working with your brain at Amazon seems to have its own challenges
Working with your brain anywhere is challenging. I lived through many years of stack ranking, and never saw any evidence of the sort of dog-eat-dog behaviors described in the Business Insider article. What I did see was managers who kept a small number of underperformers on staff in order to pad their merit raise allocations so they could give their high performers better raises. But then, I never worked for Amazon.
Unfortunately, these jobs pay about like Walmart employee.
Jobs are good, but these trends in employment resonate on target with those who say we are the first generation in a long time who will not leave a better life for our children.
Go ahead and type "software" into that search box at the top of the page. Doesn't look quite like slave wages from here. Yeah, I know that most of the jobs are warehouse type jobs, and they don't pay much. I'm guessing that's why, when I was a kid, my father told me to get an education so I could work with my brain instead of my back.
How did we get from lungs to heart? If you're concerned about the shortage of donors, you may find comfort from learning that 40% of donor lungs come from donors who smoked.
You don't need autofocusing glasses for driving anyway, because everything you see on the road is optically 'in the distance'. One-eyed drivers see exactly what the rest of us see, stereo vision not adding any useful information to objects you see while driving.
In fact, such glasses would probably lock onto the crud on the inside of your windshield.
There's this thing called "depth perception" that lets you discern how far an object is from you. Very useful while driving, and requires binocular vision. I got some first-hand experience at being a one-eyed driver when I had a cornea transplant, and it was unnerving. I'm sure one-eyed drivers get to the point where it doesn't particularly bother them, but they cannot judge distance nearly as accurately as two-eyed drivers.
Even not on the pad my S7 will have at least a 80% charge come morning if I missed the pad and my battery was full when I went to bed.
I never charge my S6E+ at night. If it's fully charged at lights out, it's at 98% or 99% when I get up in the morning. Can't imagine what would cause it to drain down to 80%.
There are far more cost effective ways to address traffic. The best solution is clearly to mandate that all cars be driverless by a set year and then come up with a standardised system so that cars can communicate to optimise traffic flow.
Clearly a mandate like that would be more likely to result in all drivers being carless than all cars being driverless.
From TFA: "The original email, sent Jan. 23, said: "Starting immediately and until further notice, ARS will not release any public-facing documents. This includes, but is not limited to, news releases, photos, fact sheets, news feeds, and social media content." I believe this is what you're referring to.
Also from TFA:
USDA officials said that after the email was sent, acting USDA Deputy Secretary Michael L. Young sent out a three-page memo to USDA agency department heads and other key agency officials outlining the interim procedures staff should follow.
A copy of the interim procedures memo, dated Jan. 23 and seen by Reuters, shows many of the steps reflect either the same or similar measures taken by the previous administration. Reuters also saw a memo, dated Jan. 22, 2009, that was sent to agency officials by former Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.
The 2017 memo, however, differs in two main areas.
It centralizes the agency’s media inquiries and social media presence through the Office of the Secretary. As part of that, the memo asks USDA agencies to “review their websites, blog posts and other social media and, consistent with direction you will receive from the Office of Communication, remove references to policy priorities and initiatives of the previous Administration.”
This new number was created by explicitly removing women that do have quality healthcare by removing women from the study that had hysterectomies
Cancer is not a driving factor in most hysterectomies. There is no basis for claiming that "women who have had hysterectomies" have higher quality healthcare than "women who have not had hysterectomies".
My early childhood was in the 1950s, in a blue-collar neighborhood in Southern California.
Of course, the nuclear family of the 1950s had:
a 1200 (not 2200) sqft house,
formica (not granite) counters,
We had ceramic tile counters, which were quite common at the time.
stainless steel appliances,
Really? Almost everyone I knew had white enamel, and the ones that didn't, had yellow, pink, or turquoise. Blecch.
automatic dishwasher,
Only well-off people had dishwashers in the 50s. They became common in the late 60s.
automatic dryer,
LOL. We had a washing machine with a wringer on top. The "dryer" was a clothesline in the back yard. I remember how happy my mother was when she finally got a real automatic washer with a (gasp) spin cycle.
