ces. Other places require notification - and once you give that notification they will drop the call.
Have you noticed that mostly when you call customer service, they tell you the call "may be recorded for quality purposes" or somesuch? Check with a lawyer in your state, but in most places, that means the company knows the call may be recorded - by either side, because the law isn't specific that way.
Clearly, the penalties for age discrimination aren't scary enough, for IBM to be so blatant. I'm guessing corporations currently don't fear juries as long as the victim is an older white male.
blatant reckless and life endangering driving should be reported and I'd be happy to assist in that.
Sure, it will be used for that. But extensions of government power never stop at the good use case. It will also be used to snitch on people drive 1 MPH over the limit, perhaps to avoid a dangerous situation. It will also be used to claim the ex was driving 15 MPH over the limit through contrived footage (every police reporting system is consistently used for revenge after breakups).
And the best part for the totalitarian state is that the state will accumulate a DB of such evidence on everyone. It will sit on it until you step out of line for any reason, then it will use it. Facial recognition puts you at a protest? Well, turns out we have the evidence to take away your drivers license and fine you 10k pounds. Doesn't matter whether you were actually at the protest, or whether any of the complaints about you were true, because the goal is destroying dissent, not justice.
Cryptocurrency is wasting energy for nothing, there are better ways to go than proof-of-work. Video games can't be implemented any other way.
The only freedom is freedom for me to do things you find useless or harmful. Would you prefer the communist ideal where each of us work each day to the limit of our abilities to meet the needs of others?
That depends what you mean by "free market". You could choose some unrealistically idealized definition, just so you can complain that it's unrealistically idealized, if you were a fool.
By any reasonably definition, the US commodities markets are free markets. The government does not set prices, not choose who's allowed to participate. Most of the market rules are set by the market itself, not the government.
The only thing we can do is create a very good model of a free market by setting up rules and limits to its scope
That's exactly what most people would call a "free market", of course. You need rules to prevent fraud and enforce contracts, but that in no way makes it less of a free market. Prices are still set by supply and demand.
It's an interesting idea, but I don't know if it's a workable idea.
What happens when someone in your self-sufficient agrarian society gets sick/injured and needs medical care? How much arable land will you require per person? Who pays the property taxes on the land?
You do know the Amish exist, right? And they're wealthier than most Americans?
Well, it's easier to skip to where I want on Roku than it is to get the video to the place I want with youtube on PC. I just use the 3x fast foward, or the skip-back 10 seconds, etc
Really, that's easier than clicking in the right place on the bar?
And I'd rather watch TV from my couch on a big screen than at my desk and chair watching my PC.
Non-sequitur. I watch TV from my couch on a big screen, and use a web ui with mouse (and occasionally keyboard to search). The TV is just the monitor for my laptop. Easier for streaming and for playing media files.
Heck, remember when they had user-made lists? That was awesome in the early days, before streaming. Some movie you liked would be on some weird list by some criteria you'd never have thought of, and you'd discover a half-dozen new cool movies. Good times, before "designers" ruined everything.
Reviews have always been available through the web UI, though they've been well hidden for years, thus the "decline in usage". Yeah, Netflix, hide it well enough and people won't use it. Well done.
I can't stand and can't use non-web UIs for watching TV. How do you even search for a title you want to watch? Some stupid on-screen keyboard with about 10 clicks on the remote per letter? And you can't even seek instantly to a specific position in what you're watching. I just don't understand the non-web ways of watching Netflix (or Prime or whatever).
Let's say TSLA takes over all of Ford's business. That's fairly optimistic. It also leaves them overpriced at their current market cap, which is larger than Fords. Ford is not GM - it has lots of automation and isn't saddled with enormous union obligations.
That has nothing to do with TSLA stock price, of course. Stocks are priced 80% on fashion, 20% on value. If TSLA succeeds this year it will become even more fashionable, and thus even more overpriced. Reality rarely intrudes on stock prices.
Ummm that is exactly the problem. "position was already filled" is something they can contest because they listed a vacancy, so why was it filled without due consideration such that you can give a specific response. You might think it unfair that they object but they will and it ain't worth the risk.
How so? It's not like a company interviews one person at a time for a position - it's a pipeline, and whoever gets to the end first wins. Everyone who's mid-process when the last req gets filled gets told the position is filled.
The second response "candidate did not meet the positions technical requirements" is a factual statement and what if they do meet requirements, then that implies discrimination.
If the interviewers assessing the technical skills of the candidate say he didn't meet the requirements, then that's that, (unless you can somehow prove they were told to lie or somesuch). Maybe it's different in less skilled fields, but for a software job, there's no useful way to contest the conclusions of those who interviewed you.
