JackPoach

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by JackPoach 5y ago
When I was a student they used to get minimum wage. You can't go lower than that. Absolutely terrible way to make a living. 'Lucky' for us, it's now mostly pre-recorded robocalls.
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by JackPoach 5y ago
Probably, but so should teachers, nurses, etc. Can you name one occupation outside politics/lawyers where you think people should be paid less?
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by JackPoach 5y ago
I really object to thinking about education as 'value for money' only. That's not to say that education in some countries is outrageously expensive (it is) or that student loans are terrible burden (it is). But the real issue
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by JackPoach 5y ago
That is technically not correct. GDPR only covers personal data with several important caveats. So you can't be walking around and claiming that it's all personal data and it all has to be deleted. The law doesn't work this w
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by JackPoach 5y ago
I wouldn't say unlimited but 'better' or 'much better' - sure. But why does it make a difference? Men and women are different in many respects, and sex is one of them. For example if you tell a woman that getting on
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by JackPoach 5y ago
This may be a stupid question, but why not move to Netherlands or Germany and work there?
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by JackPoach 5y ago
I wouldn't say it's 'harder', it's 'different' is many respects. It's true that women are way more frequently propositioned for sex than men (talking heterosexual relationships here) and it's bas
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by JackPoach 5y ago
I've met my wife on a dating site (mind you, that was 16 years ago). While personal experience does not equal 'data', one of the greatest things about dating apps/sites from the male prospective is actually getting acces
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by JackPoach 5y ago
I think Amazon, as any IT giant, is a two-tier or a three-tier company. Meaning different HR principles are applied to 'line workers' compared to mid-management compared to VP level hires.
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by JackPoach 5y ago
Did Oracle end up owning a part of the company or not?
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by JackPoach 5y ago
I see a lot of their ads on Youtube. The are really off-putting.
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by JackPoach 5y ago
Yeah, but this is a very US-centric view. China is (arguably) far ahead of US both in EV technology in general and Tesla specifically. It's hard to separate personality cult of Elon Musk from Tesla, but for many outside US, there'
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by JackPoach 5y ago
I feel that there's almost 'Protect Tesla at any cost' order, even though there clearly isn't one. I have this heavy feeling that should Tesla crash and burn, this is going to be a major hit not only for Nasdaq or S&
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by JackPoach 5y ago
This is what's so strange about US. There are laws with very hefty fines about false advertising, especially when human life and health is involved, this is true for EU and most other locations. Try to remember how much VW paid for the
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by JackPoach 5y ago
Thanks for taking time to write this article. I think far too little people remember downturns and don't realize that there are multiple instances when pre-IPO valuations are actually higher than post-IPO. Down rounds aren't uncom
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by JackPoach 5y ago
Yep.
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by JackPoach 5y ago
This is only to get worse if more people switch to voice-based interfaces (Alexa, anyone?). The way people search when they type vs the way it's done with voice commands can be quite different.
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by JackPoach 5y ago
This is big. No, this is HUGE.
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by JackPoach 5y ago
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by JackPoach 5y ago
First it was Slack hate, now it's Zoom hate. These are great tools IN MODERATION.
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by JackPoach 5y ago
Yep, this is exactly why infobiz one-pagers with extra long text blocks that never ended started having the opposite effect. It's like writing THIS IS A SCAM in bold letters. 'Customer isn't a fool. She's your mother&#x2
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by JackPoach 5y ago
Sorry to be pain in the butt, but this is largely irrelevant. There are a lot of experts or 'experts' who analyze other people mistakes. However, the real data for landing pages comes from actual customers, not expert opinion, how
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by JackPoach 5y ago
Yep. If compensation was a function of productivity, farmers would be the richest people in the world, because their productivity is something like 50-100 times than it was pre-mechanization and pre-green revolution.
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by JackPoach 5y ago
Yeah, but how much of that is your current employer fault? Let's take housing costs. Absolutely insane in California, Canada and some other places. Education/student loans - modern day slavery for many. Healthcare costs - seem to
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by JackPoach 5y ago
Did working conditions really got much worse over the past 20 years? Or are people just becoming more entitled? I agree with the premise that workplace wellbeing is a bunch of BS (and just a small part of much large corporate BS universe),
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by JackPoach 5y ago
Yeah, I'd definitely agree with verbal and physical things as toxic, never encountered anything close to that. Now, if one team sabotages other - that's clearly an individual or individual making own immoral choices. I wound'
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by JackPoach 5y ago
That's very interesting, because some of your examples do seem toxic or borderline toxic, but some do not. Let's take verbal and physical abuse. Can you tell me specifically what was said? Same with physical abuse. There's no
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by JackPoach 5y ago
It certainly doesn't. My point is that truly toxic workplaces are very rare. I can't generalize my personal experience but my bet would be that an average person will never experience it (again, talking about developed world here
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by JackPoach 5y ago
I haven't worked at many companies (only 4 during my 20+ years from late 90s until now) and while work at two was stressful (TV journalism and IT) with 'pushy' bosses, I've NEVER encountered any where the environment is
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by JackPoach 5y ago
IT giants bribe officials on a regular basic by offering them seats on the board, for instance, or as speaking fees at company events.

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