It surprises me that Octopus is ~20 years old and still arguably more advanced than many more recent players. It does piss me off though that my "vintage" card will need to be replaced next time I come through... if it is still honored at all...
Senior staff don't need to work 40 hours a week... but unfortunately junior staff often need to work more than that to cover their inefficiency. It is hard to keep the junior staff effective when they don't have senior staff around. We try to address it with a casual work-from-home policy for senior folks on Fridays.
We austensibly work a 4-9-4 schedule, but realistically it is four 9-hour day and a "social half-day Friday". 9 hour days are fine with me, and I can see how a 36 hour week would have few compromises for people over 30... but the kids would struggle as they tend to need to put in more overtime to get work done.
Until today? This was their whole purpose for creating Android-- to dominate mobile search. Some of their listed policies do make me feel like they are just microsoft 2.0 or something, but it is just confirmation.
Remember how much Microsoft dragged their feet after the US finding? The fine makes a material impact to the business, and if the company only pays lip service to the ruling, they can continue paying a materially damaging sum.
Is it a money grab? Yes, of course. Is it an effective remedy and deterrent? Time will tell.
Which is not necessarily in the best interests of the country, and certainly not in the best interests of the communities that will lose air service. It comes out to about $4/passenger-flight-hour to improve pay for regional pilots to one that is sustainable with the 1,500 hour rule. The safety improvement can be better made at a lower cost... but regulation is trumping capitalism.
Not really; if it was that hard to connect them there will never be reliability. I am surprised some ESCO didn’t sweep in and get them off-grid. With the cost of re-electrification used as a subsidy for the system, financing via “electric bill” at current rates should have stood rate of return.
Rapid might not be in the best strategic interests though. The goal was to help get battery prices lower (and presumably increase production volume. It might be a factor for Porsche, but for other manufacturers the car volume is simply too high for it to make a dent.
I have a credit union account as my primary checking and savings, but it isn’t really tailored to my needs very well. A credit card from them maximum is around $10-15k, maximum daily ETF limit is $5k, they don’t do business banking, and their loans aren’t really a very good deal, beyond potentially auto loans. Large sums of cash or cashiers checks surprise them. (Had enough cash for a home down payment in checking for a year while I was looking.)
Ironically, I switched to them 17 years ago after WF fucked me over.
But, I am a private banking customer at Chase. We have a few hundred thousand dollars in credit card limit (across several different cards), very generous line of credit for the company, and a number of perks that the credit unions aren’t set up to offer.
Chase will give you the same perks. I don’t use them for investment or insurance, but we have a line of credit for the company with them and they do right by us.
I'm still at a loss if "non-recruitment" agreements are just mutual non-solicitation pacts, or if they are no-hire agreements. I get how the latter is illegal, but not sure how the former would be. (We won't recruit your staff vs if your staff applies we will not offer them a job.)
But, it seems like the courts are referring to both, which can be dangerous.
I was in the same position; it doesn't necessarily mean you didn't profit off them too. I started understanding their value proposition ~5 years ago, but I never would have bet against them before that. Much like Salesforce.
Sure, but in 5 years to you expect you will find much equipment that is 5 years old today left in operation? If so, is it at its "smashing point?" (Smashing point is where it is cheaper to replace something that works for something new with better performance.)
The thing is that because of this the CLIs for most competitors are very similar, and for routers you are mainly looking at differences between noun-verb and verb-noun syntaxes. The idiosyncrasies between brands can be a challenge, and the management tools can vary tremendously... but it simply isn't the case that you *need* the Cisco branded equipment.
With Cisco experience as an example, picking up configuration on a Ubiquiti switch isn't a huge deal. Mixing and matching all day long will be frustrating, but that is always true.
Right now the disruptive opportunity is that there could be a whole lot more 100Gb needs outside the data center in the next couple years, and the manufacturer's haven't really ramped up the "business" versions of this equipment yet-- 10G is still an outlier.
Our CAD/BIM laptops have dual external monitors with docks. Still easier to transport than a tower, especially if you can dock into a station with everything already set up at your destination.
By far, that is what is keeping me away from "upgrading". My Air is a little sluggish, but between the dongle madness (already bad enough on the Air) and a less functional power supply, it simply isn't for me.
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It surprises me that Octopus is ~20 years old and still arguably more advanced than many more recent players. It does piss me off though that my "vintage" card will need to be replaced next time I come through... if it is still honored at all...
Senior staff don't need to work 40 hours a week... but unfortunately junior staff often need to work more than that to cover their inefficiency. It is hard to keep the junior staff effective when they don't have senior staff around. We try to address it with a casual work-from-home policy for senior folks on Fridays.
We austensibly work a 4-9-4 schedule, but realistically it is four 9-hour day and a "social half-day Friday". 9 hour days are fine with me, and I can see how a 36 hour week would have few compromises for people over 30... but the kids would struggle as they tend to need to put in more overtime to get work done.
