The problem with the gig economy is that they are attempting to make profits from doing an end-run around regulation. If they fail, it will be because they are suffering from the very problems those regulations were meant to protect them from.
At first I thought this was a gracious gesture by a corporation, until I realized that AirBnB isn't really offering anything at all. How many properties will they be offering on their own? How many people have an extra property to volunteer to someone who may not even feel the need to use a bathroom?
Contacts suck for a lot of people. Always feels like there is something in your eye, always need to be replaced They need to be put in every day and sometimes it goes smoothly and sometimes it doesn't so they can mess up your morning. If you have a astigmatism they are even worse, if they are available for your shape of eyeball at all. For me glasses were a lot easier so I went back.
There are plenty of people working on a cancer cure, and there have been massive advances over the last couple years. If anything, capitalism hampers something like cancer research because treating it is more profitable than curing it and longer treatments are more profitable than short ones. Fortunately we have donation and tax driven organizations such as the National Cancer Institute and the National Institute of Health working on it.
Assuming that the people they hire at the price they are paying are capable of knowing what needs to be done. Often the problem is that the admins are being paid $5 a day and they only know how to keep the lights on but what is needed are specialists at $50/hour.
How about understand exactly what happened, lock things down and educate people so it is at least harder to pull off next time? Or is that too common sense?
So you wouldn't mind having a bunch of complete strangers in each room of your house as long as they weren't doing anything but listening to everything you said and did? In my opinion, it doesn't matter whether they would be interested in what I am saying or not; it is just a creepy idea that someone could listen if they wanted to.
That's what I was thinking when I read this. Speaker selection is very personal for those that care, so why up the price of the device by trying to put good sound in? Better to just get an old laptop with Kodi on it and put it on the stereo you like, or Squeezebox (Logitech Mediaserver) is great for music. I'm a little confused though why you would expect Apple to work with Sonos devices, both seem to have their own proprietary walled gardens. If you want things to work together you have to go open-source.
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I hope to hell this doesn't make it more difficult for me to use my android phone with my mac. It already requires some sort of emulator to work.
What's the next part of the business plan? As long as you house them and feed them you can make them work 21 hour days for you?
The problem with the gig economy is that they are attempting to make profits from doing an end-run around regulation. If they fail, it will be because they are suffering from the very problems those regulations were meant to protect them from.
At first I thought this was a gracious gesture by a corporation, until I realized that AirBnB isn't really offering anything at all. How many properties will they be offering on their own? How many people have an extra property to volunteer to someone who may not even feel the need to use a bathroom?
I'm about 70/30 myself. I can drive without them, fortunately.
There are many people in the world who legitimately care about the others around them and about saving lives.
Contacts suck for a lot of people. Always feels like there is something in your eye, always need to be replaced They need to be put in every day and sometimes it goes smoothly and sometimes it doesn't so they can mess up your morning. If you have a astigmatism they are even worse, if they are available for your shape of eyeball at all. For me glasses were a lot easier so I went back.
There are plenty of people working on a cancer cure, and there have been massive advances over the last couple years. If anything, capitalism hampers something like cancer research because treating it is more profitable than curing it and longer treatments are more profitable than short ones. Fortunately we have donation and tax driven organizations such as the National Cancer Institute and the National Institute of Health working on it.
Assuming that the people they hire at the price they are paying are capable of knowing what needs to be done. Often the problem is that the admins are being paid $5 a day and they only know how to keep the lights on but what is needed are specialists at $50/hour.
And then people complain that the government is meddling in private corporate affairs
Why don't you just tell them you can't pay? I thought no one could be turned away by an emergency room.
I think it's a pretty good thing we aren't depending on you for a cancer cure.
I hope the truck shipping it wasn't using fossil fuel!
And this is why I don't work in an office.
People like that only listen when there is a catastrophe they can't cover up. So let it come out.
Yes and wouldn't all technology people in this country be laughing if companies paid what they needed to up front for security.
Doesn't really seem like it's going anyone's way. I mean, Trump might end up doing something good but he's been fairly paralyzed so far.
How about understand exactly what happened, lock things down and educate people so it is at least harder to pull off next time? Or is that too common sense?
If they don't care at all then why do they need a decent speaker?
IT guys? This is post-production studio. The IT is probably being done by the guy who gets the coffee.
Why should the cost be on taxpayers to do all these complicated workarounds when Uber already has the information?
I only mentioned it because it really encompasses all that is bad with Twitter.
So you wouldn't mind having a bunch of complete strangers in each room of your house as long as they weren't doing anything but listening to everything you said and did? In my opinion, it doesn't matter whether they would be interested in what I am saying or not; it is just a creepy idea that someone could listen if they wanted to.
That's what I was thinking when I read this. Speaker selection is very personal for those that care, so why up the price of the device by trying to put good sound in? Better to just get an old laptop with Kodi on it and put it on the stereo you like, or Squeezebox (Logitech Mediaserver) is great for music. I'm a little confused though why you would expect Apple to work with Sonos devices, both seem to have their own proprietary walled gardens. If you want things to work together you have to go open-source.
Wireless beats headphones, nonetheless.