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by Pfhreak 6y ago
It's not in the contract, and not mentioned until after you start. It (and IP protections in general) are one of the biggest reasons I want tech unions to succeed.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Involuntary in-patient psych care is different than prison because it is focused on improving someone's life, managing a potentially dangerous condition, etc. They (should be) a hopeful place, a place of healing. They don't always
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
We talk about Amazon being able to do distributed systems "at scale" all the time. They also do worker exploitation at scale. There are knock-on effects -- for instance we might look at a mom and pop shop and say, "That'
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Don't allow pets? Service animals are not pets. And service animals can be removed from a business for being disruptive. > they can't just eat the costs, which are also not equal the price of the room rate Amortize the costs do
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
> unapologetically break internal policies I mean, Amazon has an internal policy that you are not allowed to collaborate on any games related projects with anyone who is not also an Amazon employee. Did you go to a game jam? You've
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Amortize the costs of the liars across the base cost of the room. It's really not that many people who will lie about it. Some folks end up paying a little more on average and some people cheat and pay a little less, but the folks wh
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
It really is that simple. If you have allergies, you can ask your employer for reasonable accommodations. But you should anticipate that you have to come into contact with a service dog periodically. Most employers understand this, and will
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I mean, yeah, I'd love to liver in that world. Unfortunately, Uber has campaigned widely that their drivers are, in fact, independent contractors and not employees. The drivers should be employees, imo, but the way the company is str
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
You can have a no dogs rule. You just can't have a "No service dogs" rule. Service dogs are essential to the welfare of their humans, denying them would be like having a "no glasses" or "no canes" or &quot
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Because service animals are protected under the ADA. If folks could unilaterally reject working around service animals, we'd put the folks most at need at a significant detriment. If you work in a customer facing capacity, you should b
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I never really tried to exclude dogs. Sometimes folks would say, "Oh, no, this isn't a service dog." and we'd ask them to not bring the animal inside. If someone said yes, and explained a task, then let them through. I&#
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Yes, you do have to take their word for it. If the dog is disruptive (e.g. barking or not housetrained), you can ask them to leave. The dog must be under control by the owner at all times. Dogs must (generally) remain on the floor or on the
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
> (1) is the dog a service animal required because of a disability? and (2) what work or task has the dog been trained to perform? I worked at a Costco for a few years, these two questions were drilled into us over and over and over and
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
If you are providing rides as a business, you must be willing to accept seeing eye dogs. If you cannot meet this qualification, then your options are limited. I am not a lawyer, but it sounds like you might not want to own a driving busines
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
> FWIW that belief is considered basic developmental science in Germany and informs the early education system there (at least). I suspect the GP was talking more about things like Steiner's belief that a child shouldn't exit k
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
> "trafficking" would notionally involve Gaetz receiving money from other third parties so that those third parties could sleep with the girl. Where do you get this idea? Sex trafficking is any time you move someone and exploit
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
The age of consent in Florida is 18. And in many states 16 or 17 if both parties are of similar age and without significant power imbalance. Also, moving a minor across state lines for sex runs afoul of federal law, not just state laws. Are
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Are they minors? If so, that's unacceptable. Are they adults who are consenting and not being exploited? Then that's different. (And, imho, we should decriminalize and regulate sex work.) Your framing ignores the fact that one of
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
> you pay the travel costs associated with a woman traveling with you... You've somehow missed both the "in exchange for sex" and "with a minor" part? This one doesn't seem difficult or ambiguous at all . T
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Ok, but we don't need that much energy. Something close to 200 petawatts continuously strike the surface. Humanity uses something like 15 terawatts. To fully cover our energy needs we'd need to capture less than 1 in 10,000 watts
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
> They were most certainly against this technology. Absolutely not. They were absolutely willing to operate the machinery. They could have produced more cloth at the same price, or distributed more of the earnings back to the workers. It
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
What's 'significant'? We're at the point where we are adding gigawatts of solar capacity annually. That feels significant to me.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Also, as a separate comment, the day will come where software development is automated in some capacity. All the high skill workers may be competing with workers with much less training at lower wages. The Luddites are a good cautionary tal
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
The moon is much, much closer than 8 light minutes away. Are you thinking of the sun? It's already doing a good job at sending energy to us from nuclear reactions.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
> I'm not against technology Neither were the Luddites! The Luddites were a labor movement who wanted to ensure that workers in textile mills were being treated fairly. Many Luddites were highly skilled and happy to work with automa
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Yes, it's a gigantic link in like the third paragraph. But here: https://github.com/kgsws/doom_ace
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Given how many suction cups there are, it seems like it would distribute the lifting force across the top of the box pretty evenly. Like the inverse of the 'bed of nails' phenomena.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
The concept of uniformed police like we know them definitely originated around that time. The Met concept spread through the US, starting in the Northeast, where it was predominantly used to protect capital (protecting warehouses, merchants
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Working class folks can also be middle class, they aren't mutually exclusive.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
The range estimates my 2014 Tesla provides are, at best, very generous. It is frequently generous to the tune of 50 miles on a 200 mile range. Sometimes it's dead on. Yes, I might not always be driving the most efficiently, but even wh

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