I agree that Netflix content is crap - more and more so, sadly. Was talking about the interface, the site, design, subtitles etc... Way better than Amazon Prime.
Really? I find the opposite to be true, if we're talking about the movie playback interface. Of course, I use the web interface and don't know about the apps. You can't really even pause Netflix to admire an attractive frame without them throwing crap all over the screen, then dimming it.
Amazon was propped up by Wall Street for years operating at a loss until they established market dominance.
It's almost as if capital is valuable, not just labor.
I remember laughing at Amazon 10-15 years ago because they were so overvalued.
Meanwhile, I just pocketed quite a nice chunk of change from the AMZL I held for 4 years. Growth stocks are fine when the company continues growing. And at only 5% of retail, there's lots of room to keep growing, but Amazon is "AWS with a gift shop" these days, and few care about the retail business.
They didn't "share" the data with Cambridge Analytica, they sold the data. Key difference. FB can't be seen giving data away, or it would undercut their business.
You can switch employers on an H1-B. Most lager companies and left-coast start-ups have lawyers to manage just this. The incentive to stay put is that many companies promise to pay for the legal work for your green card submission after some delay (I believe Google uses the lack of a delay as its own hook).
Have you ever worked for a large left-coast tech employer. I've worked for many, including Microsoft. Microsoft is unique in have so many Americans on their payroll - it may even be as high as half! I worked at 2 places where it was about 2%.
If MS is complaining about "immigration policy" they're not worried about lettuce pickers, they're worried about H1-Bs. MS already has offices in Canada, specifically because they max out the bodies they can bring into the US. Hardly a surprise if they do more of that.
This is not just virtue signaling by MS, t's also blatant corporate self-interest.
On the other hand, I think that response is a problem in US culture. Everyone has ugly aspects in their personality. Firing should not be a standard response whenever a bit of ugliness rises to the surface. This seems like a bit of Puritan legacy which our European friends don't share.
Yes, we do value customer service in America, and that's a good thing. When you are speaking as an employee of a company, and you publicly attack a customer, you're done. Anything short of immediate termination is an undeserved act of grace and forgiveness. Especially, if you attack a well known and popular player, don't be surprised what happens next.
ArenaNet's social media policy is quite clear that if your social media account isn't anonymous, you're publicly representing the company. Which is appropriate for a game studio, especially an MMO (-ish) given the typical interactions between customers and "devs", with forums deep-diving anything ever said by a dev for clues about game changes.
She knew she was speaking as an employee of ArenaNet.
There's clearly more going on here that we in the public don't see, but it's good of ArenaNet to not put up with employees attacking customers. There's too much of that going around right now, and companies that let their people tell customers "we don't want customers like you" in response to complaints are finding themselves hemorrhaging customers. Good to see ArenaNet's smarter than that.
We do know she publicly celebrated TotalBiscuit's death, so it's a safe bet that she's not nice to be around. And personally attacking critics in your own industry right up there with ranting at customers, in terms of stupidity. (Seriously, what's going on the mind of a game studio manager when he hires someone who has attacked the most popular and influential PC games critic in the world?)
What self victimization? She wrote some tweets about how challenging her job is (was) and when a guy chose to explain to her how she should do it, she shut him down. That's not victimization.
Missing from TFS was that "the guy" who responded to her was a well-known GW2 player (there's an NPC named after him somewhere IIRC), with more knowledge of the game and game lore than this particular dev. So, she went off on someone not only more knowledgeable about the game than she, but someone the community liked a lot more.
Specifics aside, she publicly attacked a customer. Reason enough.
Stone age, no written language. Primitive, not "culturally different" or whatever PC delusion you'll spout next. Sure, "savage" also implies aggressive against the colonials, not simply primitive, but that was objectively true.
How much technological advancement is needed in your mind to represent a nation, or a civilization?
Beyond stone age would be a good start.
Did they rape and murder more than Europeans did to each other?
Yes, they did. Don't idealize - murder rates are much higher in primitive societies, and tribal warfare has far higher casualty rates per capita than modern warfare*. The 20th century set every record for scale -- Mao murdered more than anyone in history -- but for percentage murdered, tribal living is the worst.
