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WA has comparatively good employment insurance where I got $600 a week for up to six months while I looked for another job, which at the time was about 40% of my salary. For "fun" I looked it up in other countries and wanted to weep when I found out that Sweden's was like 90% of your salary for one year and 75% for another year after that or some poo poo
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learnincurve posted:Yup. You can tell it’s a long lens from the way the Bokeh has melted in the background + a shallow depth of field. Looks far more like a 50-80mm, which is what I would bring to an indoor press conference. And again..he would have to have been two blocks away for a press conference to use a 400mm.
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Feels Villeneuve posted:I think Obama boosted the cut-off to where you had to get mandatory time-and-a-half OT to something like anyone making below $40,000 a year, but Trump/the Repbulicans are moving to revoke this rule and get it back to IIRC about $25,000 a year. It was up to I think 48k or thereabouts. The thing is, and this is insanely common in the retail/food industries is to make people managers, pay them just above the line for making OT on salary, and then require them to pick up any shifts that would otherwise put the hourly employees on OT. A judge reversed the EO, and it's back to ~25k.
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There are basically no standards for classifying someone as a "professional". Actually the new hotness is classifying all your employees as independent contractors so you don't have to pay payroll taxes or give benefits.
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Feels Villeneuve posted:There are basically no standards for classifying someone as a "professional". Actually the new hotness is classifying all your employees as independent contractors so you don't have to pay payroll taxes or give benefits. When I taught piano they did this and it just meant everyone but me got hosed at audit for not remitting tax.
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Feels Villeneuve posted:There are basically no standards for classifying someone as a "professional". Actually the new hotness is classifying all your employees as independent contractors so you don't have to pay payroll taxes or give benefits. A lot of people (myself included) are saying that this is the sole purpose Uber exists: to convince the government (namely the courts) that this is kosher.
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Norns posted:And shut up before you even tell me to sleep DoctorGonzo Nice meltdown
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iospace posted:A lot of people (myself included) are saying that this is the sole purpose Uber exists: to convince the government (namely the courts) that this is kosher. This is why I call bullshit on the whole "Automation is going to take away jobs" poo poo. What's really happening is people gladly support these companies that entire business model is "If we erode the poo poo out of employment standards and rights we can undercut the competition while taking a huge profit." So suddenly there's less full time positions in the economy.
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1500quidporsche posted:This is why I call bullshit on the whole "Automation is going to take away jobs" poo poo. What's really happening is people gladly support these companies that entire business model is "If we erode the poo poo out of employment standards and rights we can undercut the competition while taking a huge profit." So suddenly there's less full time positions in the economy. the funny part is that they don't make a huge profit at all and are in fact losing shitloads of money The thing about why taxi firms were grubby, low-rent scammy companies before Uber came along is because there actually isn't a lot of money in running taxi cabs in the US. Which Uber is discovering to their sorrow.
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Feels Villeneuve posted:the funny part is that they don't make a huge profit at all and are in fact losing shitloads of money To be fair they're still in the "drive competition out of the market" phase. If they do put taxi firms out of business the idiots that say how convenient and cheap it is will suddenly be paying out the rear end for the exact same service.
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If this was 50 years ago and Uber accomplished that regulators would just say they're too big and break them up. Lol at that happening now though.
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I know London proceeded to boot Uber because of its hiring practices, which ultimately may be its downfall if anything.
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Uber can't drive competition out of the market because Lyft is doing the exact same thing, taxis are migrating to the same kind of platform, and there are countless regional ridesharing apps. Their goal now is to develop self driving cars first so that they can eliminate labor costs and undercut the competition that way, but they're not even particularly mature in that field. They are totally hosed.
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Transit in the US is not a profit-making venture except for very edge cases. VCs are incredibly stupid.
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They'll still go public relatively soon and the VCs will be able to cash out with a pretty good return, at least the ones that got in relatively early.
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Disrupting the market is literally just garbage lingo for undercutting and invading markets till you can automate everything. The future sucks
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Feels Villeneuve posted:VCs are incredibly stupid. I've got a loving business degree and harboured no aspirations to start and own a business but between that dumb juicer poo poo this year and learning last week that the owner of a decently sized oilfield services company has a loving criminology degree I'm starting to warm to the idea.
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You could always make the next Star Citizen. (tangential: the SC forum is now a general "Crowdfunding" forum)
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Norns posted:Disrupting the market is literally just garbage lingo for undercutting and invading markets till you can automate everything. The future sucks I was going to type up this big thing about how the future wouldn't suck if we put more value into corporate social responsibility and consumer rights over being able to easily order Chinese food through some stupid app but instead I'll just say there is a fairly large correlation between the issues we as a society face and the fact that Wicka is absolutely hated in the apple thread.
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iospace posted:You could always make the next Star Citizen. Is it out yet?
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1500quidporsche posted:I was going to type up this big thing about how the future wouldn't suck if we put more value into corporate social responsibility and consumer rights over being able to easily order Chinese food through some stupid app but instead I'll just say there is a fairly large correlation between the issues we as a society face and the fact that Wicka is absolutely hated in the apple thread. At least one of those things is entirely my fault.
