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>perhaps a brief outburst, sure

so you can imagine it... because it happens

This isn't unusual stuff for a 5 year old...

You essentially work a half day. Burying the lede here a bit.

That's a scary prospect considering all the studies and news articles that say that putting your kids in school as early as 4 can result in life-long benefits.

It's hard to be a parent these days, you feel like nothing you do is ever "right".

Some places are sending 3-4 year olds to all day pre-k now too. We're working too much and public schools have become free day care systems.

It's not a mistake, and it isn't severe. You're talking about exceptions to the law, not the law itself. The law is exercised thousands of times a day and wrongful termination lawsuits account for single-digit percentages.

As the plaintiff in such a case you need to be able to provide evidence that it's "reasonable to believe" that you were fired because of whatever protected class you fall into.

It can be difficult to do, especially if you're blindsided and escorted out of the building and cut off from any sort of evidence (tip: if you think you could be fired because of who you are, start keeping receipts before you're fired).

Previous to winning my own discrimination case, I was a juror in a case where an employer almost got away with blatantly discriminatory firing. They thought they were being sly by sacrificing another non-protected employee at the same time... but then bragged about it to an employee they didn't realize would rat them out. If it wasn't for that email there wouldn't have been enough evidence to know for sure.

That aside, if you're not a protected class (the majority of people aren't)... good luck. You can be fired without cause at any given moment.

I do not look forward to the time where something akin to Google Maps starts to approach real-time (yeah I realize the government can more or less do this, but I'm happy with being obscure enough to not catch their gaze)

I was starting to look into VR and I guess this crosses Oculus off the list. I don't intend to ever have a Facebook account.

They don't need an excuse to fire anyone, the majority of the US is at-will employment, which means your employer can fire you without cause.

EDIT: What's with the downvotes? it's true.

Right but Purdue was behind the push for doctors to do that.

If there's evidence of doctors pushing oxy for kickbacks or something like that then I absolutely think they should be punished. It's worth investigating what the procedures/dosing/etc was and the extent of the wrongdoing.

The Sackler family should be completely liquidated. They acted with complete disregard and caused an unbelievable amount of pain. To think, there are people in prison for marijuana charges and these people still walk free. It's an absurd injustice.

He's not nearly the first one to make this claim, so I'm not sure why it's even notable... "billionaire believes an oft-feared problem"

When you put it that way it sounds really sad.

You're cherry picking examples to suit your narrative.

For every person working at a FAANG you can probably find 1,000 working in a place with the same shitty working conditions most people are subjected to.

As a counter example cops can make $200k a year doing detail work (standing around) and retire with a pension after 20 years. There are similar situations (with lesser pay) for a lot of city and state level civil service.

There are shit jobs that will wear you down in every field. They're the jobs most people are working.

What you're describing is often done in trade high schools. Freshman will rotate through trades and pick one to continue on.

Once you need a career it doesn't really work like that though, often you're working years as an apprentice in a specified trade before you can even think about branching out on your own.

If you switch trades you're back at the bottom with apprenticeships all over again.

Someone like an English major can much easily change careers as long as they're somewhat adjacent (e.g., copywriting, research, journalism, etc) and generally starts off at a higher salary depending on their degree level. Until you hit masters level most degrees are broad generalized education.

Trades are specializations. If you're unsure about which trade you want to get into, you'd likely be better served with a business degree (which is another generalized area of study)... at least that can be applied across trades. Many tradespeople struggle with the business side of things despite being very practiced at their trade.

I think you're underestimating the number of people that live in places where cell companies don't want to be arsed to build a tower.

While it's a terrible situation, it is endearing to see people think on their feet during the pandemic. It would be nice to see some of these methods spread and stick around.

It's nothing personal but I loathe negotiating and dealing with car salesmen in the traditional process. I want people to get paid fairly without feeling like I'm being taken advantage of.

HTML and CSS have been evolving for over two decades (now maybe faster than ever) and have been battle tested by nearly 2 billion websites.

It seems crazy to me to think that we should throw it all out and do something new. I suspect contributing to the improvement of the existing spec is a much more pragmatic endeavor.

There are already alternative app stores on Android (perhaps most notably, Amazon) and that hasn't impacted their 30%... so what exactly are you expecting?

There's a lot of research on the negative impacts of loot box systems and children and I think it's a worthy topic to mention when Epic tries to take the moral high ground of David fighting Goliath.

This happens often without direct collusion. You see it commonly in retail. Not sure anyone can outlaw unspoken pricing standoffs like this.

Apple's the richest company in the world.

They certainly have a lot to lose if they back down, and a court battle's outcome is uncertain.

What is also certain is that Apple has enough cash sloshing around to out-lawyer and outlast anyone on the planet. They very clearly do not have a monopoly, and the charges of anti-competitiveness are a bit flimsy. Seems like a worthwhile risk to take.

Yeah 40% ownership. I was wondering how that would suss out with the Trump admin Tencent ban that will supposedly come down in a month and a half.

Our response to the virus as adults is so beyond the pale that it's crazy we're even talking about sending kids to school. Many places in the country have higher infection rates than when they were locked down and the current "plan" is to just live with it. Schools that have already opened have resulted in hundreds of kids quarantined as early as the first day.

Over 1,000 people have been dying a day has become the norm. New Zealand just partially shut down again because 4 people became infected.

Talking about successful school openings in other countries is as relevant as talking about magical unicorns at this point.