full disclosure: I don't even ask for co-workers to fund my kids fund raisers, as that's an imposition on the workplace. 'Specially as I'm a manager.
As the *employer* is making the ask, this isn't ethical. The bit about making this easy to do via your paycheck means that HR can, and likely does, see who contributes. The paycheck deduction makes this really, really 'wrong.' I'd actually be ~ok with the 'please consider contributing,' but not not part of the payroll process.
Fuller disclosure : if I needed the job, I'd say f the mores and principles, and probably check the box and contribute. Enough to show support. While I quietly looked for other employment.
--- off topic ish: that Disney's policies replace resident workers in the country where Disney makes its home, and reaps benefits unavailable to them in a lot of countries, is amoral. And understandable. As corporations are driven to maximize profits, and CEOs , to have risen to where they are, a lot of times become disconnected from feeling. I'm betting that the same guy who replaced workers didn't think once about asking the remaining employees to spend their $ on a PAC.
This is the problem : invention, in the software space consists of all three of a) a clever idea b) implemented and used by the market c) purchased by the market so it makes, or supports making profit (or an exit).
It's really hard to know where a) is going to come from, hard to get b) to happen, and c) depends on so many factors unrelated to a) and b) sales, macro market issues.
Especially as there's no formula for creating good ideas, unlike there are formulas for b) (e.g agile) and c) P&L, it's 'understandable' that business owners (Ms. Mayer) looks at the contributions of a), over time, and sees expense, and nothing brought to the company.
I speak from experience, having mananaged a 'fully funded by DARPA' team which was part of a public company. Because DARPA set the 'academic ish' problem criteria, and few of a) were transferred, and the research group didn't make *profit* the research team was sold off.
Funding labs takes both high level sponsorship at a company as well as a company that takes the long view, AND has revenue to support. You all know who those are. Many many decades ago, that was Bell Labs. Now it's Google etc.
This cut is isn't unexpected, and I'm surprised it took Ms. Mayer this long.
Great idea. Truly. And, for 30 seconds, I thought it was. But then, I thought, who picks those two venues? The kick back of all kick backs ensues. As nice an idea it is, it'll never happen.
If I did this.
I really, really don't understand how she did this, pretended it didn't matter. I held a clearance and my expectation is that I'd be making plans for my family to live without me for a bunch of years.
this is just easily solved by requiring uber to deploy the equivalent of progressive snapshot.
Phones are unreliable given they can be tossed about, etc.
and, noting, per other threads, that what makes for aggressive driving in the burbs is 'required' to get around in say NYC.
My biggest gripe about uber is that when I complain, it sure seems that their helpdesk says 'they'll have a word with the driver,' when in fact, it's the uber corporate that is at fault. An uber snapshot would help better inform them.
first, this wouldn't have been news if the 10 year old had ratted out his father for cooking meth. It was news because of the terrorist plus muslim terms being applied.
all that said, whilst I agree that we are all becoming wimps, the risk adverse public folks (school, police) would rather be 'safe than sorry,' given that they'd be unemployable if they had info and didn't follow up.
last, this does seem like a reprise of clock boy 2.0. Sniffs as far too convenient.
Excellent comment re your loved ones. As I don't have regular police contact, it never dawned upon me that, in those - granted extreme - cases' NO ONE 'deserves' access to that video.
I'm not slightly medically knowledgeable, but I'm wondering if this guy thought through that he could have infected the rest of us from stuff our bodies had no defenses? Like smallpox and the indigenous tribes in the Americas. I'm fine with him killing himself in the name of science (think Curie), but this strikes me as a little too cowboy.
what was most amazing about this story, is that it took a few folks - the right folks - to make this happen. It was just the right guys, right time type of thing. Had they just hung out (by the pool ? in Cleveland ? ) that weekend, it's likely this story wouldn't have been.
Excellent set of questions! I'm rarely troubled by horrors worldwide. This one scares me, as the shape of things to come.
One answer, stating the obvious, is, that 'thinking' isn't in play here.
Mod parent up!
And mod entire story down. This is so much a Trend researcher making an MBO or cash payout for blogging, with some marketing person checking that the wording is correct, but having no context to know if the content is blog-worthy.
I still think that moderators, en-masse, ought to be able to mod an entire story down.
