doorbumper

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by doorbumper 9y ago
That is not overstated. The rating has a significant impact on their livelihood. In addition, tips are 100% profit. I'm sure $5 is chump change to you, but a $5 tip an hour would be 60% pay increase.
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by doorbumper 9y ago
Your comment has been flagged by American political correctness.
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by doorbumper 9y ago
That's a well and fine point. However, by being unclear there is no indication that those companies are not partnering. That could be construed as propagating false rumors. It's not just the intent that is important, but how peo
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by doorbumper 9y ago
It's more troublesome for Google to retaliate. Google is already under scrutiny for unfair search results from regulatory agencies all over the globe. Amazon has gone mostly unnoticed, and exerts their power without fear of reprisal.
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by doorbumper 9y ago
> But in my book, if one wants the title Senior Engineer then one has to have built and shipped something that generates more revenue (directly or indirectly) than what the system cost to build and maintain. Wouldn't that eliminate
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by doorbumper 9y ago
Seems like every time tech workers try to unionize they get fired, and many tech workers know they have it better than elsewhere.
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by doorbumper 9y ago
If you're going to applaud apple for "doing the right thing for customers", it might be good to think about apple's history. When during the last decade has apple ever not tried to ignore severe hardware issues befor
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by doorbumper 9y ago
To many laypersons 1% seems like a small number. However when dealing with large numbers 1% is not at all rare. I don't know much about celiac disease, however to put that into perspective, that means that there are 4 times more people
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by doorbumper 9y ago
Which society is this? I'd be surprised if more than 5% of all people even know that the concept exists.
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by doorbumper 9y ago
The problem is that there is no reward for speaking up, while there is punishment for speaking up.