I think anti-union sentiment comes from the practical reality which is if you go to union-towns, they often look bombed out and horrible. The UAW, arguably the largest private union in the US, was founded in Flint, Michigan. The union didn't care about the city or its future, it simply sucked money out of the economy until there was nothing left, and then they ran off to DC. Conversely, industry towns without unions are usually nice places to live as the companies continue to invest money in them to attract more employees. This is a pattern we see over and over again, and in my opinion has led to the strong anti-union sentiment we see all over the midwest rust belt.

Grew up in the rust belt of Michigan, but not with parents holding unionized jobs, and still live elsewhere in it (also without a unionized job). Can't say I've seen the same sentiments or patterns be as common as presented. Of course I've always leaned towards supporting unions so that colors the perspective a bit too, but, in general, approval of unions in the US has actually been in an upswell https://news.gallup.com/poll/694472/labor-union-approval-rel...

There are obviously areas with decline for sure, e.g. the auto industry, but unions are usually seen as lessening the impact of that on the workers rather than the source of blame (not that everyone holds a single view). E.g., for the most part, people don't blame the union (or non-unionized industry) for the problems in Flint as neither is meant to privately fund e.g. the water pipes. They blame the downturn of the auto industry, which then gets into whatever reasons one prefers to assign. For some that's unions, but it's not actually been a very big mind changer on that aspect.

This is about their UK workers.

Unions are not there to protect companies from mismanagement or simply failing/going bancrupt.

5 weeks in summer is outrageous? Once you add weekends that's like only working half of all days, not to mention if you add real value to your company your company has to wait weeks for you to return. I guess there's a reason Europe has become so poor

> your company has to wait weeks for you to return

I mean that’s the very concept of a holiday to me ?

"All almonds are grown in the U.S. state of California." implies "No almonds are grown outside the U.S. state of California."

You find one almond tree outside of California that grows almonds, where such almonds are grown intentionally, and the claim is false.

Nobody is saying the claim is true. This is a discussion of whether misleading could be a valid answer. I've been arguing if the model interprets the claim as an exaggeration, then misleading would be an acceptable answer, and due to California's dominance in the industry one could reasonably interpret a claim of this nature as an exaggeration.

It's fine if you disagree, but I have never claimed the question was true.

A statement that is obviously false cannot reasonably be “misleading”.

An exaggeration can. If I said "the C language was a million times faster than python" that would be an exaggeration. It would both be obviously false (most things are only trivially faster) and misleading.

If the LLM interpreted the original statement as an exaggeration, then misleading could be an acceptable answer to a false statement.

For those unaware there's currently a bubble of startup space companies going after similar contracts and while a part of me wants them all to be successful, it's nice to know at least some of these contracts are going to established companies who will do a good job. A space-based wireless network for the DoW will basically be a more secure starlink and it's good in my mind that a company with experience got the contract.

Especially in recent graduate positions. I maybe won't make sense if the interviewee was 35 but if they're 21 there's just nothing else to talk about. That said, at least in software, the right answer still includes something about coding or building things.

I bought a book on C++20 last year when we started a project on it and I read it.

I don't think programming books are going anywhere, because they still contain a concise directory full of information on different languages or frameworks. If I try to learn a language piecemeal through chatgpt or blogs I risk missing important details or platform-specific knowledge. I'd believe books on vim are going away but books on languages or other job-essential tools have a use in the market and I can't imagine they'll go away.

If you want to get rid of salmonella, you have to achieve 158F inside meat. Not 156F.

So every degree counts. Earth is so complex that we don’t know what else is hidden in permafrost, next to anthrax.

2F globally does not mean a uniform distribution of warming. Land warming closer to 4F. But Reno is up over 7 degrees. Alaska over 4f. It’s not great!

The primary threat is expansion of existing diseases. I wouldn't discount the temperature change so readily, one of the mechanisms was increased precipitation (as they noted in the case of Valley Fever, driven by the 'grow and blow' effect of wet and dry whiplash).

Huh. The rise has been closer to +3F since 2023, not 2F, and it's getting worse on average.

There's a difference between weather and climate. Weather is something that happens and has great variability, climate is an expected weather pattern. Measuring the average temperature change from 2023->2024 or similar would be weather, looking at the temperature over ~100+ years would be more akin to climate. There are plenty of years where it's colder than the previous year, and many where it's markably warmer. Famously the continental US experienced no warming, possibly some cooling from 2000 to 2012, not because we solved global warming but because of random variations in the data.

But broadly speaking, yoy change isn't representative of climate, and any time a politician tells you this is the last election to stop climate change you can ignore him. Even fast pace warming takes decades

It's a global average. It's a set of valid data points. It's not nothing. The rise has been steady; it's not a surprise. This is not the continental US we're speaking of; it's the world. Your denialism is obvious.

It's just another thing tossed on the pile. It's not the worst thing, but it doesn't have to be for it to be interesting and relevant.

I don't want every square inch of my country to be city; and if you look on google maps, most of the land in the US is already either used for farming, cities, or not suitable for either.