*With the possible exception of old-school naval boarding actions, which were right up there with tribal warfare for appalling casualty rates, for pretty much the same reason: when matched forces go all-in until one side is incapable of continuing the fight, 50% casualties on the winning side is common.
And yet, many Indians were in fact savages. Savagery on both sides just makes both sides savages, it doesn't make the term "savage" any less appropriate.
The thing they have in common is that they are using the system to benefit themselves, and punishing people who try to change the system to be fairer to the majority. Right/left, capitalist/communist, those are just the means that worked for them at the time.
Under capitalism, the rich become powerful.
Under socialism, the powerful become rich.
As you say, the top ends up looking the same either way. The problem is corruption, and humanity hasn't found the solution yet.
Also, not even a very desirable applicant is going to get same-day interviews. One would be lucky if their application/resume is reviewed from an online submission.
When I put my resume up on Indeed a month or so ago, I got multiple contacts within 24 hours, including cold calls from recruiters who somehow had my telephone number. I had a couple initial calls with hiring companies set up next day. Sure, no one is going to get an interview the same day, but it's at least possible they might get an interview arranged.
But as soon as you say "online submission" all is lost. I've never known anyone who got a call back from submitting their resume through a company web site. Perhaps it has happened somewhere in the world, but it must be quite rare. If your resume isn't attractive enough that recruiters reach out to you, that sucks. At least get some help prettying up your resume, and you may need to consider moving to where your job is hot. ("You" the generic Slashdot reader, not Mitreya specifically).
What does that have to do with what juries are sympathetic towards? Juries are more sympathetic to women (including older women), so I suspect corps are more hesitant to unfairly fire them.
Many companies have a strict policy of retaining all registered mail, unopened, in their archives so they can prove in court they never read your letter.
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I agree that Netflix content is crap - more and more so, sadly. Was talking about the interface, the site, design, subtitles etc... Way better than Amazon Prime.
Really? I find the opposite to be true, if we're talking about the movie playback interface. Of course, I use the web interface and don't know about the apps. You can't really even pause Netflix to admire an attractive frame without them throwing crap all over the screen, then dimming it.
What's I'd really like is the Linux version of MS Paint! Something with just that minimal ability to crop and add text.
Amazon was propped up by Wall Street for years operating at a loss until they established market dominance.
It's almost as if capital is valuable, not just labor.
I remember laughing at Amazon 10-15 years ago because they were so overvalued.
Meanwhile, I just pocketed quite a nice chunk of change from the AMZL I held for 4 years. Growth stocks are fine when the company continues growing. And at only 5% of retail, there's lots of room to keep growing, but Amazon is "AWS with a gift shop" these days, and few care about the retail business.
Have you seen CNN since 2016? It's the 24-hour hate now.
They do tests of the EAS on radio this way all the time. Works fine and few people are confused. Sounds like a reasonable model.
They didn't "share" the data with Cambridge Analytica, they sold the data. Key difference. FB can't be seen giving data away, or it would undercut their business.
Someone who throws themselves in front of a train almost certainly isn't doing it in order to harm someone
They intend to harm at least one person, or what's the point?
You can switch employers on an H1-B. Most lager companies and left-coast start-ups have lawyers to manage just this. The incentive to stay put is that many companies promise to pay for the legal work for your green card submission after some delay (I believe Google uses the lack of a delay as its own hook).
Have you ever worked for a large left-coast tech employer. I've worked for many, including Microsoft. Microsoft is unique in have so many Americans on their payroll - it may even be as high as half! I worked at 2 places where it was about 2%.
If MS is complaining about "immigration policy" they're not worried about lettuce pickers, they're worried about H1-Bs. MS already has offices in Canada, specifically because they max out the bodies they can bring into the US. Hardly a surprise if they do more of that.
This is not just virtue signaling by MS, t's also blatant corporate self-interest.
Looks like you took your Jobs-fellating bit too far with this one.
On the other hand, I think that response is a problem in US culture. Everyone has ugly aspects in their personality. Firing should not be a standard response whenever a bit of ugliness rises to the surface. This seems like a bit of Puritan legacy which our European friends don't share.