You can sue anyone for anything in the US, but unless you have money to burn you're only going to sue when a lawyer says you might have a chance. Big companies tend to be pretty efficient when it comes to nuisance lawsuits, but I guess it's different at a company small enough that their lawyers aren't employees.
Well, if the position is filled, do they continue to advertise for it?
For big companies, there's usually automation that will remove the listing once an offer is either made or accepted. But there might be a lot of people in the pipeline at that point. In my last team we'd phone screen maybe 30 people, and interview maybe 5, for each person we hired.
"The candidate is not a good culture fit." This is the most common blanket statement I've encountered.
That's the one that leaves you open to lawsuits. Saying "the candidate was from the wrong culture" is almost explicitly saying "the candidate was from the wrong race". It's also totally subjective, and thus harder to defend.
Maybe small businesses can get away with not listing jobs, but I've worked at quite a few large corporations and every one of them required you to list the position on their site even if you already had a referral. It was just part of the machine.
You didn't necessarily need it interview someone external, but that's a different thing.
As if servers doing down can't happen if you host it yourself. Also, this isn't a problem limited to Google. We've been getting a lot of emails from Amazon lately with the subject " [Retirement Notification] Amazon EC2 Instance scheduled for retirement."
Their servers weren't down. The account was marked as fraudulent. This is a very different kind of problem, and one you don't have if you self-host.
On the other hand, if the server was actually down in a cloud service, you can just immediately provision a new one and you're up and running. Much better that waiting for Dell to Fed-Ex you one, if it comes to that.
Sound like their real problem was they didn't pay for support. At least with AWS or Azure, you can get a real human to talk to when shit goes wrong, you just have to pay for the privilege. Not sure Google even has the concept of customer service, but their competitors do.
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ces. Other places require notification - and once you give that notification they will drop the call.
Have you noticed that mostly when you call customer service, they tell you the call "may be recorded for quality purposes" or somesuch? Check with a lawyer in your state, but in most places, that means the company knows the call may be recorded - by either side, because the law isn't specific that way.
Clearly, the penalties for age discrimination aren't scary enough, for IBM to be so blatant. I'm guessing corporations currently don't fear juries as long as the victim is an older white male.
eyond that, keeping current with technology, including fads, also helps.
This guy was a "cloud" salesman, and a very effective one. Clearly he was keeping up with fads!
blatant reckless and life endangering driving should be reported and I'd be happy to assist in that.
Sure, it will be used for that. But extensions of government power never stop at the good use case. It will also be used to snitch on people drive 1 MPH over the limit, perhaps to avoid a dangerous situation. It will also be used to claim the ex was driving 15 MPH over the limit through contrived footage (every police reporting system is consistently used for revenge after breakups).
And the best part for the totalitarian state is that the state will accumulate a DB of such evidence on everyone. It will sit on it until you step out of line for any reason, then it will use it. Facial recognition puts you at a protest? Well, turns out we have the evidence to take away your drivers license and fine you 10k pounds. Doesn't matter whether you were actually at the protest, or whether any of the complaints about you were true, because the goal is destroying dissent, not justice.
Freedom to do good entails freedom to do evil. There are thousands of books of theology on the topic, in nearly every human language.
How can they afford to pay people with revenue only 1/20 of wages? Maybe you mean profits?
Earnings are profits, not revenue. Earnings are what is taxed.
If robots are doing the work then there are no wages, so profits are potentially greater.
Competition is a wonderful thing.
"Price gouging" just means "a price I don't like", so it can happen in any kind of market.
Cryptocurrency is wasting energy for nothing, there are better ways to go than proof-of-work. Video games can't be implemented any other way.
The only freedom is freedom for me to do things you find useless or harmful. Would you prefer the communist ideal where each of us work each day to the limit of our abilities to meet the needs of others?
That depends what you mean by "free market". You could choose some unrealistically idealized definition, just so you can complain that it's unrealistically idealized, if you were a fool.
By any reasonably definition, the US commodities markets are free markets. The government does not set prices, not choose who's allowed to participate. Most of the market rules are set by the market itself, not the government.
The only thing we can do is create a very good model of a free market by setting up rules and limits to its scope
That's exactly what most people would call a "free market", of course. You need rules to prevent fraud and enforce contracts, but that in no way makes it less of a free market. Prices are still set by supply and demand.
Wow, anit-Amish mods? Must be and extra helping of crack with the mod points today.
Opps, that should be "Total US corporate earnings are about 5% of total US wages." They're about 10% of corporate wages, but that's less interesting.
