They are. I have worked for 7 companies in the Bay Area over the last 30 years, and I have always taken all my vacation and never been pressured otherwise. I got some emails, and a few phone calls about "critical" issues, but those took just a few minutes to resolve.
I currently get 4 weeks (20 work days) per year. I mostly take just a few days at a time spread over the year, and sometimes a week when my kids are out of school. The most I have taken in one block was two weeks for a trip to Europe.
No healthcare matching, no retirement. Just a job.
There is no logical reason that either your healthcare or your pension should come from your employer.
In Maoist China, each factory ran a school for the children of their workers. So if you changed jobs, your kids would have to switch to a different school. That was a stupid system, but asking your employer to make your healthcare decisions for you is just as stupid, and you only think it makes sense because you are used to it.
Cut me a check for the *overtime* value of the lost vacation. Pretty simple.
No. There is no federal law requiring compensation for forfeited vacation time. Some states require that employees be compensated. None require it to be at "overtime" rate.
My company has a "use it or lose it" policy... which is how it should be. Vacation exists for a reason and "extra pay" is not a substitute.
1. Steve Bannon's butt moved to a different chair.
2. The Syrians launched a nerve gas attack, killing roughly 50 people, and blatantly violating a "red line" laid down by America, and violating their disarmament agreement with the UN. This will likely trigger a military response from America, complicated by the thousands of Russian soldiers and hundreds of Russian aircraft defending Syrian airspace.
I have no problem with general news on Slashdot, but I think it is absurd that #1 was covered while #2 was not.
Imagine an officer gets accused of excessive use of force it might be years before a jury sees that video..
Nope. If the video shows misconduct, then the case will be settled quickly. If the video exonerates the officer, the plaintiff will drop the case. Either way, a jury will never need to see it.
Don't come running complaining about the government wasting money later if you're willing to jump the gun "for the children".
Decent body cams have been available for years and there is overwhelming evidence that they reduce violence, reduce misconduct, and pay for themselves many times over in reduced lawsuits. So adopting them now is certainly not "jumping the gun".
The TPU is a "purpose built" chip, but that purpose is very broad. It is optimized for massively parallel low-precision matrix operations, which is useful not only for neural nets, but also simulation of physical processes like CFD, weather prediction, climate models, computational chemistry, etc. It can do everything a GPU can do except the rasterization and texture mapping, but it can do it faster and with much less power.
Indeed. Suggestive conjecture about rumors about internal squabbling over relationships is exactly what Slashdot should focus on, because there is nowhere else on the Internet that provides that information.
How so? Maybe you could take the time to explain it.
Trump will be getting the same advice from the same people, but one of those people will now have a slightly different title. How is that not important?
I say that a court should look for JUSTICE and not the letter of the law.
If judges decide what the law is, they why even have legislators and elections at all? You might want to read some history books before you conclude that giving all the power to a few old men is a better system than democracy.
Foreign tourists spent $216B in America last year, making tourism one of our biggest "exports". This reduces our trade deficit and provides jobs for millions of Americans, maybe even some ex-coalminers. Trump should be doing everything possible to encourage more people to come here, rather than pushing them away. Sad.
unless you spread it very, very thinly over a wide area, you'll end up with pockets of highly concentrated saline ocean which is very harmful to sea life.
An obvious solution would be to dilute it with fresh water before dumping it into the ocean.
A psychopath kills for no reason, a Sociopath kills for personal gain
That is your definition, but if you search the web you can find dozens of other "differences" many of which are contradictory. There is no formal medical definition of either "psychopath" or "sociopath". Psychiatrists use the term "antisocial personality disorder".
In vernacular English, the terms "psychopath" and "sociopath" are used interchangeably.
It was the increasingly litigious nature of the world
The lawyers may have sent nuclear to the graveyard, but it was the frackers that nailed the coffin shut. Nuclear is dead in America, at least for our lifetime.
In that case, then what's the point of using Bitcoin?
1. Bitcoin cannot be inflated away. 2. For international transactions, Bitcoin transactions are way cheaper.
My company employs a graphic artist in Karachi. We pay her in bitcoin, which she then converts to PKRs for a transaction cost of less than 1%. Using a normal bank would cost 3-6%.
Is it just me, or would you be scared to leave someone making barely more than slavery wages alone in your house with your child?
I never lived in India, but I did live in China for several years. We had a live-in housekeeper, and she was paid 2500 RMB or about $300 USD per month. She also ate with our family for free and had a free room to live in. That was worth at least another $100 per month. So she had an annual income equivalent to about $4800 USD. This was back when the median annual income in Shanghai was about $4200 USD.
I never gave a second thought to leaving my kids with her. She was like a member of our family. My kids are grown now, and in college, but they still stay in touch with her via WeChat.
The same can be said for any automotive manufacturer.
Ford has patents, but not many that matter. Tesla has crucial patents in self-driving tech, navigation, electric engines, and battery tech. Those are the future of cars. Anyone who wants to play will have to knock on Elon's door.
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You assume other places are better.
They are. I have worked for 7 companies in the Bay Area over the last 30 years, and I have always taken all my vacation and never been pressured otherwise. I got some emails, and a few phone calls about "critical" issues, but those took just a few minutes to resolve.
I currently get 4 weeks (20 work days) per year. I mostly take just a few days at a time spread over the year, and sometimes a week when my kids are out of school. The most I have taken in one block was two weeks for a trip to Europe.
No healthcare matching, no retirement. Just a job.
There is no logical reason that either your healthcare or your pension should come from your employer.
