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memefrogon EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals

You have choice, the choice to buy an Android phone, already.

memefrogon Hyprland Is a Toxic Community

Note that sway was written by the author of this blogpost.

No, it's well known to everyone everywhere that trafficking drugs into Singapore will get you a death sentence. Those drugs destroy families, they absolutely destroy families.

memefrogon Ask HN: Why did Python win?

It is not hard to write C. It is hard to write large safe multi-developer C programs with complex object lifetimes. But if you are just writing an inner loop in a CPython extension it is easy.

memefrogon Companies That Union-Bust Must Now Automatically Recognize Union, NLRB Rules

What the hell? No warning, nothing. Never been moderated before then wham I am banned. Sad.

memefrogon Companies That Union-Bust Must Now Automatically Recognize Union, NLRB Rules

None of your bizarre rant has anything to do with what we were discussing. As always, people like you drag out discussions on minor asides and random disputes about word choices rather than focusing on the actual issue being discussed.

If you cannot see that unions are price-fixing conspiracies then you can only be described as wilfully blind. Where you claim that it is just the same as multiple hiring managers working for the same firm.. It just boggles the mind.

Maybe it needs to be spelt out really simply for you: a union is not a firm. You don't hire a union. You hire employees. Unions do not want you to hire non-union employees and would make doing so illegal if they could. Unions want to "represent" an entire industry. They do not want competition.

So don't go round claiming it is just like a firm with multiple employees. That is nonsense.

memefrogon Companies That Union-Bust Must Now Automatically Recognize Union, NLRB Rules

Are you on drugs?

memefrogon Slack’s migration to a cellular architecture

It isn't one person's experience with the UI. It is everyone's. If you don't think Slack is slow then you have forgotten what "slow" means. It is a chat program. It is incredibly simple. It is not doing anything complicated. We have gigabit internet, CPUs with multi-GHz clocks and high IPC rates, NVMe 4 SSDs that load data from disk almost instantly. It should open in milliseconds, not several seconds. That it ever takes a noticeable amount of time to do anything reveals deep flaws in Slack's engineering culture, because it shows they just don't care about performance at all.

If they had "good infra people" then their program wouldn't sit and spin for seconds, ever.

memefrogon 66% of Americans say they want extended European-style vacation policies at work

Income tax is by far the largest and most significant tax, and I gave examples of other taxes in which the rich pay far more.

Do you really think the poor pay the most company tax?

memefrogon Companies That Union-Bust Must Now Automatically Recognize Union, NLRB Rules

What he said is complete and utter nonsense.

memefrogon Companies That Union-Bust Must Now Automatically Recognize Union, NLRB Rules

There is no such thing as "capitalism". That is a smear-word created by socialists to mis-describe the "system" (which isn't a system at all) wherein people are able to freely trade with each other. Commerce isn't a system, it's a human activity that has existed for all of human history.

So yes it is a cornerstone of socialism to falsely claim that (evil, greedy, immoral) "capitalists" exist, who "acquire capital" and in doing so "acquire power" as opposed to the (noble and virtuous) workers who are actually the ones that generate all the value, but who suffer at the hands of the evil greedy capitalists who exploit them and steal all that value.

Somehow we're meant to believe that despite these noble and virtuous workers generating all the value and far-outnumbering the evil, greedy capitalists, that the fact they haven't revolted and changed the system is because they're so oppressed and powerless (even though apparently they generate all value? what?).

It's just an incoherent mess of ideological nonsense. It puts people into two categories, even though actually most people are in both categories. Everyone with retirement savings (vast majority of people) is a "capitalist" and everyone with a job (vast majority of people) is a "worker".

memefrogon 66% of Americans say they want extended European-style vacation policies at work

"High-Income Taxpayers Paid the Majority of Federal Income Taxes. In 2020, the bottom half of taxpayers earned 10.2 percent of total AGI and paid 2.3 percent of all federal individual income taxes. The top 1 percent earned 22.2 percent of total AGI and paid 42.3 percent of all federal income taxes."

https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/federal/summary-latest-fe...

In New Zealand, about 12% of individuals pay about 50% of personal income tax, and the top 3% pay about a quarter. That doesn't take into account the amount they are taxed indirectly through GST or through company tax on companies they own shares in.

memefrogon Companies That Union-Bust Must Now Automatically Recognize Union, NLRB Rules

Argument from dictionary definition is cringe.

