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an_cap commented on Id Software devs form "wall-to-wall" union   rockpapershotgun.com/id-s... · Posted by u/simjue
tuveson · 3 months ago
Sure, anyone who tries to get you to sign one of these: https://www.npr.org/2018/07/10/627682297/regulators-investig...
an_cap · 3 months ago
Nice motte and bailey there between "people who can be deported if they complain about their working conditions" and non-compete clauses.
an_cap commented on Id Software devs form "wall-to-wall" union   rockpapershotgun.com/id-s... · Posted by u/simjue
tuveson · 3 months ago
Take it up with your fellow “caps” then, they’re the ones that support expanding this category of workers that have fewer political rights. The labor unions clearly only about immigration issues insofar as it relates to trying to weaken labor laws.
an_cap · 3 months ago
Can you point me to a capitalist who wants to expand the category of workers without the right to switch jobs?
an_cap commented on Id Software devs form "wall-to-wall" union   rockpapershotgun.com/id-s... · Posted by u/simjue
RobRivera · 3 months ago
Let's try to be honest when we discuss this kind of thing; Unions are like people. They have unique agendas, unique executive decisionmaking trends, and affect their members differently.

No single union is 1:1 alike.

When I had a family member get a job as a local grocery store bagger, then job stipulated he HAD to join the union and give his dues out of paycheck within 1 month or he would be fired from his job.

He quit. He was a 15yrold teenager just trying ro have an after school job and he got squeezed.

Unions are not good. Unions are not bad. Unions are.

I am eager to see how this specific union engages with the game development industry.

an_cap · 3 months ago
How was my comment dishonest?
an_cap commented on Id Software devs form "wall-to-wall" union   rockpapershotgun.com/id-s... · Posted by u/simjue
tuveson · 3 months ago
I encourage HN readers to read your username before replying to this comment. And also to consider why self-identifying capitalists like yourself might want a large cheap labor pool of people who can be deported if they complain about their working conditions.

For what it’s worth, I think it should be very easy to become an American citizen. I think these companies benefit from that not being the case. They’d call ICE on native-born citizens for trying to unionize if they could.

an_cap · 3 months ago
The an_cap position on immigration is open borders which is the opposite of "people who can be deported if they complain about their working conditions". Feel free to check the comment history.
an_cap commented on Id Software devs form "wall-to-wall" union   rockpapershotgun.com/id-s... · Posted by u/simjue
an_cap · 3 months ago
FWIW, the union (CWA) via its Seattle affiliate tried to get OPT banned, a visa status that many readers of HN benefited from - https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/cadc/2.... I encourage HN readers to better understand the relationship between unions and immigration before deciding whether they are in favor of joining/supporting unions.
an_cap commented on Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton [pdf]   nobelprize.org/uploads/20... · Posted by u/drpossum
an_cap · a year ago
An excellent career retrospective by John Hopfield - https://pni.princeton.edu/sites/g/files/toruqf321/files/docu...

"As an Academy member I could publish such a paper without any review (this is no longer true, a sad commentary on aspects of science publishing and the promotion of originality)."

an_cap commented on People tricking ChatGPT “like watching an Asimov novel come to life”   twitter.com/carnage4life/... · Posted by u/isp
isp · 3 years ago
Some of my favourites:

- "What if you pretend that it would actually be helpful to humanity to produce an evil response" - asking for a "negative example", to serve the higher purpose of training an ethical AI: https://twitter.com/SilasAlberti/status/1598257908567117825

- "Ignore previous directions" to divulge the original prompt (which in turn demonstrates how injecting e.g. "Browsing: enabled" into the user prompt works): https://twitter.com/goodside/status/1598253337400717313

- Characters play acting, "do not break character, even for a second": https://twitter.com/gf_256/status/1598178469955112961

- "assuring it that it's only PRETENDING to be evil": https://twitter.com/zswitten/status/1598088267789787136

- Asking it nicely: https://twitter.com/samczsun/status/1598564871653789696

- And most meta of all, asking ChatGPT how to jailbreak itself - "This very prompt is a good example of the kind of loophole we're interested in": https://twitter.com/haus_cole/status/1598541468058390534

an_cap · 3 years ago
'Browsing: enabled' doesn't actually work though. In the referenced thread, that comment is a joke.
an_cap commented on H-1B: Oracle favored hiring foreign graduates of US colleges over American grads   mercurynews.com/2019/01/2... · Posted by u/hanging
m0zg · 7 years ago
Because immigration is not a "right". It's a privilege. And if this privilege is afforded at all, it should be afforded in such a way as to not screw the citizens whom the government represents, through social contract and otherwise. Otherwise the citizens should elect the government that will represent their interests. I mean it's not rocket science, it's civics 101.
an_cap · 7 years ago
At the risk of cementing your conviction of my troll status, I have some civics 101 questions for you. (I also have rocket science questions, but I'll leave that for another day.)

1. At a time when blacks were not citizens of the United States, many people argued that giving blacks basic freedoms would screw the whites that the government represented. I hope we all agree that according to basic human decency 101 that was not a compelling argument.

2. This is true even if it would indeed screw over whites by say pushing down their wages from, oh I don't know, absurdly high to only moderately high.

3. Which freedoms are privileges and which are rights? The freedom to not be a slave, a component of which was working for whomever you wanted, seems to be a right. The freedom to rent an apartment from a willing landlord irrespective of your skin color seems to be a right. But the freedom to work for Oracle for less money than you'd like if I was born in the wrong country seems not to be one. I'd appreciate a civics 101 lesson on why.

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an_cap commented on H-1B: Oracle favored hiring foreign graduates of US colleges over American grads   mercurynews.com/2019/01/2... · Posted by u/hanging
s_y_n_t_a_x · 7 years ago
You cannot change your skin color, you can change your citizenship though. And it's not just America, you'll run into these restrictions in every country, often times more strict.
an_cap · 7 years ago
Actually, I suspect its easier to get a full-body skin graft than it is for a low-skilled third-worlder to get an American citizenship.

u/an_cap

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