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How many quarters after Q1 2016 till Marissa Mayer is unemployed?
	1 or fewer
	2
	4
	Her job is guaranteed; what are you even talking about?

Cicero: Dec 17, 2003; Jumpjet, melta, jumpjet. Repeat for ten minutes or until victory is assured.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/19/20972584/uber-fault-self-driving-crash-ntsb-probable-cause

quote:

Federal investigators split the blame for the fatal Uber self-driving crash between the ride-hailing company, the safety driver in the vehicle, the victim, and the state of Arizona in a blistering official report that also took the federal government to task for failing to properly regulate the industry.

In a hearing of the National Transportation Safety Board in Washington, DC on November 19th, the three-member panel heard from a team of investigators who had been sifting through the details of the crash for over a year now. At the end of the two-and-a-half-hour hearing, the board issued its determination of probable cause in the event that shook the autonomous vehicle industry.

The board cited the following as contributing to the fatal crash:

* The failure of the Uber self-driving vehicle operator, Rafaela Vasquez, to monitor the road and the automated driving system because she was �visually distracted throughout the trip by her personal cell phone.� Police had determined that Vasquez was streaming The Voice on her smartphone at the time of the crash. NTSB investigators confirmed that she spent 34 percent of her time in the Uber vehicle that night glancing down at her phone, with the final glance taking place six seconds before impact. Vasquez only returned her gaze to the road one second before the crash, investigators said.

* The �inadequate safety risk assessment procedures� at Uber�s Advanced Technologies Group. The board blasted Uber�s lack of a safety division within ATG, noting that the company did not have a dedicated safety manager in place who was responsible for risk assessment and mitigation.

* Uber�s �ineffective� monitoring of vehicle operators. There were cameras in the vehicle monitoring safety drivers, but there was no oversight to ensure that those drivers weren�t violating the company�s policies prohibiting things like cellphone use.

* Uber�s inability to address the �automation complacency� of its safety drivers monitoring the automated driving systems. Riding with these vehicles can be very dull, and Uber lacked a system in place to ensure its safety drivers weren�t getting overly complacent.

* The victim, Elaine Herzberg, was found to have methamphetamines in her system, and her impairment may have led her to cross the street outside the crosswalk, thus leading to her death.

* Arizona�s �insufficient� policies to regulate automated vehicles on its public roads were found to have contributed to the crash.

# ? Nov 20, 2019 11:30

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# ? May 18, 2024 05:42

Platystemon: Feb 13, 2012; BREADS

That victim-blaming is horseshit.

The �desire paths� worn into the terrain on either aide of that unofficial crossing point are visible from space.

# ? Nov 20, 2019 11:38

dex_sda: Oct 11, 2012

PT6A posted:

I had a friend try to recruit me after telling me his developers are morons and everything's dysfunctional. Why would I ever take that job? That's like the guy at your dinner table that says "hey, this tastes fuckin' awful! Want to try a bite?"

My friend recruited me from a sinking ship kinda like this, he assured me stuff was better. I arrived and turns out not really, it's a loving quagmire and I've spent the last month and a half getting my soul ground to dust and playing Go on my cellphone. At least I gained four stones in strength in that month and a half, so there's that.

It also got me to send out a few resumes myself instead of relying on my network of friends to recommend me, and I found a much better position for more money in a month. Being a computer toucher today is a pretty decent position to be in in that sense. However, even though all I did was send a few resumes, I am now bombarded with emails. I assume some HR person I sent the resume to put me in some loving system.

# ? Nov 20, 2019 20:40

PhazonLink: Jul 17, 2010

see this is why you also have burner emails and social media accounts to go along your burner worker phone.

# ? Nov 20, 2019 20:47

dex_sda: Oct 11, 2012

PhazonLink posted:

see this is why you also have burner emails and social media accounts to go along your burner worker phone.

