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> I don't understand why they can't at least give solid reasons

Probably the liability around someone saying something not accurate, or something that could be construed as approaching, even indirectly, some protected class. They've already laid her off, she's not going to be singing their praises under any circumstances, anything they do at this point just increases their liability.

In a perfect world I'd love for people laid off or fired to get detailed reasons why so they can adjust course if necessary or at least know that it was nothing they did and just budgetary, but there are too many people who will want to argue the point in court that the company not only has no incentive to do it, they're heavily incentivized not to.
I'm retired from American Airlines. AA had eight different Boeing planes, plus a few Airbuses thirty years ago. By the time I retired last year, most of the different planes are gone and AA mostly focuses on 737, 777 and 787, with a few misc planes on the chopping block in the future. Fuel usage, mechanic training and parts inventory are the reasons for the changes.
> If they say they overhired, you have people in here asking why the CEO (or the board) doesn't get fired for that decision

As they should!
I remember 1990s frustration over the lack of Star Wars development.

George Lucas was seen as a dictator who was just sucking in legacy money without doing any real work.

Now the owners are criticizing it for being overstretched.

The Mandalorian was good. I’ll never forget Werner Herzogs character defending the Empire: “on every possible metric life improved!”

I haven’t seen Andor, but it got great reviews.

Star Wars seems in a good place.
Your explanation doesn't seem like anything but a well polished justification for what is ultimately a dubious shakedown. Without actually consulting with a patient and agreeing upon pricing well ahead of a scheduled surgery, you have absolutely no business requesting any payment directly from them. These billing charades revolve around some utterly perverse idea that obtaining someone's identifying information somehow confers some right to unilaterally bill them arbitrary amounts. For sanity's sake, everyone else can only hope this broken and illogical system is on borrowed time and will get stamped out hard. And you can most certainly retain your legal independence and work for multiple vendors as a subcontractor, like in any other industry.
I thought this would be about "valet" garbage, or maybe that startup that replaced your onsite package room with a warehouse you had to schedule delivery of your own mail from through an app.
Serious question: does eBay make any money from this?
Lennox 7500 series.
Isn't that the case in all layoffs, regardless of announcement timing? I'd argue all layoffs are, as a rule, foolish and short-sighted, because they tend end up with so many unintended consequences like that.
100% this. Only use containers for remote execution: CI, staging, production. Run native code locally. Manage dependencies and isolate project environments with NIX.
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First, a postdoc on the way out of academia is not going to fix academia.

I disagree: just found an edtech startup for tertiary education or (post-)graduate level research.
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It seems like people wake up when it is about Israel but nothing is commented about other athrocities. Double standards are more a mirror about the people. It is not about the issue itself but about the obsessive focus on one topic. If you look at HN most articles pro Israel are flagged while anti-israel does not.
Bill Watterson didn't need all these tools and platforms. Just paper and ink.

Right now we have content, info and tool overload and Layoffs are a sign of over production.

Plus people like Katzenberg love to jump around funding new stuff and telling/distracting/fomoing people more creative than them - hey you better learn this or be good at that, cause why else do people need him in the room?
there already are pigeons as a service PaaS
Ok, thanks. Why did you ask the question of e.g. am I religious? Is there a connection?
Could you please comment about other athrocities in the world in the last few years?
I don't want to cast any aspersions, but I've generally had bad luck with comments that boil down to "this is a complex psychosocial problem and the only credible response is a complex psychosocial intervention".
> so I'd prefer that it turn out not to be an organized crime outfit

Where do you think stuff that professional shoplifting rings steal ends up?
It sounds like the issue here is actually lawsuit culture. It's scary how laws that were designed to improve the lives of the working class actually wound up making life a lot worse.
Go live in Asia.
Have you forgotten COVID already?

When Onward was in theaters COVID had already massively tanked attendance.

Soul, Luca, and Turning Red only had box office releases in countries that did not have Disney+, except possibly for very limited US releases (e.g., Luca had a theatrical release for 1 week in a single US theater).

In the countries where they did get a normal theatrical release if you compare them with Earlier big Pixar hits, they performed comparably.

If any one of them had been a 2019 movie instead of a 20222-2022 movie it would have easily made at least twice its budget and probably more.

Lightyear is the only real flop on your list.
this will go so well with TreeTV : https://youtu.be/Wv-P2aN3-b4?si=g6YLSswosShVcV84
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Am I the only one here who feels an irrational draw towards language which aren't my first? I can't be the only one :D

1) Interesting for me to recall Hellenistic philosophy, which I've read somewhere in the past was one of the earliest or first places humans were taught / realized that "I" am worth education, healthcare, access to athletics and entertainment, etc. Alexander the great, right? Happy to be corrected.

