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by bonaldi 11y ago
Yes, though if that's their angle the marketing line is very misleading: they're discussing focal length as 35mm-equivalent, I had assumed they were doing the same with aperture.
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by bonaldi 11y ago
I too am interested in this for shallow dof, and was excited at the idea that these lenses are effectively f1.2. But there's no way that skater shot is f1.2-equivalent. In fact, there are no sample shots anywhere I can see that back up
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by bonaldi 11y ago
Sad to see they still have the cranked noise reduction, which really ruins faces. If you look at the enlarged portait pics and compare the 4s and 6s you'll see what I mean: the 4s has details in the skin, the 6s has a near-impressionis
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by bonaldi 11y ago
He didn't say "every time" (in the version I'm looking at). He said they chose profit over security (implying in this instance) and I think that's valid.
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by bonaldi 11y ago
You'd make a terrible judge. "The suspect was found with the murder weapon in his hand, next to the body? Insufficient. Circumstantial. I need a confession". No manager with any sense at all is ever going to write an email li
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by bonaldi 11y ago
What is your bar for discrimination then? Person takes a leave that is only available to their gender. Is screwed over as a result. It's not a complicated case, and that's even before you add in the cancer.
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by bonaldi 11y ago
It's not the view used to judge human rights cases or build international law upon. And if not the control of might, it would be interesting to - somewhere else - talk about the foundations you would rest society upon.
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by bonaldi 11y ago
If properly handled maternity cover is a pretty painless process. It's not like a boss quitting: there are handover periods and keep-in-touch mechanisms. The new manager should be explicitly hired for maternity cover, and have their ex
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by bonaldi 11y ago
If you want to get all fundamental about it, it's right because of their might. Most societies are signed up to it, and they're much bigger than you. Society might adopt your peculiar view of a right someday, when it does we can j
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by bonaldi 11y ago
That's zero-sum: the (minor) cost the team pays for supporting the leave is repaid by the support they get when they need to take leave themselves. The other things could and should have been improved by Amazon. Their obligation is to
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by bonaldi 11y ago
I was using the definition of the UN declaration of universal human rights: http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/ That may not match the definition in your book, but their book is bigger and is written with th
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by bonaldi 11y ago
There's a difference between allowing people to take parental leave (eg their legal requirement) and actually supporting it. If they only pay lip service to the letter of the law and you return to find your job effectively gone, then t
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by bonaldi 11y ago
Sure, having a baby is a choice, but it's also a universal human right -- and like the other rights, society needs to protect those. It protects them in some cases by putting obligations onto employers. That's why "someone el
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by bonaldi 11y ago
Ahem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10123800
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by bonaldi 11y ago
Amazon apparently doesn't have proper maternity leave procedures in place: if you go on mat leave it treats it like you left the company and your team gets reassigned. That's crap treatment that will only happen to one gender.
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by bonaldi 11y ago
It's essentially a contract that says you will be employed during the period of a given person's maternity leave, however long that may be. When they return to work, your contract expires. Here (UK) there are provisions in employm
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by bonaldi 11y ago
It depends on whether the company's attitude is begrudging or not. If not, there are plenty of straightforward processes that can go in place. - First is, where possible, you get the replacement in on a defined temporary cover contract
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by bonaldi 11y ago
> Can you explain how the claims that the privacy policy allows MS to share data with the MPAA are founded? The MPAA could be a Microsoft "customer" that needs protection from piracy. The MPAA could run a service with Microsoft
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by bonaldi 11y ago
Again, no - the original research was into people working in a huge range of ways -- heavy industry, outdoor occupations, clerical work etc. If you mean "I can socialise and network and that counts as work", I don't think tha
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by bonaldi 11y ago
It's not that different. The original research into productivity is from that era, and that's where the 50 hour max came from. Yes, you can keep making widgets, but you need a new shift of people to do so. That would be an int
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by bonaldi 11y ago
The research contradicts you, and if you're going by your intuition you're likely wrong, even about your own performance. It's exactly your sort of thinking that means the industry keeps working the way it is
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by bonaldi 11y ago
Damn, you're now the first Google hit for it. Can you tell a bit more about it, what it did etc? Very intrigued!
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by bonaldi 11y ago
"Reducing labor costs" is what is making them evil, in part
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by bonaldi 11y ago
It's incredible how lightly they have thrown away the Google+ Account For Everything stance given how merciless they were in imposing it at the time. The wails from YouTube in particular have only just died down. Kudos to them, but a l
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by bonaldi 11y ago
You might be thinking of software on ceefax: they had pages in the high numbers which contained gibberish to the viewer but which could be read by a BBC Micro with teletext adapter
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by bonaldi 11y ago
The problem with the iPod Touch is that it highlights exactly how hefty the margin is on an iPhone. 64gb iPod = £249. 64gb iPhone 6 = £619. If the only difference was GPS/Cell and a slightly larger battery it would hard to defend char
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by bonaldi 11y ago
I would pay up to £30 for a Zelda or Mario on my phone. Why not? I've paid that for cart versions for years, and they don't get the attention they should because I don't carry a GameBoy everywhere any longer.
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by bonaldi 11y ago
It says in the article (or in the linked article which covers the same ground). It's tests like the "unsafe situation": a baby is put in peril, and the mother has to reassure it. Babies that are quickly reassured typically do
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by bonaldi 11y ago
Does the RSS spec even include the ability to include machine-readable terms/licencing in a feed? Given its source (and the gentler world in which it and Atom were born) I'm guessing not, but it seems like a big omission.
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by bonaldi 11y ago
Do you have a link to any of these Argos-delivering refurbishers?

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