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And the Chinese worker should feel lucky his job isn't shipped to Vietnam!...

And the Vietnamese worker should feel lucky his job isn't shipped to Bangladesh!...

And the Bangladeshi adult worker should feel lucky his job isn't given to Bangladeshi 9-year-olds!...

Seriously, you are right that if wages go too high and it's convenient for the company, they will take production elsewhere. That's not an argument for workers shutting up and taking scraps; it's an argument for a global minimum wage.

tl;dr Worker at the Tesla plant in Fremont, CA wants a union at the plant. There are a lot of grievances, including: health and safety; questionably legal attempts to stop workers from organizing; low pay; long hours; management that doesn't listen.

That's true to some extent. You should be able to choose a job that is a little less stressful but pays a little less, or the opposite.

But there are a lot of caveats. For example:

First of all, a company sets standards in wages, benefits, and hours to the extent that it is a monopsony [1] in its particular geographic market and labor market, and also insofar as there is unemployment in the region (and, thus, there are people who could take your job and it would be hard for you to find another job). Tesla is a very large employer of unskilled labor, as well as skilled. The Bay Area doesn't have as high unemployment as other areas, but it still has some. Therefore, the labor conditions at Tesla impact labor conditions at other workplaces to some extent.

Second, more on the level of values, why should a worker have to miss his daughter's ballet recital on Saturday because his manager told him on Friday afternoon at end-of-shift that he has to come in tomorrow? That should not be necessary in a well-run factory. Maybe it would be different if a factory worker at a Tesla factory could participate in the vision by buying a Tesla car, but that's not possible either because they're too expensive.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopsony: "In economics, a monopsony ... is a market structure in which only one buyer interacts with many would-be sellers of a particular product [here, labor]."

Probably not for production use (as most "interesting" code isn't): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duff's_device

Great course! I'm using it right now and it's some nice hands-on practice.

One nitpick: In video 14 about references vs copies, around 2:20, you say, "`team` is not the array, `team` is just a reference to the original array, which is `players`." It's a little ambiguous but to me it sounds like you're saying that the variable `players` is somehow special and different from the variable `team`, as if it's not just another reference to an underlying array. This seems like it could confuse newbies.

The upside-down "O Maners, O Tymes" is almost certainly a reference to "O tempora, o mores," used by Cicero to mourn the wickedness of his age (end of Roman republic).

Could be both, too.

I'd also be interested in seeing the correlation between the political power that poor and/or non-white communities have in the area, and the likelihood that they get stuck with such things in their neighborhoods. Anecdotally I've heard stories from the days of widespread highway construction, when both rich, white and poor, black neighborhoods were supposed to get highways built right through their neighborhoods, but only the former managed to lobby successfully against them.

It seems a little weird to be printing speculation on what the Korean source text of a translation must be like, when the NYRB should be able to find someone with a good background in Korean and English literature, who could compare the texts and tell the readers where each flaw came from.

That first one did a number on my back history, unfortunately.

Given how hard it was for me to do non cash commerce without a Chinese ID card, it's no surprise that you don't use those features. Do you use the app in English? Maybe the English version doesn't even have these features.

I'm not an expert, but I would suspect that life in North Korea is good training for being very careful with things like this.

Someone at the University of Utah produces and maintains a great piece of image processing software which unfortunately has a pretty complicated CLI UI. It can do this sort of thing and much more with a few commands. It's called Teem, and the SourceForge link is down but it's normally found at teem.sourceforge.net and under the jurisdiction of https://www.sci.utah.edu. If anyone wants a tutorial to it I can link to some given permission from the author.

It's used by at least one artist to do basically this, with Titanic: http://salavon.com/work/TopGrossingFilmAllTime/

And your point is that capitalism will renew itself once more?

"Many who work in tech are living their lives as if it's the carefree Roaring 20s, while I'm more or less stuck in the Great Depression."

Of course, the roaring twenties were themselves times of relative inequality, and that name only describes the excitement, culture, and affluence of the urban rich of the era. The author seems to be describing the modern day euphoria over the power of the tech industry to make a new world as similarly one-sided.

Funny phrasing. I usually think of third world countries as having drivers who are more aware of cyclists, and more bike-friendly roads in general. ;)

Holy shit, as someone who worked a tiny bit on that campaign, never thought I would hear Fisk and Crawford mentioned on HN.

I had the opportunity to speak with some Bangladeshi labor organizers who help workers organize unions in the textile factories there. It sounds like they are doing some great work[0][1]. Organizers' salaries are apparently well under five hundred USD per month, and they are on the front lines of a struggle against the global wage race to the bottom and unsafe working conditions. There are some organizations I've worked with in the US that have connections with some of them, and I am strongly considering to these groups in Bangladesh.

The main question is whether or not this will simply lead to these jobs being pushed to even poorer countries with even lower wages -- though that would probably help those poorer countries.

0: http://www.ranaplaza-arrangement.org/ Compensation to victims of the Rana Plaza factory disaster.

1: http://www.voanews.com/content/labor-unions-bangladesh-garme... "Since 2010, the number of active garment industry unions grew from seven to 200. They represent some 150,000 workers."

I've never read any book more than seven or eight times, but here's another view from a "centireader" (should that be "hectoreader"?): http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/09/centireading-fo...

I think there are at least two ways in which Uber is intrinsically better: One, Uber Pool, which uses network effects and a computerized super-dispatcher to let riders share cabs. Two, the concentration of capital in Uber compared to taxi companies allows investment and research in driverless cars. These result purely from Uber's size and the infrastructure which enables and is enabled by that size.

It's funny you say that. I just spent about a month in China, particularly Beijing. Because Beijing is probably the center of tourism from overseas in China, you might think it's very touristy, and it is. But the domestic tourist market is so much larger than the foreign one that it's already, as you say, "discovered and used up." Other tourist sites in China are similar, though less so.