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That's exactly what you do. Maybe we could use some employee protection laws to protect employees exercising their right to free speech. E.g., protection from being fired when they are not acting as official representatives of their employers, or talking privately, or using personal social media accounts. Don't we already have similar anti-discrimination laws?

Didn't the exact reverse of this happen in Ukraine? It was "liberated from corrupt government" by the "West"?

I use my Keurig with its reusable coffee filter. Occasionally I'll buy a bag of beans to grind, but I usually stick to Folgers.

Regarding the antibiotics, that's already the law. Additionally, I have veterinarian friend working for a state government in livestock inspections. She says there are no antibiotics in our meat, and that it hasn't been allowed for years.

I partially agree, but I think is has less to do with social safety nets and more to do with our atrocious healthcare regulations. I can go to my dentist or a car mechanic and know how much something is going to cost me. Good luck getting a quote from a doctor's office or medical insurance provider. And don't mind that auxiliary bill that arrives 6 months later. Wait, what appointment was that?

The fact is heathcare costs are outrageous, medical insurance rates are just as bad, and our current regulations are clearly not making it better. I don't know whether the ACA has slowed the progression or made it worse (everyone seems to disagree). But it needs to be fixed. That could include heavy price controls, "free-market" insurance, "single-payer" insurance, or whatever else. That would require both parties in Congress to work together, though, and not on pet projects.

Aren't most of these modern day developers 4-year Computer Science graduates though? They seem awfully short sighted to me by following every latest fad.

Don't forget cloudy too. You can go for close to a month without any sunshine around February in Grand Rapids.

This was a very compelling read. We need more poeple like Therrien to make a stand.

The fact that this sort of injustice is allowed to thrive really makes my blood boil. It makes me wish I had become a lawyer or some other legal professional instead with the authority to prosecute these predators and scammers.

You're describing society at large. This has nothing to due with "conservatism".

No, he's describing conservatism (at least the U.S. variation) which is largely classical liberalism. It does not mean "preserving the status quo at all costs".

In my experience playing Halo (maybe it was Halo 2) 15 or so years ago was that there's a subset of teenagers who shit talk for the sake of it and they'll use whatever language is most likely to offend. Sex (and race) didn't have much to due with it other than to expand the offensive word bank. That being said, the analysis done in the paper is very intriguing.

The game they played was Halo 3:

> To explore social constructionist and evolutionary explanations for sexist behaviour, we examine how individual performance and social standing affect female-directed male behaviour using an online first-person shooter video game, Halo 3 (see methods for greater details regarding the game).

Many schools already do it with their tuition rates per credit hour: the cheapest rate for city residents, then in-state residents, then out of state students. Adding a fourth tier for foreign students sounds trivial.

The reason it matters whether it's caused by humans is: mitigation. If global warming is significantly affected by our release of massive amounts of CO2, we could theoretically help mitigate the issue by stopping, and possibly reverse it. If on the other hand the rise of CO2 levels is not a significant factor, then there goes our primary idea to solving the issue.

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So you're saying that you would reject otherwise qualified candidates based on their religion (a protected class in the U.S.), which is illegal?

Godwin's law triumphs again.

I am sick of this gross, disingenuous accusation that all Conservatives must be Nazis. Conservatives are not Nazis, do not espouse Nazi beliefs, and downright reject Naziism. Just because there is some fringe group that is labeled "right" (or "alt-right") on the extremely vague political spectrum that may have Neo-nazi members, does not mean there is any remote commonality with Conservatives.

That sounds awfully toxic. Isn't it wrong? Work should be a professional environment where your political opinions are completely irrelevant.

> Technically, you're supposed to actually kill Nazis

I'm shocked to actually see this sentiment on HN. You're technically supposed to kill Nazis? That war ended 70 years ago. While I have no sympathy for Nazis, advocating murdering them makes you no better than them. This is disgraceful.

Part-time picking strawberries at a local farm at the age of 16. You were paid by the pound and I made ~$8.00/hr.

The only sure thing banning guns would do is reduce the fraction of gun deaths due to accidents. The deaths from suicide would likely shift to the next most convenient method. I highly doubt we'd see significant reduction in homicides. I'd be curious to know the numbers on homicides committed using legally vs illegally obtained guns though. Excluding accidents, these issues run far deeper than access to guns. Banning or restricting them will only mask the symptom, not cure the root causes.

That sounds like my experience with FedEx. UPS at least usually knocks.

I remember sometime in 2009 the managers at UPS gave some talk about FedEx misclassifying their employees and it was unfair, and they encouraged us to write some letter or sign some petition (I don't remember the exact details). While it was likely true, it seemed shady to me to get employees/union members involved in a business spat.

Back in 2009 I worked part-time at the early morning shift loading UPS's brown delivery trucks. I made above minimum wage with no option of overtime yielding ~12k/year. They had an education credit of 1.5k/semester provided you were a full-time student (12+ credits/semester). I don't remember about the health insurance because I was under my parents'. At that time there was a 10 year wait queue for full-time employment because it's primarily seniority based. And the Teamsters union initiation dues suck your first month of pay.

Oh, make sure to properly pad your fragile packages because they may or may not be pushed, shoved, flipped, thrown, or dropped depending on how busy it is.

Just for the record to prevent any potential confusion: we Michiganders don't call pop "ginger". We do like our ginger ale though (particularly Vernors, but Canada Dry isn't bad).

I haven't had any service disruption with Gmail or Youtube in VA.

That's a good point. Others have answered that and I agree with them. But we also have to work with what we have. Petty things like drug possession should be decriminalized. However, good luck getting Congress or state legislatures to decriminalize minor things that aren't en vogue like marijuana. Taxes should be raised to fund the courts and other vital services. But everyone hates taxes so I doubt that will happen either. I'd really like to avoid the Judge Dredd style enforcement that we seem to be slowly approaching.

Well that's how we got into this mess in the first place. The only people who seem to work in it are incapable of doing the right thing. Doing nothing isn't going to fix it. And burning it to the ground isn't a realistic option.

While I kind of agree with the sentiment whose to say the replacement will be any better? And who even has the power to replace the system? Working from within and doing what you can to improve it sounds like the most plausible solution to me.

Frankly, if the courts can't handle the load of the minor cases, those cases should be dropped in favor of pursuing the more severe ones. The courts should be damn well certain someone is in fact guilty before convicting him instead of copping out and allowing plea bargains.