minimuffins

> As well as any nation who's best and brightest minds refuse to contribute

Sickening pro robo war jingoism!

Going to the wreckage is a reasonable idea. There will be an ELT in there which is what a rescue crew will come looking for. Plus it's easier to spot from the air than a lone person. And maybe something useful survived the crash.

That said, it's an incredibly fake stunt video.

Eh yeah, you're right. I was really thinking about white collar vs blue collar unions.

Yes! I keep seeing these idealistic responses about negotiation.

When you negotiate a higher salary, you are saying to your boss, look, I know I am creating more value for you than I'm getting as a wage, and I know you can't just swap me out with somebody else. You're actually making a demand that needs to be underwritten with a credible threat, no matter how politely you communicate that. You demand that the company realign your wage with your value (actually, you demand that they get closer, they of course never pay you your full value, or they don't make any money).

It's really that simple. You get what you have the power to get. It's not magic, and it's not all about the attitude or w/e.

Of course we are all still constrained by material reality! If you can't make the credible threat, you can't "just" negotiate. (Duh)

I think you'll have a hard time sourcing that claim.

The games industry is notorious for crunch hiring and firing, low wages and exhausting work regimes. When work conditions like that prevail, people unionize (good for them imo). If there's anything surprising about it, it's that people put up with it for this long.

Yeah, it's a good idea to learn how to negotiate and good advice to leave a failing company if you can.

But "just learn to negotiate" is really a non-solution if the goal is to transform unacceptable industry wide labor practices.

You think that's enough? I guess we'll find out.

> increasing reliability and resilience

I'm far from well versed in this area but I was under the impression that renewables really suffer in this department. The lifespan of a wind turbine is about 20 years. We don't know exactly what the lifespan of a nuclear plant is but it's certainly longer than that. And of course the availability on solar and other "harvesting" type mechanisms can be inconsistent, up and down as a function of weather, etc. What am I missing?

> and we do need to fix that

I can't see any way of fixing it that doesn't entail interfering with the (supposedly) natural operations of profit seeking in the market.

At some point we need a state (or somebody or something that is in charge and able to reconfigure and manage economic processes "from above"), some agent or authority to be able to say, "Build this. Don't build that. Do it even if it doesn't make any money." Or we'll eventually experience our own very profitable self negation.

> No HR person would allow unpaid intern positions in 2021. It's very clearly illegal in the United States.

Unless this claim is scoped to the tech industry, it's absolutely wrong. Frankly I don't know the actual legal status but it's standard practice in a lot of industries, esp. things like publishing.

We = everyone who has to work to earn a living. And as I say, most especially people who can afford to take a pass on bullshit no-pay work and try to establish a culture where such exploitation is impermissible (like it used to be).

> you think this free market thing means get the government involved to prevent some kind of exploitation?

Can't parse that.

We ought to establish norms that discredit this kind of nonsense. Those of us who could afford to take on this kind of unpaid work for exposure ought to object sternly and without any particular regard for professional decorum (just like the author) when these sort of offers come by, because the other side has already thrown all of that out.

Always treat an "offer" for work without pay like the insult it is.

I honestly thought this was going to be about alternatives to less and more.

I think there's actually a case to be made that there is widespread soft corporate censorship enforcing a new orthodoxy on race discourse (and other things), I'm just waiting on somebody to make it rather than just firing another blind volley in the culture war.