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This is exactly why I don't boycott WalMart. Because as abhorrent and their policies are, the last thing I want to do is put some poor person barely scraping by out of a job.

The solution here is not to boycott these places, it's to use your power to lobby for better laws to protect the workers, which will apply evenly to all companies, including future companies that might try to take advantage of people.
I am currently working under Grubhub, Doordash, Uber Eats and several other food delivery services.

None of them communicate, none of them tell you what is going on, none of them are controlling the conversation their employees are talking about on Facebook.

It is PR 101 to control the conversation... but every one of them fail at this when it comes to contractors.
Speaking of Uber/Lyft, do we have any verification that they aren't doing this? I would expect them to take a 2-3% cut to cover the card processing cost but hope that the rest goes to the driver.
There is no stopping meme accounts and I do see 'original creators' getting upset at the lack of credit in the reposts. The most common answer is, if you care, watermark your work.
guerillaclick+eralp@gmail.com guerillaclick+sdfaskdma@gmail.com guerillaclick+111@gmail.com

Unfortunately, more and more services are rejecting + e-mail addresses. Either ignoring them, or flagging them as an error.

While it's perfectly within the RFC, companies are catching on to the trick.

(3M, I'm looking at you!)
I mean ultimately it's the executives that call the shots. I've seen people stand up to executives over things like this and then they get fired and it's business as usual.

Most people aren't willing to risk their jobs over screwing over gig workers, especially when you feel powerless to actually stop it from happening. I mean it's so socially acceptable we've even coined the term "gig economy"

Chances are the people that really feel strongly about these things just refuse to work for those companies in the first place.
They're basically bypassing all hard-fought labor laws by using contractors.
There is such a thing as unlimited, one of the people on our T-Mobile account is at 147GB of tethering with another week to go. People have successfully used both the plans I mentioned for home internet.

If your not in a very congested area, any of these plans should work just fine.
Signal Blog: I link therefore I am
>the op's insight is that sites won't blacklist gmail

Why would you blacklist gmail.com when you can blacklist 'GuerillaClick@gmail.com'?
https://imgur.com/gallery/tMpZo <- this comment section
Screw non competes, they aren't even enforceable most of the time anyway.

My answer to why companies should train people if they can just leave for another company is twofold:

1: It evens out. Sometimes people will leave company A, which trained them, and come to your company, and other times they you will train them and they will leave. As long as the relative rates are about even, it should be ok.

2: Any general training that would apply to all similar companies can just as easily be acquired on the job at any given company. So train the employees, and if you really don't want to lose your 'investment' then perhaps treat them nicely?

Why are we always so quick to cry a river for huge organizations that hold a disproportionate amount of power over individuals?
I guess it "fits" with what they're already doing in the sense that it's mitigating risk for the company, but paying the driver pennies when they get a decent tip is on another level entirely. Nobody would ever expect that their tip would go to the company and not the driver, that's just not what a tip is for. A worker not getting paid when sales are slow or not being covered when there's an injury because they're contracted and not "real" employees are things people generally understand at this point AFAICT. I guess my point is that this is outside of what people generally understand about these types of jobs.
I would be great with corporations deducting all the business losses they wish if only I had similar freedom deducting all of my business losses rather than an elaborate tax code that forces me to resort to tricks like tax-loss harvesting.

Or TLDR: don't take away rights like this from corporations, give those same rights to individuals.
Yes, Google transformed from an engineering driven organization to a tech driven one. Still, they want to make moneycin developing countries with crappy internet connections as well, so Google doesn't have any choice, it still has to look at latencies.
Because overwhelmingly the HN crowd thinks building an app is building a startup.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, the industry can rip Clojure from my cold, dead hands. It's unfortunate that people in this thread seem to down on the language, but the only possible way I would stop using it is if I literally cannot earn income with it. It is by far the most pleasant language I've ever used, I feel at home writing it, and it improves the quality of my work.
In that case I recommend that you go to your bank and make a cash withdrawal in the form of $2 bills. That way you can be cool when handing out cash tips.
> How do you value usability but then have every other website basically disabled?

Clearly, it depends on how one uses the web (i.e.: what sites one frequents). In my case well over 95% of sites I visit work without Java Script. The reason for this is I primarily visit sites that have text as their main content.
Both are pretty bad. A Lyft or Uber waiting for a passenger also drives around and causes congestion like a yellow cab. Lyft and Uber have increased total VMT. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dr-gridlock/wp/2018/07/2...