What Sully did in the Hudson was amazing. His politics on this particular issue less so.
That is the point... a material impact to their business, but less than 1% of their market capitalization.
You either need fines that have teeth or some other means that has teeth. Fines are the easy way out, although I am not sure what is more effective.
Until today? This was their whole purpose for creating Android-- to dominate mobile search. Some of their listed policies do make me feel like they are just microsoft 2.0 or something, but it is just confirmation.
Remember how much Microsoft dragged their feet after the US finding? The fine makes a material impact to the business, and if the company only pays lip service to the ruling, they can continue paying a materially damaging sum.
Is it a money grab? Yes, of course. Is it an effective remedy and deterrent? Time will tell.
Item 3 especially is monopolistic, anti-competitive behavior when you have an exceedingly dominant position in the market.
They can still be evaluating the group plans.
I just doubt the effectiveness of the information for the stated purpose. This seems like another BigData Garbage Dump.
Which is not necessarily in the best interests of the country, and certainly not in the best interests of the communities that will lose air service. It comes out to about $4/passenger-flight-hour to improve pay for regional pilots to one that is sustainable with the 1,500 hour rule. The safety improvement can be better made at a lower cost... but regulation is trumping capitalism.
I imagine when small markets no longer have air service the political pressure will repeal the 1,500 hour rule with something logical.
Paying $200,000 for an ATP to work for the regionals is like paying $200,000 for a BS in Poly-Sci to work at Mc Donald’s.
But, senior pilots are paid very well with good benefits. They (like Sully) are the ones that caused the problem, for no improvement in safety.
Seems to work ok for Trump...
Methinks Musk needs a bit of a vacation.
Not really; if it was that hard to connect them there will never be reliability. I am surprised some ESCO didn’t sweep in and get them off-grid. With the cost of re-electrification used as a subsidy for the system, financing via “electric bill” at current rates should have stood rate of return.
Um... it is pretty much the other way around. The rich pay more taxes in dollar terms while not using proportionately more government resources.
Rapid might not be in the best strategic interests though. The goal was to help get battery prices lower (and presumably increase production volume. It might be a factor for Porsche, but for other manufacturers the car volume is simply too high for it to make a dent.
I have a credit union account as my primary checking and savings, but it isn’t really tailored to my needs very well. A credit card from them maximum is around $10-15k, maximum daily ETF limit is $5k, they don’t do business banking, and their loans aren’t really a very good deal, beyond potentially auto loans. Large sums of cash or cashiers checks surprise them. (Had enough cash for a home down payment in checking for a year while I was looking.)
Ironically, I switched to them 17 years ago after WF fucked me over.
But, I am a private banking customer at Chase. We have a few hundred thousand dollars in credit card limit (across several different cards), very generous line of credit for the company, and a number of perks that the credit unions aren’t set up to offer.
Chase will give you the same perks. I don’t use them for investment or insurance, but we have a line of credit for the company with them and they do right by us.
I'm still at a loss if "non-recruitment" agreements are just mutual non-solicitation pacts, or if they are no-hire agreements. I get how the latter is illegal, but not sure how the former would be. (We won't recruit your staff vs if your staff applies we will not offer them a job.)
But, it seems like the courts are referring to both, which can be dangerous.
I was in the same position; it doesn't necessarily mean you didn't profit off them too. I started understanding their value proposition ~5 years ago, but I never would have bet against them before that. Much like Salesforce.
Sure, but in 5 years to you expect you will find much equipment that is 5 years old today left in operation? If so, is it at its "smashing point?" (Smashing point is where it is cheaper to replace something that works for something new with better performance.)
The incremental cost of offering for sale something they manufacture for themselves already is low, and the opportunity for profit is high.
The thing is that because of this the CLIs for most competitors are very similar, and for routers you are mainly looking at differences between noun-verb and verb-noun syntaxes. The idiosyncrasies between brands can be a challenge, and the management tools can vary tremendously... but it simply isn't the case that you *need* the Cisco branded equipment.
With Cisco experience as an example, picking up configuration on a Ubiquiti switch isn't a huge deal. Mixing and matching all day long will be frustrating, but that is always true.
Right now the disruptive opportunity is that there could be a whole lot more 100Gb needs outside the data center in the next couple years, and the manufacturer's haven't really ramped up the "business" versions of this equipment yet-- 10G is still an outlier.
No, we won't. We have been programmed that way by Apple.
As for 32GB, we needed that two years ago, in another two we will need 64-128GB. Soldered-on RAM makes for a short life.
Our CAD/BIM laptops have dual external monitors with docks. Still easier to transport than a tower, especially if you can dock into a station with everything already set up at your destination.
By far, that is what is keeping me away from "upgrading". My Air is a little sluggish, but between the dongle madness (already bad enough on the Air) and a less functional power supply, it simply isn't for me.
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