2) Further really interesting to read the flow you present from hubris→tisis. In my mind, [1] above doesn't wholly negate the idea of 'the gods' + demigods being the arbiters of justice and consequences, but that's not what I'm focused on: how interesting to see even so far back the idea that our negative actions towards others and against the boundaries set by the gods will return to us to the point of harming us, even to the point of 'tisin?' I'm laughing at how much fun my brain is having at parsing all of this!
As with all gig economy services, do your due diligence with the user ratings, etc. Whether it is cheaper depends on the area, but that definitely isn't the selling point for me. The selling point is not having to stand in line at the rental car terminal for 2 hours and then haggle with the person at the kiosk over what should have been a simple, pre-paid transaction.
You're right! And the article says that many of them did go to prison:

> Several of the executives and employees were arrested and convicted on federal charges. One executive, security head Jim Baugh, got nearly five years in prison. The company's CEO at the time, Devin Wenig, was referenced, but not by name, in federal charging documents. He was never charged, but did lose his job. In addition to Baugh, former head of security, the convicted eBay minions are:

> David Harville, former Director of Global Resiliency, who was sentenced to 24 months in prison in September 2022; Stephanie Popp, former Senior Manager of Global Intelligence, who was sentenced to 12 months in prison in October 2022; Philip Cooke, a former Senior Manager of Security Operations, who was sentenced to 18 months in prison and 12 months of home confinement in July 2021; Stephanie Stockwell and Veronica Zea, a former Manager of Global Intelligence and a contract intelligence analyst, respectively, who were each sentenced to one year in home confinement in October and November 2022. Brian Gilbert, a former Senior Manager of Security Operations, has pleaded guilty and is awaiting sentencing.
I think this is one of those situations where the optimal strategy for one interaction is very different to that for multiple, iterative interactions. The company has to presumably hire again in the future, and having a reputation for firing without notice may make it harder to attract the people you want.
> Now it’s just more Disney nonsense, the soul has been lost.

Did you see any of them? Soul is probably their best movie; Luca and Turning Red were great. Onward was surprisingly good. Elemental was a new genre for them, and while it wasn’t perfect, it was still really good.

I didn’t see Lightyear, but this is also the Pixar that did Cars 2 and The Good Dinosaur, so it’s not like every movie knocked it out of the park.
Turo is great when you have trip flexibility.

If a host cancels or is terrible, you can quickly be in a terrible position.
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Anonymous shill calls named lived experience a liar. What a time to be alive!
That seems fair to me. Negative externalities are part of the cost we all pay (not the oil companies), just like other forms of subsidy.
> the entire Russian public sphere has become performative. You have a wide variety of discussions shows, but all their guests are pre-vetted by the Kremlin and all they do is reiterate official talking points.

I perceive that as not much different from the few German media I still occassionally watch. Since at least a decade, actually.

And I've got grumpy about them much earlier, tossed my TV in 1996 already.
But wasn't even so bad then, as it is now.

Edit: I also like their "Question more!" Just for the hell of it.

Yes!

Question all the shit the suckpuppets are bubbling out.

All the times.
Turn it off and back on again
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Oh... thanks, I will not do that in the future.
Is this inspired from https://www.window-swap.com/ ?
It’s an interesting technical problem in a time before widespread internet. Something you can’t just put in a press release. Something you can’t describe.

> Since, obviously, the symbol did not exist on a computer keyboard, Warner Bros. sent floppy discs to media outlets containing a digital rendition of the image, although most gradually landed on referring to him as “The Artist Formerly Known as Prince.” Television outlets were also provided with a brief video featuring the symbol, punctuated with an appropriately iconic-sounding digital clank, similar to the ones film companies used when their logos appeared in film credits.
Genuine question: Do you think that people in countries with strong labour laws are signing up to be literal slaves?
Even if they are in their mid-30s that strikes me as a common age to have children which require child care.
As opposed to the concrete model of "she was a million dollars worth of sad"
I wonder if they used an agile workflow? How long were their sprints? Did they use Jira?
The Oil Crisis was 1973-74. Commercial Concorde flights began two years later in 1976. I've never heard a connection between the Oil Crisis and the beginning the climate awareness. The crisis was considered a crisis specifically because we couldn't get enough it to burn.
I thought that may be the case.
>An engineer isn't the golden ticket to run every kind of job best.

Even for an engineering-heavy company, an engineer running it doesn't necessarily work out. The last time Intel had an engineer as CEO, it was a disaster.
To an extent, for banging into shapes, but it's challenging to add more material to it if needed. None of the options are especially good compared to welding, though that's just my opinion (compared to fasteners - size, brazing - high temperature but maybe).

Other materials have their own issues, but if you cast large pieces of anything you also make it super expensive to replace parts that can't be repaired onsite.
Youre right I havent really engaged with the specific sources you cited and to some extent probably wrongly assumed you to be advocating health fasting as a cure-all. I apologize this was probably not a productive way to go about having this conversation.

