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Indeed, though that wasn't AI, that was direct discrimination and racism hidden behind a thin layer of policy.

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Indeed to me that's not a ban, but a restriction in the use of possibly risky software until they had the time to draw up guidelines. Honestly everyone working in a company or large organisation aught to have a similar stance. Until we know for sure, don't use it.

You know since this assignment is basically a boss asking for a single report once about "loyal customers" complexity doesn't matter. let's say worst case scenario it takes 30min to run. who cares about complexity the business value is in the answers from the data.

If you're consistently getting reliable answers and finally decide to build a system for these types of reports, clearly this guy's real world experience at Amazon's Clickstream product is going to be far more valuable than what ever anyone who is brand new to the problem can come up with, even if they choose the "correct" algorithm from the start.

Because I bet you that for most real world products that create more than a single fixed format report you actually want your data setup in a completely different way than what you initially thought. You'll probably learn for example that you want to aggregrate data per week instead of per day. or perhaps you want to link this data to an internal users database, or perhaps your boss wants a notification when new data is added. Or perhaps you'll learn that loading it into a single 1GB SQLite DB solves your problem without even needing to think about any algos.

Its a good metaphor also because if you have an appointment in 20min you would never go to the shop 15min before. Yet managers will force you still out and to the shop because of your time estimate.

What is a waste and to whom? The employees still get paid, so they get the main value they signed up for. A bigger waste would be loss of income and security for these employees.

So its a waste for the bottom line of the company owners? Thats what 100 people max? Compared to 10.000 jobs and livelihoods lost its pretty clear to me.

Well because clearly the board isn’t great at anticipating market fluctuations, so better keep people around for when demand picks up again.

Also its about 10% of employees right, that means if you give the whole company 1 day off every two weeks. Everyone who would have a full workload again. Googles 20% was about double that

Yes you can expect companies to a buffer. It starts by questioning layoffs like this. Because they should have depleted the buffer first before layoffs. If after that layoffs still happen the gov should have a second layer of supports in place. Because indeed like you said if a whole sector has a downturn its difficult for someone to find a new job.

Yes you can apply it to outside your country. However even though they make big profits they don’t want to.

They could just apply the same pay, safeguards and social support to employees of low wage countries that their Danish colleagues receive. Remember that your countries rules about pay, leave and social security are minimums, and your employer is choosing not to give you more than the minimum.

This layoff is due to market trends not company performance. So unless they are not telling the truth it has nothing to do with how strong this company is.

No they should not. They should manage their headcount in a way that people can have stable employment year round.

If that means during Christmas your checkout line takes longer so be it. I also want a job year round, why wouldn’t someone else deserves that?

This is not a conversation about amount of work vs number of people. Its amount of work vs pay.

If there really is only work to do 2 months out of the year, then they should pay 600% of a regular monthly salary.

The whole point is that they could have changed nothing and still prices would have stayed the same because they made a lot of profit in the years before.

They could have paid by having less profit. Instead employees are paying by losing their jobs.

This would have been a totally different discussion if they were making a loss. If you ask me a good business keeps a safety net when times a good and uses their safety net when times are bad. Only when those savings run out they should consider letting people go.

If they have reason to, yes. Same as the USA banning tiktok (if they had gone through with it)

Thats like saying, if you don’t like lead in your paint. You can just use different paint. Like yeah sure, but still some regulations that stop them from putting lead in paint is a good thing

Simple when someone gets hired they list their internet expenses.

Also isnt this basic admin just the cost of doing business?

I should probably not tell you that in europe its common to be reimbursed for traveling expenses when going to the office. Calculated per commute at 0.19 euro per kilometer. So its unique per employee. No company has gone bankrupt due to administrative weight yet.

What if europe and the us collaboratively just anex these tax heavens?

You’re right. It would be better to abolish corporations and only allow fully worker owned co-ops. That way at-least all employees benefit from their companies loopholes

If that really is a problem we can just still count it as a single company for the tax office. Or make it illegal for companies to own other companies. That would even encourage competition and break down monopolies! All things capitalism thinks are good things.

How about we tax billion dollar corps an extra 10% because we expect them to use their considerable wealth to exploit loopholes. Like any healthy budget it should have a little bit of a safety net built in.

That 10% could be a considered an economic incentive similar to giving any non billion dollar company a tax break. However this idea would add money to the countries budget instead of removing it.

Im curious to learn more. Was that with a one time prescription of xoloft or are you taking it regularly?

How are amazons books stores going?

I usually follow the approach of first writing my feature in the most dead simple way. Only after I finish it I do a pass where if needed. Only if needed I refactor it based on convention and architecture patterns.

Ive found this a good way to first understand my solution before I optimize the code. I create less confusing abstractions and more code that’s easy to change. If i try to architect it first I end up always getting the abstractions wrong.

Hopefully it will be an equal amount of incentive for people with undiagnosed disabilities to get diagnosed and receive treatment or support. Even if just to be productive members of society for longer!

There is a difference one is only physical and the other is cognitive.

As long as we have qualified doctors diagnose disabilities, I‘m quite sure the actual amount of faking or fraud will be negligible.

Thats similar to me as a frontend dev seeing all the backend complexity and thinking it would be easier just to read and write a json file instead of a db + apis.

It works but on longer projects where requirements can explode in complexity it becomes a problem. It really helps to have tools that can stay maintainable.

So you haven't researched the actual fines and warnings the EU gave out to EU and non-EU companies. but you just feel like the vibes are totally off?

I was really expecting better comments from hackernews. If we're talking about vibes you should acknowledge that it makes sense for the EU to protect their people and their personal information from really large foreign companies. Even more so from companies that are aligned with the state that has one of the largest military powers in the world.

agree. From my experience I’ve also noticed that agencies usually have a shelf life of 10-15 years max. At the start they are the young fashionable agency doing great work. At some point due to a combination of great employees leaving for bigger jobs and the company getting bogged down with stable but boring long term clients, the company dies.

Sometimes they end up cashing out and retiring. Most often they go bankrupt or get bought out by a consultancy looking to brand themselves as fresh.

It’s fun working in ad agencies on the uphill. You’ll be able to do great work and learn how to ruthlessly prioritize quality output. On the downhill it can really corner you with little career growth and little pay.

So did they setup a separate backend for threads or did they just extend the current instagram backend to support text posts?

better a bit of caution than a slow and painful death?

If history is any indicator it's a good idea to be more cautious than less

We also do the same. But until recently we first sold and shipped it to china. Both the plastic that could be recycled and the plastic that can’t be recycled.

my city, the amazon driver for some reason can't find my house number and keeps dropping off the package at the post office.