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Being a police officer is an unskilled position. Something that can be filled in an afternoon. Break up the union, force them to quit en masse. The good ones can be rehired on individual liability insurance like nurses or doctors.


The tropics were heavily forested and it wasn’t really until you got to temperate regions that arable land that was relatively clear appeared.


Depends on what you’re looking for. I’d say anecdotally it is between 5-15% missing for me.


Indian drivers don’t fail DMV tests because they know the right course of action but consciously ignore it while driving in India (a complete lack of civic sense). This is essentially the broken window theory manifesting itself in all of India’s major cities.


The only union in America that needs busting is the cops union. Low skilled work that doesn’t even rank in the top 20 most dangerous jobs. Bring on personal liability insurance and call it a day.


Interestingly, in the UK the police are explicitly not allowed to unionize. The fire brigade are and have occasionally gone on strike.

Instead they have three different professional organisations, because the UK is ridiculously class-stratified: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_Federation_of_England_a...

> Superintendents and Chief superintendents are represented by a separate staff association, the Police Superintendents' Association of England and Wales (PSA),[3] while the most senior officers are members of the Chief Police Officers Staff Association (CPOSA).


You’re being downvoted because of right wing teamism that dang and company refuse to address or are not equipped to deal with.


And the teacher's union... which will not allow the firing of bad teachers ("reassignments"), resulting in mis-justice to student in US who then fail to get necessary skills to succeed in this world.


How about any public sector union? They do services that have no competition, allowing them to extract taxpayer money with no substitute providers.


I agree. I cannot think of a justification for public sector unions.

The typical pro-union argument for companies is that they protect workers against abuses by the company.

In the public sector, the union is supposed to protect workers from the citizens? I haven't ever heard of a good theoretical argument for them. Would be interested if someone knew of one.


I guess (?) that they protect low level civil servants from the whims of politicians and political administrative changes.


Perhaps public entities should not enter into collective bargaining agreements with public sector unions, but freedom of association is guaranteed in the constitution, it's not going to be possible to ban unions in the US.


There is no bigger abuser of workers than we the citizens. We don't intend to, but we do generally expect extraordinary results for a pittance investment of resources with all sorts of strings attached.

Public sector unions are fine.


US government spending was $6.5 Trillion last year. I think it's OK to expect extraordinary results for that amount of money.


Sure. Let's start with the police, and then we'll go after whichever next union is killing people across the country.

Edit: Your downvotes only make it more obvious that you don't really have a counterpoint to the police's homicidal tendencies nor their unions' participation in crafting legal protections for their actions.


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Yeah let's hate on teachers because.. checks notes... they don't want to die due to a disproportionate amount of them being in covid high risk groups.


Even CDC says it's safe to open schools - kids are not a major transmission vector. How come private and Catholic schools are open and there isn't a massive spike in Covid cases?

Do you think it's fine for American kids to be even further behind in today's global skill race?


> Even CDC says it's safe to open schools - kids are not a major transmission vector.

The last time I heard of a local government opening schools with the "not a major transmission vector" argument was in Berlin, and they had no grasp on infection tracing. Yes, kids tend to be asymptomatic. But asymptomatic carriers are still infectious.

> How come private and Catholic schools are open and there isn't a massive spike in Covid cases?

Because that's just a small section of the population.


The rest of the developed world doesn't have 100k covid cases a day.


What's "the rest of the developed world"? France has 21k new covid cases in a day, and a population of 67 million versus a population of 328 million in the US, so the per capita rate is almost identical. Other west European countries at least are similar, usually slightly lower, but not dramatically lower e.g. by orders of magnitude.


The rest of the developed world isn't in a very different position with respect to covid. The US is around 30 cases/100k/day and the EU is around 20 cases/100k/day

https://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=countr...


That’s on par with busting the plumbers union because people die in their bathtubs. It’s a bad faith argument and your bias is showing.


That’s like enjoying a diamond you overpaid for or an art forgery. Just because it makes you happy doesn’t mean you haven’t been swindled.


So, buy cheap wine and enjoy it without regrets! :)

I know, that's empty advice. Drinking expensive wine is usually about signalling social status; it's not really about taste.


Well I don’t really drink but it’s the principle of the matter! I want to be happy and content without being swindled.


Kinda sad that the key to always being sharp is to make sure you’re always a little stressed, or uncomfortable or on edge or “out of your comfort zone”.


I’m not sure that needs to be a bad thing. I think the takeaway is that there’s good stress and bad stress. That was my conclusion anyhow; a little stress releases cortisol which is a steroid, too much causes burnout.


It’s all in the wording. I think the point is to avoid momentum and autopilot. But challenging yourself and learning new things doesn’t need to mean unwelcome stress or discomfort.


This is the type of thing that I hate about life. You are looked down by others for being content and your body also punishes you for being content.


It's rather that the body punishes you for being too content. One has to be content in moderation.


People also roast chestnuts and cashews over a fire. Marshmallows are also roasted. It’s seems like a term originating in common parlance and not specifically a marketing term. I seriously doubt coffee is carcinogenic (if that’s what you’re suggesting) besides the baseline grilled/roasted food danger to the stomach/small intestines.


That baseline danger is not negligible. You could read forever on the negative health implications of PAHs, invite you to do a google search. Does that mean the carcinogenicity makes coffee a net unhealthy beverage despite all of its health promoting qualities? Current studies would suggest no. Does carcinogenicity of other consumed roasted foods make them “net unhealthy” rather than not consuming them at all? As per current data, certainly for all types of meat, probably for all other types of roasted or smoked foods, obviously dependent on the amount of roasting/smoking involved.


They literally cloned the Apple II, I think you’re giving them a little too much credit.


With the resources they had (almost nothing) in the stilted, moribund economy of the Soviet Bloc, cloning the Apple II is quite an incredible technical achievement.


Not really, they put together readily available ICs on a standard board.


It was an eminently cloneable (and already old) computer, evolved from a hobbyist design. With state-level support, this is not by any means an 'incredible technical achievement' even for a small COMECON country (which had already produced things like IBM/360 clones, etc).


Yeah, if you have the fab, circuit board manufacturing plant, and assembly plant then it is. Keep in mind that you are economically isolated from the rest of the world, forcing you to do things like copy designs to save time and limited resources for building the machines.


I mean, I lived there, I have some idea. Cloning this thing in the 80s was a no big deal. These places were neither as resource poor, isolated or technologically backwards as you seem to think.


Same, I feel absolutely alive in a hot, dry desert environment. I wake up with no issues, I fall asleep immediately and feel my best creatively in a desert. I feel like I’m sleep walking in any place with a damp, cold environment.


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