If employers refuse to negotiate with employees individually, and set a fixed maximum price for labour, that is clearly unlawful, collusive, cartel behaviour. If they enforced this by refusing to honour their contracts and refusing to pay employees or give them work, this would also be unlawful.

If employees do the same then the left pretends it is normal.

Note that unions had to be made legal by legislative fiat. At common law, unions were illegal associations in restraint of trade.

memefrogon Companies That Union-Bust Must Now Automatically Recognize Union, NLRB Rules

Employers and employees are not opposed to each other, and nothing would ever get done if they were. They have a symbiotic relationship.

Employers are, contrary to what you have implied, not permitted to band together to negotiate as a group. That is called wage fixing.

memefrogon Companies That Union-Bust Must Now Automatically Recognize Union, NLRB Rules

Yes you are. You are choosing where to put your money to generate the best return.

memefrogon Companies That Union-Bust Must Now Automatically Recognize Union, NLRB Rules

What he said is the cornerstone of socialism.

There isn't a way that it is incorrect. It just isn't. It is like asking "how is it incorrect to say Wubble Bubble Jibble Quibble." It is a bunch of words placed together to form nonsense. He didn't give any reasons to support any of what he said.

memefrogon Slack’s migration to a cellular architecture

"For example slack is an incredibly successful product. But it seems like every week I encounter a new bug that makes it completely unusable for me, from taking seconds per character when typing to being completely unable to render messages. (Discord on the other hand has always been reliable and snappy despite, judging by my highly scientific googling, having 1/3rd as many employees. So it's not like chat apps are just intrinsically hard.) And yet slack's technical advice is popular and if I ran across it without having experienced the results myself it would probably seem compelling."

https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/on-bad-advice/

memefrogon Slack’s migration to a cellular architecture

>isn't this just the normal enshittification cycle that occurs with all Internet products?

No! Stop diluting this word.

memefrogon Companies That Union-Bust Must Now Automatically Recognize Union, NLRB Rules

Socialism will never be correct. It is and has always been logically incoherent.

You are simply wrong.

memefrogon Companies That Union-Bust Must Now Automatically Recognize Union, NLRB Rules

When you buy shares in a company you are investing in it and providing the company with capital.

memefrogon Companies That Union-Bust Must Now Automatically Recognize Union, NLRB Rules

Unions are cartels for workers. They are anticompetitive in the same way that cartels are.

memefrogon 66% of Americans say they want extended European-style vacation policies at work

You can't tax your way to wealth. Taxing the rich more won't make the quality of life of the average person better. The rich already pay the OVERWHELMING majority of tax.

memefrogon Why the US is one of only a few countries with no paid time off

If they don't have paid time off then clearly they don't value it. Any state legislature could pass legislation creating that rule. Maybe let people democratically choose their own rules

memefrogon Why the US is one of only a few countries with no paid time off

Yes the US also has rules you muppet. They have some rules that are federal rules, but most rules are state rules. That is a perfectly fine system.

memefrogon Why the US is one of only a few countries with no paid time off

Making rules at the right level that makes sense is not "oppression". Is it oppressive that you local city council manages rubbish collection and not your national government? Is it oppressive that you have a national military and not an EU military?

Use your fucking brain before you comment again

memefrogon The EU's war on behavioral advertising

Don't watch YouTube Shorts then.

memefrogon The EU's war on behavioral advertising

Every web server logs request information. Is that spying on you too? If you go to a website, they aren't "spying" on you, you are volunteering your information to them. Stop hitting yourself.

memefrogon The EU's war on behavioral advertising

How does it protect online news websites to prevent people from sharing links to their articles on social media? That's a major discovery mechanism for their content.

memefrogon Why the US is one of only a few countries with no paid time off

>The United States is one of just a handful of countries — others include India, Pakistan, Suriname, and Papua New Guinea — that have no national policy guaranteeing workers paid annual leave. (It’s also among the few with no federal laws guaranteeing paid parental leave or paid sick days.) Any benefit offered to workers, like paid time off, is entirely up to the discretion of private employers.

It's not "up to the discretion of private employers". It is up to the contractual arrangement between an employee and his employer.

The USA is a huge place. It isn't obvious to me that there should be national laws for things like this. This is exactly the sort of thing you'd expect to be set on a state-by-state basis.

memefrogon Unlocking Discord Nitro features for free

Use Firefox!