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Re:Anti-union activity is heating up ahead of Google contrac... by parineum on Saturday September 21, 2019 @01:41PM (#21036748)
> This is no different from centrists saying that every problem can be solved by splitting the difference.

You're right but because it's no different from someone saying their specific solution is the only way. In reality, there are a multitude of different opinions and it seems likely to me that more than one would be effective.

> There's some times and things where one should expect a normal distribution, and other times and things where a binomial distribution shows up.

Sure things might tend to distribute into two major positions but that doesn't mean nobody holds a different opinion and it says absolutely nothing toward whether those two solutions are somehow the ideal solutions (or one of them, in the case of the OP).

Re:Anti-union activity is heating up ahead of Google contrac... by jakelazaroff on Saturday September 21, 2019 @01:55PM (#21036821)
I think the point is that even if your actual position is not one of the two major ones, the pragmatic effect is that you end up supporting the one you claim to be against.
Re:Anti-union activity is heating up ahead of Google contrac... by anigbrowl on Saturday September 21, 2019 @03:47PM (#21037481)
I can't help noticing that you addressed my first sentence but then ignored the very next one where I laid out a different point of view, opting instead to refute an argument that I never made.