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Shooting Blanks posted:You should renegotiate their contracts then. Re media platform, Twitter has Periscope, and wow does it suck. A podcast I follow, the Polygon Show, has switched to video streaming via Periscope, and it stutters and hangs in a disgraceful way for 2017.
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eschaton posted:It must take a lot of effort to be this clueless. Is there really a consensus on the quality of Apple phones strong enough to warrant a twitter style sick burn or is this guy just a moron? I didn't realize anyone thought iPhones are still the bee's knees in 2017.
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Arglebargle III posted:Is there really a consensus on the quality of Apple phones strong enough to warrant a twitter style sick burn or is this guy just a moron?
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Yes, thousand dollar tea maker company, you didn’t have the time and resources to “educate” the market
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http://twitter.com/girl_on_bike/status/924130436430815232 e: Per San Francisco Chronicle quote:It’s been a tough week for the future of food. Arsenic Lupin fucked around with this message at 19:39 on Oct 28, 2017 |
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Oct 28, 2017 19:15
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"The future of food".
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Schubalts posted:"The future of food". 
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I give it a year tops until someone tries to sell a literal wheel as an innovative product
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Oct 28, 2017 21:01
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Shugojin posted:I give it a year tops until someone tries to sell a literal wheel as an innovative product "Imagine a fidget-spinner.. FOR YOUR CAR!"
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Shugojin posted:I give it a year tops until someone tries to sell a literal wheel as an innovative product https://twitter.com/dharmayogawheel/status/883040074044248064
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eschaton posted:If Epic was prevented from making its employees sign noncompete agreements, how many EMR companies would be based around Madison and Milwaukee? Relevant to your point: although Epic doesn't have any EHR competitors in the region, there are quite a few EHR-adjacent companies based in the Madison area, like consultants, hardware producers, and more specialized software developers in healthcare areas that Epic hasn't already colonized. This all despite the fact that Epic ex-pats can't technically work for these companies for a year after they leave. My point is, when you're talking about the software industry, it's not just developers you need to look at but the infrastructure surrounding them. Even though the EHR industry isn't as centralized as web development, Madison is still a huge location. Wisconsin banning non-compete clauses would have a far more dramatic effect than, say, Missouri doing the same thing.
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p much this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOK4J1kTEvc as a startup
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The problem with non-competes isn't that they are legal or illegal. It's that the cost of contesting them is too high for most employees so impacted. Until we make them both illegal and start fining companies for having them (and then paying those fines to the former employees) it's going to continue to be a problem.
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Ynglaur posted:The problem with non-competes isn't that they are legal or illegal. It's that the cost of contesting them is too high for most employees so impacted. Until we make them both illegal and start fining companies for having them (and then paying those fines to the former employees) it's going to continue to be a problem. Do companies have to pay the employee (a percentage of) their former salary when they have him shackled by a non-compete?
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Randler posted:Do companies have to pay the employee (a percentage of) their former salary when they have him shackled by a non-compete? 
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Randler posted:Do companies have to pay the employee (a percentage of) their former salary when they have him shackled by a non-compete? Let's put it this way. There are states in which the courts have outright deemed them illegal. Companies do it anyway. When someone leaves they serve them papers, at which point the former employer realizes they don't have $50K to defend their right to change companies. The US legal system makes contesting even blatantly illegal actions very expensive for private citizens.
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Oct 28, 2017 22:32
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Randler posted:Do companies have to pay the employee (a percentage of) their former salary when they have him shackled by a non-compete? This is why people say they're illegal in California. You can have a noncompete, you just have to pay them.
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Oct 28, 2017 22:55
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Ynglaur posted:Let's put it this way. There are states in which the courts have outright deemed them illegal. Companies do it anyway. When someone leaves they serve them papers, at which point the former employer realizes they don't have $50K to defend their right to change companies. You don't have to sign a non-compete when you are quitting a job. My job doesn't have a non-compete but we do have non-solicit agreement. I had to sign and return it before I received the formal job offer. If I were heading out the door for a new job and my boss told me I had to sign a non-compete agreement I'd laugh in her face and tell her no.
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karthun posted:You don't have to sign a non-compete when you are quitting a job. My job doesn't have a non-compete but we do have non-solicit agreement. I had to sign and return it before I received the formal job offer. If I were heading out the door for a new job and my boss told me I had to sign a non-compete agreement I'd laugh in her face and tell her no. Non-competes are signed as part of the hiring process. Companies that use them will not hire you if you refuse to sign.
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karthun posted:You don't have to sign a non-compete when you are quitting a job. My job doesn't have a non-compete but we do have non-solicit agreement. I had to sign and return it before I received the formal job offer. If I were heading out the door for a new job and my boss told me I had to sign a non-compete agreement I'd laugh in her face and tell her no. I think you misunderstood what "serve them papers" means.
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karthun posted:You don't have to sign a non-compete when you are quitting a job. My job doesn't have a non-compete but we do have non-solicit agreement. I had to sign and return it before I received the formal job offer. If I were heading out the door for a new job and my boss told me I had to sign a non-compete agreement I'd laugh in her face and tell her no. They often make your last paycheck implicitly dependent on signing it, or they make it part of the employment agreement. My last employer tried making me sign one but I just ignored it and checked to ensure my paycheck made it. Not everyone is so lucky. The other issue is that such wicked companies will often send cease and desist orders to the legal departments of competitors. Sure, that person you interviewed was great. Is she worth an extra $60K in legal fees to hire? Probably not. You have a business to run.