Poor people in New York overwhelmingly don't drive. They don't even own cars. The median car commuter into Manhattan makes far more than the median transit user. https://www.ibo.nyc.ny.us/newsfax/insidethebudget154.pdf

As far as the cap applying to all boroughs; that is because no one would sign up for a license that only went to the outer boroughs. The yellow/green cab experiment failed; introducing a similar dichotomy to black cabs would probably have the same results.
I think they did. They got shot down.

I was at the meeting at payday lender when we discussed some ways how to extract maximum money from people who are delinquent. People do speak up, they get shot down.
Using Jeffery Pfeffer's model, power in business and organizations is a function of performance, credentials, and relationships. These are weighted differently in different places. It's important to know how they are weighted in your field of endeavour, because it describes how people will be sorted for success.

I would argue that it depends on what you are aiming for, and what your desired outcome is. If there is attrition in your field, figure out why people lose. Is it incompetence, a terminal lack of guanxi, or did they get layered by someone from the right school?
Ah, I wasn't aware that they were being executed for that reason. Then I definitely agree it's horrifying.
No.

Easily checked, run jarsigner -verify -verbose -certs some.apk on an APK of your choice. I ran it on 31 just now, no cross-signing visible anywhere.
I agree and am against non competes, but feel weird about how that would be replaced. Obvious thought is to put a monitary value of the training and let that value "vest" over a year or two, so if the employee leaves early they have to pay back everything. That sounds good, but then you'll have situations where some company is just inflating the true costs of their training in order to make an employee stick around because they don't want to be on the hook for $X0,000. It would end up being like a reverse signing bonus.

So I have no clue what the solution is, all alternatives seem to be negative.
> I have a crazy idea around this: End high school sooner.

I have an even crazier idea: subsidize education so much that every school is as good as the ones Zuckerberg and Gates attended.

Other than healthcare and law enforcement, everything else can be 100% privatized.
Of course destruction of ivory makes the remaining ivory more rare, more valuable, and desireable. The issue with ivory poaching isn’t going to be solved by Drug War tactics, and just like burning a pile of cocaine it does nothing to solve the problem, it just makes people feel better.
Adobe is considering whether it wants to design its own chips
> But it means something different to make a wage and to make a profit.

Why? Other than "because our tax law says so"?
It's just greed, plain and simple. It doesn't have to be more complex than that.
That's not worse.

Humans all have basically the same expense structure so taxing revenue makes sense. Corporations from different industries have wildly different expense structures so taxing on revenue would be nonsensical: you would end up undertaxing high profit industries like tech or pharma and massively overtaxing low profit industries like retail.
>If you come to my house I'll happily call an ambulance for you.

And I'd do the same. My objection is that my tax obligation is roughly the GDP per capita - that's well above and beyond calling an ambulance. What are the limits of what you'd do for me? Could I come into your kitchen and eat until I'm full? Could I play your video games if I were bored? Could I ask for a sexual favor?

>We have enough collective resources to treat the life-threatening illness of everyone within our borders

Why stop at the borders? Is the inside the border / outside the border distinction more ethical than the illegal vs non-illegal distinction?
What is this cash you speak of? I jest, but seriously, it has been more than a decade since I last had cash on me. I assume there is someway that I could get cash, but it has been so long I'm probably (okay, definitely) not going to go to the trouble. Saying I should tip them in cash is saying that I shouldn't tip them.
> Why did NO ONE in any meetings when designing this "feature" or process say anything?

Meetings are rarely open-ended forums for arbitrary ideas or feedback and more often venues for agreeing with and carrying out decisions that were already made.

Anyway, I think it's far from settled that the amount of "blowback" from decisions like these actually hurt a company in the typical case.
That's fine if you're practicing "distributed camping", so that nature has a chance to process the poo.

People often congregate at the same sites however, and it doesn't take long before that strategy starts to fail.

And like others said - this doesn't work so well on a beach.
And not all sites honor the "+". Too easy to filter that out.
We don't have corporatism (corporate crony capitalism, which is a bit redundant, but not corporatism which is a completely different thing; the corpora referred to in corporatism is the body formed by the whole of society, not each individual firm as a corporation.)
An MBA would point out that in the this isn't a sustainable strategy, regardless of any concept of fairness.

Backlash from customers and workers is virtually guaranteed to hurt long-term profits.
"Chief Knowledge Officer", cool title.
edit: Meh, in retrospect this comment was lazy and I don't feel like having it around for the rest of eternity.
Hard to say exactly without being privy to their conversations, but the aggressive growth pressure that young companies with VC funding face almost always factors in somehow.

It's hard to truly expect companies to make the correct ethical decision in this scenario when the survival of founders is dependent on raising more and more money. The "grow now, profit later" model truly puts pressure on execs to take whatever they can. And in this case, they clearly thought either nobody would notice or care.
I think there's workable ways around this. One of my past employers required a retention contract if they pay for specific education.

