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by timv 9y ago
It depends. Generally speaking, multinational companies will offer employment contracts through a local subsidiary. In that case the employment will fall under the laws of that country. And if they send you on an overseas business trip that
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by timv 9y ago
But employment in Australia is not at-will , so regardless of their obligations to pay out the notice period they also need to have a valid reason for the dismissal. https://www.lawsociety.com.au/community/publications
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by timv 9y ago
> can't the company fire them at any time with no reason? One of the employees is based out of Sydney, so No , California at-will employment law doesn't apply. It would be interesting to see what grounds they are using to fire
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by timv 9y ago
I know there's a menacing weirdo looking at them, so I'd want to be extra sure he couldn't get it. Now, imagine that the menacing weirdo had included a return address on his letter. Would you report him to the police? If he
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by timv 9y ago
Alongside competition you also need a level of transparency. The consumer needs to be able to get proper information about what they are buying. There's laws around that already, but they often need to be accompanied by regulations tha
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by timv 9y ago
I've seen a PIP work out exactly once. It was a revenge and scape goat PIP. An employee was leaving a team, so they decided to pin all the disasters of the preceding 6 months on him. Of course they didn't raise the issue until aft
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by timv 9y ago
Gradle may not claim to be a "Groovy DSL" anymore, but they certainly used to. From the overview page at the time of the 1.0 release At the heart of Gradle lies a rich extensible Domain Specific Language (DSL) based on Groovy.
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by timv 9y ago
> I find them very useful in Scala, because they make for a way to do "config" that you can refactor safely under the normal rules of the language If you see the choices as either DSL or external config file , then I can u
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by timv 9y ago
And also initiatives such as: https://www.eff.org/who-has-your-back-government-data-reques... (and other years)
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by timv 9y ago
The whole ESTA application system is horrid. If your approval isn't immediate (mine wasn't) then you have to keep checking back to see if/when it gets approved - they don't email you.
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by timv 9y ago
> right now it looks like this entire JSR is going to get killed in 30 days. I don't think so. I suspect Eclipse/IBM/RedHat will still vote against it, but the others will accept that voting "yes" is better tha
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by timv 9y ago
The argument put forward here (and elsewhere) seems to be that we want Clojure to gain the advantages of being on the bootstrap classloader in Java 9 while still targeting Java 7 That's pretty unconvincing to me. If you're shipp
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by timv 9y ago
Historically it was fairly common. I wouldn't say it was standard, but it happened often enough to notice. There's a bunch of reasons that come together to cause that. During the explosion of the web, enterprises moved much of the
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by timv 10y ago
Not the US, but ... http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-07/doctors-identity-alleg...
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by timv 10y ago
And the law in question specifically says No person shall, for the purpose of evading the reporting requirements of section 5313 ... But the report indicates that the IRS made no attempts to determine whether the supposed "structurin
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by timv 10y ago
In Australia supermarkets certainly advertise fresh fruit and vegetables in multiple forms of media. And not just "we sell vegetables", but "this week Australian grown XXXX are just $Y per kg!" Australian readers can pr
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by timv 10y ago
> this COULD also backfire as bad publicity. Assuming the review that nneonneo found is the correct one, then a journalist has already replied wanting more info, so it seems plausible that some bad publicity will come from it. https:&
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by timv 10y ago
> half heartedly booting vms I initially read that as VMS rather than VMs. Very confusing. I don't think too many people half-heartedly boot VMS. Reactions tend to be one extreme or the other.
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by timv 10y ago
The writer wants us to simultaneously believe that the cases were without merit, but were "a legitimate business tactic". A writer can try to be an objective observer, or they can pick a side, but trying to pick both sides is ju
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by timv 10y ago
> There are always reasons (often deadline related, always legitimate, never as a result of laziness or lack of discipline) where developers have been forced to cross module boundaries. Those are still a lack of organisational discipli
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by timv 10y ago
> For 3 weeks everyone around you assumes you're guilty It sounds like it was worse than that. After 3 weeks they gave him back his laptop because they found no evidence on it, and stopped pursuing charges. But the police never ex
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by timv 10y ago
> he thinks it's [...] a legal necessity to protect the company Exactly, which is why his post is totally self-serving propaganda. Though he tries to present the post as "here's a totally objective explanation of how side
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by timv 10y ago
Yes, but that's fairly well tested ground and isn't unique to this case. Witnesses (in the sense of being called to that stand in a courtroom) are frequently asked to tell the court what they saw/heard/did, or from where
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by timv 10y ago
Perhaps, but the judge can only make judgements based on the arguments presented. If the defendant wanted to argue that he no longer remembered the password (but would be willing to decrypt the drive if he could), then that's something
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by timv 10y ago
> I realized that I was being mean, but why was that disclaimer relevant? Because: - transparency is always good - adding a small disclosure to the bottom of a post is very low impact - someone who is interviewing for a job at a company
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by timv 10y ago
Sure, but as darawk argued in a sibling thread, that's not evidence that the poor are being exploited. As far as the "Low-Income Americans" from the article are concerned, all sorts of jobs give them an incentive to lie, wh
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by timv 10y ago
> I think it's a common pitfall for technical founders There's a very closely related form that is common for non-technical founders which is "We're going to use technology to fix ____ industry" A founder with ex
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by timv 10y ago
Yes, but don't many job applications have equivalent incentives for lying? - Have you ever been charged with a criminal offence? - Do you use recreational drugs? Etc. I don't think that the blood donation questionare is especially
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by timv 10y ago
> Use AUD prices. Technically, they don't use AUD prices. Everything is in USD, but the prices are regional, so they have specific prices for Australian customers, but charge them in USD. It's an open question as to whether t
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by timv 10y ago
> He hasn't been a working physicist for a long time precisely because of how unnecessarily and uncharacteristically nasty he is. It's hard to understand why New Scientist decided to quote him then. They certainly seem to be pr

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