I've posted about this before, but I've always wondered when we see governments, employers, etc saying that Uber's employees need to have full benefits and be treated as employees..... But are they saying if you drive at all? Or is this *IF* you drive 32+ hours a week? I've known a few people that drove for Uber and they would only do 6-12 hours a week or so. I know others do a lot more, but it still seems odd to me. Are these complaints specifically for Uber drivers who work full time hours, or literally anyone who has ever driven for Uber?
I mean I guess it's not honest to say it's a "moral requirement".... But at least he named the actual reason - profit. Perhaps he should have made a lie that sounded more "feel good" (even though we'd still know it was BS. Instead of : "More requirement to make money," he should reword it as "Moral requirement to pay those involved in the research, production, and distribution costs." We'd know it was BS.... But at least it'd be an attempt at PR that might fool a few people?
We'd lose this hilarious quote though, so he probably made the better choice.
People won't keep themselves busy every day. They'll lounge around, play the lottery, watch professional sports, get drunk and high, and play World of Warcraft.
This just reminds me of several years ago. I went to the bar my friends and coworkers used to hang at every Friday. I was talking to a guy there who was telling me how he just lost his job due to crappy stuff with the management and some girl at the company. I said something to him about that situation sucking. His reply was: "No way man, it's awesome. I get $600 every unemployment check to just watch Netflix and smoke weed all day!"
Then of course 2-3 years later my company closes the Charlotte office and I'm looking for work. I'm good on money for the time so I take my time to only apply to jobs and companies I'm interested in. I then find out that my state lowered the amount of time you could get unemployment to only 12 weeks. Suddenly the job hunt was a bit more urgent.
I thought writing on a tablet with a stylus would be great.... But honestly I find it much easier to just do pen and paper instead. It seems harder to write smaller on the tablet... but if I write larger it just ends up being a small number of big words on the screen with me constantly scrolling more.
Granted I understand this is more of a user (and small tablet size) issue. But that's my 2 cents on "Anywhere you would use a pad of paper you should be able to use a tablet instead." I wish I could.
If smart stuff was as capable as the stuff in movies like Iron Man... that'd be great. It's nowhere near some useful and easy / nice level like that yet so it seems kind of silly right now outside of "LOOK HOW COOL I AM I HAVE THIS NEW THING ADMIRE ME PLEASE," basically.
I always wonder about the ads for this where someone says something like: "Alexa order me some paper towels.".... You don't care what brand? Cost? Amount?
I know almost no one that has any big interest in getting any of the smart speaker stuff. The sales numbers haven't even been that impressive (while some are doing well, haven't all of them been selling way under all projected and expected numbers? or did something change?) from what I recall seeing. This seems more like an ad trying to encourage people to buy a smart speaker "before it becomes cool!"
There've been other keyless access issues with other companies before as well. I remember reading some article about a guy keeping his key fob in an altoid tin or whatever after someone with a range extender of some kind that let them open his car door several days in a row. Apparently it could be used next to his car (parked in the street) and replicate the signal from the fob a decent distance away.
Now I look forward to this same writer having an article about his fob breaking due to being filled with altoid dust.
Did the shorts actually close out all their short positions? Or are they still net short on Tesla
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Seems to me that, if they still have a short position, getting an SEC investigation going and/or announcing and filing a suit for billions would be just the sort of manipulation that they are claiming Musk was up to. Hold a short, file a suit, talk it up.
Hell, I remember the day after (or maybe even the day *of*) the going private tweet, I saw an article about a bunch of short sellers banding together to sue him for causing them to "suffer financial damages."
Musk is offered a joint (which he has to ask if it's a joint), takes one puff, doesn't even inhale, looks at it, shakes his head no, passes it back - then later on they discuss marijuana, and Musk says that he doesn't like it because it inhibits his ability to get things done and have a meaningful effect on the world.
Meanwhile every article about this is using some paused image of Musk with smoke all around his head, taken while he's mid-blink, looking super high.
Is how heavily any negative thing with Tesla is pushed, so I see tons of articles about this suddenly flooding everything. Google knows I've looked up Tesla a few times, so my phone suggest news about Tesla.... I open up the cards to see what shows up and every other card is a shot of Musk with smoke all around and titles like this or: "Unworried about company future Elon Musk is smoking weed on podcasts," etc. Some other article said something like: "Musk shows he has even more drug issues as he smokes weed."
I miss the old Opera. So many things to customize and I tend to have a ton of tabs open - it had some nice tab navigation options. And I actually used a few of the gestures.
When I first read the headline, I thought it was going to be some story about Putin thinking someone drilled a hole into the hull (while in space) to sabotage the ISS.
This reminds me their 00 Gundam series has some kind of space elevator or solar elevator or whatever they called it. They're trying to make the anime real! Kind of curious of how well this would actually work.
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I've posted about this before, but I've always wondered when we see governments, employers, etc saying that Uber's employees need to have full benefits and be treated as employees..... But are they saying if you drive at all? Or is this *IF* you drive 32+ hours a week? I've known a few people that drove for Uber and they would only do 6-12 hours a week or so. I know others do a lot more, but it still seems odd to me. Are these complaints specifically for Uber drivers who work full time hours, or literally anyone who has ever driven for Uber?
I'm sure some people named Simon will be offended by the association of their name with being controlling.
More than likely it'd be feminists upset that it was a male name. (Use Simone instead?)
