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by ejb999 4y ago
family used to provide a lot of that care, and saw it as part of their responsibility, and was made easier when one parent was at home and not working. Now, for the most part, both spouses work and neither has any interest, or ability in pr
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by ejb999 4y ago
I think an awful lot of employers would prefer you were a contractor; in the USA at least, it is the IRS/government that prevents this from happening more by putting the fear into said employers that they will be fined and forced to
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by ejb999 4y ago
Don't kid yourself, there is nothing you can do to prevent people from 'stealing' code they are working on if they are working from home or any other place where someone is not looking over their shoulder 100% of the time. Th
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by ejb999 4y ago
the employer has more leverage in who they choose to hire and what they choose to pay - but potential employees hold all the leverage about where they choose to work and the amount they are willing to accept.
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by ejb999 4y ago
it is not about what they 'can' bear, it's about what they are willing to bear - it is not the same thing - the company can decide what they are willing to bear, and the employee can decide what they are willing to work for.
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by ejb999 4y ago
great - and then you have to pay NYC taxes. Probably something you want to avoid, unless you actually live there.
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by ejb999 4y ago
thats about 3% of their workforce according to the article.
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Disney to cut 7k jobs as it slashes costs and reorganizes(cnbc.com)
18 points by ejb999 4y ago|8 comments
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by ejb999 4y ago
best I could find is they have about 2700 employees (source linkedin), so 19% is about 500 - thats a pretty deep cut.
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Affirm cuts 19% of workforce; shares tank on earnings miss(cnbc.com)
9 points by ejb999 4y ago|4 comments
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by ejb999 4y ago
probably because other social media sites have already proven time and time again they are happy to weaponize their platforms against a population if the leaders of that country ask them too.
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>I don't know where the expectation that they should function as charities or job programs came from. Personally I think it comes from many of these people being young (under about 33-35), and having worked almost their entire c
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>This is the kind of thinking that prevents labor from organizing and having no power. But is that the end goal? for the union to have power? sometimes it does seem like that is in fact the goal. I thought the goal was for people to
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by ejb999 4y ago
Given the things he has managed to bring to market, and the impact he is having on the world - I would say yes. People can get really lucky once, but Musk has an overall track record that can't be attributed to just getting lucky or be
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by ejb999 4y ago
not the OP, but if 'the problem' is that the people who are running companies are not running them in a way that some people feel is fair to their employees, then when people start their own companies they have the ability to inst
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by ejb999 4y ago
plus you only have to work 1/2 days, and it doesn't even matter which twelve hours you pick. :)
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by ejb999 4y ago
If you live in Massachusetts, you might be able to soon: https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/02/03/1067768/massachu...
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>Part of me wonders what the world would look like if we massively regulated credit card terms, like no more than 5% APR. What would happen is there would be no credit cards for anyone. Nobody is going to lend money to the general pu
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by ejb999 4y ago
good analogy (not being sarcastic)
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by ejb999 4y ago
Right ... a zero percent raise, especially in an inflationary environment, means you have been getting a pay cut for each of the past 3 years.
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>"They told us that it wasn't safe for kids to walk down the street, that there are registered sex offenders all over town that could take them, that drug dealers were going to give them drugs, and that it was 'a diffe
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by ejb999 4y ago
...and yet somehow he manages to launch and land way more rockets to space vs what NASA has been able to do for the last 50+ years...and at a tiny fraction of the cost. Guess he really is an idiot.
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by ejb999 4y ago
>> (it's impossible to search for it) and yet, somehow you read about it.
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by ejb999 4y ago
hiring managers are not that dumb ... if you prior job is amazon, and you are applying for a new job 2 months after 18K have been laid off - they can put 2 and 2 together pretty easily. Even if you did leave on your own accord, they will li
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by ejb999 4y ago
that was my experience in school as well - and the real killer was even when team members contributed exactly zero effort for team projects, everyone on the team got the same grade. Professors didn't care - even if 3/4 team report
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>A doctor in the US makes BANK, like lawyer money, As compared to what? someone that may or may not have gone to college, learned to code and now makes 400-700K per year working at a tech company? I for one think doctors deserve to &
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by ejb999 4y ago
which health care system magically triages patients correctly 100% of the time and never makes mistakes?
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by ejb999 4y ago
That has been my experience as well - best advice, don't get really sick or really hurt outside of regular business hours. Broke my foot a few months back and called all the urgent care outfits in my area for an appt - none of them wer
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by ejb999 4y ago
I don't think it's beyond the competency of our leaders - I think our leaders know that not enough people actually want it. If politicians thought it was a winning strategy (defined by getting re-elected), they would be all over i
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by ejb999 4y ago
I agree - its hearsay and deception - vitamins and nutrients and dietary supplements are a huge, profit driven, industries - they are not your friend trying to improve your health - they are trying to empty your wallet and nothing else.

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