I maintain no social media and don't give out my phone number very readily, but yeah, the burner email would have been a good idea

# ? Nov 20, 2019 20:49

dex_sda: Oct 11, 2012

Btw one of the places I sent the resume to disqualified me because they couldn't find any of my social media, apparently they do some sort of screening there for fratboy pics or maybe since I have no facebook I technically don't exist. Hellworld reigns

# ? Nov 20, 2019 20:50

WAR CRIME GIGOLO: Oct 3, 2012; The Hague
tryna get me
for these glutes

dex_sda posted:

Btw one of the places I sent the resume to disqualified me because they couldn't find any of my social media, apparently they do some sort of screening there for fratboy pics or maybe since I have no facebook I technically don't exist. Hellworld reigns

Facebook is required for employement meatbag.

# ? Nov 20, 2019 21:50

ryonguy: Jun 27, 2013

It's so they can fire you the second you post anything remotely bad about the company.

# ? Nov 21, 2019 04:31

WAR CRIME GIGOLO: Oct 3, 2012; The Hague
tryna get me
for these glutes

ryonguy posted:

It's so they can fire you the second you post anything remotely bad about the company.

Theyll print your timeline on an 11x17 with a giant red square around the post in question

# ? Nov 21, 2019 06:56

Doggles: Apr 22, 2007

https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1197372567440506880

# ? Nov 21, 2019 07:58

aware of dog: Nov 14, 2016

https://twitter.com/axios/status/1197508951782383616?s=21
This Uber is brought to you by Sierra Mist

# ? Nov 21, 2019 15:18

i am harry: Oct 14, 2003

ryonguy posted:

It's so they can fire you the second you post anything remotely bad about the company.

I once had a premonition of a future where we live in gated apartment communities guarded by private security and monitored by the leasing agency�s social media thought bots, after receiving an email from the front desk of my apartment complex at the time promising a paltry reward for leaving a positive Facebook review.

# ? Nov 21, 2019 17:20

Arsenic Lupin: Apr 12, 2012; This particularly rapid💨 unintelligible 😖patter💁 isn't generally heard🧏‍♂️, and if it is🤔, it doesn't matter💁.

https://twitter.com/businessinsider/status/1197546861273526272

Layoffs begin at WeWork. Sucks to have worn yourself out for a startup that flamed out.

# ? Nov 21, 2019 17:31

ryonguy: Jun 27, 2013

I guess the people in the industry now aren't old enough to remember the first dotcom bubble filled with bullshit companies.

And realizing it was 20+ years ago... :corsair:

ryonguy fucked around with this message at 17:51 on Nov 21, 2019

# ? Nov 21, 2019 17:48

Groovelord Neato: Dec 6, 2014

Gotta feel good getting laid off when you and your coworkers could've been paid for a decade with the payoff your insanely stupid boss got.

# ? Nov 21, 2019 17:53

nerdz: Oct 12, 2004; Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.; Grimey Drawer

Arsenic Lupin posted:

https://twitter.com/businessinsider/status/1197546861273526272

Layoffs begin at WeWork. Sucks to have worn yourself out for a startup that flamed out.

Wonder which 90's rapper they're going to invite to hand the pink slips this time

# ? Nov 21, 2019 17:54

ryonguy: Jun 27, 2013

This sounds like a perfect system and won't at all backfire.

quote:

A major change is coming for the more than 200,000 medical marijuana cardholders in Arizona next month: The cards are going digital.

Say goodbye to receiving your card in the mail. Starting December 1, all new medical marijuana cards issued by the Arizona Department of Health Services will be emailed as PDF files.

Medical marijuana patients who already have physical cards will receive supplemental digital versions via email, but they�ll be able to keep using their physical cards until they expire, at which point they�ll have to renew online.

...

Critics of the switch to all-digital cards in Arizona have pointed out that nearly a fourth of the state�s medical marijuana cardholders, around 50,000 patients, are over the age of 60. Some of those older patients may not know how to access a PDF card online. And some patients may not use smartphones at all.

Bower responded that every medical marijuana patient in the state in the last eight years has been required to apply for the card through email, so they had to have some level of digital fluency.

But he said patients who aren�t particularly tech-savvy or want extra protection can still print out their card so they�ve �got it at all times.�

If you don�t know how to download and print a PDF or don�t have a printer, some dispensaries are providing extra help. Downtown Dispensary in Tucson, for example, plans to install a printing station in its lobby, KOLD News 13 of Tucson reported.