In Maoist China, each factory ran a school for the children of their workers. So if you changed jobs, your kids would have to switch to a different school. That was a stupid system, but asking your employer to make your healthcare decisions for you is just as stupid, and you only think it makes sense because you are used to it.
In other news, 300,000 US customer service workers lose their jobs because of competition with Amazon.
Maybe the government should pay them to break windows to generate jobs for glaziers.
Cut me a check for the *overtime* value of the lost vacation.
Pretty simple.
No. There is no federal law requiring compensation for forfeited vacation time. Some states require that employees be compensated. None require it to be at "overtime" rate.
My company has a "use it or lose it" policy ... which is how it should be. Vacation exists for a reason and "extra pay" is not a substitute.
There were two big political stories today:
1. Steve Bannon's butt moved to a different chair.
2. The Syrians launched a nerve gas attack, killing roughly 50 people, and blatantly violating a "red line" laid down by America, and violating their disarmament agreement with the UN. This will likely trigger a military response from America, complicated by the thousands of Russian soldiers and hundreds of Russian aircraft defending Syrian airspace.
I have no problem with general news on Slashdot, but I think it is absurd that #1 was covered while #2 was not.
Imagine an officer gets accused of excessive use of force it might be years before a jury sees that video..
Nope. If the video shows misconduct, then the case will be settled quickly. If the video exonerates the officer, the plaintiff will drop the case. Either way, a jury will never need to see it.
Don't come running complaining about the government wasting money later if you're willing to jump the gun "for the children".
Decent body cams have been available for years and there is overwhelming evidence that they reduce violence, reduce misconduct, and pay for themselves many times over in reduced lawsuits. So adopting them now is certainly not "jumping the gun".
More cameras. Fewer donuts.
How so?
The TPU is a "purpose built" chip, but that purpose is very broad. It is optimized for massively parallel low-precision matrix operations, which is useful not only for neural nets, but also simulation of physical processes like CFD, weather prediction, climate models, computational chemistry, etc. It can do everything a GPU can do except the rasterization and texture mapping, but it can do it faster and with much less power.
Indeed. Suggestive conjecture about rumors about internal squabbling over relationships is exactly what Slashdot should focus on, because there is nowhere else on the Internet that provides that information.
How so? Maybe you could take the time to explain it.
Trump will be getting the same advice from the same people, but one of those people will now have a slightly different title. How is that not important?
You do not need a smartphone to hail an Uber.
You can summon it with a text msg from a $15 flip-phone.
A Canadian town will subsidise an American corporation to provide a public service.
Uber is bleeding cash and losing billions annually. The subsidies are flowing the other way.
I say that a court should look for JUSTICE and not the letter of the law.
If judges decide what the law is, they why even have legislators and elections at all? You might want to read some history books before you conclude that giving all the power to a few old men is a better system than democracy.
"Some evil hacker must have done it to make us look bad!"
Suki did it.
Foreign tourists spent $216B in America last year, making tourism one of our biggest "exports". This reduces our trade deficit and provides jobs for millions of Americans, maybe even some ex-coalminers. Trump should be doing everything possible to encourage more people to come here, rather than pushing them away. Sad.
I've never known a single developer who could get away with wearing a hoodie in an office
I have never worked in any office where anyone cares what the developers wear.
Then anti-theft chipped keys came along and we got car jackings and home invasions.
Except that car jackings and home invasions have gone down.
1. it is worse than that, bitcoin is deflationary, far worse than inflationary.
Deflation is worse for the overall economy.
But it is better for the individual holding the currency.
unless you spread it very, very thinly over a wide area, you'll end up with pockets of highly concentrated saline ocean which is very harmful to sea life.
An obvious solution would be to dilute it with fresh water before dumping it into the ocean.
A psychopath kills for no reason, a Sociopath kills for personal gain
That is your definition, but if you search the web you can find dozens of other "differences" many of which are contradictory. There is no formal medical definition of either "psychopath" or "sociopath". Psychiatrists use the term "antisocial personality disorder".
In vernacular English, the terms "psychopath" and "sociopath" are used interchangeably.
It was the increasingly litigious nature of the world
The lawyers may have sent nuclear to the graveyard, but it was the frackers that nailed the coffin shut.
Nuclear is dead in America, at least for our lifetime.
In that case, then what's the point of using Bitcoin?
1. Bitcoin cannot be inflated away.
2. For international transactions, Bitcoin transactions are way cheaper.
My company employs a graphic artist in Karachi. We pay her in bitcoin, which she then converts to PKRs for a transaction cost of less than 1%. Using a normal bank would cost 3-6%.
Is it just me, or would you be scared to leave someone making barely more than slavery wages alone in your house with your child?
I never lived in India, but I did live in China for several years. We had a live-in housekeeper, and she was paid 2500 RMB or about $300 USD per month. She also ate with our family for free and had a free room to live in. That was worth at least another $100 per month. So she had an annual income equivalent to about $4800 USD. This was back when the median annual income in Shanghai was about $4200 USD.
I never gave a second thought to leaving my kids with her. She was like a member of our family. My kids are grown now, and in college, but they still stay in touch with her via WeChat.
The same can be said for any automotive manufacturer.
Ford has patents, but not many that matter. Tesla has crucial patents in self-driving tech, navigation, electric engines, and battery tech. Those are the future of cars. Anyone who wants to play will have to knock on Elon's door.
Startups valued more than established companies.
20 years ago, some silly people thought that Amazon would be worth more than Sears.
They were off by a factor of 300.
Amazon's market cap: $430B
Sear's market cap: $1.2B