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Ynglaur posted:They often make your last paycheck implicitly dependent on signing it That's highly illegal in many places, including California. In California, if you quit your employer has 72 hours to give you your final check with all owed pay. If you are fired they must give you your final check at the time of firing. Each day they are late with your all your owed pay, they owe you a full, average days pay, up to 30 days.
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karthun posted:You don't have to sign a non-compete when you are quitting a job. My job doesn't have a non-compete but we do have non-solicit agreement. I had to sign and return it before I received the formal job offer. If I were heading out the door for a new job and my boss told me I had to sign a non-compete agreement I'd laugh in her face and tell her no. You don't sign anything on the way out the door with nothing on the table, which is why your severance is tied to signing. Carrot. Stick. This is not new. Ynglaur posted:They often make your last paycheck implicitly dependent on signing it Where the hell is that the case? That's so blatantly illegal that your state labor board would spank them for it on your behalf for free.
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Motronic posted:Where the hell is that the case? That's so blatantly illegal that your state labor board would spank them for it on your behalf for free. Assuming your state labor board has enough funding to take on new, small-dollar cases, and that its members weren't appointed by a business-friendly governor, and that you can afford to wait for that check for the year or two it will take to go through the process...
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Ponsonby Britt posted:Assuming your state labor board has enough funding to take on new, small-dollar cases, and that its members weren't appointed by a business-friendly governor, and that you can afford to wait for that check for the year or two it will take to go through the process... Depending on your state, you can take those cases to small claims where they will award the wages plus penalties.
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hobbesmaster posted:This is why people say they're illegal in California. You can have a noncompete, you just have to pay them. That's not really true. In CA most employees can voluntarily leave their company and go work for a competitor irrespective of whether or not their original employer is willing to pay them to stay, and non-competes are not enforceable after an employee is terminated even if you are still paying them. In CA, it is expressly not permitted for a company to lay you off, and then insist that you don't go work for competitor so long as they pay you X% of your salary or any other amount of money. It is also not permitted in CA to tie severance to a non-compete. For example if Intel terminates you, and makes you sign a contract giving you 12 months of severance contingent on not working for a competitor, and then you get hired by AMD after 6 months, Intel cannot sue to recover the severance they have already paid you--any such attempt would be immediately thrown out of court. In fact, in most cases, Intel would probably be on the hook to pay you the full severance even after you are hired by a competitor, irrespective of any non-compete clauses in the contract. The bottom line is that if you are an at-will employee in CA, you don't really need to worry about non-competes.
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I saw something about Best Buy selling a version of the new iPhone for $1200 or something. I'm pretty sure Tim Cook could literally take a poo poo on stage and people would preorder it at this point.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:"Imagine a fidget-spinner.. FOR YOUR CAR!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gzHe1247LI
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Shugojin posted:I give it a year tops until someone tries to sell a literal wheel as an innovative product
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actionjackson posted:I saw something about Best Buy selling a version of the new iPhone for $1200 or something. I'm pretty sure Tim Cook could literally take a poo poo on stage and people would preorder it at this point.
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Not the terms of service! Is nothing sacred to this man?
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Baby Babbeh posted:Not the terms of service! Is nothing sacred to this man? Well, contracts with his mortgage company certainly arent. He told them he was buying the condo for single-owner occupancy. Whoops. quote:In late 2015 through early 2016, MANAFORT applied for a mortgage on the condominium. Because the bank would permit a greater loan amount if the property were owner-occupied, MANAFORT falsely represented to the bank and its agents that it was a secondary home used as such by his daughter and son-in-law and was not a property held as a rental property. For instance, on January 26, 2016, MANAFORT wrote to his son-in-law to advise him that when the bank appraiser came to assess the condominium his son-in-law should "[r]emember, he believes that you and [MANAFORT's daughter] are living there.” Based on a request from MANAFORT, GATES caused a document to be created which listed the Howard Street property as the second home of MANAFORT's daughter and son-in-law, when GATES knew this fact to be false. As a result of his false representations, in March 2016 the bank provided MANAFORT a loan for approximately $3,185,000.
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FlamingLiberal posted:I believe I read that iPhone 8 sales were not great Which is interesting because the iphone 8 was definitely the way better product shown at that keynote
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Friend of mine and SV techbro after mentioning to him how bad Uber is with all the culture poo poo "I don't support them. I just use their services."  It seems like everyone has rose colored glasses on. Guess they don't want to attack the golden goose.
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quote:No, no one wants to be personally inconvenienced. Talk is cheap, and therefore in most situations all you get is talk. It's really pretty pathetic when you run into people like that, given Uber is about as easy to boycott as they get. You don't even have to give up a service; you just have to call a normal goddamned taxi.
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Sundae posted:It's really pretty pathetic when you run into people like that, given Uber is about as easy to boycott as they get. You don't even have to give up a service; you just have to call a normal goddamned taxi. He wont do taxis or hotels because they are more expensive. Even though I use them and he definitely has more money than I do.
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