They do have well designed clean bathrooms and buying a couple
of cups of coffee you can work all day on a laptop. Much cheaper than an office without commitment although many distractions.
Is it me or does Starbucks coffee taste burnt? I prefer 711 on taste every time. They need to fix that
Which Starbucks have you been to? All the ones I go to have gross bathrooms topped with whatever heavy chemical smell they use to etch the sins off the bathroom floor with.
I totally hear you on the taste, it comes off as smoky to me. The blond roast espresso is more mild on that.
If you stop tipping they'll spit in your food or rate you down on Uber. Once I didn't tip at a semi upscale restaurant and the waiter followed our group down the street and asked me why not quite upset. I explained the food took three hours to be served and was terrible but he already knew that, the point was embarrassment.
You have to tip. It's not really a request. That said, a custom gifting a few dollars to those working brutal menial jobs isn't such a tragedy. What we need is a mechanism where servers can be tipped directly bypassing management. Could be just a QR code badge linked to stripe fast checkout.
I imagine a waiter living off Costco hotdogs and soda standing eight hours a day holding a jug of ice water and a game face with the heat of the kitchen to his back wondering if he can make both rent and the car payments. Watching groups of businessmen and beautiful women eat $300 meals leaving half of the food uneaten. It's emasculating, cruel. There needs to be something like the tipping custom. That kind if experience can build real resentment
If you have to tip, it's not a tip anymore.
As a european I never understood tip system. The restaurant is already paying the waiver, isn't it? If not, the problem lays there, not on the tips. I'm not tipped when I do a good job at maintaining a IT system providing few dozens millions € of revenues, it's my job and I'm paid for that.
Basically, the issue of wages is not my problem, so this whole discussion becomes absurd. Do I want to leave compensation for the worker? Does he deserve an extra out of my pocket? Did he do something for me that exceeds his job functions and I can appreciate? If he brings me a plate of food for which I'm going to be charged, it is unlikely to fall under these conditions.
It doesn't matter, Windows is insufferable. Like a giant advertisement pretending to be an operating system. They need to start again from scratch or just simply give up and ship Ubuntu
Windows, since 7, appears to suffer from a "law of conservation of awesomeness": any improvement in one area must be counterbalanced with at least a commensurate drawback in some other area.
"Vinod Khosla shared a story about his persistence in closing a deal with a competitor company called Computervision. He flew overnight to meet the CEO, waited in the lobby all day, and eventually convinced the CEO to negotiate with him the next day in Chicago[1]. By 5 AM the following morning, Khosla had secured a handwritten contract after refusing to let the CEO leave until an agreement was reached[1]."
feeble-minded indeed. what are they criminalizing beach pebbles for?
lot of that in the UK. I wonder if the cause is cultural, genetic or environmental. They just don't seem to be playing with a full deck over there. One non sequitur after the next. I would suggest widespread brain damage from covid, but this has been going on for decades. There's something seriously wrong in the common reasoning and logic.
Article mentions people were raiding beaches for free building materials like sand and stone for concrete, which would be a problem at a large volume. Enforcing the same rules on individual souvenir collectors seems excessive.
Excessive, but potentially necessary, since otherwise you need to draw an arbitrary line between an amount being taken away that is still acceptavle and one that is not, and how many times that can happen in what period of time and so on. From that point of view it can make sense to simply categorically forbid people to take things away from the beach.
Laws are full of arbitrary drawn lines, it is hard to avoid them. If you don’t have an arbitrary line in the law then there will be arbitrary/selective enforcement which can be even worse.
So is this paid for or not? The author seems to be struggling to say he got a free unit, worth money, meaning paid.
"few weeks after I posted my review of the K7 Max, Keychron reached out to ask if I wanted to try out the K11 Max, a compact Alice layout keyboard–and I ended up saying yes."
try out...
"Note: Keychron sent me an early review unit of the Keychron K11 Max and a travel pouch, and this piece follows my review policy"
sent me... there's a policy...
"I don’t do paid reviews (i.e., no money changes hands, there is no sponsorship, etc.)."
but...
"Keychron K11 Max
Supplied by Keychron"
supplied?
So I have to conclude he was bribed with a free unit that he didn't return. So this is an ad not a review.
First job for all day AR glasses is to kill off this nonsense. Superimpose the rounded up price and blur the advertising out. Also add the markup so the customer knows that $2 Arizona iced tea was bought for 35c.
That's not just a flippant reply. The fundamental purpose of invention in our society is no longer about benefitting our lives.
If they invented consumer travel to Mars tomorrow I'd have no interest. In 2024 it would be stupid to believe the customer experience would take the form of anything better than the Star Wars hotel.
This is bizarre. Someone hands you a contract as you're leaving a company and if you refuse to agree to whatever they dreamt up and sign the company takes back the equity you earned? That can't be legal
Hard to evaluate this without access to the documents. But in CA, agreements cannot be conditioned on the payment of previously earned wages.
Equity adds a wrinkle here, but I suspect if the effect of canceling equity is to cause a forfeiture of earned wages, then ultimately whatever contract is signed under that threat is void.
The argument would be that it's coercive. And it might be, and they might be sued over it and lose. Basically the incentives all run strongly in OpenAI's favor. They're not a public company, vested options aren't stock and can't be liquidated except with "permission", which means that an exiting employee is probably not going to take the risk and will just sign the contract.
Doesn't even have to be a surprise. Pretty much startup employment agreement in existence gives the company ("at the board's sole discretion") the right to repurchase your shares upon termination of employment. OpenAI's PPUs are worth $0 until they become profitable. Guess which right they'll choose to exercise if you don't sign the NDA?
You are thinking of going up against an entity worth billions of dollars and somehow winning? That doesn't happen outside of movies. You'll accept whatever they decide, or end up like those Boeing whistleblowers if you make yourself enough of a nuisance.
One particularly sus term in my employment agreement is that I adhere to all corporate policies. Guess how many of those there are, how often they're updated, and if I've ever read them!
The solution to this is simple; erase your devices before you cross an international border and carry no data storage. If the reset device was taken from you then it's been bugged go buy a replacement. Otherwise just log back in to the cloud on the other side.
Depends on the device. When they take it out of sight they'll plug it into an automated unit that just hoovers up the data and sends it to intel. They want to build a detailed profile on every traveller. Now if you wipe the device and are logged out of your accounts, they're stuck. So they leave a rootkit that relays the login info when you type it in at home later.
If they take your device out of sight or plug it into any of their hardware, then it's a write off. Straight to Craigslist
Is it me or does Starbucks coffee taste burnt? I prefer 711 on taste every time. They need to fix that
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