One can speculate about returnable packaging, but the cost and resources required to cycle it back are likely prohibitive. As it is I dunno how Amazon breaks even shipping me stuff Prime / Subscribe&Save. For many items the cost if I were shipping it myself would exceed the price of the item. I'm sure they play the carriers off against each other and get healthy discounts, but still....
Re packing, I'd love to meet this Kim and show her photos of how AMZN packs my stuff. Examples:
A case of diapers -- perhaps the least fragile thing they sell -- gets encapsulated in an outer box and braced with crumpled paper. Food items in a cardboard box are tossed in right next to a heavy case of cans, without stabilization.
There are multiple items I've stopped ordering from them because they just can't package them securely. Anything liquid is problematic.
Facebook themselves practice it by requiring that everyone move to the Silly Valley. Who's going to be willing to do that? Kids who don't mind living 5 to a shitty apartment. Who isn't? People with homes and families.
Their CAFO-style working environment also discriminates against the neuro-diverse.
That doesn't really answer the GP's point. Real food (ie., not McDeath) has to be within a few minutes' walk of the charging station, not with an hour. Said real food has to be *open* when one is passing through.
That's a bit simplistic. Think about what it takes to move for someone who's likely renting:
o Timing for the existing lease - can't afford breaking penalties o Security + first + last month rent for a new place -- thousands of $ that have to come from somewhere o Landlords who in a scarce market demand a perfect credit report o Some way to move belongings o Time off work to do it all
I've experience several of the above myself; in one case the manager was complicit with the perp and I had to leave. In the other the perp was used to stack ranking and was given a promotion; I had to find a different group to work with.
My current company has explicit anti-bullying policies. Mostly it works, but with some individuals it's still there.
One correlation is that often but not always the perps have purchased graduate degrees.
The skewing factor here is that arguably clusters of individual systems really aren't supercomputers, the same way that a string of salps isn't a single animal. With traditional vector / SIMD systems (Cray, Convex) mostly a thing of the past, the term "supercomputer" should be as well, just as we stopped using "minicomputer" when they were no longer part of the equation.
I've found that the TSA people *in the Pre lane* are generally tolerable. I've rarely encountered someone I'd call personable, but it's a workplace not a strip club.
In the cattle lanes, I've found them to almost always be indifferent at best and usually tend toward hassling.
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I donâ(TM)t share your zeal for lead in paint, gasoline, and drinking water. Or for Thalidomide babies.
One can speculate about returnable packaging, but the cost and resources required to cycle it back are likely prohibitive. As it is I dunno how Amazon breaks even shipping me stuff Prime / Subscribe&Save. For many items the cost if I were shipping it myself would exceed the price of the item. I'm sure they play the carriers off against each other and get healthy discounts, but still....
Re packing, I'd love to meet this Kim and show her photos of how AMZN packs my stuff. Examples:
A case of diapers -- perhaps the least fragile thing they sell -- gets encapsulated in an outer box and braced with crumpled paper.
Food items in a cardboard box are tossed in right next to a heavy case of cans, without stabilization.
There are multiple items I've stopped ordering from them because they just can't package them securely. Anything liquid is problematic.
They do make it difficult to contact them, which admittedly is not unique to Amazon.
Even without years on employement, forms that require a year for *college* are even more effective at aging people.
LinkedIn practices discrimination with their own employment too.
Depends if you consider a precarious contract to be employment.
Facebook themselves practice it by requiring that everyone move to the Silly Valley. Who's going to be willing to do that? Kids who don't mind living 5 to a shitty apartment. Who isn't? People with homes and families.
Their CAFO-style working environment also discriminates against the neuro-diverse.
They just want to ensure that nobody makes a mistake that causes NYC to become even slightly less intolerable.
Company bans would easily be worked around: they'd just create an LLC or whatever to work on the wall, keeping them technically clean.
Like cutting taxes (for rich people) but being quiet about also cutting *deductions* for the lower/middle class.
I've seen a misguided dogfood policy cost 6-7 figures.
Everything listed works fine on macOS X.
Not if the new guy was black.
Remember this the next time you decide whether to eat down the food chain or up it.
I'm tired of posts that assume that we know who some obscure guy and obscure company are.
That doesn't really answer the GP's point. Real food (ie., not McDeath) has to be within a few minutes' walk of the charging station, not with an hour. Said real food has to be *open* when one is passing through.
Think you mean he bought a _condo_. By definition you can't buy an apartment.
That's a bit simplistic. Think about what it takes to move for someone who's likely renting:
o Timing for the existing lease - can't afford breaking penalties
o Security + first + last month rent for a new place -- thousands of $ that have to come from somewhere
o Landlords who in a scarce market demand a perfect credit report
o Some way to move belongings
o Time off work to do it all
Much of "other purposes" is "animal agriculture", which itself is a significant contributor to greenhouse gasses.
Think before you fork.
I've experience several of the above myself; in one case the manager was complicit with the perp and I had to leave. In the other the perp was used to stack ranking and was given a promotion; I had to find a different group to work with.
My current company has explicit anti-bullying policies. Mostly it works, but with some individuals it's still there.
One correlation is that often but not always the perps have purchased graduate degrees.
Actively left ... except their hiring policies.
The skewing factor here is that arguably clusters of individual systems really aren't supercomputers, the same way that a string of salps isn't a single animal. With traditional vector / SIMD systems (Cray, Convex) mostly a thing of the past, the term "supercomputer" should be as well, just as we stopped using "minicomputer" when they were no longer part of the equation.
These are exactly the people who voted against their own best interest last year.
The average prole can act with his fork. ie., stop ignoring the massive effects of animal agriculture.
I've found that the TSA people *in the Pre lane* are generally tolerable. I've rarely encountered someone I'd call personable, but it's a workplace not a strip club.
In the cattle lanes, I've found them to almost always be indifferent at best and usually tend toward hassling.