Sure, I could still leave prior to the agreed upon term but I'd be required to pay back their investment. I thought that was fair.
Not sure.. the Charter employees who come out usually test everything and everything else tests normal.

They don't seem bothered by the frequency ("is normal..")

Everything else connected to that part of the house seems normal.

The cable junction point out in the yard is usually under water... they replaced all that too, but said that's normal for this neighborhood (we're adjacent to wetlands). How that bombs out the modem inside the house continues to be a mystery.

I'm probably here for one or two more replacements, and I'll move to another part of my city.
Welcome to California, land of 1,000 laws – and that’s just this year
I do all my banking online. My bank doesn't have any local branches. Seriously, who has cash anymore?
Do you mind sharing your age (ballpark range) and savings (ballpark range)?

I often read about such lifestyle, but something that would haunt me is what you would do as you age and as work dries up.

I think I'd be more comfortable with first working the hard years in silicon valley while living as frugally as possible to have savings to not ever work again, and then you can move to a low COL area to either start a startup or freelance. Theoretically with a FAANG or comparable pay job, you can get to such financial position in about 10-15 years of work.
>I guess my point is that this is outside of what people generally understand about these types of jobs.

I think it is shocking and would be to most folks.

But as for what they understand, I suspect many (not all) of the folks work these jobs ... are just bad at math and don't really realize what they're getting paid / the risks.

In that sense for those folks the entire job is outside what they understand.
Once upon a time, folks would have organized a union and fought for their rights. But I realize that's not very innovative or disruptive, or libertarian or capitalist or whatever the hell the overriding ethos seems to be in Silicon Valley.
I find it interesting how the post was flagged even before the discussion started.

Is it because the question of heritability of zip codes is too sensitive?
The point the author is making is that the "you don't need to trust it" is fundamentally misplaced. You do need to trust the institutions, and builders of, much in the same way you need to trust any business you choose to interact with them. The issue of public blockchain is that I now need to trust code and technology in a system where the events are no longer reversible. We know that code and technology is not perfect. This shifting where the trust is placed, without the recourse of law by peers, is why public blockchain may not make it beyond the great experiment. Now add the incentives and protections for malice... what's a reasonable person to trust in public blockchain
This is exactly why I keep some small bills in my wallet. No need for the "man" to share the transaction between me and the person who provided me with good service.
Okay, but what do the ex-Instacart workers have to say?
Everything that is necessary for a human to function is job-related expenses for somebody who is working. We just choose to not recognize it as such.
Except for outliers like Apple, it is atypical for shareholders to get more of revenues than the workers.

Payroll, benefits, offices, etc are easily >50% of revenue in virtually all ventures (including diamond trade and definitely your favourite tech unicorn)
I have no agenda other than hoping our community would become more welcoming. As context, my startup makes an app that is mostly used by women, which has helped me learn to see things from a different point of view. And I've worked with and hired many talented female engineers and designers who have all mentioned about how male focused as a whole our industry still is. I take them at their word.
Why would you tip on any service where you are already literally paying for the service of delivery?

It's like tipping has become completely divorced from any purpose.
> As far as I can see in the USA and in most of Europe it’s way more socially acceptable to declare to be atheists, rather than observing Christians.

I don't know what it's like in Europe, but in the US, it's a very divisive topic. Really divisive. Like brawls in the streets divisive. Like secede-from-the-Union divisive. There's cities that will shun you for being religious, and other cities that will shun you for not being religious, sometimes even in the same state.

That's why the government shut down happened, frankly. The religious and non-religious parts of the United States literally hate each other so much that they'll act against their own interests just to hurt the other side.
Yes, testing, proper programming languages and QA processes would finally be taken seriously by management.
As another millennial, I carry cash and pay with it whenever possible, though I think I'm in the minority on the latter point (but not the former!).
Right. And then it has to be clarified that sex is evil but violence is fine, or we have to declare as a society that writing Batman is a crime.
200 dollars a day delivering packages? Yeah, that's not going to last, sorry.
Can’t have your cake and eat it too. Either it’s not impacting workers as much as the article and our imaginations would lead us to believe, or it is. If it is, then yes voting with your wallet is 100% appropriate despite temporary disruption it might cause workers.
I would believe that someone did/has. If you look at things like Project Maven at Google people did speak out, or the Chinese search engine. Speaking out doesn't help if you're not in a position to modify the plan though. I've been in both places, both where I could keep a bad idea from going through and times when I could only share my concerns.

