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by kafkaesq 10y ago
Please explain how it's the right thing to do. There's more to "doing the right thing" than simply "doing the bare minimum that the law requires you to do."
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
Uber has few black technical employees, Along with a culture of bro-ishness and clique-iness, hypercompetitiveness and backstabbing, and a sweeping disdain for ethics in general. You forgot those parts.
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
Why would anybody want to scramble to assume financial liability for such an incident? Because it's the right thing to do (in this case).
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
Like, you know -- leaving 2 children without a father, and a widow with a broken heart. That sort of thing.
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
Also the addition of racism really muddies the waters. Given the various factors at play, I would investigate further before offering such a blanket dismissal. But that's just me.
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
As to (1) see my post above, please. 2) HN guidelines specifically prohibit questioning whether someone read an article. Noted, thanks. But general principles dictate one should also be more circumspect in addressing the circumstances of
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
As to "evidence" (not all of it necessarily court-admissible -- but certainly enough preponderance of indication that it may have been Uber's fault, enough to warrant further investigation): But at Uber, Thomas struggled in
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
There are other factors at play. Like, you know, concern for the next of kin and an expected general sense of remorse, for example.
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
For a family of four , one reads later down in the article. Clickbait, in other words.
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The Republican Lawmaker Who Secretly Created Reddit’s Women-Hating ‘Red Pill’(thedailybeast.com)
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
So after such a tragedy, what does Uber do? They deny the family's benefits claim, of course: Uber denied the benefits claim through its insurance carrier. In California, workers’ compensation usually does not cover psychiatric injur
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
And that was the beauty of JSON: There was no "format", per se. And you certainly didn't need to think or care about some friggen "spec". All you had to do was sort of take a look at it, say "OK", and ge
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
A qood question - I'd say the best answer is "no" simply because "experience" and "insight" imply some higher-order cognition at play ("insight" for sure). What ML algorithms do is more akin to c
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Media Regulator Says Twitter Will Comply with Law, Locate User Data in Russia(rferl.org)
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
Bear in mind that we have this thing known as a "constitution" , which such harassment definitely contravenes in spirit (and most likely the letter of as well). Being as this constitution, as you will recall, was specifically desi
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Snowden's Box(harpers.org)
24 points by kafkaesq 10y ago|9 comments
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
More straw-man crap trying to pitch the ridiculous idea that hard work doesn't matter at all. Which isn't what the author was saying, of course.
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
Not fired not laid off just quietly let go. Very sorry to hear. But it's either one or the other, by definition. And if it doesn't meet the strict legal definition of a "layoff" -- that means you were fired. (No mat
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Pyongyang Central Broadcasting Station Releases a Statement(twitter.com)
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550+ Amazon Employees Pressure Leadership to Cut Advertising Ties with Breitbart(buzzfeed.com)
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Fallout Protection: What to Know and Do About Nuclear Attack (1961)(en.wikipedia.org)
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U.S. May Launch Strike If North Korea Reaches for Nuclear Trigger(nbcnews.com)
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
It offers steep learning curve Let's just let the multiple language issues in the above fragment slide, as they're not native speakers. But this, however: What is more, such overall JavaScript applications require less code an
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
Well, that's what they want you to think it means. The reality is that it means something quite different. But either way -- just by calling it "unlimited vacation", they're f-ing with you from the very start.
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Why did Churchill order the destruction of the bombes?(history.stackexchange.com)
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
The subtext here is that customers don't have any actual rights when dealing with a large corporation. Well, no -- they just don't have much bargaining power . Which is different.
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
No, they put in AC. What do you mean, "No"? Are you saying the reports of Amazon hiring "Cetronia Ambulance Corps to have ambulances and paramedics stationed at its two adjacent warehouses during five days of excessive hea
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
Also a good way to ensure sick people heroically come to work and infect everyone else. No problem -- we can count on Amazon to just put few ambulances + paramedics outside for when people start collapsing at their stations. Just like th
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
So Amazon's way of dealing with sick time costs is to... step on the gas, and throw oil on the fire with respect to the #1 reason that people call in sick (at rates above median) in the first place -- namely, a general sense of hopeles
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
And soon enough, those cameras already popping up everywhere will be pattern-matching your pretty face against all of them, dozens of times a day, with 97% accuracy. And logging these scores to, well, you know where.

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