I mean I guess it's not honest to say it's a "moral requirement".... But at least he named the actual reason - profit. Perhaps he should have made a lie that sounded more "feel good" (even though we'd still know it was BS. Instead of : "More requirement to make money," he should reword it as "Moral requirement to pay those involved in the research, production, and distribution costs." We'd know it was BS.... But at least it'd be an attempt at PR that might fool a few people?
We'd lose this hilarious quote though, so he probably made the better choice.
You forgot the part where everyone is also claiming the Air Force revoked all his clearance and shut Space X down.
I'm sure they'd continue to survive just fine on their cheetohs
People won't keep themselves busy every day. They'll lounge around, play the lottery, watch professional sports, get drunk and high, and play World of Warcraft.
This just reminds me of several years ago. I went to the bar my friends and coworkers used to hang at every Friday. I was talking to a guy there who was telling me how he just lost his job due to crappy stuff with the management and some girl at the company. I said something to him about that situation sucking. His reply was: "No way man, it's awesome. I get $600 every unemployment check to just watch Netflix and smoke weed all day!"
Then of course 2-3 years later my company closes the Charlotte office and I'm looking for work. I'm good on money for the time so I take my time to only apply to jobs and companies I'm interested in. I then find out that my state lowered the amount of time you could get unemployment to only 12 weeks. Suddenly the job hunt was a bit more urgent.
If your hobby becomes work, it is still work. So look for something ekse to do.
Except in many of these cases, the whining is part of the work - "please donate more to my patreon because I'm not happy" etc.
I thought writing on a tablet with a stylus would be great.... But honestly I find it much easier to just do pen and paper instead. It seems harder to write smaller on the tablet... but if I write larger it just ends up being a small number of big words on the screen with me constantly scrolling more.
Granted I understand this is more of a user (and small tablet size) issue. But that's my 2 cents on "Anywhere you would use a pad of paper you should be able to use a tablet instead." I wish I could.
The app didn't do any of the beating or lynching
I'm sure plenty of people would think facebook and WhatsApp jumped out of the phone and beat a man to death and hung another from a tree though.
who the fuck uses buzzfeed as a primary news source? Shame on you.
Every time I see Buzzfeed news on Slashdot, I get very sad.
If smart stuff was as capable as the stuff in movies like Iron Man... that'd be great. It's nowhere near some useful and easy / nice level like that yet so it seems kind of silly right now outside of "LOOK HOW COOL I AM I HAVE THIS NEW THING ADMIRE ME PLEASE," basically.
I always wonder about the ads for this where someone says something like: "Alexa order me some paper towels." .... You don't care what brand? Cost? Amount?
I know almost no one that has any big interest in getting any of the smart speaker stuff. The sales numbers haven't even been that impressive (while some are doing well, haven't all of them been selling way under all projected and expected numbers? or did something change?) from what I recall seeing. This seems more like an ad trying to encourage people to buy a smart speaker "before it becomes cool!"
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There've been other keyless access issues with other companies before as well. I remember reading some article about a guy keeping his key fob in an altoid tin or whatever after someone with a range extender of some kind that let them open his car door several days in a row. Apparently it could be used next to his car (parked in the street) and replicate the signal from the fob a decent distance away.
Now I look forward to this same writer having an article about his fob breaking due to being filled with altoid dust.
... are gonna be pretty pissed about this practice of imprisoning robots into rooms with a boot for hours!
Is this going to be like that thing from the Jurrasic World movie where they had some kind of.... Verizon Wireless -saurus Rex or whatever?
they were able to sue him for the losses
Did the shorts actually close out all their short positions? Or are they still net short on Tesla
Seems to me that, if they still have a short position, getting an SEC investigation going and/or announcing and filing a suit for billions would be just the sort of manipulation that they are claiming Musk was up to. Hold a short, file a suit, talk it up.
Hell, I remember the day after (or maybe even the day *of*) the going private tweet, I saw an article about a bunch of short sellers banding together to sue him for causing them to "suffer financial damages."
Musk is offered a joint (which he has to ask if it's a joint), takes one puff, doesn't even inhale, looks at it, shakes his head no, passes it back - then later on they discuss marijuana, and Musk says that he doesn't like it because it inhibits his ability to get things done and have a meaningful effect on the world.
Meanwhile every article about this is using some paused image of Musk with smoke all around his head, taken while he's mid-blink, looking super high.
Is how heavily any negative thing with Tesla is pushed, so I see tons of articles about this suddenly flooding everything. Google knows I've looked up Tesla a few times, so my phone suggest news about Tesla.... I open up the cards to see what shows up and every other card is a shot of Musk with smoke all around and titles like this or: "Unworried about company future Elon Musk is smoking weed on podcasts," etc. Some other article said something like: "Musk shows he has even more drug issues as he smokes weed."
I hope it just says across the screen: "We're watching you...."
I miss the old Opera. So many things to customize and I tend to have a ton of tabs open - it had some nice tab navigation options. And I actually used a few of the gestures.
When I first read the headline, I thought it was going to be some story about Putin thinking someone drilled a hole into the hull (while in space) to sabotage the ISS.
This reminds me their 00 Gundam series has some kind of space elevator or solar elevator or whatever they called it. They're trying to make the anime real! Kind of curious of how well this would actually work.
A friend of mine in college was an art student. The highest level math he had to take was Algebra. .....They let him use a TI-89 on the final exam....
signal automatically without the driver needing to go through the agony that is lifting their finger and moving it up or down by several inches
Oh! So THAT'S why no one ever signals. Didn't realize it was causing them such torment.