This is partly a knee-jerk reaction as I have had subjective experiences with vulnerable and at risk loved ones and acquaintances falling for faddy scam health advice and triggering underlying EDs and other health problems. It is way more common than you think.

While I dont have any sources or other good information to provide I can say that I think we really need more research into EDs hereditary nature, long term health effects, psychological effects among other factors before this technique begins to be widely used.

Like you said earlier "the line between dietary restriction that improves health and an eating disorder is a fine and dangerous one." I really think this is very true. Specifcally I worry about people who dont know they are genetically predisposed to EDs and attempt to do health based dietary restriction. This could be catastrophic for those individuals.
Private equity is destroying our country, but that’s a longer conversation.
When I attended UCSD, one of the more noticeable entries in the Stuart Collection was "Trees" by Terry Allen: https://stuartcollection.ucsd.edu/artist/allen.html#About-th...

There was a "singing tree" which played music, and I would often walk past them as I headed to-and-from classes, not far from the Brutalist edifice that we would come to know as the Geisel Library.

Then the "literary tree" played poetry and spoken word. Last but not least, the "silent tree" made no sound at all.
Im bullish on EVs but I feel like rental cars are one of the worst places for the current generation of EVs.

EVs are best for the types of driving we do on a day-to-day basis. Short commutes in areas we know well. Charge at home over night and 95% of the year you never worry about charging.

Renting a car means I'm usually either driving long distances or im somewhere new and I don't know about the local charging infrastructure. Can I charge at the hotel? What about at Disney World or the San Diego Zoo or wherever else I'm driving on vacation? What if there are no super chargers nearby? Etc...

Maybe in a couple decades of battery/energy tech advancements where we can charge faster or swap batteries easier EVs for rentals will make more sense. Until then it's just extra stress you don't want when traveling. I know that's not why Hertz is dropping Tesla (the article sites high repair costs) but it's just my personal thought on rental EVs.
Knowning when to apply honesty is also important.

If you tell an ex you left them because they are (fat?), is it honest or is it cruel ?
> The bar to create animation is going to be so incredibly low in just a few years time, that the skills to have will be writing, imagination,

O yes, and those 'creative writers' wouldn't be humans. At least at low level it can be easily automated. After human gives the main idea and story line. Actually this can be done automatically too, but human touch is important to claim 'human made'. I'm afraid there will be radical changes. Like those which happened to photography once everybody got a camera. Now AI changes the field again. For the best or worst depends how you look at it.
And before the 737 MAX, in the 90's there were a number of 737 accidents related to rudder control units. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_rudder_issues.

And that space capsule, Starliner, was contracted in 2011 and has yet to be safe enough to carry humans. Meanwhile in the same time, the upstart competition has gone from zero to flying some 11 crewed missions (not all were to ISS) and charged the government much less than Boeing charged, and that despite Boeing's storied 100 year aerospace history and culture.
> Some of these can be grounds for being denied insurance coverage

Is there a reason you think insurance wouldn’t pay out because you used a non-listed device? This is something I frequently see people asserting without any basis in reality, and I’m curious where it comes from. People do stupid things that insurance covers all the time. I do agree that you should only use listed devices whenever possible.
Type ratings are not prohibitive to achieve once a pilot has achieved an ATPL. It’s about 5-6 weeks per pilot. Yeah, it’s a pain but it’s also not a devastating road block.
Ironically if you hear some airlines talk about the whole point of MCAS and no extra type rating requirement didn’t actually factor in as much as Boeing thought.
Training and aircraft expense is actual minor compared to fuel efficiency and availability of aircraft. If you’re running 20 year old 737NGs the new engines on the MAX are going to save a tonne of money, even after potential reputations damage. It’s all risk management.

Edit: in regards to maintenance a lot of airlines are outsourcing maintenance to bigger providers so that’s less of a deal than you’d think as well. Fuel really is one of the largest factors in this and an extra 5 years of expensive gas while waiting for a new plane may be too much for budgets to bear.
Maybe? I guess people just aren't giving the right signal? Generally the attacks are wildly disconnected, though on Dec. 12th a Houthi leader did claim they would only attack ships bound for Israel.