IF I had mod points, and IF there was a 6 for insightful, this'd win. This post takes an Insightful view on the impacts to change of this style of economy, from a broader societal view, not from a 'f-uber , or f-socialism, or f-taxis' perspective. Cool
So if I want to hide data, whatever that might be, say Hillary's email, or my actual financial books (vs the ones I show the IRS) , I can spin up a disk in another country and hide my data there? SWEET....
If this hadn't been an apple product - like say some TVs for schools - would this have warranted mention?
I don't track the changes in editors and who's now putting these up (dice, etc), but this article calls out for moderators being able to moderate the post-worthiness of the article. It'd be useful if those with mod points can mod-down the article so it doesn't appear unless you have your thresholds set to view meaningless filler posts.
How bout it, editors?
so I love the exploring attitude. This has parallels to early colonists to America. But my sense is
a) that the costs to get there , are , adjusted for inflation, way higher. b) the costs to live there are even higher: you can't grown corn there, or hunt deer (tho granted, no Indigenous Tribes) c) that a lot of the explorers, whilst marketing as 'for the crown' were doing it for profit.
So costs are way higher, comparatively, and, show me the money?
This is sooo easy to solve. Why don't you, who claim no issues with a quad copter, let someone else drop one on one of your family members that you care about. Around 8 years old - or 80- would be good.
No need for all this maths n stuff.
Let me know how that works out.
Linus - My observation is that folks who're blindingly successful have a degree of asshole-ness to them. Jobs, Gates, Musk, Torvalds. Probably the US founding fathers, and Einstein and Edison. All the right degree of 'f em, I know what needs to be done.'
Is that a correct assessment of you? do you have an external face, and one that is the more real you, or are you an asshole through and through?
I'm not slightly a DNA expert, so this is a question for those who may be. But doesn't the DNA in the seeds degrade ? Does storing them in a vault protect them from stuff that makes them degrade?
if not too expensive, the concept is interesting.
tho, with our nascent ability to inject DNA into another cel, wouldn't we be better off storing both the seed, and a copy of the dna for that seed, stored digitally (or carved in stone).
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That was the translation of the Dutch article. On a DRONE SITE. Surprised /. didn't go for the click bait title.
OK, I get it, and support, defending creations which are being actively marketed and or sold. This represents neither. Yuck.
full disclosure: I don't even ask for co-workers to fund my kids fund raisers, as that's an imposition on the workplace. 'Specially as I'm a manager. As the *employer* is making the ask, this isn't ethical. The bit about making this easy to do via your paycheck means that HR can, and likely does, see who contributes. The paycheck deduction makes this really, really 'wrong.' I'd actually be ~ok with the 'please consider contributing,' but not not part of the payroll process. Fuller disclosure : if I needed the job, I'd say f the mores and principles, and probably check the box and contribute. Enough to show support. While I quietly looked for other employment. --- off topic ish: that Disney's policies replace resident workers in the country where Disney makes its home, and reaps benefits unavailable to them in a lot of countries, is amoral. And understandable. As corporations are driven to maximize profits, and CEOs , to have risen to where they are, a lot of times become disconnected from feeling. I'm betting that the same guy who replaced workers didn't think once about asking the remaining employees to spend their $ on a PAC.
The optics on /. are insightful. If I'd had mod points, I'd have modded up parent as funny.
This is the problem : invention, in the software space consists of all three of a) a clever idea b) implemented and used by the market c) purchased by the market so it makes, or supports making profit (or an exit). It's really hard to know where a) is going to come from, hard to get b) to happen, and c) depends on so many factors unrelated to a) and b) sales, macro market issues. Especially as there's no formula for creating good ideas, unlike there are formulas for b) (e.g agile) and c) P&L, it's 'understandable' that business owners (Ms. Mayer) looks at the contributions of a), over time, and sees expense, and nothing brought to the company. I speak from experience, having mananaged a 'fully funded by DARPA' team which was part of a public company. Because DARPA set the 'academic ish' problem criteria, and few of a) were transferred, and the research group didn't make *profit* the research team was sold off. Funding labs takes both high level sponsorship at a company as well as a company that takes the long view, AND has revenue to support. You all know who those are. Many many decades ago, that was Bell Labs. Now it's Google etc. This cut is isn't unexpected, and I'm surprised it took Ms. Mayer this long.
Great idea. Truly. And, for 30 seconds, I thought it was. But then, I thought, who picks those two venues? The kick back of all kick backs ensues. As nice an idea it is, it'll never happen.
Musing if a simple micro switch on the mics (and cameras) of devices isn't the right, and perhaps legislative, way to go. Ditto gps.
