be worth the decrease in job creation. There's a reason Europe has way less IT positions with worse salaries.

In my experience most of these came from France itself or from Italy. Not exactly third world, eh?

Seconding Iosevka, it's great for code! And you can get a version without ligatures.

Aren't they going to break that too? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49045159

Take up the White Man's burden— Send forth the best ye breed— Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need; To wait in heavy harness On fluttered folk and wild— Your new…

If the majority is unable to do anything then their opposition doesn't really matter.