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ianmobbs··on Baremetrics required a phone call to cancel
Any response to the comments pointing out this is illegal in CA? Isn’t the Baremetrics office in SF?
ianmobbs··on Tech elites leaving San Francisco threaten Silicon Valley's supremacy
Are you really saying that it's harder to be a techie than LGBT in San Francisco?
ianmobbs··on Justice Dept files suit against Facebook for discriminating against U.S. workers
> The complaint also alleges that Facebook sought to channel jobs to temporary visa holders at the expense of U.S. workers by failing to advertise those vacancies on its careers website, requiring applicants to apply by physical mail only, and refusing to consider any U.S. workers who applied for those positions. In contrast, Facebook’s usual hiring process relies on recruitment methods designed to encourage applications by advertising positions on its careers website, accepting electronic applications, and not pre-selecting candidates to be hired based on a candidate’s immigration status, according to the lawsuit. > > In its investigation, the department determined that Facebook’s ineffective recruitment methods dissuaded U.S. workers from applying to its PERM positions. The department concluded that, during the relevant period, Facebook received zero or one U.S. worker applicants for 99.7 percent of its PERM positions, while comparable positions at Facebook that were advertised on its careers website during a similar time period typically attracted 100 or more applicants each. These U.S. workers were denied an opportunity to be considered for the jobs Facebook sought to channel to temporary visa holders, according to the lawsuit.

Facebook was not actively working to remove those un-equal terms. They set up a separate, physical-mail only pipeline for these candidates, and denied any US Citizens who applied using the obscure pipeline.

ianmobbs··on Amazon EC2 Mac Instances
This could be huge for the ecosystem. For example, there are ways to use third-party iMessage clients (e.g. through Matrix) that require you to keep a server running on your local macOS machine signed in to your AppleID - this could let developers create hosted versions of those services
ianmobbs··on Wage Theft Is a Much Bigger Problem Than Other Forms of Theft (2014)
"Employee slacking" is not illegal, but wage theft is.
ianmobbs··on Librem 5 Mass Production Phone Has Begun Shipping
Ah missed that, thanks
ianmobbs··on Librem 5 Mass Production Phone Has Begun Shipping
I've been following Purism for a month or so, and I love the idea of the Librem 5, but is the phone really going to be worth $2,000?
ianmobbs··on My daughter was a creative genius, and then we bought her an iPhone
I actually noticed this the other day. I set a 10 minute time limit on Instagram, and while I'll get the "5 minutes left" reminder, it won't kick me out of the app the way it does for other apps. Running iOS 14.2.
ianmobbs··on Fleets: A new way to join the conversation
You get the experience you curate for self. If the people you followed were toxic, it’s not Twitter’s fault you didn’t unfollow them!
ianmobbs··on macOS unable to open any non-Apple application
We had 70 engineers at in a Slack channel work trying to figure out the issue before someone found a Twitter thread about it
ianmobbs··on Times Change: Inside the New York Times’ Heated Reckoning With Itself
Did you read the article? The Times now employs more people than it ever has and is doing better financially than ever.
ianmobbs··on I sold Baremetrics
If you read the actual lines, he said he's moving away from software and into the arts
ianmobbs··on Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% protection
Contact tracing should not be the the responsibility of the individual, it should be the responsibility of the government (with cooperation of the individual of course). This is how Asian countries have succeeded at it. The US isn't even trying yet - I still don't think I can even get a rapid test where I live.
ianmobbs··on Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S.
Exactly this - but this is why conservatives routinely defund education.
ianmobbs··on Stripe Climate
An energy investor who doesn't support the GND? What a surprise
ianmobbs··on Evolving Reddit’s Workforce
> Our US compensation will be tied to pay ranges of high-cost areas such as SF and NY, regardless of where employees live

This is exactly how it should be, kudos to Reddit. Major tech companies taking advantage of employees relocating to lower-CoL areas completely ignores that the value they bring to the company doesn't change at all.

ianmobbs··on Hacked billboards make Teslas see phantom objects causing them to swerve or stop
> Still I wonder if it has failure modes that humans lack

Almost certainly :)

ianmobbs··on Hacked billboards make Teslas see phantom objects causing them to swerve or stop
LIDAR maps out the world around you in three dimensions, so with that data, there's no way it would mistake "a 'Stop' sign hidden within a fast food commercial [...] only flashing on-screen for a fraction of a second" (article) for an actual stop sign
ianmobbs··on A toxic, nightmarish lake created by our thirst for tech
Through legislation. Market forces don’t care about the environment, just profitability. That’s where the government is supposed to come in...
ianmobbs··on Silicon Valley pay cuts ignite tech-industry Covid-19 tensions
Most folks expenses aren't dropping by 20%. I've been remote since March, but my rent/life/expenses (key) hasn't changed. If anything, I'm paying more now for utilities and food since I'm home all the time.
ianmobbs··on iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro
We'll see! There are so many problems with wireless charging that I don't see it becoming truly mainstream. Not being able to use your phone while charging is the most visible one (maybe 15W via magsafe will make it fast enough it doesn't matter). I also have trust issues with wireless charging in general - I got a free wireless charger from TripleByte once that overheated my phone and only got it to 60%. I'm still hoping for USB-C
ianmobbs··on iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro
MagSafe is really cool, but I'm incredibly disappointed they're sticking with lightning...
ianmobbs··on Don’t pay for 95% (2016)
> But there are higher priorities than those, like growing better humans.

I grew up in a suburban bordering on semi-rural area, and while I do think living in a rural region certainly has it's benefits (like the ones you describe), implying it by default "grows better humans" than those living in an urban area is ridiculous.

ianmobbs··on Ask HN: Do you get addicted to your HN votes like normal people do to Instagram?
What are "normal people" are addicted to on Instagram, likes? I only follow people I consider actual friends and I can't think of any people I follow that would be like that, but maybe that just has to do with who I hang out with?
ianmobbs··on Report may suggest that login requirement for Oculus Quest 2 is anticompetitive
To an extent, yes https://www.reddit.com/r/xboxinsiders/comments/cj5b0a/what_h...
ianmobbs··on Recycling was a lie to sell more plastic, recycling industry veteran says
> There is no incentive to reuse plastic when it's less expensive to use virgin material.

I mean, the environment should be reason enough, but manufacturers don’t care about that

ianmobbs··on An earlier universe can still be observed today, says Roger Penrose
A couple of theories regarding the ultimate fate of our universe are the Big Crunch (everything comes together) or the Big Freeze (everything drifts apart, forever). I agree that it's not hard to imagine that if a Big Crunch happened it could potentially create another Big Bang. That said, there's still no way to necessarily prove that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_fate_of_the_universe#...

ianmobbs··on Trump administration announces overhaul of H1B visa program requiring higher pay
Why do you care whether or not it's cost effective to hire a foreign UI tester? That has zero correlation with whether or not its cost effective to hire someone with experience at CERN. Your hypothetical lists 2 different profiles that would be hired for vastly different jobs, and it seems like you only care that one of them is fucked over - is it just a strawman for racism? Can you point to any actual examples of CERN interns being passed over in favor of foreign UI testers?
ianmobbs··on Trump administration announces overhaul of H1B visa program requiring higher pay
The changes described in the article do not change your hypothetical whatsoever.
ianmobbs··on DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest Is Hurting Open Source
Or requiring that open PRs must have +N lines in non-text/markdown/config/dependency files
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