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> "The companies were losing money and employees trying to satisfy Amazon and their constant abusive changes,” Tom Rask, an attorney for Last Mile and Triton, told Motherboard. "You have to hire numerous drivers who may or may not be working. One day Amazon dictates that you have thirty routes, the next day forty, then the day after twenty. You’re supposed to have enough drivers for back-up while Amazon is lowering pay. Amazon’s actions are unlawful."

Sounds miserable. Id shut down too if I was losing money with only 1 client.

If this were freelancing it’d be like having to be always available for one client 40 hrs a week, but not knowing if you’ll get to bill 5 hrs or 50… while your rates constantly decrease. There’s no point in having this business
It's good that we can compare the deaths in 2020 to previous years [1].

[1] https://archpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/...
>Otherwise you might see that “the system works for this subset of people so it must be working for everyone” is a flawed and untrue argument, at least in tech. //

I interpreted their argument as "people who want to can get on in tech". Being non-discriminatory doesn't lead to representative demographics (unless everyone likes/wants the same things equally, which is clearly not true).
I guess you ask for America, but in Europe you get this basically everywhere because it's manifested in our customer protection laws.
The “homeowner” here is analogous to an outside investor in Amazon (like me) who has no operational role in the company. The entity who directs the the manner in which subcontractors work, like Amazon does with its delivery companies, is acting as the general contractor and will most surely be named in a lawsuit if anything they did or did not do plausibly contributed to the fire.
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> There’s no particular reason, especially as the United States remains remarkably conservative for a developed nation, to blame things on a country that’s been gone for over 30 years.

The USSR is gone, but the CPSU is alive, and kicking under a new brand, more determined, aggressive leader, and as a highly distilled, more pure mafia than it was before, without even a pretence of behaving like statesmen.
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"People have suffered, therefore we must continue to make people suffer so the previous suffering wasn't for nothing."

You can say I'm straw-maning, but it's hard to see your argument as anything else.
"Latinx" is not cultural appropriation. On the contrary, it was coined by people of Latin American heritage who feel uncomfortable with the gender binary or who have an explicit non-binary gender identity. These people felt unrepresented by their own native language, so they tried to find a term they could use to describe themselves that would make them feel comfortable. There have been other attempts too, like "Latine", "Latin@" and so on. And Spanish is far from the only language where this is happening - native speakers of many gendered languages who are non-binary have been trying to find ways to assert their identity in their own language.

Personally, I don't use "Latinx" in normal, everyday conversation. "Latino" or (in English) "Latin American" works fine. But if I know I am speaking about a group of people where there are non-binary members who care about this, or if the topic is diversity/inclusion in particular, then I try to use Latinx. Why not? There's nothing appropriative about trying to use language that marginalized people have asked we use to better include them.
>>Amazon's entire value to me is fast delivery. Definitely not lowest prices, and definitely not quality.

Proper back-handed compliment! I'd agree, but adding on that 'customer service' is a key part of their value offering. To me (n=1), it's their moat. I'd be gone without it.
If there are any science fiction readers here, one of these factors into the plot of Manifold: Space by Stephen Baxter (not really a spoiler).

It's one of a trilogy about the Fermi Paradox, written in the Asimov tradition. I can't recommend them highly enough.

https://www.amazon.com/Manifold-Space-Stephen-Baxter/dp/0345...
Putin's tactics are postmodern, a philosophy that at it's core (despite right wing propaganda around the terms) is intrinsically anti Marxist.

Seeing the ghosts of soviets in every dark corner is something that these very elites we're talking about use to control you and your perceptions of reality.
cloud9 ide is definitely a pioneer! We see Napkin as a part of the natural evolution in our productivity/dev tools, especially as we adapt to the advent of serverless architecture
Right, I paid off a balance of 260k dollars in student loans. Former classmates, who make exactly the same amount of money, who instead used their salaries to buy a house get a windfall?

How is that good policy?

Our current system already allows for cancellation for low income individuals.

This is subsidy for the upper half of the middle class.
I'd be keen to help. Let me know if you decide to go ahead.
Yup, how did you even think of that! Amazing!
CO2 tariffs do not create jobs.

The idea of a CO2 neutral economy is another utopia fantasy sold to the ignorant voters by politicians. Easy to sell. Easy to form voting groups around it. Who doesn't want to be for "saving the planet".

