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by bkor 6y ago
> That doesn’t really change that I’m currently still too scared to actually form one at the company I work for, even though I would very much like for it to exist. Are you in Netherlands or in Germany? I'm part of a Dutch Works Cou
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by bkor 6y ago
> I'm no anti-vaxxer, nor a believer in the "plandemic". But the vaccine should be voluntary and highly recommended for at risk groups. After all, they're the ones who would be impacted the most. That would not work.
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by bkor 6y ago
If you're not affected by covid-19 but something else you'll still have a problem if the hospital is overwhelmed due to covid-19. I've noticed various countries in Europe where they delayed various hospitalizations. Similarly
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by bkor 6y ago
I think you misread an article. I saw one mention that 20% decline the infection rate. That's entirely different than herd immunity. I don't see any article saying that the mentioned countries have hit herd immunity. Especially Ne
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by bkor 6y ago
> Amazon doesn't compete on lower salaries, it competes on automation. Talking about automation and then the warehouse bit: Automation in warehouses is something that was in the news in Netherlands recently. Some supermarket opened
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by bkor 6y ago
> I don't know if you've quite understood how Swedish labor law differs from the French. Obviously I don't know Swedish labour law. What I'm after is something completely different: Amazon is able to operate in France
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by bkor 6y ago
Could you give me a pointer to the Dutch law regarding banning noticing some patterns? Thanks!
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by bkor 6y ago
Zwarte Piet / Black Pete is considered a great person (admirable). This despite the way that the person is shown. IMO it's always funny/humourus that people assume something else, especially it it's followed by various
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by bkor 6y ago
How's showing a certain group of people in a ridiculous way helping blacks and showing positivity? I agree that Zwarte Piet is portrayed as a great person/character. Despite that, the way it's shown is nowadays outdated and i
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by bkor 6y ago
> And here is exactly why it's a stupid idea, different countries have different culture and history. Even culture can negatively affect certain groups. Apparently the Zwarte Piet thing is negatively affecting and causing some racis
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by bkor 6y ago
> And no manager is able to justify spending the extra few days to automate something correctly or "get it right" because there's always pressing product work to do. As-if the business side of things has any idea of how lo
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by bkor 6y ago
It wasn't the opinion, it was the actions that were taken. As CEO you're in the spotlight. A CEO also (together with the board) sets direction. That's quite different from any other position within the company. Meaning, for m
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by bkor 6y ago
> After a week or so we started getting our deliveries again, usually with an extra day of delay because it was being fulfilled from Germany. In some other industries (shipping) you have to be really careful to do that. There's vari
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by bkor 6y ago
What a weird article. Loads of international companies operate in countries with wildly different laws, standards of living, disposable income, etc. Why compare Sweden with a Polish warehouse workers and not investigate how e.g. Amazon.fr o
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by bkor 6y ago
In Netherlands you can skip out on paying various things, e.g. pension, and various social insurances. E.g. to get paid if you're not working any more, work disability, long time sickness pay. Various companies forced people to become
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by bkor 6y ago
> I'm sure there are some cases where the performance difference comes down to skipping more or fewer files My use case if probably weird, various times I grep for things across about 13k of full rpm package checkouts. So 13k direct
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by bkor 6y ago
Trademarks are per industry/category. So going after companies where the similarly is already questionable and further, the industry isn't the same is not needed. The second link is about some coffee shop and the case was lost. Me
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by bkor 6y ago
I use this an ripgrep. By default I tend to use ripgrep. It skips various files, e.g. tarballs, ".git", ".svn" and so on. It's quite quick as a result. I also like the output a lot, though it's kind of annoying
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by bkor 6y ago
MCAS is only supposed to activate in extreme circumstances. The planes are perfectly safe to fly and capable of flying without MCAS working. I think you need to read up on MCAS a bit more.
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by bkor 6y ago
> preventable with proper pilot instruction and awareness More pilot training? The training that was sold to everyone not to be needed? https://fortune.com/2020/01/14/boeing-lion-air-extra-737-max... It&#x
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by bkor 6y ago
> Lion Air and Ethiopian crashes could have been prevented with better pilot actions. Boeing tried to say it was the pilots for a long time. I don't want to fly on a plane whereby you need to be an exceptional pilot to not crash the
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by bkor 6y ago
A crash is not due to one cause. Multiple things have to fail for this to be a problem. Blaming pilots is way too simplistic. The design of those warnings were highly confusing and overwhelming. Saying "oh, just have better pilots&quot
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by bkor 6y ago
> it's that infected people need to be separated way out away from anyone in their home That's not what I got from it. It pretty much showed that separating elderly from anyone else is really difficult. It failed in many countr
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by bkor 6y ago
The people who were able to pump billions of EUR into KLM. So basically VVD. It doesn't really seem to matter that others have a different opinion. What matters is that billions go into an unsustainable company, were I mean unsustainab
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by bkor 6y ago
> it was a wild ride if you were employed in an unsustainable VC-funded startup in the US Does it matter? Also, there were loads of techs/devs hired for year 2000 bugfixing. After 2000 it took a while to find something else for them
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by bkor 6y ago
GNOME has backgrounds which change over the day. That's entirely different from animated though. Reading the GNOME config file, seems the background slowly transitions (fades) from one picture to another. See https://gitlab.
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by bkor 6y ago
> Amid this increase, sudden policy changes instituted to cut costs by new Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, a Trump donor who was appointed in May, Interesting how that's possible. Corona delayed things in Netherlands, but seems they
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by bkor 6y ago
> There's no way he could make that guarantee. But you can put various things in place. E.g. limited access, (external) audits, etc. Such things are entirely standard and expected for any big company. Saying "cannot guarantee&q
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by bkor 6y ago
It seems you didn't read what you replied to. Suggest to read that comment again.
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by bkor 6y ago
Something I didn't see someone mentioning: Microsoft is moving everyone from Skype for Business over to Teams. Any enterprise customer will have to migrate. Skype for Business is quite different from Skype itself, basically a marketing

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