You'll excuse me for not celebrating terrorists who by the author's own admission threw bombs into crowds of police, and then complained when police fired back.
The founding fathers would have been called terrorists today by the British. Past the Boston Tea Party, the Green Mountain Boys is a pretty good example. "The Green Mountain Boys stopped sheriffs from enforcing New York laws and terrorized settlers who had New York grants, burning buildings, stealing cattle, and administering occasional floggings with birch rods." - https://www.britannica.com/topic/Green-Mountain-Boys
Nope, not excused. Did they have to ask nicely to have more rights? Unions right now are the lesser violent version of conflict with the police.
Furthermore, this is laughable: Later evidence indicated that only one of the police deaths could be attributed to the bomb and that all the other police fatalities had or could have had been due to their own indiscriminate gun fire.
Again, Blair mountain. I guess they didn't ask nice enough?
...with rights for all workers that today it would be unthinkable to even question? Or worse, women's suffrage? Or rights for people of color?
There's no such thing as a (successful) social movement that doesn't employ some amount of violence - the police and the state more generally simply won't allow it.
A the way we do that is to declare that someone is a communist (whether or not they are), then equate communism to terrorism, then treat it with McCarthyism or Napalm.
I see you don’t understand what communism means. We’re talking about socialism here. Don’t let fear of what you haven’t bothered to learn rule your life.
I've been told by doctors and nurses that using Epic sucks, mainly because you're doing constant data entry while trying to listen to and care for patients, but that it's still far better than using any of Epic's competitors.
Everything is 'tech-person trying to "simplify" entry, into big buttons'
Imagine the Idiocracy healthcare scene. But now you have a menu Diving system within a dense jungle of ten million options. I've never had to click through so many steps to get something very simple done. And I've never had so many completely useless features available
The system is also built for the American healthcare system, but they also sell it to Europe with deceptive practices, with no simplifications whatsoever regarding the less overbearing legal landscape.
As an end user: it's a shit experience to use no matter what you end up using it for, the price tag is an Astronomical Unit but the support you get for that is everything but stellar
Epic is known locally as an exploitative, abusive employer of software engineers. Work-life balance is poor, pay is mediocre for the industry, and skills with their in-house tools don't transfer outside Epic. They have an extensive non-compete clause with EXTREMELY aggressive enforcement:
They're also vehemently opposed to remote work, to the point that during COVID they tried to force employees back into the office in August, 2020 (!) in violation of a county public health order (!!!):
Epic's Glassdoor reviews are terrible. Several personal friends each lasted less than a year at Epic out of college before finding new, better-paying employment elsewhere. Since Epic is privately owned and its founder and CEO has stated she'll never sell, its corporate culture will never change. It's better than no job at all but if you have other options, avoid.
> Epic is known locally as an exploitative, abusive employer of software engineers
Not of software engineers, those are decently treated, but the reputation for other employees is questionable.
Epic has 4 major roles(and a bunch of support roles): software development, implementation services, technical services, and quality management.
Software developers are well paid for the area. While it can vary between teams and supervisors, a competent dev should be able to avoid being overworked.
Implementation services travels a ton to go setup new customers. It's definitely a quick burnout position if you don't thrive in that atmosphere. But the ones who do have some of the fastest compensation growth.
Technical services are by far the most overworked because they are assigned to support customers long term. The baseline expectation is 45 hours a week, and most are usually assigned to enough customers that it can exceed 50-55 easily. I would consider Epic to be doing a poor job keeping them from burning out.
Quality managers, who test and document the software, can be overworked depending on team. They are definitely underpaid. They have been the plaintiffs of previous lawsuits against Epic by employees.
The non-compete is only really effective at making employees wait a year before going to work directly for a customer. I've heard of people getting jobs at customers and just not working directly with Epic until after the year has passed. Developers can easily just go work for a different tech companies right away.
The Covid and remote work stuff was pretty bad. At least they backed down in 2020 after complaints to the county. Unfortunately it took a suicide in 2021 for them to ease up on the "must only work remote in the local area" policy before they started bringing us all back to office at the end of the year. At least they never gave us the impression it was long term like some companies did.
Epic is a lot of people's first "real" (full-time, after college graduation) job and first corporate job, and very few of their employees are from Madison proper. I think a lot of people dislike working at Epic once the hours get to them and they start getting tired of Madison, but I also think their employees might overestimate how much greener the grass is on the other side, because they haven't actually experienced any comparable job.
Personally I think Epic actually does a pretty good thing training up and employing so many new grads with skillsets that don't find it as easy to get solid corporate jobs as SWEs (a lot of their TSEs are STEM-but-not-CS grads, implementation people seem to be ~anything). They do expect something back from those employees in return, but they're paid quite well compared to their alternatives and given a lot of support/structure to ease into their first job.
IMO it's a place I appreciate a lot more in hindsight than I did while briefly working there, and I don't think that's an unpopular opinion
This defense of Epic really makes it sound like a great opportunity.
> I also think their employees might overestimate how much greener the grass is on the other side, because they haven't actually experienced any comparable job
Many people continue to regret their time at Epic even after having left and having seen the other grass first-hand.