And yet, we know, without a shadow of a doubt, that we cannot do a thing about atmospheric CO2 accumulation and the climate effects surrounding it. Not a thing. This is what we know --scientifically, not guessing here: If humanity left the planet today and all of our technology simply shut down, it would take somewhere around 50,000 and 100,000 years for atmospheric CO2 to come down 100 ppm. This leads to a very simple conclusion: If such an extreme measure produces a rate of change of 100 ppm / 100K years, a partial measure will not improve on that rate at all.

So, no, a carbon neutral economy will do nothing. Neither will switching to electric cars, full solar and wind power, etc. All fantasies. Sorry. We are being lied to and we are deceiving ourselves.
One of the greatest Viking warriors was a woman
Do they still use fractional cents (or whatever) in finance?

https://money.howstuffworks.com/personal-finance/financial-p...
Humans have historically had much to fear from furry things with large teeth, so don't need to resort to questionable theories.

The word "Orc" itself used to refer to Norse invaders, who did much of the same stuff "real" orcs do and unfortunately more (which is also directly related to what is now called xenophobia, or intolerance to foreigners and their culture).

So a strange-looking humanoid with traits of a predatory animal is a natural monster.
The next time I make the case for accounting to be a required course in high school I'm going to reference to this thread as Exhibit A: Assets & Liabilities Illiteracy.
To save other people from looking it up: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/LGBTTQQIAAP
Which in theory Signal supports; anyone tried it lately ?

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/tree/master/repr...
That's interesting, and I know from the Bezmenov video and commentary on it Barak Obama is supposed to be the prime example of a Marxist infiltrator promoting the rot from the inside.

Except - Obama chose not to prosecute Assange because of potential collateral damage to independent journalism, a well known major concern of Soviet infiltrators (er...). It's only after Trump came to power that his administration got the ball rolling on prosecution and offering Thordarson an immunity deal. It's all in the article.

So what's the contention, that Trump's administration was the result of a Marxist inspired Russian plot to subvert the universities in the 60s? Well, that's a new one.
I think it depends on how you look at it.

For small snippets that have likely been already written by someone else, this probably works great. For those though, the time savings is probably at most 5-10 min down to 1 or less. The challenge is that that’s not where my time goes unless I’m working in an unfamiliar language.

As someone who writes a lot of code quickly, I’m usually bottlenecked by reviews. For more complex changes I’m bottlenecked by understanding the problem and experimenting with solutions (and then reviews, domain-specific tests usually, fixing bugs etc). Writing code isn’t like waiting for code to compile since I’m not actually ending up task switching that frequently.

This does sound like a fantastic tool when I’m not familiar with the language although I wonder if it actually generates useful stuff that integrates well as the code gets larger (eg can I say “write an async function that allocates a record handle in the file with ownership that doesn’t outlive the open file’s lifetime”). I’m sure though that this is what a lot of people are overindexing on. For things like that I expect normal evolution of the product will work well. For things like “cool, understand your snippets but also weight my own codebase higher and understand the specifics of my codebase”, I think there’s a lot of groundbreaking research that would be required. That is what I see as a true productivity boost - I’d make this 100% required for anyone joining the codebase. The more mentorship can be offloaded, the lower the cost is to growing teams. OSS projects can more easily scale similarly.
Just because other fields or companies do something doesn’t mean they’re not problematic. You might be living off of selection bias.

I know for a fact that people in my area discriminate based upon where people are from. If they know you’re from a certain area, they have a particular disdain for you from the get go. So, don’t rule it out as being a real thing.
What should have happened in your opinion? I can’t tell if you’re saying ordinary people shouldn’t have been asked such an important question, or what.
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Why even mention the skin color, unless you’re racist what’s the difference between black and white Google employees
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the responses to this comment are the guy in the comic responding to "we should improve society somewhat" with "yet you participate in society. curious"
I feel quite confident there are unpopular opinions from 10 years ago that would land you in trouble. "People used to say whatever they wanted" is hyperbole.
> National Delivery Drivers Union

Actually, they're called the teamsters and they've been around since the 1800's.
i also like to try to unpack "diversity" when i hear it - do they mean diversity of skin colour, or a broader definition that includes people of various economic and social classes in addition to ethnicity.