For me, it was situations like this that gave me the motivation to get better at pitching (and shooting down) ideas. Using the tip fiasco as an example, you can argue it at the social justice level which will be ignored by the Chief Product Officer because they don't care about social justice, so for them you argue it at the product angle,

"This policy/product is going to stain our product and make us look like greedy chumps, look at how our competitors product idea to do <x> resulted in so much bad publicity they had to pay <y>, which totally negated any value to the company. Do you want to be the guy that costs this company that money? Are you ready to be out on the street looking for a job where your last idea turned out to be reviled by press? It will be you because the CEO certainly isn't going to take the blame for it, they are going to fire you and say 'See? We thought it was horrible too and we fired the person responsible.', and that is going to be you. Think about that before you move forward on this product idea, kthx bye."

That makes is personal to someone in a position to actually stop it from going out the door. If you can show them the risk in a way they will understand, then, and only then, do you get any traction in stopping it.
"Let the kids leave sophomore year, or even earlier. Let them go to trade schools."
Germany does this.
This will continue until we fix taxes globally.
I think the fact that a gig economy company with fair (for lack of a better term) labor practices hasn't shown up yet (to my knowledge) is an indictment on the lack of vision from VCs and entrepreneurs.

As a recent NYT article showed, we are moving towards a bifurcated economy split between service workers and high skilled work based on technology. The gig economy has the correct foresight in merging the two but due to the shortsighted nature of VCs these companies have built a business model based on worker exploitation.

It's hard to believe that a balance does not exist that would allow for a "gig" company to utilize full-time workers and still be profitable.
The problem with #2 is that if a company spends $30k of time and effort to get an employee trained up, the poaching company can offer a raise of 10k and still be in the black 3 years later. If the original company decided to match that offer, they're now spending 60k more over three years, and the poaching company can offer a 15k raise and STILL be in the black after 3 years. Any money you pay in training is a sunk cost that doesn't have to be paid by your competitors.
I wonder if those companies use the lack of tips as an indicator for not providing excellent service... and then use that as an argument to not use those drivers.
Only operating expenses, but in any case you will pay more next year.
I pretty much gave up on all the delivery and quick convenience companies like this.

It's all about pushing risk on to the employees, some of whom really don't know the risk and what their net pay even is.
It’s messy right now. -S still means an improved version of a previous form factor (X->XS, just like 6-6S a few years ago.) X- seems to mean a curved corner screen and no home buttons (X/XS, XS Max, XR.) Max And Plus both mean a larger version of another phone (XS/XS Max, but it’s confusing because the XR also has a bigger screen.)

I agree it’s not worth thinking about unless you’re really into Apple news.
How new is the building? Are the exterior walls properly insulated and sealed?

My friends in a 3 year old building in Ballard have had to open their windows through the last few weeks, and they're only near the top floor. Another friend of mine had a similar experience in Mill Creek when on the top floor.
So add step 2.5: Netflix sends a confirmation mail and the victim confirms for the same reason as in step 4.
Hey do you mind if I kill you and take your organs? Is that a bad thing?
True, but once someone knows something illegal or deeply unethical is going down and sticks around, they can't complain about getting part of the blame for it.
Your assumption seems reasonable. But all cultural changes disaffect someone, but it doesn't mean they are bad as a whole. And this cultural movement seems to be negatively affecting you in some way. There's an old saying that may be useful here, "if you can't beat them, join them."

Why not try living in a van for even just a week and see what is going on from their perspective?

I did this with homeless people when I was younger (I lived on streets for a few days while in college) and it changed my perspective on them for the rest of my life.
Morality of the death sentence aside, I think the underlying issue here is that this may also be a driver for killing people in the first place. For example, the presence of "re-education" camps was brought up again recently, in particular relating to Uighur muslims and more generally political and ideological dissidents, whereby the camps have grown considerably (despite contradicting statements on the international scene) and people seem to get "re-educated" indefinitely.
Wait you mean I can make money doing that? I just do it for free! I figure one day someone will return the favor.
I work primarily in design.
When I've moved between companies I have been asked for this but usually at a final interview stage.
I've mostly obliged as I like a challenge, with the caveat that I have other commitments and so don't expect a gold standard in quality.

My understanding after the fact was that this type of thing helped to identify people who were of an open mindset, the challenge put me out of my comfort zone a little too so that was another aspect. Finally it when the review happened it allowed us to talk about something we both had an understanding of.

The only memorable time was when I identified some problems in their brief, ones they didn't notice, and called them out on it (not in a cocky way). This was the nail in the coffin for other candidates as no one else spotted it.

Finally I've never been asked to do anything for an ongoing or upcoming project, only for something that had already existed. They also supplied content for me to work with and I chose what I could do with them in the context of what the role involved.