Jochim

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by Jochim 4y ago
Maybe it's different where you are but I'm not aware of any restrictions on the flexibility of working hours or pay when you're classified as an employee. The substantial difference is you'd accrue holiday pay pro-rata a
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The free market solution of 70 years ago was to sell babies[0]. The willingness of the desperate to engage in an act is not affirmation of it's morality. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_selling#cite_ref-58
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by Jochim 4y ago
I'm going to be honest with you, working in tech myself, these points feel incredibly out of touch. > The working conditions are horrible. You sit at a desk, usually in a crowded lowd office, which is highly detrimental to your heal
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by Jochim 4y ago
We made a small group of people incomprehensibly wealthy. In return we were granted a little more freedom than the average worker.
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Wait until you hear what the advertising industry gets up to...
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He's providing a counter to your claim that censorship and surveillance are somehow more associated with foreign governments. The reality is that the US has long engaged[0] in the same kind of suppression that is portrayed to it's
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Does the Ludlow Massacre count? > taking testimony from all the principals, including Rockefeller Sr., who testified that, even after knowing that guards in his pay had committed atrocities against the strikers, he "would have taken
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by Jochim 4y ago
If you live in California then you probably should be clicking them according to: https://www.cookielaw.org/regulations/ccpa/
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When you visit your friend's house do they get to rape you when you walk in the door or are they expected to establish some sort of consent first?
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How does the average user tell how a site might track them without first visiting it? How does the average user tell that a site that they initially found to be free from tracking hasn't started to track them since?
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Sure and GDPR allows users to make an informed decision as to whether they wish to use a particular website or app. Without it the user cannot know whether an app or website will track them without first visiting it. The act of loading the
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Essential cookies refer to cookies required for the technical operation of the site. There is no requirement to notify a user of essential cookies. Here are some examples of the type of functionality covered by essential cookies: - Persisti
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The website choosing to sell your browsing data is the reason you have to click those buttons.
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I think it might be an issue of people not being used to the availability. They tend to only be available in bigger stores and you need to remember to pick them up when you start your shop. At least one major supermarket where I am has star
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Not sure if I'm misunderstanding you here but he probably meant that you don't need to remove the items from your cart in order to pay for them. Old method: Place items in cart -> Arrive at checkout -> Take all the items out
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To add my own: I've received one, maybe two spam SMS messages in my entire life, none at all in the last few years. I have received one or two spam messages in WhatsApp.
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You're saying this as if there aren't any costs involved in taking a job and being laid off is free from any kind of negative effect. People aren't upset out of loyalty the company, they're upset because they have rent t
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While it isn't minimum wage £19k is an awful salary in Glasgow, especially for a luxury retail worker. In my experience larger employers avoid paying the reduced minimum wage, although it's more common in small businesses/hos
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> as resources become cheaper, developers become lazier. At most places I've worked it's a struggle to get time allocated towards necessary refactoring that'll ensure new features can be delivered in a timely fashion. I&#x
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Your first sentence describes how pretty much all socialised healthcare operates. Cosmetic and elective surgeries are generally private in the UK. The NHS generally only deal with these procedures when they relate to another health matter e
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It's easy to "live life for liberty and the pursuit of happiness" when your actions do not have meaningful consequences for yourself or your loved ones.
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I don't agree that these behaviours are down to a lack of social enforcement. The root issue is that the societal incentives that encourage adherence to social norms have been fundamentally weakened by neo-liberalism and the economic c
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Yeah, I'm currently missing it very much running .NET on AWS. It's insane how much it gives you for "free". CloudWatch feels like weak tea in comparison.
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I quite like Microsoft/Azure from a development perspective. If you're running .NET, Application Insights alone is nearly enough to put it above the competition. I appreciate how it integrates with AZD/Teams and the platform
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I blame Google and the third party ad model for profiting from and encouraging the creation of the lowest quality cash grabs. Search for any kind of product review and you're faced with a sea of auto-generated shit, the only purpose of
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Google results are markedly worse than they used to be. SEO spam routinely pushes the site/content I'm searching for down/off the page. These sites are often just straight up copies of StackOverflow. My perception is that sea
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Have you ever heard of a tiny little incident called the Vietnam War?
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The capitalist joy of spending 10 minutes on each product trying to figure out which of the 8 brands is scalping you the least.
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A lot less dead mothers[0] and babies though! Swings and roundabouts and all that. Keep killing those kids [0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1240400/maternal-mortali...
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They wasn't advocating for collapse. Rather, I took it that they were suggesting that the current system will not be changed until it has done so as it has been captured by non-medical interests whose goals do not take into considerati

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