"we only hire stanford grads, but some of them are black!" isn't really diversity.
An app with it's own icon and login is a much more "sticky" presence than a web page that the user must navigate to. It can add notices and alerts to the phone.
Yes. You can jump through a bunch of hoops to get a similar desktop / phone integration with Linux (or Windows) and Android using a variety of different apps...or you could just use it out-of-the-box since it's all baked in to macOS and iOS. You can tell yourself that it's 'all the same' all you want, but I've tried, and it's not the same.
> Support for custom domains at no additional charge. You may have as many users on as many custom domains as you like. Custom routing rules are supported, including catchalls to capture any email sent to your domain.

This is huge. This is one of those features that just gets omitted by many email hosts (especially inexpensive ones) and has been holding me back from switching away from a very old, grandfathered, free Google Apps for Business plan.
> The incentives here are entirely backwards. All the people who made good decisions…

This was the political talking point that has repeatedly been brought up in the media in the last 2 years with all the student loan talk and it has successfully gotten Biden to back off cancellation of up to $50k for every loan.

There is just something very “Karen” about wanting someone else to suffer because you did, especially premised on the basis that you did everything right and they did everything wrong.
One time in my younger days I had a delivery job in London, i would start at 3am , and needed to have the northern part covered before 7am as the traffic after that would slow me down to reach the south.
Boss covered all speeding ticket expenses and parking tickets, the job was not possible without permanent speeding and good luck finding parking in London for a van.
Every day I did one or two hours overtime, thinking it's paid. When payday came i demanded the overtime pay and he said "that's not overtime, you are slow".
So I gave him the keys to the van and said "show me the way".
He tried for a morning, took away to long before returning me the keys and agreeing to ot pay.
I didn't really need the job, was just extra summer money, but I can see how many people who have a family to feed would accept with a tight lip and not complain.
I'd really like to see IBMers talk about the past, present, and future of the company. It looks pretty pale to me.

Back in the Thinkpad era, IBM had a lot of cool stuff going on. But now it seems like a shadow.

Watson and IBM cloud look like flops. The email fiasco is weird and should never have happened.

What did buying Red Hat accomplish? As an outsider, it doesn't seem to have infused any new ideas, and the changes to centos just made people move further away AFAIK.

Or buying stuff like the Weather Channel?

The chip business looks promising. Maybe IBM should double down there?

Consulting, in general, seems to not be a great tool to sharpen internal capability. The constant layoffs of the past have also had a hugely deleterious effect.
> markets don't self-regulate

The linked article is an example of the market self-regulating.
Probably. When shit starts really hitting the fan (i.e. bottom lines are being directly affected) it will be knee-jerk authorized. It's the only rapidly effective technologically feasible solution we have. The "theory" is that it isn't too environmentally damaging either, so there isn't much leverage to push back against it.

It's basically like benzo addiction for the entire Earth. You take it initially to band aid your ills. You get addicted to the fix it provides. The fix is so good that you accept the bad effects. You become dependent on it to the point where quitting becomes deadly.
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What he’s actually saying is he found some residential grade nonsense from China that only seems economically feasible because of the slave labor and subsidized transport.
No, its because Apple is seen as a status symbol, has good brand reputation and locks users in the walled garden. General users don't know what happens behind the scenes.

For example, https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/27/22406303/imessage-android...

> In the absence of a strategy to become the primary messaging service for [the] bulk of cell phone users, I am concerned [that] iMessage on Android would simply serve to remove an obstacle to iPhone families giving their kids Android phones.
The information relevant for the vast majority of taxpayers, including the vast majority of people on HN, is already reported. What this is talking about is all the avenues that aren't open to most taxpayers which are used for tax evasion.

The more relevant part is actually funding the IRS at a level capable of doing its job after decades of systematic gutting. Oh, and if we could actually simplify the tax code and fix the data collection we wouldn't need as many resources in the first place.
If I owned a hypothetical number of actual slaves that allowed me to give you a great bargain on cotton, no matter what political action you take while you use me as your sole supplier of cotton, it will not be effective. All of the alternative sources of cotton will gradually go bankrupt or convert to my model, and I'll use the money you send me to shut you down politically.
No. We all end up paying, because the student loan debt they are talking about cancelling is ultimately held by the federal government.

