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zero_intp··on A new weapon in arbitration: sheer volume
as a salaried worker I refuse to participate in flex PTO, it's not how the labor laws are written. I work for a significant part of the day and have a legitimate reason to stop, I do not submit any leave requests.

My company recently granted an extra 40 hours of COVID PTO to use for flex, which is nice, but they could just stop trying to work around labor laws.

zero_intp··on Australian Gag Order Stokes Global Debate on Secrecy
crimes against humanity
zero_intp··on Facebook exodus: Nearly half of young users have deleted the app
Your observation is only true in the ephemeral surface. there is no moral equivalence. there is no legal equivalence. What is your purpose in this deflection?
zero_intp··on Investigating Implausible Bloomberg Supermicro Stories
exceptional claims require exceptional evidence, Bloomberg has not done so.

The article raises a fair number of solid criticisms regarding BCP to eliminate the described vulnerability.

zero_intp··on The extra­ordinary influence of the Iliad and Odyssey
Those pages are filthy cesspits of depravity, "The true right rejects egalitarianism root and branch."

Fuck these people

zero_intp··on Is the Aeneid a Celebration of Empire or a Critique?
Rome of that age was very self aware of the histories of the many city states that had risen and fallen before them, as I think the very story describes. The personal choices made by leaders of those many prior city-empires were the very reasons for each to fail on the global stage. The Aeneid was the zeitgeist of Roman manifest destiny under the imperial banner.
zero_intp··on Mastodon Bone Findings Could Upend Our Understanding of Human History (2017)
Disrupting the Clovis paradigm is definitely upending in a field where new ideas take root by retiring the past generation of professors.
zero_intp··on Gut directly connected to brain, by a newly discovered neuron circuit
Hopkins has a gastroneuro department. Abdominal Migraine.
zero_intp··on New bridge collapses into river in eastern Saskatchewan hours after opening
I am to understand that in all of her Majesties kingdoms they have regulations against making things of cardboard such that the front does not fall off.
zero_intp··on Google throws away 12 years of work by investors (Portfolios in Google Finance)
This is an under appreciated/represented sentiment. I wholly agree.
zero_intp··on Google activated battery saving mode on multiple phones, then rolled it back
Thank you for the vocabulary.
zero_intp··on Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Poverty. They’re Not
try being a person of color in a coffee shop or hotel lobby. Maybe you heard about some difficulties for a pair of young men had in a Philadelphia Starbucks?
zero_intp··on Whole Foods workers seek to unionize
Thank you for the realism without any snark.
zero_intp··on Whole Foods workers seek to unionize
'layed off' means different things in the US versus Europe.

In the US, an employer may 'lay off' as much staff as they want and then hire new people into those positions.

In France, for example, a 'lay off' must close the position and not hire a new body into that role for 12-24 months.

This may be difficult to prove, but the laws exist.

zero_intp··on Whole Foods workers seek to unionize
America is known for practicing social darwinism as though it were a positive thing.
zero_intp··on Startups Flock to Turn Young Blood into an Elixir of Youth
you have found a trifecta of reasoning. What a brilliant idea!
zero_intp··on Someone Is Waging a Secret War to Undermine the Pentagon’s Huge Cloud Contract
My first job in the '80s was doing RFI/RFP shotgunning for a mom & pop (my mom & pop) defense consulting firm out of the GSA register. We would essentially cold-respond to everything in our domain. From that experience I learned that there were some genuine requests with no fix in.
zero_intp··on Credit-Card Backlash Mounts as Kroger Weighs Expanding Visa Ban
amex platinum offers rewards that easily pay back the cost if you travel. 2 cards, $450 ($300 + $150) $15 uber/month/card $200 in airline fees Automatic hotel and car rental upgrades more...
zero_intp··on Credit-Card Backlash Mounts as Kroger Weighs Expanding Visa Ban
I visited Stockholm this summer, it was 100% card acceptance, and 25% cash acceptance.
zero_intp··on Australian firm Meriton fined $3M for misleading consumers on TripAdvisor
I used to work for Cogent Communications, this was common practice in customer service. Comstat scores are 100% gamed.

The Global Director of customer service has his managers change ticket parameters for two weeks around ticket closure so that only 'happy' customers get review emails.

zero_intp··on Reasons You Should Put the Mouse on the Left If You’re Right-Handed
Wow, I did this for all of the listed reasons here. I work with the left hand, game with the right.
zero_intp··on Jim Tcl version 0.78
I still deal with it in telecom. No one wants to abandon in-place hardware infrastructure that the business community still supports.
zero_intp··on Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Keyboard
I need the RAM. Network modeling, network simulation, dev installations of SDN platforms. This is a developer and programmer forum, right?
zero_intp··on Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Keyboard
USB-C versus magsafe is indeed a step backwards.

A single port on a mobile device for power OR audio? That port is NOT USB-C?

Trying to sell the market a set of customizable function bar replacement versus a touch screen?

zero_intp··on U.S. Files Criminal Charges Against Theranos’s Elizabeth Holmes, Ramesh Balwani
Op is replying to anecdotes with anecdotes.
zero_intp··on The Last Days of Time Inc
I have a collection of war-time and after '45-'53 Time magazines. The sheer palpable weight of the government minders on the writers is clearly evident. The magazine has always been 'political'.
zero_intp··on A Wikipedia editor's long-running campaign
seems like a fairly obvious ops campaign by some interested group. I would think that many state organizations would want long term reputable editors to craft their messages.
zero_intp··on US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone location data
If you create a dielectric barrier, the required charge to overcome it can have more effective power than the constant flow that would otherwise occur at a low resistance.
zero_intp··on I Got Catfished by a Candidate
your statements are unsupported. It is my observation that you are stating spirit of law to your understanding, but not what occurs in law or practice.
zero_intp··on Docker is a dangerous gamble
Hello, there are a great many companies that rent mare metal servers, own their own gear in a colo, or even have DIA to their own infrastructure site.

I think you paint the whole world with the bleeding edge brush. Many fortune 500 companies are a decade behind the technology stacks described in the article and in this discussion.

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