> Personally I think Epic actually does a pretty good thing training up and employing so many new grads with skillsets that don't find it as easy to get solid corporate jobs as SWEs
Count the MUMPS training to essentially be a waste of time, unless you like the idea of writing MUMPS going forward.
Also, your endorsement reads as if Epic should be an option of last resort rather than a place where a software engineer should want to be.
This is just totally untrue, Epic is fine as a Dev. I have many friends who work there, none of them work more than 40 hours a week and they all make ~200k with 5 yoe. Great for Madison WI. Tech stack does suck, however.
Glad your friends' experiences are exceptional. I know a woman working for Epic in the Madison area who miscarried due to work stress. Madison housing is also a lot less affordable these days, assuming you want to actually live in Madison and not a copy-paste Verona suburb w/ zero walkability:
I know locals like to complain about the beltline, but as someone who has driven in LA, SF, Chicago, NY, it is wild to compare it to any big city traffic.
It's not in the same league as LA, NY, or Chicago but definitely up there (albeit during shorter time windows) with Silicon Valley commuter traffic. Part of a common theme of living in Madison where you get downsides of city living- traffic, high taxes, high housing costs- without many upsides such as good public transport, a diversified job market, or a well-developed food scene.
"In March 2022, the investigation was dropped due to a lack of public interest in prosecution.In August 2022, the Hamburg Regional Court also ruled that the house search was unlawful and unreasonable."
Freedom doesn't mean that no errors are made but that they are aknowledged as errors.
The responsible politician still gets rediculed for that and isn't praised by his fanbase.
There are hour long videos of US cops shooting unarmed people in their own homes available online if you want to make a "LaNd Of ThE FrEe" dick size contest
The laws are different: "Incitement and defamation laws are far broader in Germany than in the United States, with some European legislation on the books that forbids defaming leaders and makes Holocaust denial a crime.".
You are not allowed hate speech on the internet in a lot of countries. You will be prosecuted for that.
But different to other countries, in a majority of the european countries (turkey, greece are currently problematic) people are not deported, put in jail or camps and forgotten, even without a sentence and hearing.
Strikes me as odd how one flavor of commenters who've long called for the "end of the American Empire," reductions in our "overseas military imperialism," and closure of the VoA "propaganda outlet" now stand by the institutions of said Empire to the death.
I don't hold that view point, but if even the critics can see this as something evil, that should tell you something.
You can not like your neighbors partying and playing music until 3 AM, but also have the moral compass to know that setting fire to their house is not the solution.
Either party will argue against what the other is doing, while they do it, but it's what happens as the parties swap leadership that makes it clear what the party actually dislikes.
They don't discontinue everything the other party implemented, even when it's easy to do so, and that's the true indicator that the party is okay with something, regardless of the partisan complaints made when it was initially implemented.
I don't think so. What's described isn't one party attacking another for positions they supposedly support. Neither of the mainstream parties supported the "end of the American Empire" - that's something you really only heard from paleo-socialists, anarchists and contrarians regurgitating Cold War Soviet propaganda.
It's sad that otherwise reasonable folks either aren't aware or are too embarrassed to acknowledge their political biases.
But here we are. Trump is bad(and hey, he mostly is), so now we're justified in lying in any way shape or form that it takes to inflict some harm on his ideas, actions or person. The first casualty of someone like trump is our own character. We can't admit anything he does has positive benefits because to do so would be to give an inch to literal hitler.
If you went back 20 years and asked your average liberal activist they'd be all in favor of rolling back American "imperial actions and organizations" like USAID(long suspected to work closely with the CIA since at least the 60s). But here we are, debasing ourselves for politics' sake.
I find this interesting as well, so I think it's unfortunate you are downvoted. In a similar vein, the ultrapatriotic type that loved the USA being #1, having influence everywhere, also seem to be cheering on the dismantling of the soft (and some hard) power structures. But I get the feeling there's some granularity we are both missing, and the group saying those things then and these things now (pro/anti Trump reactionaries), isn't as big as we think.
That and the hypothetical ability to use different private keys per device, which could be canceled in case of loss or theft, seems legitimately useful. Not interested unless and until there's a standalone, standardized, open-source, cold-backup'ed way to use passkeys though.
Seems unlikely that we'll ever totally move away from combustion engines, simply due to sunk costs plus the advantages of energy density and quick refilling. I expect we'll see net-zero carbon emission gasoline and other hydrocarbons sold at the pump within the next few decades, produced with either solar or nuclear energy:
Compressed natural gas (methane) is even easier to synthesize from the raw ingredients than gasoline or diesel fuels. It's used today in many city buses, fleet vehicles, and private cars in certain parts of the world:
Such fuels could become less attractive if we invent lighter, cheaper, and much faster-charging batteries than the current state of the art, but I'm not holding my breath.
CNG/LNG have been around for a while and are yesterday's future. Synthetic zero carbon fuel simply loses too much in conversion to be economic, compared to direct EV. I think China is in the process of demonstrating what the transition looks like.
There will probably be a rump of difficult to convert use cases and long lives specialty vehicles. I imagine tractors will be the last holdout. And military uses.