We'd be taking things from the bucket of "the people who borrowed have to pay it back" and putting it into the bucket of "we all have to pay it back through increased taxes."
Sounds like something other female colleagues of mine have experienced. Very normal for them.

I will say - as a man - that I rarely heard this question when interviewing.
Also it just moves the problem one person down the line.

So the new most powerful position is the person that knows who runs the galaxy and talks to her/him. That person can make up things or sway the ruler.

If you have many people, you now just have an oligarchy.
I see this criticism of CRT/wokeism etc very often and I really want to address a point about people talking past each other. Proponents of CRT don't say they want to divide people based on group characteristics, they say people are divided based on group characteristics and they recognise that whilst individualists deny what is evidently true. Essentially it's the position that people are negatively impacted due to the group they're in so they should advocate for themselves as part of that group.
Here is another way to phrase it.

Should we tax the poor(people who didn't get a college degree) to pay off the debts of the middle class and upper middle class?

Or if we're going to hand out large sums of money why should the front of the line be college educated individuals who went to private colleges?
> It's not a problem with "non-modern" languages, it's a problem with C and many of its successors.

Not really. Any semi-decent modern language allows the creation of custom types which support the desired behavior and often some syntactic sugar (like operator overloading) to make their usage more natural. Take C++, for example, the archetypal "C successor": It's almost trivial to define a class which stores a fixed-precision number and overload the +, -, *, etc. operators to make it as convenient as a built-in type, and put it in library. In my book, this is vastly superior to making such a type a built-in, because you can never satisfy everyone's requirements.
But is it really cynical when Amazon has thoroughly demonstrated over the past decade they believe humans” worked should be more like robots and cattle, and that legitimate brands should stop complaining about the rampant brand hijacking and fake reviews?

Out of context those sound like extreme accusations but Amazon’s policies forcing leaders to hire to fire and completely faceless and automated warehouse worker firing and scheduling and regular brand hijakcing like the Klein bottle one on the front page here a couple days ago show that it’s not cynical to distrust Amazon. It’s more like fool me once shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.
But that's just easy to verify. We can take the 5-year average and compare that to 2020/2021 deaths. In countries such as Belgium the "excess mortality" corresponds to the reported COVID19 deaths.
If anything, it might be valuable in that a printer can have access to "unique" designs to print and sell. Some of this stuff (especially cityscapes & landscapes) reminds of posters you buy, pre framed, off the shelf at home stores. The difference here is that these images are somewhat unique, and royalty free (assuming it is...). Once sales of a design start slipping, roll a new image and get a new one to sell.

Also imagine, if a printer can print different images on demand, being able to sell a random image generated with the prompt being your wedding day, etc. It's like printing out and hanging your DNA sequence. A bit of you was the seed for its creation. It's the sentimental bit that could be valuable.
Thanks. I just looked and yup, 92 of student loans are owned by the government. That seems.... very bad for all sorts of reasons.
Did Gebru get a payout? I missed that part of the story. What are the details?
Many do not, mainly concentrating on the post-covid impact. But at least two links from this article talk about limiting the ability for student debt collection, which would significantly limit the number and/or size of the student loans given.
> corporate gains

What about customers? They seem to be happy to ignore how the sausage is made, to have stuff delivered to their doorsteps cheap and fast.
> ratio type if you need arbitrary precision.

This is the better default, so I'd ditch the qualifier, personally. At the very least when it comes to the persistent storage of monetary amounts. People often start out thinking that they won't need arbitrary precision until that one little requirement trickles into the backlog...

Arbitrary precision rationals handles all the artithmetic you could reasonably want to do with monetary amounts and it lets you decide where to round at display time (or when generating a final invoice or whatever), so there's no information loss.
Right now the goal is similar to that of cloud9 - provide an in-browser dev environment for quickly building apps; however, Napkin focuses on the serverless backend function and prototyping use cases. We want to streamline the UI to make writing and deploying Python and JS functions as quick as possible with 0 configuration. In the near future we will be adding some sharing/forking capabilities that we think will enhance this even further!
They’re like the 20 minute meeting that could have been a one line email. No thanks, I’ll take skimmable text any day.
Sure. Guess my actual point was the lead time- it takes years to attract potential students, train them into engineers, give them some experience under the belt. Years to build up an effective workforce to fill this gap. Decade? Perhaps decades to fill this somewhat specialized labor deficit?