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losteverything··on Organizers have unionized 5,000 contract workers at Apple, Facebook, Yahoo
Im tech historically and in a union now and I see this difference.

I dont think any developer believes they will stay a developer and retire after 30 yrs from the company they now work. Whereas a laborer does believe they have a lifelong right to stay and retire.

losteverything··on Facebook undermines its own effort to fight fake news
At first i was going to challenge your FB responsible for trump ....but your 800 analogy got me really thinking. All !all! Those i know who voted trump didn't like lima beans. Never order them. Never taste them. Never buy them. Simply hate the taste of them. Hillary is a lima bean. Plus, they dont have FB. But their friends do and so does the tv humans they watch. So even the 800 is really more...

But... Isnt it simply the fact that its the many to many aspect? Today its trump. Tomorrow it can be [someonefamous.al]

losteverything··on Education Startups Court Brand-Name Teachers, Raising Ethics Issues
/s??? "but in an age where teachers are underpaid"

Underpaid is a word not to be used with teachers salaries. Just look at any district here

http://php.app.com/agent/

losteverything··on The Premium Mediocre Life of Maya Millenial
feeling like i am stupid and naive for trying to do things the "right" way

You are in the forrest with no GPS

Take a very deep dive into your family tree. Ask how and why with each relative or dead tree.

I found hard work. I also found this: greatness by association is hollow and shallow.

Dont be bothered analysing other people or other families.

losteverything··on Delta Goes Big, Then Goes Home
Who was on the arrival flight?
losteverything··on Amazon to Build Second HQ in North America
This could be aimed at a specific powerful senator/congressman that can change policy.

What federal rule hampers Amazon, and if unleashed would cause great profit?

Privatize USPS Internet tax? Transportation (own roadways)

What policies?

losteverything··on Divorce and Occupation
Ill add this

Birth order. (i can't for the life of me find the source).

Birth order can be huge in predicting agreeableness. The "get along" factor.

First born. Middle. Baby. Only. Powerful dynamics

losteverything··on Divorce and Occupation
Im sorry for you. Stevie Wonder said the first thing he would do if he had sight would be touch the earth.

You are a blind man asking us what is the earth.

We cannot answer.

losteverything··on An email from Elon Musk to employees: “Communication Within Tesla”
<Is this common at a lot of companies?

Everyone I've been in: Fortune 5, small biz, govt monopoly, r&d lab, retail

One example: a legal department vs. Sales&marketing. Legal believes they can veto marketing decisions. A fuzzy plan to use CPMI was initiated by marketing. Legal said "you must stop"

Marketing said "buzz off, you Legal, are in the 'advice' business. We exercise our right to ignore it."

Several members in sales marketing kept in close contact with legal... Before and after... And were quickly transferred.

Btw, the decision went to the BofD who naturally gave no reason to stop.

losteverything··on Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber (2000)
it seems clear to me -- comes from his inability to come to terms with living in a society.

This.

If he were free today would he reddit or 4chan or something else?

Just a smart killing nut who took the effort that is now not required because of social sites

losteverything··on Young People Need Another Gold Rush
To have another gold rush we have to slow down the flow of information. No longer can a man search for a better life, based on simple writings. Now, everything is validated or rejected before he can pack his bags and head west.

We are currently living in a gold rush.. Make something and sell it online. Or support those that do.

losteverything··on When it comes to internet privacy, be afraid, analyst suggests
It's about ease.

Before the internet, it was very hard for the average person to find out stuff. Maybe not having a ring on the finger meant they are single. Or are they divorced?

Now, it is just too easy. And commonplace.

Sure, all if our lifes events could have been collected. They were called biographers. Now they are called everyman.

Data had always been collected. Just never easily retrieved.

For me, i am appalled that some people i know think absolutely nothing about googling a person they just met. To me, they were not reared properly of they do that.

losteverything··on Is There Any Point to Protesting?
Omg. What i learned would not allow the comparison and analysis you used.

I wish it was 1979 again and i could have recorded my physics prof...

losteverything··on Is There Any Point to Protesting?
Well...im not really sure why a nuke hasn't been deployed yet. But for me the protests allowed me to learn the significant difference between an atomic bomb and a nuke. I always thought it was just a larger bomb.

Protests helped me realize what people dont say anymore: one nuke will cancel the species.

losteverything··on Is There Any Point to Protesting?
"If a protest falls outside of the media, does it make an impact?"

No. But in my lifetime these protests changed life

Womens rights. NOW. riggs vs billy Jean king. Women took a job away from a man. Now you cant afford to own a house without a woman's income.

Vietnam war. War is bad. Draft is evil. How america treated returning soldiers means today it is taboo to say anything negative about a veteran. (yet 20 years earlier there was family shame if you didn't enlist for wwii)

Civil rights. Who even met a negro back in 1966??. Now who cares.

