Chaebixi

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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> Keep in mind the true incentive of unions like the SEIU which pushed for this change is to improve the wages of their members, even if it comes at the expense of other workers who are 1) willing to work for less This kind of rhetoric i
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> It's basically newspeak to make people with absolutely no ties, legal or financial to one company ("independent contractors") feel some allegiance, or some team spirit. "Newspeak job titles" seems like a good n
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> We launched with a workforce of vetted independent contractor (1099) caregivers, who we endearingly referred to as “Heroes”. How often are pompous titles like that just cheap window-dressing meant to hide some kind of underlying smelly
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> Home care workers were working by mutual agreement with their respective employers. "The country" had nothing to do with it. "The country" can force someone into accepting the "best" bad deal ("by mut
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> I wish google now could discern between myself and other 'john' + 'smith''s. I get one johns son's report cards... > I shouldn't of registered my real name as my email address on gmail... Is that G
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> And original MIT video lectures (for HP employees) are must watch. The mood/feel they have, impossible to receive from the book alone. Link?
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> Any evidence to support your claims? Evidence that it would typically take more than 30 seconds to drop off a package to an unfamiliar house, even on a route you know? Or that Walmart is motivated to ship to people who aren't dir
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
You're confusing legality with ethics and morality. You can behave can quite unethically and immorally while still meeting or exceeding legal requirements.
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There's something especially slimy about the #1 company in the Fortune 500 consciously doing it. And by it, I mean pay its employees so little they need to go on welfare, and then directing them to the welfare office. > so why isn&
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> Did you miss the part where this is a voluntary program? If the employee doesn't like the route, they don't have to take it. There are all kinds of comments in other threads talking about how "voluntary" it may end
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>> ...Walmart uses their resources to take advantage of current (broken) laws to...pay...pennies...and forc[e]...the government to pay the rest of a living wage. > What difference does it make where the money is coming from? Becaus
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> The article says the app finds possible deliveries that are on the employee's route home, so no extra out of the way driving is to be done... only a 30 second stop to get out and carry the package up to the front door. Seems very
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> Coming from Walmart's perspective, I'm assuming it just seemed like a smart business decision rather than something maliciously intended. I think that's exactly what the parent comment was criticizing: >> Ugh. I th
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> I'm not sure I'd blame Facebook's problems on it's users. I am blaming Facebook. The parasites I was thinking of are the people and impulses that pervert the successful formula to push some agenda (e.g. push for so
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> Facebook was great in the early years. That seems to be depressingly true of any social website. There seems to be a sort, sweet spot that exists briefly between the implementation of a good idea and when the parasites catch on and mo
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> It would be interesting to see a IPC system that abstracted away where the other process was running or treated processes running on an entirely different machine or VM as another local process. Forcing everything into the same abstrac
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Mitsubishi cheated on fuel efficiency tests. http://money.cnn.com/2016/04/26/news/companies/mitsubishi-ch... : > The automaker said last week that it had used improper fuel economy tests on hundre
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> Bookstores are still at the mall, but only some malls. It's called "Barnes & Noble". Lots of malls have them. But you don't see the small ones like Waldenbooks any more; they're all gone. I've noticed
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> If you want good prices, you should not shop at Amazon - you should shop at a physical retailer. I've noticed that this has been pretty true across the board. I've basically given up shopping for things on Amazon that I know
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> The Mozilla that was using your browsing history to target new tab page ads to you? That's "least" coupled to the privacy-invading ecosystem? Yeah it's the least coupled, because the major alternatives (e.g. Google)
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Hallucinations of a Translation Machine(languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)
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> The amount of metadata we spew is crazy. Could someone build a privacy-respecting browser that "spews" super-generic metadata that doesn't vary from installation to installation? It's probably have fewer "feat
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> I always suspected Mozilla pushed Do Not Track to undermine online privacy. What motivation does Mozilla have to want to "undermine online privacy?" Of all the major browser vendors, they seem the least coupled to the priv
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> I keep seeing this recently and this time I can't even imagine how it could be relevant. In this case, it sounds like it's mocking the idea that the market-based voluntary agreements could solve this problem. Lots of people
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> Facebook, LinkedIn etc. have the same playbook when they play fast and loose with the privacy rules with respect to spamming contact lists. Any penalty is tiny compared with the gain. Honestly, that a serious and depressing situation.
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> it is within your power to free them with just a phone call to the police Maybe not. Sounds like the situation was in another country. Who knows if the police there would care or not. And applying the term "slavery" to the
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> There is no question in my mind that I would confront anyone I knew engaging in the situation you're describing. Among my circles, injustices always seem to be a third person. But there should be a question in your mind unless you
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> your feeling of uncomfortness is the only thing stopping you from growing a spine and standing up for such an inhumane treatment > Have some decency and confront your so-called friend. I think your advice falls into the "much e
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> Reducing otherwise involuntary interactions can be a good thing. You feel the need to breathe not because your body senses it lacks oxygen, but because it senses an excess of CO2, so it'll happily let you suffocate with no warning
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> Check-in your 2K€ laptop and risk it getting lost. or stolen.

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