Readit News> ...working to bring about a big political change
Can we start a quick brainstorming what promising organizations exist that support this goals and in turn joining/supporting them would be a viable option for individuals to have an actual impact towards political change?
I'll start with the usual suspect Greenpeace.
350.org
For more than a year I've been trying to get it clear to my boss that I'm too stressed and need a less chaotic workplace. The last months I've had constant headache and fuzzy vision. I checked my blood pressure and it was 180/95. Ten months earlier when I last checked it it was 130/83. On medication now, but my heart beats so hard sometimes I think I need more medication.
When I told my boss about this, he said the usual friendly words about I need to do what I must and that he was relieved the problem was found. I nearly exploded when I read that and told him that high blood pressure is the symptom, the cause is my workplace. Got no good answer to that. I spoke to someone more senior than me and it seems hopeless to resolve this without leaving, so that's what I'm going to do. Leave, and start my own company.
I can't work for someone who lacks empathy and is dangerous to my life.
I'd suggest leaving and taking a break until your health issues are under control. Serious stress takes some time to work through the system. Be well!
rmchugh commented on Ask HN: My client want an agent on my laptop. Is this the new normal? · Posted by u/illud_tempus
Talk to your union. This is nonsense. We are SOC2 compliant at my employer without any surveillance tools. There are plenty of other controls that are perfectly reasonable though.
according to 5 minutes of wikipedia research:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limerick_Soviet
On Friday 11 April a meeting of the United Trades and Labour Council,
to which Byrne had been a delegate, took place. At that meeting Irish
Transport and General Workers' Union (ITGWU) representative Sean
Dowling proposed that the trade unions take over Town Hall and have
meetings there, but the proposal was not voted on.[5] On Saturday 12
April the ITGWU workers in the Cleeve's factory in Lansdowne voted
to go on strike. On Sunday 13 April, after a twelve-hour discussion
and lobbying of the delegates by workers, a general strike was called
by the city's United Trades and Labour Council.
The union was founded by James Larkin in January 1909 as a general
union.[1][2] Initially drawing its membership from branches of the
Liverpool-based National Union of Dock Labourers, from which Larkin had
been expelled, it grew to include workers in a range of industries. The
ITGWU logo was the Red Hand of Ulster, which is synonymous with ancient
Gaelic Ulster.
James Larkin (28 January 1874 – 30 January 1947), sometimes known as Jim
Larkin, was an Irish republican, socialist and trade union leader. He was
one of the founders of the Irish Labour Party along with James Connolly
and William O'Brien, and later the founder of the Irish Worker League
(a communist party which was recognised by the Comintern as the Irish
section of the world communist movement), as well as the Irish Transport
and General Workers' Union (ITGWU) and the Workers' Union of Ireland
(the two unions later merged to become SIPTU, Ireland's largest trade
union). Along with Connolly and Jack White, he was also a founder of the
Irish Citizen Army (ICA; a paramilitary group which was integral to both
the Dublin lock-out and the Easter Rising). Larkin was a leading figure
in the Syndicalist movement.[3]
Doesn't mean the proto-SU planned this activity particularly, but claiming 'no connection' when people involved were part of global revolutionary activity directly connected to groups descending from the internationale and associated with the cominform is also just as tenuous if not moreso.
You have no idea what you're talking about.
In retrospect, the brief Irish flirtation with the Soviet Union seems both inevitable and doomed. A small state trying to establish itself must look for potential allies wherever it can; but the overwhelmingly Roman Catholic nationalist Ireland and the forcibly atheist internationalist USSR were not lasting partners.
Quite the understatement here.
It's nonsensical in my opinion. There is no reference to relations between the "Soviet" and Soviet Russia. The only connection is the name.
rmchugh commented on Are we on the road to civilisation collapse? (2019) bbc.com/future/article/20... · Posted by u/hiddencache
What does this have to do with anything? Most of the West (let alone most of the rest of the world) is far better off than it was even just 50 years ago by almost every single metric you can conceive.
It's hard to believe it's due to financial games exclusively: people are better off in real terms.
Inequality is a problem because when members of your community are living in very different conditions, the cohesion of said community is undermined, but worrying about inequality is the archetypical first world problem: a problem nonetheless, but a problem that presumes you've come a long way.
it's not about financial games, but rather externalities. There are significant external costs of our way of life that are borne by others. That new car emits CO2 that contributes to global heating. The steaks we eat come from cows that have been fed with soy beans from cleared rainforests. etc etc.
rmchugh commented on Focus: Assign multiple engineers to the same task dpc.pw/focus-assign-multi... · Posted by u/signa11
This is the essence of Mob Programming as popularised by Woody Zuill. Can recommend.
rmchugh commented on Production-Oriented Development paulosman.me/2019/12/30/p... · Posted by u/kiyanwang
The trick is, one person's impossible scenario is another person's normal operating condition.
I've made chat software work when DNS is broken. Other people say that's an impossible situation.
Definitely not an impossible situation. Could even be a regular situation given a flaky DNS provider and a sufficient volume of requests.
Does this suggest that a large fraction of laid off employees were in non-tech roles (e.g. pro{ject,duct} managers, scrum masters, sales, etc.)?
If so, perhaps the layoffs are a good thing—in my experience, the worst tech companies to work for are those dominated by non-technical employees. Perhaps layoffs are being used as a blunt instrument to shift the balance away from that.