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by Itaxpica 7y ago
Usually contracts with a do-over clause like that also include very specific, objective measures of what makes a job sub-standard (like not being able to pass certain engineering inspections, in the case of construction jobs). A contract th
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by Itaxpica 7y ago
Pretty much. It's kind of like tech, in which you can more or less break employers in to FAANG, non-FAANG, and small consulting shops. The big white-shoe firms (the legal equivalent of FAANG) pay enormous salaries to even their junior
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by Itaxpica 7y ago
Interestingly, similar laws come in to play with cruise ships - non-US-flagged passenger ships that depart from a US port aren't allowed to return to a US port without first stopping at a foreign port. Almost all American cruise ships
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by Itaxpica 7y ago
Unfortunately, I don’t think this is really an issue that can be fixed technically. People go to Twitter to yell at each other; that’s basically the point of the platform. A Twitter where people don’t yell at each other is basically Mastodo
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by Itaxpica 7y ago
With significantly fewer people, most of whom (on a global scale) lived significantly worse and shorter lives. Like it or not, the modern world is built on plastics, and undoing that will require either major technological jumps from what w
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by Itaxpica 7y ago
It could be worse; in the Heian period the Emperor's job was performing religious rituals basically constantly, and it was widely recognized as so exhausting that emperors generally ruled for about a decade and then retired. (This led
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
This is true of basically every army on Earth, because it works. In fact, the USSR notably attempted to do away with the idea of an officer class in the Red Army (since it was seen as un-Socialist) and wound up changing their mind and re-in
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
Private but partially funded by the government; the PM was at the launch and had (before the crash) been trumpeting it as a success for the country as a whole
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
We're specifically using Gmon (GMon/Viceroy for dashboards, GMon Monarch for alerting), which is all Python built on top of Monarch.
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
Free food was originally introduced to Google in part because there were so few food options near the Mountain View campus that people were driving a half hour each way to spend twenty minutes eating. So yes, the goal was to get people to s
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
The fact that Monarch configs can be written in Python instead of Borgmon is a huge win for our team; being able to write and debug our own alerting rather than have to bug SREs every time has been worth the switch alone.
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
When we covered this in my CS 101 class back in the day, our professor actually had a system he had put together built on Python's unit testing infrastructure. Really, any construct in a programming language that lets you say "ass
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
The copyrightability of APIs (specifically Oracle’s APIs, even!) is at the heart of a lengthy and still-ongoing legal battle, with several decisions in both directions.
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
Traditionally it’s a mix of juniper and other botanicals, but I don’t think there’s any formal definition that it has to be juniper. I doubt any producer would label a non-juniper-based gin “gin”, though; so much of the flavor that customer
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
Technically speaking gin is just flavored vodka, though the flavoring mechanism is different from what most people think of as "flavored vodka" (flavored via distillation rather than addition of artificial flavor).
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
The regular KitchenAid is so-so, but the Pro (with the bowl-lift mechanism) has a significantly better dough hook and a stronger motor; it’s well worth the extra hundred bucks (especially if you bake bread)
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
Semiconductor fab isn’t tech, it’s manufacturing. Satellite construction isn’t tech, it’s manufacturing. A defense contract isn’t tech, it’s an arm of the military. If you define words however you want you can say whatever you want, but it
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
The irony, of course, is that when you open TechCrunch in the EU the first thing you see is a GDPR disclaimer saying “hey we’re gonna collect your data to do whatever we want with”, which 95% of consumers will just click through. This isn’t
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
Ok, but you haven't actually addressed the main point of my comment. If it's entitled for labor to demand better treatment when there are kids starving in Africa, why is it not also entitled for management to demand said labor do
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
You do realize that several of the walkout demands were specifically designed to improve treatment of temps, vendors, and contractors as well as full-timers, right? Most of the Googlers who walked out explicitly did so in support of the fol
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
Funny how people only ever use "entitled" to describe labor demanding better treatment from management, but never to describe management demanding that labor do more for less.
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
Oh wow, there’s a 24 hour diner in my neighborhood called Neptune II; I wonder if it’s related.
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
One of my old managers used to say that time and time again he would fret about which of his people would wind up stuck having to work on the shitty, boring parts of a project, only to find that someone else on the team was really excited t
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
The article mentions that he built this in the first place because the police told him that there was nothing they could do even with footage
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
It’s really not. I used to be an EMT; one of my most memorable calls was as backup to a police call to a hotel where a famous singer was staying because a known stalker was in the lobby. Talking to the guy, you could tell he was trying to d
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
Counterpoint: who do you think is behind the Swift language?
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
This was discussed here a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18614882
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
A big reason I switched to Lyft was hearing consistently from drivers that they preferred it. This has the added bonus effect of meaning that wait times for Lyft are way lower than Uber on average IME, since drivers are more likely to pick
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
Random guess: most of the pople I know who use Lyft do so because they've been put off at one point or another by one or more of Uber's scandals - Uber is widely viewed as the 'default', while Lyft is the more 'mora
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by Itaxpica 8y ago
No, that comment is pointing out that OP left out the key fact that Huawei was selling American products to Iran. That changes the situation from the OP’s claim of “Huawei was doing business with a country the US is sanctioning” to “Huawei

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