Total US corporate earnings are about 5% of total US corporate wages. That won't change my much, since wages are the source of corporate revenue.
How much land would a single 'self-sufficient' farmer require?
40 acres and a mule.
It's an interesting idea, but I don't know if it's a workable idea.
What happens when someone in your self-sufficient agrarian society gets sick/injured and needs medical care? How much arable land will you require per person? Who pays the property taxes on the land?
You do know the Amish exist, right? And they're wealthier than most Americans?
Well, it's easier to skip to where I want on Roku than it is to get the video to the place I want with youtube on PC. I just use the 3x fast foward, or the skip-back 10 seconds, etc
Really, that's easier than clicking in the right place on the bar?
And I'd rather watch TV from my couch on a big screen than at my desk and chair watching my PC.
Non-sequitur. I watch TV from my couch on a big screen, and use a web ui with mouse (and occasionally keyboard to search). The TV is just the monitor for my laptop. Easier for streaming and for playing media files.
Heck, remember when they had user-made lists? That was awesome in the early days, before streaming. Some movie you liked would be on some weird list by some criteria you'd never have thought of, and you'd discover a half-dozen new cool movies. Good times, before "designers" ruined everything.
Reviews have always been available through the web UI, though they've been well hidden for years, thus the "decline in usage". Yeah, Netflix, hide it well enough and people won't use it. Well done.
I can't stand and can't use non-web UIs for watching TV. How do you even search for a title you want to watch? Some stupid on-screen keyboard with about 10 clicks on the remote per letter? And you can't even seek instantly to a specific position in what you're watching. I just don't understand the non-web ways of watching Netflix (or Prime or whatever).
Let's say TSLA takes over all of Ford's business. That's fairly optimistic. It also leaves them overpriced at their current market cap, which is larger than Fords. Ford is not GM - it has lots of automation and isn't saddled with enormous union obligations.
That has nothing to do with TSLA stock price, of course. Stocks are priced 80% on fashion, 20% on value. If TSLA succeeds this year it will become even more fashionable, and thus even more overpriced. Reality rarely intrudes on stock prices.
It will be a dire week for short sellers. I finally sold my TSLA last week, so it's sure to double next week!
Ummm that is exactly the problem. "position was already filled" is something they can contest because they listed a vacancy, so why was it filled without due consideration such that you can give a specific response. You might think it unfair that they object but they will and it ain't worth the risk.
How so? It's not like a company interviews one person at a time for a position - it's a pipeline, and whoever gets to the end first wins. Everyone who's mid-process when the last req gets filled gets told the position is filled.
The second response "candidate did not meet the positions technical requirements" is a factual statement and what if they do meet requirements, then that implies discrimination.
If the interviewers assessing the technical skills of the candidate say he didn't meet the requirements, then that's that, (unless you can somehow prove they were told to lie or somesuch). Maybe it's different in less skilled fields, but for a software job, there's no useful way to contest the conclusions of those who interviewed you.
You can sue anyone for anything in the US, but unless you have money to burn you're only going to sue when a lawyer says you might have a chance. Big companies tend to be pretty efficient when it comes to nuisance lawsuits, but I guess it's different at a company small enough that their lawyers aren't employees.
Well, if the position is filled, do they continue to advertise for it?
For big companies, there's usually automation that will remove the listing once an offer is either made or accepted. But there might be a lot of people in the pipeline at that point. In my last team we'd phone screen maybe 30 people, and interview maybe 5, for each person we hired.
"The candidate is not a good culture fit." This is the most common blanket statement I've encountered.
That's the one that leaves you open to lawsuits. Saying "the candidate was from the wrong culture" is almost explicitly saying "the candidate was from the wrong race". It's also totally subjective, and thus harder to defend.
Maybe small businesses can get away with not listing jobs, but I've worked at quite a few large corporations and every one of them required you to list the position on their site even if you already had a referral. It was just part of the machine.
You didn't necessarily need it interview someone external, but that's a different thing.
As if servers doing down can't happen if you host it yourself. Also, this isn't a problem limited to Google. We've been getting a lot of emails from Amazon lately with the subject " [Retirement Notification] Amazon EC2 Instance scheduled for retirement."
Their servers weren't down. The account was marked as fraudulent. This is a very different kind of problem, and one you don't have if you self-host.
On the other hand, if the server was actually down in a cloud service, you can just immediately provision a new one and you're up and running. Much better that waiting for Dell to Fed-Ex you one, if it comes to that.
Sound like their real problem was they didn't pay for support. At least with AWS or Azure, you can get a real human to talk to when shit goes wrong, you just have to pay for the privilege. Not sure Google even has the concept of customer service, but their competitors do.