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by Nullabillity 2954 days ago
> ACM also comes with free access to Safari Books Online which gives me electronic access to 95% of all professional books I'm interested in.

That's probably my only real gripe with unions. I want the benefits and collective bargaining (of course), and I like the courses they occasionally hold, but I have no desire to effectively donate money to parasites like O'Reilly.

Thankfully my local union (Sveriges Ingenjörer -- Sweden's Engineers) doesn't have the O'Reilly agreement, but I'm still stuck paying for crap such as https://www.nyteknik.se/.

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O'Reilly?
Owns Safari, publishes a bunch of mediocre programming books.