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by home_boi 9y ago
What I find troubling about Yelp's arguments and the antitrust situation is that these parties are basically telling a company what its website must look like and have. They are saying that a website must conform to their idea of a sea
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by home_boi 9y ago
> It's been shown, especially recently, that HR and legal are not necessarily on the side of employees wronged by sexism in the workplace. Nor are they on the side of employees accused of sexism. They will do whatever is in their be
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by home_boi 9y ago
> The default outcome in he-said-she-said, no other proof is no action from HR. There needs to be more justification to this statement. What happens in HR is basically a black box to most people.
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by home_boi 9y ago
> Startup compensation can be right up there with the big companies. Does anyone know how to find these companies when you're already at the high end of the spectrum? There are thousands of start ups and even shooting an email or ch
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by home_boi 9y ago
Unfortunately, female offenders receive less attention and appropriate punishment for their actions.
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by home_boi 9y ago
> Seems like many men have a problem with rejection and accepting no Women don't have the burden of having to initiate relationships and chase after potential partners
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by home_boi 9y ago
You still have almost no power as an individual. It's majority rules. It's a glaring flaw of 'democracy' that prominent figures and governments have tried to work around. If you perform well and have decent bargaining po
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by home_boi 9y ago
> Which is all to say that if common workers in your industry unionize you will probably be able to negotiate an even higher premium in exchange for not joining the union. Or the union can force you out of your job by forcing the employe
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by home_boi 9y ago
It's true that a union has more bargaining power. But you've just moved the power from the employer to the union. As an individual you don't have power over the terms of the collective bargaining. The union can very well barg
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by home_boi 9y ago
Tech in the USA is so far away from a bad demand/supply ratio that it isn't worth thinking about. There is a hell lot of room for the conditions of software jobs to deteriorate before people become concerned when new grads from un
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by home_boi 9y ago
Food for thought, if software engineers unionized, you would be out of a job as a contractor because any employer that uses your service would get inflatable ratted. Then you would be forced to join a union and take the same low pay as ever
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by home_boi 9y ago
Data selling from big tech companies is the least of your worries tbh. It's all presented in aggregate form and protected very well. It isn't even really data selling, although if you want to argue semantics and model it as such,
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by home_boi 9y ago
Interesting to see the professionals part of the website. I wonder how well it competes with Thumbtack
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by home_boi 9y ago
> but you don't have to be a genius to get a CS degree But most people don't know that. They don't know that you can make $160,000 total comp right out of undergrad by going to a mediocre school where other students are no
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by home_boi 9y ago
Their intention doesn't matter. Companies can strive for a monopoly without breaking rules. The point is that at this moment, they don't have it and there is high competition (although oligopolies) in both mobile and desktop preve
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by home_boi 9y ago
But there is more than just web browsing. Microsoft owned the entire platform at one point.
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by home_boi 9y ago
I don't get Levandowski's 5th amendment claim on the privilege log. Doesn't the 5th amendment only stop the individual from incriminating himself? How can he argue that other people (or an entire company in this case) are not
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by home_boi 10y ago
Have you found any alternative to online shopping? I generally just roll the dice with Amazon on anything that is not food or electronics. The convenience trumps the money wasted on buying a bad product. For electronics, I've looked at
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by home_boi 10y ago
The one problem I have with self driving cars is that the software is a single point of failure, so one bad patch (one "mistake") could cause millions of crashes
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by home_boi 10y ago
It's actually not that expensive in the South bay, at least compared to SF. I would say it's roughly Boston area rent prices
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by home_boi 10y ago
What effects would this have on the currently generous insurance plans of $huge_tech_company_based_in_CA?
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by home_boi 10y ago
Not sure if serious, but pragmatically speaking, you would be better off with a locked down laptop that never touches a network with offline Keepass that was installed through a USB.
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by home_boi 10y ago
Despite the damning alleged evidence, I get the feeling that all the offenders knew that they would be found out ahead of time, evaluated the risk reward trade-off and decided that they could somehow get away with it. Are there any lawyers
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by home_boi 10y ago
1. Interesting tech problems 2. Smart coworkers (well before this came out) 3. Good compensation (I heard for top tier applicants, they give something like MSFT total comp as salary with a ridiculous amount of paper money) 4. Assumed less b
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by home_boi 10y ago
And easily switch to similar prestigious company like Stripe.
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by home_boi 10y ago
Your argument isn't relevant for the situation and is very black and white. Wearing male sized team gear is a trivial matter. There are obviously other cases where accounting for every minority is important but this is not one of them.
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by home_boi 10y ago
If work from home becomes more prevalent, it might not be so.
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by home_boi 10y ago
The jacket drama had nothing to do with gender really and she was making a big deal out of something trivial. I can imagine the scenario is like "ok we're too cheap to create custom jackets for everyone so we will order the jacket
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by home_boi 10y ago
There is a difference between misogyny and sexual occurrences. If OP had been a male, she would have had as bad, if not worse experience.
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by home_boi 10y ago
I'm of the opinion that the average software engineer in the USA is already overpaid and underworked with excellent benefits and low incentive to unionize. I'm simplifying it a bit but if you don't like your job, just grab a

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