Bower said he thinks most patients will be able to figure out the new system, and those who aren�t digital natives will adapt.

"That 60-year-old, remember, they were in their 40s when the internet was hitting their workspace," Bower said. "This isn�t a new thing. We think that the overall benefit to the 99.9 percent far outweighs somebody not being able to navigate their email inbox."

Bolded for :lol:

# ? Nov 21, 2019 17:58

AceOfFlames: Oct 9, 2012

nerdz posted:

Wonder which 90's rapper they're going to invite to hand the pink slips this time

"We heavily regret doing these layoffs and hope we can move on"
*Beat*
"I wish I was a little bit taller/I wish I was a baller/I wish I had a girl who looked good I would call her"

# ? Nov 21, 2019 17:58

Papercut: Aug 24, 2005

Arsenic Lupin posted:

https://twitter.com/businessinsider/status/1197546861273526272

Layoffs begin at WeWork. Sucks to have worn yourself out for a startup that flamed out.

Especially when 3 months ago it looked like you were about to get paid from finally going public.

# ? Nov 21, 2019 18:20

WAR CRIME GIGOLO: Oct 3, 2012; The Hague
tryna get me
for these glutes

Arsenic Lupin posted:

https://twitter.com/businessinsider/status/1197546861273526272

Layoffs begin at WeWork. Sucks to have worn yourself out for a startup that flamed out.

Oh man what a nice thing to walk into at 10am line of humans and copy paper boxes walking out of the building

# ? Nov 21, 2019 18:37

duz: Jul 11, 2005; Come on Ilhan, lets go bag us a shitpost

Didn't someone discover that WeWork's 401k contribution only exists if you're employed with them on December 31st? They're saving money left and right.

# ? Nov 21, 2019 20:27

VideoGameVet: May 14, 2005; It is by caffeine alone I set my bike in motion. It is by the juice of Java that pedaling acquires speed, the teeth acquire stains, stains become a warning. It is by caffeine alone I set my bike in motion.

ryonguy posted:

I guess the people in the industry now aren't old enough to remember the first dotcom bubble filled with bullshit companies.

And realizing it was 20+ years ago...

Nothing changed my life more than that event.

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# ? Nov 21, 2019 20:32

evilweasel: Aug 24, 2002

Arsenic Lupin posted:

https://twitter.com/businessinsider/status/1197546861273526272

Layoffs begin at WeWork. Sucks to have worn yourself out for a startup that flamed out.

i guess softbank finally gave them enough money to afford to fire people

# ? Nov 21, 2019 21:10

nerdz: Oct 12, 2004; Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.; Grimey Drawer

evilweasel posted:

i guess softbank finally gave them enough money to afford to fire people

it's cheaper to pay good lawyers to gently caress the employees over so that's what they'll do

# ? Nov 21, 2019 21:16

ThanosWasRight: May 12, 2019; by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

ryonguy posted:

This sounds like a perfect system and won't at all backfire.

Bolded for

Why is this a bad idea exactly?

# ? Nov 21, 2019 21:19

Arsenic Lupin: Apr 12, 2012; This particularly rapid💨 unintelligible 😖patter💁 isn't generally heard🧏‍♂️, and if it is🤔, it doesn't matter💁.

ThanosWasRight posted:

Why is this a bad idea exactly?

For one thing, editing a PDF is close to trivial.

# ? Nov 21, 2019 22:11

WAR CRIME GIGOLO: Oct 3, 2012; The Hague
tryna get me
for these glutes

Arsenic Lupin posted:

For one thing, editing a PDF is close to trivial.

fake doctots recs used to be common as gently caress in the medical era of ca.

# ? Nov 21, 2019 22:15

evilweasel: Aug 24, 2002

Arsenic Lupin posted:

For one thing, editing a PDF is close to trivial.

if the system was well done, you would verify by typing in the registration number and the system would spit out the photo/name/etc associated with that number, which you could compare to the card and to the person presenting the card

# ? Nov 21, 2019 22:17

Feinne: Oct 9, 2007; When you fall, get right back up again.

evilweasel posted:

if the system was well done, you would verify by typing in the registration number and the system would spit out the photo/name/etc associated with that number, which you could compare to the card and to the person presenting the card

On the other hand, this is Arizona. If anything we should be coming up with far dumber ways they could screw this up.

