sandino

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by sandino 7y ago
I'm sorry who is this person and what authority do they have? His "homepage" is a raw directory dump with a high-contrast black background (the preferred color scheme of 10x engineers). Isn't that enough authority for
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by sandino 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
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Revealed: Amazon touts high wages while ignoring issues in its warehouses(theguardian.com)
1 points by sandino 7y ago|0 comments
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Is Amazon taking revenge on the Seattle socialist who took on the retail giant?(theguardian.com)
8 points by sandino 7y ago|1 comments
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by sandino 7y ago
No one is saying that Google is engaging in "systematic" harassment here. But it may very well be that they are willfully (or simply incompetently) turning a blind eye in this one particular case.
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by sandino 7y ago
It really won't take that long to freshen up your your white board skills so that [pass that next round of whiteboard hazing] Actually it does (and that's part of the whole point of the massive burnout crisis caused by these tes
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by sandino 7y ago
They should have a fine and be required to fully restore the land they destroyed. No, they shouldn't simply be fined and required to restore the land. In addition to all of this -- they should be put in jail . That's the only w
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by sandino 7y ago
The only support I received as the victim of my manager’s abuse was encouragement to take advantage of medical leave. This statement is quite telling: first HR goes to lengths to deny that there's any seriously wrong. Then they pret
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by sandino 7y ago
"Too academic... during the phone screening he kept going on about non-euclidean geometries and eigenvectors and stuff. His C++ skills look pretty good, but we need someone with strong skills in Oracle, Visual Basic and ClearCase ...
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by sandino 7y ago
All of section (6) smacks of ... some kind of attitude problem. Yes, the system if frequently broken (but more often slow and stilted) but still -- the moment you start intentionally playing head games with people -- it's like, why
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by sandino 7y ago
Who also has nothing of value to say about AI, for chrissakes.
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Fatou Seidi Ghali – The First Female Tuareg Guitarist(theguardian.com)
1 points by sandino 7y ago|0 comments
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by sandino 7y ago
Okay, so human beings would be negatively impacted (to some degree). But how would you assess impact on the climate crisis (per se)?
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Edward Snowden memoir to reveal whistleblower’s secrets(theguardian.com)
22 points by sandino 7y ago|0 comments
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Just 10% of fossil fuel subsidy cash 'could pay for green transition'(theguardian.com)
47 points by sandino 7y ago|23 comments
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Superyachts and bad art: how Mykonos became the party island of the super-rich(theguardian.com)
3 points by sandino 7y ago|0 comments
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by sandino 7y ago
So are "driving without seat belts", "buying a house in a flood plane without insurance", "smoking tobacco". All 3 have been curbed quite dramatically with a combination of regulation, graduated penalties and e
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Amazon deforestation accelerating to unrecoverable 'tipping point'(theguardian.com)
131 points by sandino 7y ago|63 comments
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by sandino 7y ago
"Because they make you think about the music. And when you're thinking about the music, you aren't hearing it" -- Alan Watts, more or less
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by sandino 7y ago
Rather than simply having "shrunk" these brains -- according to at least on other summary article, the team's findings were rather less conclusive: But the medical team that performed the scans said the findings were not con
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by sandino 7y ago
So "somewhat positive" = "negative" actually"? That's what I was getting at - apparently it's negativity-driven, all the way down.
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ML has been used to automatically translate long-lost languages(technologyreview.com)
2 points by sandino 7y ago|0 comments
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by sandino 7y ago
This isn’t everyone or even a majority, but it’s quite a few. In other words: not only is there no hard data behind this view; there isn't any (from a gut perspective) that much of a correlation -- but it's a strong opinion, str
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by sandino 7y ago
Truly, and I say that quite seriously, this is one of the great civil rights issues of our time. Can we do something about it? Boycott companies (and there are many) that apparently profit from all of this misery and exploitation? In add
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by sandino 7y ago
I know the rationale. Then again if it's just one 1 person out of 6 (including 3 other persons who gave "very positive" reviews) then maybe that one person is just being ... negative. As the modern interviewing culture (not
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by sandino 7y ago
The recruiter told me I had 3 really positive reviews and 2 somewhat positive and 1 negative review. And apparently at Google - the negatives carry the day.
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by sandino 7y ago
Another way of looking at the issue is - we can also make a lot of progress if we set certain standards for those companies that are clearly able to pay more.
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by sandino 7y ago
So what you're saying basically is -- because (some of) the restaurant industry pays even worse than tech -- That the tech industry's pay levels are, ergo, no problem at all?
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Google pays $11M to job-seekers who alleged age discrimination(theguardian.com)
172 points by sandino 7y ago|172 comments
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'It's a crisis': Facebook kitchen staff work multiple jobs to get by(theguardian.com)
54 points by sandino 7y ago|95 comments

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