*might* have had a TV (not a 54" LCD),
Yep. A 10" Admiral console tv with chronic vertical sync problems; perfect for watching George Putnam's evening news broadcasts. Replaced circa 1957 with a 17" one. My parents finally got a color tv in 1966.
car without multiple built-in DVD player, infotainment center, ABS brakes, half a dozen air bags, computer controlled *everything*, 2000W stereos,
computers,
smartphones,
game consoles,
etc,
etc,
ad nauseum.
I'm glad you brought this up. I've undergone two DMEK procedures in the past year to treat Fuch's Dystrophy. No robots involved; just a highly skilled surgeon.
Apparently Romney and other Republicans also boycotted Obama's inauguration, apparently for the specific purpose of planning obstruction to anything he was going to do. Still trying to hunt down specifics though, but it hardly seems they are doing anything surprising.
I don't know about Romney, but let's say he boycotted. Rick Perry is the only other Republican I can verify as having boycotted (Obama's 1st inaguration). Neither he nor Romney were sitting members of Congress at the time; I'm not clear on how they could implement the obstruction you mentioned.
As far as I can tell, there are no formal US charges pending against Assange. There aren't likely to be any charges either, because he's done no more than the NY Times did with the Pentagon Papers. Unless, of course, the Justice Department wants to start indicting newspapers for publishing this sort of thing.
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Working with your brain anywhere is challenging.
No. Working with your brain is not challenging. You'd know that if you had a brain and weren't an imposter, smart guy.
If you're not being challenged, you're not really working with your brain; you're just turning a crank.
working with your brain at Amazon seems to have its own challenges
Working with your brain anywhere is challenging. I lived through many years of stack ranking, and never saw any evidence of the sort of dog-eat-dog behaviors described in the Business Insider article. What I did see was managers who kept a small number of underperformers on staff in order to pad their merit raise allocations so they could give their high performers better raises. But then, I never worked for Amazon.
Today if you're foolish enough to get an education
Heh. It certainly appears that I should congratulate you on not falling into that pernicious trap.
Unfortunately, these jobs pay about like Walmart employee.
Jobs are good, but these trends in employment resonate on target with those who say we are the first generation in a long time who will not leave a better life for our children.
Go ahead and type "software" into that search box at the top of the page. Doesn't look quite like slave wages from here. Yeah, I know that most of the jobs are warehouse type jobs, and they don't pay much. I'm guessing that's why, when I was a kid, my father told me to get an education so I could work with my brain instead of my back.
How qualified would Eric Trump be if his last name wasn't Trump?
He has terrific qualifications. Everybody agrees, he has fantastic qualifications. So there's no problem with his qualifications, believe me.
How did we get from lungs to heart? If you're concerned about the shortage of donors, you may find comfort from learning that 40% of donor lungs come from donors who smoked.
Back here in the real world, lung transplants are generally not advised for treatment of lung cancer, so your logic is somewhat flawed.
You don't need autofocusing glasses for driving anyway, because everything you see on the road is optically 'in the distance'. One-eyed drivers see exactly what the rest of us see, stereo vision not adding any useful information to objects you see while driving.
In fact, such glasses would probably lock onto the crud on the inside of your windshield.
There's this thing called "depth perception" that lets you discern how far an object is from you. Very useful while driving, and requires binocular vision. I got some first-hand experience at being a one-eyed driver when I had a cornea transplant, and it was unnerving. I'm sure one-eyed drivers get to the point where it doesn't particularly bother them, but they cannot judge distance nearly as accurately as two-eyed drivers.
A human fed through a woodchipper will die.
Not if it isn't running.
I'm pretty sure that a human fed through a woodchipper will die whether or not the woodchipper is running.
Your filter is needed now more than ever. The amount of partisan BS being spewed by both sides has increased significantly since the election.
Precision and clarity. 5/5.
Who classifies assholes?
The people who control the border. Duh.
Even not on the pad my S7 will have at least a 80% charge come morning if I missed the pad and my battery was full when I went to bed.
I never charge my S6E+ at night. If it's fully charged at lights out, it's at 98% or 99% when I get up in the morning. Can't imagine what would cause it to drain down to 80%.
No, it's fact.
