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CheezeIt

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CheezeIt··on Amtrak might add more routes, but they won't be faster than a car
We happily have planes and buses, which are usually superior to passenger trains. Removing the TSA would create more total value in infrastructure than adding more trains, even though some trains are worth it.
CheezeIt··on An Epidemic of Wage Theft Is Costing Workers Hundreds of Millions a Year (2014)
I didn’t say “no rest breaks” would be in a written contract. The first three or four jobs I had, there was no written contract.

Illegal aliens somehow manage to have agreements with people paying them money. Lawmakers disagreeing with your terms of employment doesn’t have any bearing on the meaning of “theft”.

The fact that you’re coming up with such convoluted legalistic reasoning shows what a lie it is.

CheezeIt··on An Epidemic of Wage Theft Is Costing Workers Hundreds of Millions a Year (2014)
You’re relying to an imaginary version of my comment.
CheezeIt··on An Epidemic of Wage Theft Is Costing Workers Hundreds of Millions a Year (2014)
If this is over the normal course of business and spread out over years, as it would be for workers not getting paid a few minutes preparing their workstation before their shift, or not having rest breaks, then it’s an implied (or explicit!) part of the employment contract and not actually any sort of scam. Assigning the word “theft” is dishonest.
CheezeIt··on Feds probe NY Tesla crash that killed man changing flat tire
Tens of thousands of people die in car accidents per year, nationally, so a few dozen fatalities in exchange for faster self driving progress sounds like a good bargain.
CheezeIt··on Reddit bans anti-vaccine subreddit r/NoNewNormal after site-wide protest
But Hacker News doesn’t have healthy moderation. The mods let flagging run rampant.
CheezeIt··on Reddit bans anti-vaccine subreddit r/NoNewNormal after site-wide protest
Opposing a mandate doesn’t need science.
CheezeIt··on Perfect pitch study: Why can’t we identify music notes as well as colors?
Huh, I just tested out tThe Simpsons and yeah, I got the key dead on.
CheezeIt··on Main sci-hub.do domain was banned
The subject doesn’t come up much.
CheezeIt··on Police in the US shoot dogs so often, an expert calls it an “epidemic” (2016)
I’m pretty sure they have the job for the salary.
CheezeIt··on I believe California is the dumping ground for America's homeless problem
Unlike other states, California property tax rates don’t increase with market value.
CheezeIt··on Google Plans to Cut Remote Workers’ Salaries by 25%
Well, they aren’t, they just think you won’t get a better offer. The operative word in Bay Area Salaries was “Bay Area.”
CheezeIt··on Genius Checklist
Working class and middle class kids don’t go around being stressed out by their parents’ finances, you can tell by living with them.

If it were really about stress you’d see a difference in kids who have a parent working in the public sector.

CheezeIt··on Court rules California's Prop. 22 on Uber, Lyft drivers unconstitutional
You can think both. Californians did vote for the high speed rail.
CheezeIt··on Who gets to define what’s ‘racist?’ (2020)
What the hell is D&I performance?
CheezeIt··on The mutation that helps Delta spread
It’s already well outside the top causes of death among the vaccinated.
CheezeIt··on The art of caddying: What makes a good golfing companion?
Caddies aren’t smarter, they just have more detachment in a high pressure situation, and reduce some of the player’s preparatory burden.
CheezeIt··on ImageNet contains naturally occurring Apple NeuralHash collisions
> The only way this matters though is if apple turns it on for all pictures,

And there’s no way the CCP would order Apple to do that.

CheezeIt··on OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October
This was targeted illegally by the administration under Operation Choke Point, and I would hazard to guess something similar is happening again now.
CheezeIt··on Palantir bought $50M in gold bars in August as cash pile grows
They’ve done the exact opposite of what you’re saying. They raised money, and now they’re holding on to it.
CheezeIt··on Only 28 Percent of Young Black New Yorkers Are Vaccinated
But that risk assessment is right. Why would a black guy worry about COVID, some 1/10000 risk? They face a higher chance of getting arrested for a crime they didn’t commit, a higher chance of getting murdered, and a much higher chance of getting laid.
CheezeIt··on Only 28 Percent of Young Black New Yorkers Are Vaccinated
But they’re young, so their risk is minimal, and if everybody’s going to get exposed to the virus anyway (that’s what they’re saying now), you aren’t protecting anybody.
CheezeIt··on Only 28 Percent of Young Black New Yorkers Are Vaccinated
I mean, give them one reason why they should be.
CheezeIt··on Reddit raises $410M in new funding
My instinct is that Reddit as an organization and as a set of employees are B players, and for that reason a place like Facebook would not want to acquire them. We’ve seen Reddit “execute” a new site design, we see people complaining about being unable to buy ads, and we’ve seen the board’s competence level in finding CEO’s. For the acquisition to break even, you would have to burn down the organization you just acquired, and fix it with your own people. It’s like a bar of gold wrapped in poop. Do you really want to clean off the poop? It might be fool’s gold.
CheezeIt··on Contract by Email
Hypothetically, it could be that some law was worded “in writing or verbally, or via telegram” and it didn’t include other forms of communication.

There is in fact a U.S. law that defines “writing” in some parts of the law to encompass electronic communication in some manner as well. So some federal laws that required certain kinds of agreement to be in “writing”, like, IIRC, exclusive copyright licensing, now permit electronic communication.

CheezeIt··on Mathematicians are deploying algorithms to stop gerrymandering
Democrats will want the algorithm that helps them, GOP will want the algorithm that helps them. That doesn’t mean states won’t eventually settle on an algorithmic solution.

We’ve been through this before, with competing congressional apportionment algorithms.

CheezeIt··on Ask HN: How to find a woman technical co-founder?
There are also minimum employee sizes before racial discrimination law kicks in, I think 15, or 5 if you’re in California, but that is from rapid googling.
CheezeIt··on Ask HN: How to find a woman technical co-founder?
Not when searching for a business partner.
CheezeIt··on FEC Asks Congress to Ban Prechecked Recurring Donation Boxes
No, it’s because commercial speech is less protected by the 1st amendment than other kinds.
CheezeIt··on The Economics of OnlyFans: Most accounts make less than $145/mo
I’m eating at a Panda Express right now. They have a big sign up offering $15.6/hr for their lowest level hire, with other positions open, too.
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