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plus amy would be fired because she has no work anymore


Or conversely she could be rewarded for fixing the underlying problems and given a new, possibly similar task.


this is nice


None of it qualify as interesting to peopple interested by phds.


Exactly my point, which seems to be eluding many others.

People who are interested in a PHD, aren't interested (most likely) in your CRUD / another run of the mill app.


You can also be coerced by the lack if money


Its not singled out. There are labor laws in general that prevent possibly consenting people to work more (at least in europe)


this is literally nimby


As I understand it, the opposition to the TMT isn't a NIMBY issue: it's more about a historically ignored group trying to gain influence over issues it cares about.


it's still nimby too


Not really. As typically used "NIMBY" has a component of hypocrisy. Just not wanting something to happen is "opposition". "Not in my backyard" connotes the idea that someone supports some project in principle, but not when it affects them directly. "I like wind power, but not when it blocks the view of my cottage", "I like high density housing, but not if it affects my property values", "I like mass transit, but don't want a subway station in my neighborhood."

In this case, "I don't want another giant telescope on my culture's sacred mountain" isn't about astronomy at all, it's about the culture (and the larger perspective of indigenous interest in local resources, and respect for a pre-existing treaty that wasn't quite honored -- these folks aren't primitives or hippies, they know very well this is a political process in the real world).


The majority of the indigenous interests support the telescope. This is about a minority of a group trying to gain status at the expense of everyone's interests.


They would equally oppose a luxury hotel or a housing development.


I don't think it's the same as NIMBYism either, because the people who oppose it aren't all in the area, and there are cultural issues and issues of colonialism involved.

That said, the idea that NIMBYs won't oppose a luxury hotel or housing development is laughable. My NextDoor is filled with people posting proposed development of our downtown, criticizing it with specious reasoning, and trying to rally people against it. The nature of the development doesn't matter. How much it will improve our property values doesn't matter. How much it will help with housing or traffic doesn't matter.

A luxury hotel... I can already hear them shrilly decrying how we don't "need to bring more people to the area," as stupid an argument as that would be for a hotel.


I was trying to conjure up an image of how most island economies are glad, at least initially, to see development that brings jobs.

I don't know how to flesh it out better.


Would they oppose a 5th luxury hotel being built next to 4 other luxury hotels?


> Would they oppose a 5th luxury hotel being built next to 4 other luxury hotels?

IIRC, the anti-TMT protestors would ideally like all the telescopes on Mauna Kea removed. However, obstructing the construction of the new one is the most practical present course of action for them.


funny how everything you do in your life time can be forgotten and and you are labeled a crooked for the smallest amount of corruption

"may the one who never sinned throw a rock at me"


Theres also the general problem of the truthness of what people write about you online .. anyone can write anything so it shoulg be at least defendable to be kept


Agreed, if something can’t be defended with reference to a legal offence or proceeding then it should have the right to be forgotten / removed.


how is that creating such a list not serve the opposite purpose of the law ??


The idea is generally to keep things from showing up when you search for people by name, not to remove the information entirely.


So the law is only for google ? That make 0 sense


Someone could make a Right to be Forgotten request to the BBC for the news article, but they'd need to meet a higher standard. The listing is of ones where people have asked to have the result removed from Google.


read the article


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