Is this one of those "alternative facts" I've been hearing about?
There are far more cost effective ways to address traffic. The best solution is clearly to mandate that all cars be driverless by a set year and then come up with a standardised system so that cars can communicate to optimise traffic flow.
Clearly a mandate like that would be more likely to result in all drivers being carless than all cars being driverless.
From TFA: "The original email, sent Jan. 23, said: "Starting immediately and until further notice, ARS will not release any public-facing documents. This includes, but is not limited to, news releases, photos, fact sheets, news feeds, and social media content." I believe this is what you're referring to.
Also from TFA:
USDA officials said that after the email was sent, acting USDA Deputy Secretary Michael L. Young sent out a three-page memo to USDA agency department heads and other key agency officials outlining the interim procedures staff should follow.
A copy of the interim procedures memo, dated Jan. 23 and seen by Reuters, shows many of the steps reflect either the same or similar measures taken by the previous administration. Reuters also saw a memo, dated Jan. 22, 2009, that was sent to agency officials by former Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.
The 2017 memo, however, differs in two main areas.
It centralizes the agency’s media inquiries and social media presence through the Office of the Secretary. As part of that, the memo asks USDA agencies to “review their websites, blog posts and other social media and, consistent with direction you will receive from the Office of Communication, remove references to policy priorities and initiatives of the previous Administration.”
Nearly 90 percent of all women in the US never have hysterectomies. Pretty sure a lot of them have quality health care.
This new number was created by explicitly removing women that do have quality healthcare by removing women from the study that had hysterectomies
Cancer is not a driving factor in most hysterectomies. There is no basis for claiming that "women who have had hysterectomies" have higher quality healthcare than "women who have not had hysterectomies".
Europe here, what both sides do you mean? From over here, your both sides look similar enough to be considered the same side.
Maybe it's the distance that makes them indistinguishable from each other, I could swear that your politicians all say and do the same.
If Donald Trump and Elizabeth Warren look similar to you, you need a better telescope.
My early childhood was in the 1950s, in a blue-collar neighborhood in Southern California.
Of course, the nuclear family of the 1950s had: a 1200 (not 2200) sqft house, formica (not granite) counters,
We had ceramic tile counters, which were quite common at the time.
stainless steel appliances,
Really? Almost everyone I knew had white enamel, and the ones that didn't, had yellow, pink, or turquoise. Blecch.
automatic dishwasher,
Only well-off people had dishwashers in the 50s. They became common in the late 60s.
automatic dryer,
LOL. We had a washing machine with a wringer on top. The "dryer" was a clothesline in the back yard. I remember how happy my mother was when she finally got a real automatic washer with a (gasp) spin cycle.
*might* have had a TV (not a 54" LCD),
Yep. A 10" Admiral console tv with chronic vertical sync problems; perfect for watching George Putnam's evening news broadcasts. Replaced circa 1957 with a 17" one. My parents finally got a color tv in 1966.
car without multiple built-in DVD player, infotainment center, ABS brakes, half a dozen air bags, computer controlled *everything*, 2000W stereos, computers, smartphones, game consoles, etc, etc, ad nauseum.
I'm glad you brought this up. I've undergone two DMEK procedures in the past year to treat Fuch's Dystrophy. No robots involved; just a highly skilled surgeon.
Apparently Romney and other Republicans also boycotted Obama's inauguration, apparently for the specific purpose of planning obstruction to anything he was going to do. Still trying to hunt down specifics though, but it hardly seems they are doing anything surprising.
I don't know about Romney, but let's say he boycotted. Rick Perry is the only other Republican I can verify as having boycotted (Obama's 1st inaguration). Neither he nor Romney were sitting members of Congress at the time; I'm not clear on how they could implement the obstruction you mentioned.
You should have your optometrist check you for posterior vitreous detachment.
As far as I can tell, there are no formal US charges pending against Assange. There aren't likely to be any charges either, because he's done no more than the NY Times did with the Pentagon Papers. Unless, of course, the Justice Department wants to start indicting newspapers for publishing this sort of thing.
"We have more sensors on our cars than we have on human beings," said Snyder.
I'm pretty sure I have more sensors in my little finger than there are in any car.