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quadrifoliate
·قبل 8 ساعات·discuss
> Wouldn't this punish a huge number of students who struggle academically, by comparing them against better-achievers who simply skipped school?

Why would it not just compare them to the average person who skips school, which can be a combination of better and worse achievers? Is there some part I'm missing where the academically struggling are selectively compared to elite school-skippers?
quadrifoliate
·قبل 8 ساعات·discuss
You're hiding behind semantics.

Why should there be a difference in the degree being conferred at all? And if so, why not split off the departments that confer degrees with a low-earning potential and call them "entertainment schools" or something?
quadrifoliate
·قبل 8 ساعات·discuss
Licensing and degrees are not mutually exclusive. Plenty of engineers take licensing exams (CS degree holders are a large exception).
quadrifoliate
·قبل 9 ساعات·discuss
Hopefully this will revamp the educational system in such a way that the pejoratively named "trade schools" can confer bachelor's degrees on their graduates as well.

I don't really see why some no name university can confer a bachelor's in some bullshit field, but the respectable local trade school cannot confer a bachelor's in plumbing. They honestly have more of a right to do so.
quadrifoliate
·قبل 4 أيام·discuss
They are right, it's too much.

Let's reduce it to $1.39T. A company with 10 billion in market cap is still pretty big.
quadrifoliate
·قبل 4 أيام·discuss
> My English ancestors have precisely no bearing on the way I live my life any more than my German, Dutch or Polish (well, they came from what is now Poland, but would never have thought of themselves as polish). The child of immigrants in Germany is going to be far more German than I am despite my ancestry. American culture is undeniably real. American values and beliefs likewise.

I don't think you are disagreeing with the parent commenter as much as you think. The clear belief statement you are making and not considering your ancestry is a pretty core value of Americans (and one I like) that is not seen in other countries.

Most countries in the world automatically default to "my ancestors were X so I am X, if someone else's ancestors were Y then they are Y, no matter how many generations or how illogical this is". Example: people keep commenting how many players of African descent there are on the French men's soccer team. No one cares or talks about the ancestry of the players on the USMNT.
quadrifoliate
·قبل 4 أيام·discuss
> You get tons of applications for a job where people struggle with the basics with these

Any specific examples?

I'm a bit surprised because I thought that the German certifications were quite standardized. So I would expect B1 certified people to be able to speak in everyday situations.
quadrifoliate
·قبل 6 أيام·discuss
That's a great analogy, that's exactly what I was trying to say.
quadrifoliate
·قبل 7 أيام·discuss
I wish this silly "gotcha" fact about Oxford being older than the Aztecs would go away.

All it's saying is that most people don't know enough about Mesoamerican civilizations to differentiate clearly between the Aztec and the Maya; the Maya have been around since long before Oxford and that's why people anchor 'the Aztecs' in the distant past. This should be pretty obvious.

It's like saying "Did you know that the Aztec Empire is older than the University of Reading" -- yeah, that's not what most people are thinking of when they think of an old English university.

I don't want to contradict the thesis of the article though, it's true that our perception is skewed. My favorite version of this is that Chinese armies were fighting each other with gunpowder-based weapons in the 1100s.
quadrifoliate
·قبل 13 يومًا·discuss
If you signed a contract to do all-hours firefighting, this still doesn't affect that.

> But in the trash example, if you indeed never agreed to it, that's already a legal issue and rightly so.

That's exactly what this legislation is doing. All it's saying is, if you want off-hours work, make it explicit rather than implicit. If you fire people by expecting firefighting when it's not specified in the contract, you will break the law.
quadrifoliate
·قبل 13 يومًا·discuss
> there is a very good English word with this exact same meaning as written in this sentence: grafting.

Grafting is joining cuttings from one tree to a rootstock of another. That is not what's going on here at all, it's limited to a single tree.

Something like "selective pollarding", maybe, but that's very far from being a common English word. And as I said, most pollarding I have seen is nowhere as straight and tall as this.
quadrifoliate
·قبل 14 يومًا·discuss
> Why is this a government issue at all?

For the same reason anything is a government issue, i.e. that we regulate acceptable and unacceptable behaviors as a society, and periodically adjust what we find acceptable?

If your employer starts dumping large amounts of trash on your property tomorrow and says "oh that's just part of our relationship with you", I bet you'll want to get the government involved real quick because you never agreed to this.
quadrifoliate
·قبل 14 يومًا·discuss
Please link a photo of a coppice/pollard in Europe that's as straight as this, along with the location where I can see it.

If you do, I have got a great new travel destination. If you don't then everyone else (and hopefully you too) will understand why people think this is special enough to link beyond the fact that it happens to be in Japan.
quadrifoliate
·قبل 14 يومًا·discuss
> Also known as 'Thing, Japan'. HN eats up articles like this every single week.

And invariably the top comment is a "Thing Also in Europe/US" smugly citing that the commenter knows about something that's vaguely similar which happens to be in their neck of woods rather than Japan; and therefore makes the article irrelevant (this part is never adequately explained).

The most recent one I remember was reacting to something about konbinis by saying "So what, Poland also has lots of convenience stores".
quadrifoliate
·قبل 14 يومًا·discuss
Exactly, the loosey-goosey "Just do it a few times in the evening" is the real trigger here. How many times exactly?

The more you try to quantify this, the better the case for the law gets.
quadrifoliate
·قبل 14 يومًا·discuss
> I.e. if I ask an EA to check email a few times between 5pm and 9pm and schedule anything that seems urgent, that's probably 1-10 minutes of work on most days, but the bill would require the EA be paid for 4 hours (at overtime rates).

If your need is so urgent that you would fire the EA for not checking the email between 5-9pm, then you are exactly the sort of over-reaching employer that the bill is targeting. You have two options:

- You can say that the EA must check at 9pm and pay them 1.5x the hourly rate for an hour. If they don't do it, you can fire them.

- If the EA is free, they still may check and schedule between 5-9pm, but you can't fire them if they don't. You can only fire them if they don't do it correctly between the 9-5 hours. This way you don't pay any overtime, but you don't overreach either.

This seems to reasonably reflect the value you place on after-hours work.
quadrifoliate
·قبل 14 يومًا·discuss
Again to my point, there is a lot of "I" in your comment. What this legislation means is that on aggregate, the politicians sponsoring are hearing from their constituents that they are being overworked via expectations of off-hours communication. This might not be the case with you.

> If I am paid on salary, I would rather just be trusted to meet deliverable dates than have to worry about clocking in. Why does this government need to butt in?

This legislation...does not affect you then. All it's saying is that the employer cannot require you to respond to something on 9pm on a Friday, Saturday or Sunday unless you are paid for it. You are still free to do so, it's just that your employer can't fire you if you don't. This seems sort of reasonable to me.
quadrifoliate
·قبل 14 يومًا·discuss
Lots of privilege in this thread showing. This is the equivalent of "what global warming, it was so cold today". Please remember that just because you aren't expected to have consistent unpaid after-hours comms doesn't mean that others don't.

Bills like this would help a lot of people who are victims of "can you just take a look at this real quick" at 6pm. It does need to be at the country level though, otherwise employers will just play off states against each other.
quadrifoliate
·قبل 18 يومًا·discuss
Do you understand why the notary fees are €1,575.24? That's astonishingly high for (I presume) a couple hours of work at most.
quadrifoliate
·قبل 18 يومًا·discuss
> If you want a GmbH quickly there are specialized lawyers that maintain a pool of freshly founded GmbH's for you to buy.

The fact that this absurd situation exists is a huge proof that the bureaucracy has gotten out of hand and that Germany is unfriendly to starting new businesses.