Gay rights. So.. Its not about inability to procreate... Before gays were oddities. Now.. Who cares. Marriage even.

Animal rights. Yeah, out of sight... Lets protest. Cleveland amory. Aspca.. Now we turned the word "rescue" into a washed out version of saving.

Nukes. We forget that one nuke will wipe out life with years of darkness... Remember iran in 1979??? "Nuke Iran"

YES. PROTESTS MATTER

losteverything··on Facebook Figured Out a Family Secret and Won't Tell Me How
Wrt dna testing, my feeling is this: I don't want to be a voyeur of my families past, i want to be its friend.

I wont ever give my dna simply because i want to keep family secrets secret. To honor their wishes. One of the worst cases is you find out your father isn't your father. Or gf or ggf etc..

This article [1] is an example.

Family secrets should be kept secret.

I can imagine matching dna to pregnancy terminations.

Just don't submit your dna at all.

[1] http://goo.gl/8RMztZ

losteverything··on What dinner time looks like across the USA
They are missing something: if you don't feed the darn animals first you don't eat in peace!

Where were the pets in the pics?

losteverything··on Inside Waymo's Secret World for Training Self-Driving Cars
"Avoid highway braking!" was drilled into us in drivers ed.

Too slow was equal to too fast during drivers ed.

We had a trailer with a simulator screen and a projector, and about 10 or so fake wheels, brakes and accelerator. He would stop the reel and quiz us about the scene (kid on bike about to cross road; kid hidden by truck. ) The instructor had a print out of our actions. Pretty sophisticated for the mid '70s.

losteverything··on HackerNews Grid
"Department of redundancy departmemt"

https://www.google.com/search?q=cartoon+department+of+redund...:

losteverything··on What Should Happen to People’s Online Identity When They Die?
I totally agree, but based on the reaction to this guys christmas cards after he died [1] this idea is not received well (which i dont understand). You are thinking about loved ones in the future by your request. I doube FB would go for it.

[1] http://www.nbcnews.com/id/22394223/ns/us_news-weird_news/t/d...

losteverything··on What Should Happen to People’s Online Identity When They Die?
<Imagine being persecuted in your life pbecause some ggggm whom you never knew

Well.. Everyone has someone who can be judged by current times.

I have no pictures to speak of; no writings; no videos; no future messages;

Just because its very time consuming to establish the past doesn't mean its not my family's past. Im not judged now because of it.

Really, can you name a better way to totally bore someone other than talking (for more than 4 munites) about one's family??

This wont be an issue, IMO

losteverything··on What Should Happen to People’s Online Identity When They Die?
They need to establish a policy for 3 or 4 or 5 generations from now. Like the us government allowing old census data but not new.

As a genealogy fan with known roots spanning centuries, at some point there no longer is any connection or feeling to a ggggf or gggg aunt.

I absolutely CRAVE to learn what life was like for my family. Why did one uncle hunt and send birds eggs overseas? Or one gggggm rode horseback to come to aid revolutionary soldiers? What battle?

Facebook probably will just be an archive 120 years from now. But a extreme long term policy will assist future genealogists. Something like "after 80 years past the death, all fb related data is available." after 25 years its available to direct line descendants.

losteverything··on An 80s Girl Talks About Computers: A Reminiscence
Nothing about computers back then was social. There was no social component. Programs done by yourself, at a keypunch. Output read by yourself. Hard to study in groups. You can't really have a debate about the sign bit.

Pre-wed majors were social.. Comp sci was not

losteverything··on Ask HN: What mistakes in your experience does management keep making?
Not terminating non performers

Not forcing coasters to retire to make room for rising (or risen) stars

losteverything··on How Driscoll’s Reinvented the Strawberry
For years we have commented and purchased Driscolls.. They are the most flavorful and last even longer than picked-your-own by me..

What i wonder is how driscoll and others are all grouped together in the supermarket... The only difference is the label. Are they from the same growers fields? How does a grocery store receive its berries?

losteverything··on Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo
Were the questions asked in person and scribed "live" or submitted?
losteverything··on Neo-nazi group moves to 'dark web' after domain registration revoked
I know i should know this, but i dont really.

"Dark web" - can somebody give me a compare & contrast example, say with a house (rooms, driveway, address???) as the example.

In the "regular house i ...." in the "dark house i...."

losteverything··on Americans Love Ordering Pizza on Facebook
Is it a national chain? Or does your local independent pizza joint have online
losteverything··on Americans Love Ordering Pizza on Facebook
When looking into the decline of automats (Amazon's recent announcement is automat like), one was the fact that vending machines did not have a bill acceptors. Inflation meant more coins was a hassle...

Now, paying by human exchange is being trumped by the finger only

losteverything··on Amazon opens 'Instant Pickup' points in US brick-and-mortar push
First impression was the automat ... people quickly refilling the doors.

Are there any left?

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