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Schlesische posted:
Going back to this, but broadly speaking yes. It's less true now with modern electronic aids but yeah. The Duc for a long time had brutal power and a carbon fiber chassis with the engine as a stressed member which made it unruly as gently caress to ride, which Rossi discovered to his chagrin. I think it was during Rossi's tenure they went to an aluminium twin spar chassis and the electronics caught up a bit, but it's still widely regarded as a brute compared to the Japanese bikes. The tyre changes seem to have helped a bit too.
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Weirdly enough Nicky Hayden ended up getting around as much out of the Ducati as Rossi did.
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I always found it a little bizarre that Rossi struggled with the Ducati's power delivery. Dude won a 500cc championship, those things looks absolutely brutal when you watch them.
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By the end of the 500cc run they had figured out engine timing which made them much easier to handle iirc.
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1500quidporsche posted:I always found it a little bizarre that Rossi struggled with the Ducati's power delivery. Dude won a 500cc championship, those things looks absolutely brutal when you watch them. Ducati is garbage and is clearly one of those bikes that is only really good when someone who has a specific set of skills that can fall into the eye of the needle riding style niche to make it work. Rossi is a living deity but the Ducati clearly only favours the super niche riders. Also Rossi's Dayglo branding didn't really work with Red at all.
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Sorry yanks, Im just about a literal binman (work at a landfill) and you can be drat sure I get OT for anything after 7.6 hrs and penalty rates on the weekend
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AgentJotun posted:Sorry yanks, Im just about a literal binman (work at a landfill) and you can be drat sure I get OT for anything after 7.6 hrs and penalty rates on the weeken Are you some sort of landfill engineer or an actual binman?
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Wirth1000 posted:Are you some sort of landfill engineer or an actual binman? Based on his last few posts, it's more likely he's the trash  **I don't actually feel this way, but can't pass up the opportunity to make this joke
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Powershift posted:Based on his last few posts, it's more likely he's the trash No no its fine, your basically correct anyway.
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I don't know what the gently caress you're all talking about because I just skipped reading 300+ posts about cars and poo poo posting but I'd just like to say I'm borderline ecstatic that Malaysia is back at a sensible local time so I get to watch it early Sunday morning live! yay. Now let's wait for crushing disappointment to kick in to ruin the rest of my Sunday.
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Feels Villeneuve posted:In most professional jobs, in fact, you can be de-facto compelled by your boss to work over 40 hours a week without extra compensation with no recourse if you get fired for refusing. In virtually every state this would be a misconduct dismissal (insubordination) which would prevent you from claiming unemployment insurance. This is basically standard industry practice in the tech/IT industry now. This is england/france as well
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ilmucche posted:This is england/france as well Sorry what? What kind of jobs are we talking about here because if I have to stay later/work outside my usual contracted hours I take that time off another day, that's what's written in my contract and frankly if a company tried to sneak a "You have to work extra hours when we say so for no compensation" clause in that's a huge red flag in England at least.
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Kill your boss.
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gret posted:WTF? Qualifying is at 4am? gently caress this poo poo. Yeah the time zones work out pretty poorly. That said I'm actually more in favor of staying up till 2 AM for the race rather than waking up at 6 AM. Norns posted:I should probably actually watch this one live. Been spoiled on the last 2 races before even watching. Same, so really gonna try to watch this one live. I caught the last half of Singapore live but by then it was mostly over. Saw the races earlier in the season live and it was more exciting when I didn't know the ending already. Monza was super spoiled for me.
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NtotheTC posted:Sorry what? What kind of jobs are we talking about here because if I have to stay later/work outside my usual contracted hours I take that time off another day, that's what's written in my contract and frankly if a company tried to sneak a "You have to work extra hours when we say so for no compensation" clause in that's a huge red flag in England at least. unless you work for some tyrannical zero hours contract slave-driver, any work done outside your normal hours in the UK is either done at 1.5x or 2x your normal wage, or you can take the option for a day off in lieu. For regular hourly paid jobs, any overtime would be at the standard rate for that time of day
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Carth Dookie posted:Going back to this, but broadly speaking yes. It's less true now with modern electronic aids but yeah. The Duc for a long time had brutal power and a carbon fiber chassis with the engine as a stressed member which made it unruly as gently caress to ride, which Rossi discovered to his chagrin. I think it was during Rossi's tenure they went to an aluminium twin spar chassis and the electronics caught up a bit, but it's still widely regarded as a brute compared to the Japanese bikes. The tyre changes seem to have helped a bit too.
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Hey we have the freedom to exploit our labor force. FREEDOM!
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America disrupted the market on freedom
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NtotheTC posted:Sorry what? What kind of jobs are we talking about here because if I have to stay later/work outside my usual contracted hours I take that time off another day, that's what's written in my contract and frankly if a company tried to sneak a "You have to work extra hours when we say so for no compensation" clause in that's a huge red flag in England at least. Engineering.
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