3 shortly after:

"On 12 December 2023, the Houthis launched an anti-ship cruise missile attack against the Norwegian commercial ship Strinda, an oil and chemical tanker operated by the J. Ludwig Mowinckels Rederi company, while it was close to the Bab-el-Mandeb. The Strinda was on its way from Malaysia to Italy (via the Suez Canal). The attack caused a fire aboard the ship; no crew members were injured.[72][73] The ship was carrying cargo of palm oil. "

On 13 December 2023, Houthi rebels attempted to board the Ardmore Encounter, a Marshall Islands-flagged commercial tanker coming from Mangaluru, India and en route to either Rotterdam, Netherlands or Gavle, Sweden, but failed, prompting a distress call from the ship. They then targeted the tanker with missiles, which missed. The USS Mason responded to the tanker's distress call and shot down a UAV launched from a Houthi-controlled area. The Ardmore Encounter was able to continue its voyage without further incident.[74]

On 14 December 2023, a Houthi-launched missile was fired at the Maersk Gibraltar, though it missed its target.[75] On 15 December 2023, Houthi spokesperson Yahya Sarea claimed responsibility for attacks on two Liberian-flagged vessels identified as MSC Alanya and MSC Palatium III. The Houthis fired naval missiles at the ships as they alleged they were traveling to Israel.[76]

On 15 December, it was reported that the Liberian-flagged Al-Jasrah, which is owned by Hapag Lloyd, caught fire after being hit by a Houthi-launched projectile while sailing through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.[77] On 16 December 2023, Royal Navy destroyer HMS Diamond shot down a drone over the Red Sea while it was targeting a commercial ship.[4]
> Me arguing for copyleft does not prevent users from choosing to use alternative software, either. It does encourage them, though (which I can only assume is your point). I also didn’t write that every ‘FOSS’ project should use GPLv3.

You were arguing the project should not be MIT but GPL3 though. Why can't this project use whatever license they like? If not all FOSS project need be GPL3 but this one should, what are some examples of ones that you would be fine with being MIT?
> But tacking on "in plain text" to it just creates confusion.

Today, when the context is service provider and customers, "plain text" is used to say that service provider has the data unencrypted.
I assume this is done to dodge WARN Act requirements. I can't think of any other reasons that make any kind of sense. I mean, honestly this doesn't make sense either, it's just all I've got.
You don’t want to give your top talent a reason to look for another job.

Telling your top talent a layoff is coming, even if they feel “secure” in their role, still gives them a reason to look.

Let alone competitors now have a great pitch to your top talent - “do you want to risk getting laid off or join our awesome company”.
> How many times do people need to see this before they develop class consciousness?

Never. Because the carrot to join their class will continue to be dangled.
Suspicious that the highly qualified person isn't going to take the crap that the employer is hoping to give out at that lower pay level.
I went with the Apple HomeKit compatible camp, because it does indeed all work locally across your local LAN without a network connection - its not foolproof, but it mostly just works, and works well at that - and more importantly works when the internet is out.

The biggest thing with Apple is they get that houses have more than one person living in them, and provided everyone has an Apple device, it all just works.
I wonder what things would be like now if someone went back in time and assassinated Jack Welch as a child....
Furthermore he may be wrong. After living through the Xbox 360 modding scene and the cat and mouse between home hackers not state sponsored hackers with unlimited resources I am always amazed when I look back at the cat and mouse game and what the Xbox hackers came up with. It’s simply mind blowing at times. The one that comes to mind is when Microsoft started making games 8gb by default. Lots of games used padding to fill that space so hackers then truncated games. Microsoft learned to detect and ban consoles using truncated games so hackers created custom software to flash to dvd burners so that the burner could burn to the outermost edge of the disc not normally useable. It was so cool to see this back and forth. My point is that with unlimited resources who knows what sort of creative way this water pump could have been used to transport the malware.
Not if data they got had enough information that they could do further filtering on their own. (For either legitimate or illegitimate reason.)
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I don't think these people are the kind of people concerned they might be committing a crime
I worked for a shop back in 2005-2006 that did some portion of their sales on eBay. eBay was constantly holding thousands of their dollars for, from what I recall, not any substantive reason.

The stalking referenced in OP is a bit of a surprise, but none of the stories in these comments are.
>The weird thing is we take it for granted instead of being repelled by it.
Yes, exactly this right here. It was straight up bizarre to grow up with near 0 advertising in commie Eastern Europe and get hit with a shockwave of fairly disgusting ad bullshit when we moved to the US. I was shocked at people putting up with it as if it is something to be tolerated instead of burned to ashes. I continue to be shocked.
In case anyone's curious: I didn't recognize the .org domain but I felt lucky, punk, and followed it. civboot.org redirected me to https://github.com/civboot/civboot which I totally would feel comfortable visiting :)
iirc keybase (pre-acquisition) had this
Emotional injury would also occur, the child is growing and would interpret the act drastically differently than a world champion boxer
No the meme is frontend changes too much not JavaScript changes too much and that meme is still relevant and will be relevant for a while.

Heck you can argue for how HTML and JavaScript are 20 years old!! Wow that means front end hasn't changed at all for 20b years! Come on man.

Anyway my overall point wasn't even about what's changed. My point is that these are all awkward apis to use to develop a windows style UI.

Even if you think they are old, these frameworks are bending and adjusting an underlying layer to do something it wasn't designed to do in the first place. Hence the awkwardness.
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