# ? Nov 21, 2019 22:20

WAR CRIME GIGOLO: Oct 3, 2012; The Hague
tryna get me
for these glutes

evilweasel posted:

if the system was well done, you would verify by typing in the registration number and the system would spit out the photo/name/etc associated with that number, which you could compare to the card and to the person presenting the card

This is how CA was/is.

# ? Nov 21, 2019 22:20

evilweasel: Aug 24, 2002

Feinne posted:

On the other hand, this is Arizona. If anything we should be coming up with far dumber ways they could screw this up.

sure

but i gotta assume that even arizona isn't creating an entire system based on people being honest about what they print out with their printers at home, people stopped accepting paper drivers licences for anything fifty years ago

# ? Nov 21, 2019 22:24

Feinne: Oct 9, 2007; When you fall, get right back up again.

evilweasel posted:

sure

but i gotta assume that even arizona isn't creating an entire system based on people being honest about what they print out with their printers at home, people stopped accepting paper drivers licences for anything fifty years ago

Yeah true, they did manage to eventually vote out Arpaio.

# ? Nov 21, 2019 22:39

ThanosWasRight: May 12, 2019; by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Arsenic Lupin posted:

For one thing, editing a PDF is close to trivial.

So you're worried about more people getting access to legal marijuana? :shrug:

WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:

fake doctots recs used to be common as gently caress in the medical era of ca.

And that was a bad thing? Considering the state of medical care in this country a lot of drugs should be available over counter that aren't.

Birth Control
Antibiotics
Perscription Mouth Wash

I don't understand why I have to go to a Dentist and pay $100 (that I don't have) to get prescription mouth wash or pay a doctor $200 (that I definitely don't have) for antibiotics.

I bring back tons of Z-Packs whenever I go to a country that allows over the counter purchase of prescription medication and I've ran into so many poor food workers that were unable to afford or find time to go to a local doctor for an infection that I've given them away to.

America is a shithole third-world country and instead of acting like our laws need to be based on a place where people don't live in the streets and can barely make ends meet and sure as gently caress can't afford to visit a doctor or Dentist we should start adopting what those other countries do at a state level because we are completely and totally irredeemably hosed and there is no hope for anyone here to escape homelessness or minimum wage fast food work/cycle of poverty in their lifetimes.

ThanosWasRight fucked around with this message at 22:57 on Nov 21, 2019

# ? Nov 21, 2019 22:51

Goatse James Bond: Mar 28, 2010; If you see me posting please remind me that I have Charlie Work in the reports forum to do instead

otc antibiotics, specifically, are Not Ideal

the doctor visit should be free, is the answer

# ? Nov 21, 2019 22:59

ThanosWasRight: May 12, 2019; by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

GreyjoyBastard posted:

otc antibiotics, specifically, are Not Ideal

the doctor visit should be free, is the answer

That is not going to happen in our lifetime. And we have to face facts that if it came down to that and having us all killed in the streets the people in power would be more than happy to kill us using their own bare hands.

# ? Nov 21, 2019 23:20

Parakeet vs. Phone: Nov 6, 2009

GreyjoyBastard posted:

otc antibiotics, specifically, are Not Ideal

the doctor visit should be free, is the answer

They may as well as be otc given how trivial it is to get them.

I know the answer is major medical reform both for patients and doctors before we breed super bugs, but until that happens it'd be nice if I didn't have to shell out $35 for a doctor to go "yes your obvious symptoms of a sinus infection are probably a sinus infection." It also would have meant that my sister wouldn't have had to buy fish antibiotics for abscesses when she got fired and lost her insurance.

# ? Nov 22, 2019 00:22

shrike82: Jun 11, 2005

lamo

WeWork Will Lay Off 2,400 Workers

quote:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/21/business/wework-layoffs.html
WeWork said on Thursday that it was laying off 2,400 employees around the world, weeks after huge losses at the co-working company brought it close to financial collapse...
Employees expressed anger in a letter to management after learning that Mr. Neumann had received an exit package worth roughly $1 billion.

# ? Nov 22, 2019 01:20