If I did this. I really, really don't understand how she did this, pretended it didn't matter. I held a clearance and my expectation is that I'd be making plans for my family to live without me for a bunch of years.
this is just easily solved by requiring uber to deploy the equivalent of progressive snapshot. Phones are unreliable given they can be tossed about, etc. and, noting, per other threads, that what makes for aggressive driving in the burbs is 'required' to get around in say NYC. My biggest gripe about uber is that when I complain, it sure seems that their helpdesk says 'they'll have a word with the driver,' when in fact, it's the uber corporate that is at fault. An uber snapshot would help better inform them.
first, this wouldn't have been news if the 10 year old had ratted out his father for cooking meth. It was news because of the terrorist plus muslim terms being applied. all that said, whilst I agree that we are all becoming wimps, the risk adverse public folks (school, police) would rather be 'safe than sorry,' given that they'd be unemployable if they had info and didn't follow up. last, this does seem like a reprise of clock boy 2.0. Sniffs as far too convenient.
Excellent comment re your loved ones. As I don't have regular police contact, it never dawned upon me that, in those - granted extreme - cases' NO ONE 'deserves' access to that video.
Glad this was modded up. Slash-bias clearly leaking through. Just as msft==bad, Linux == good. Not slightly a defender of DHS.
I'm not slightly medically knowledgeable, but I'm wondering if this guy thought through that he could have infected the rest of us from stuff our bodies had no defenses? Like smallpox and the indigenous tribes in the Americas. I'm fine with him killing himself in the name of science (think Curie), but this strikes me as a little too cowboy.
what was most amazing about this story, is that it took a few folks - the right folks - to make this happen. It was just the right guys, right time type of thing. Had they just hung out (by the pool ? in Cleveland ? ) that weekend, it's likely this story wouldn't have been.
Excellent set of questions! I'm rarely troubled by horrors worldwide. This one scares me, as the shape of things to come. One answer, stating the obvious, is, that 'thinking' isn't in play here.
Mod parent up! And mod entire story down. This is so much a Trend researcher making an MBO or cash payout for blogging, with some marketing person checking that the wording is correct, but having no context to know if the content is blog-worthy. I still think that moderators, en-masse, ought to be able to mod an entire story down.
IF I had mod points, and IF there was a 6 for insightful, this'd win. This post takes an Insightful view on the impacts to change of this style of economy, from a broader societal view, not from a 'f-uber , or f-socialism, or f-taxis' perspective. Cool
So if I want to hide data, whatever that might be, say Hillary's email, or my actual financial books (vs the ones I show the IRS) , I can spin up a disk in another country and hide my data there? SWEET....
If this hadn't been an apple product - like say some TVs for schools - would this have warranted mention? I don't track the changes in editors and who's now putting these up (dice, etc), but this article calls out for moderators being able to moderate the post-worthiness of the article. It'd be useful if those with mod points can mod-down the article so it doesn't appear unless you have your thresholds set to view meaningless filler posts. How bout it, editors?
Why is this news?
Why not point it a little closer to home? If it can detect a planet light years away, seems it could detect much smaller, but closer asteroids?
so I love the exploring attitude. This has parallels to early colonists to America. But my sense is a) that the costs to get there , are , adjusted for inflation, way higher. b) the costs to live there are even higher: you can't grown corn there, or hunt deer (tho granted, no Indigenous Tribes) c) that a lot of the explorers, whilst marketing as 'for the crown' were doing it for profit. So costs are way higher, comparatively, and, show me the money?
This is sooo easy to solve. Why don't you, who claim no issues with a quad copter, let someone else drop one on one of your family members that you care about. Around 8 years old - or 80- would be good. No need for all this maths n stuff. Let me know how that works out.
Linus - My observation is that folks who're blindingly successful have a degree of asshole-ness to them. Jobs, Gates, Musk, Torvalds. Probably the US founding fathers, and Einstein and Edison. All the right degree of 'f em, I know what needs to be done.' Is that a correct assessment of you? do you have an external face, and one that is the more real you, or are you an asshole through and through?
I'm not slightly a DNA expert, so this is a question for those who may be. But doesn't the DNA in the seeds degrade ? Does storing them in a vault protect them from stuff that makes them degrade? if not too expensive, the concept is interesting. tho, with our nascent ability to inject DNA into another cel, wouldn't we be better off storing both the seed, and a copy of the dna for that seed, stored digitally (or carved in stone).