Yes, we do value customer service in America, and that's a good thing. When you are speaking as an employee of a company, and you publicly attack a customer, you're done. Anything short of immediate termination is an undeserved act of grace and forgiveness. Especially, if you attack a well known and popular player, don't be surprised what happens next.
On her personal Twitter account.
ArenaNet's social media policy is quite clear that if your social media account isn't anonymous, you're publicly representing the company. Which is appropriate for a game studio, especially an MMO (-ish) given the typical interactions between customers and "devs", with forums deep-diving anything ever said by a dev for clues about game changes.
She knew she was speaking as an employee of ArenaNet.
There's clearly more going on here that we in the public don't see, but it's good of ArenaNet to not put up with employees attacking customers. There's too much of that going around right now, and companies that let their people tell customers "we don't want customers like you" in response to complaints are finding themselves hemorrhaging customers. Good to see ArenaNet's smarter than that.
We do know she publicly celebrated TotalBiscuit's death, so it's a safe bet that she's not nice to be around. And personally attacking critics in your own industry right up there with ranting at customers, in terms of stupidity. (Seriously, what's going on the mind of a game studio manager when he hires someone who has attacked the most popular and influential PC games critic in the world?)
What self victimization? She wrote some tweets about how challenging her job is (was) and when a guy chose to explain to her how she should do it, she shut him down. That's not victimization.
Missing from TFS was that "the guy" who responded to her was a well-known GW2 player (there's an NPC named after him somewhere IIRC), with more knowledge of the game and game lore than this particular dev. So, she went off on someone not only more knowledgeable about the game than she, but someone the community liked a lot more.
Specifics aside, she publicly attacked a customer. Reason enough.
There are ads on the internet?
Stone age, no written language. Primitive, not "culturally different" or whatever PC delusion you'll spout next. Sure, "savage" also implies aggressive against the colonials, not simply primitive, but that was objectively true.
How much technological advancement is needed in your mind to represent a nation, or a civilization?
Beyond stone age would be a good start.
Did they rape and murder more than Europeans did to each other?
Yes, they did. Don't idealize - murder rates are much higher in primitive societies, and tribal warfare has far higher casualty rates per capita than modern warfare*. The 20th century set every record for scale -- Mao murdered more than anyone in history -- but for percentage murdered, tribal living is the worst.
*With the possible exception of old-school naval boarding actions, which were right up there with tribal warfare for appalling casualty rates, for pretty much the same reason: when matched forces go all-in until one side is incapable of continuing the fight, 50% casualties on the winning side is common.
And yet, many Indians were in fact savages. Savagery on both sides just makes both sides savages, it doesn't make the term "savage" any less appropriate.
What is your specialty, that you get responses (at all) from resume submissions?
Funniest thing on Slashdot this month.
What discipline? Surprising, to say the least.
The thing they have in common is that they are using the system to benefit themselves, and punishing people who try to change the system to be fairer to the majority. Right/left, capitalist/communist, those are just the means that worked for them at the time.
Under capitalism, the rich become powerful.
Under socialism, the powerful become rich.
As you say, the top ends up looking the same either way. The problem is corruption, and humanity hasn't found the solution yet.
Also, not even a very desirable applicant is going to get same-day interviews. One would be lucky if their application/resume is reviewed from an online submission.
When I put my resume up on Indeed a month or so ago, I got multiple contacts within 24 hours, including cold calls from recruiters who somehow had my telephone number. I had a couple initial calls with hiring companies set up next day. Sure, no one is going to get an interview the same day, but it's at least possible they might get an interview arranged.
But as soon as you say "online submission" all is lost. I've never known anyone who got a call back from submitting their resume through a company web site. Perhaps it has happened somewhere in the world, but it must be quite rare. If your resume isn't attractive enough that recruiters reach out to you, that sucks. At least get some help prettying up your resume, and you may need to consider moving to where your job is hot. ("You" the generic Slashdot reader, not Mitreya specifically).
What does that have to do with what juries are sympathetic towards? Juries are more sympathetic to women (including older women), so I suspect corps are more hesitant to unfairly fire them.
Many companies have a strict policy of retaining all registered mail, unopened, in their archives so they can prove in court they never read your letter.
Few do the same for FedEx though.