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JFairfax posted:oh no paying your employees a fair wage makes products costs more. Who would have thought it? My friend works at waitrose and lol. They treat their employees like poo poo and pay them same as sainsburys sorry. My other mate has worked at John Lewis for 10 years and still gets paid less than I did at sainsburys. If you think the posh expensive supermarkets are expensive because they pay high wages I have some very bad news about capitalism for you... Their whole thing seems to be having a "partnership" with employees that means basically nothing apart from not letting them in a union in return for a bonus that boosts their pay to the same levels as all supermarket staff.
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gabriel straub. good speaker but he's an ex-consultant heading an analytics team so a lot of his talk came off as "big data" faddishness.
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Also the French cops are tearing down the "Calais Jungle" did they seriously just name it jungle because there are black people there? How did this lovely name catch on unless there are jaguars in there or something? I can't see it being called that if the refugees were Danish.
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Feb 29, 2016 13:07
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Steve2911 posted:The best is when they have to deliver something that could quite easily fit through the letter box, but instead decide to put it behind the bins AND go to the trouble of writing and posting a note. How does that save anyone any time? The note is pre-written at a red light
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Feb 29, 2016 13:12
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I believe they mean jungle as in "it's horrible and chaotic". Despite this they didn't try to alleviate the conditions. I guess it's what they deserve.
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nopantsjack posted:Also the French cops are tearing down the "Calais Jungle" did they seriously just name it jungle because there are black people there? How did this lovely name catch on unless there are jaguars in there or something? Now, whether that idiom came about from cities having black people is another question.
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shrike82 posted:gabriel straub. good speaker but he's an ex-consultant heading an analytics team so a lot of his talk came off as "big data" faddishness. At their size they should have enough data to construct good predictions for most people based on shopping habits. Big data is a dumb term but the results are pretty good Target famously sent a teen girl a list of baby items and got flak from her father until he talked to his daughter and discovered she was pregnant
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Feb 29, 2016 13:17
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My god. Watching David Cockburn on daily politics cackling on the screen like the bastards child of Baron Greenback and Mr Creosote has put me off me dinner.
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yeah, the Target anecdote is like the canonical Big Data story trotted out in every 101 class or conference for newbies.
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Malcolm XML posted:At their size they should have enough data to construct good predictions for most people based on shopping habits. Big data is a dumb term but the results are pretty good Did they figure it out from some subtle change in her habits or is it just like every other rubbish recommendation engine "you bought a baby thing PLEASE BUY MORE BABY THINGS"
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Tempo 119 posted:Did they figure it out from some subtle change in her habits or is it just like every other rubbish recommendation engine "you bought a baby thing PLEASE BUY MORE BABY THINGS" Just searching for a bunch of baby stuff (as a pregnant girl might do) would presumably be enough, no need to buy stuff.
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Feb 29, 2016 13:38
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The Tory bullying scandal centring around Mark Clarke just went places again.
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Guavanaut posted:In other news, the Leicester Mercury has decided to do some Correct film reviews. This should be the default review for all his movies, with the last line barely changing each time.
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Guavanaut posted:In other news, the Leicester Mercury has decided to do some Correct film reviews. The real news is that Hotel Transylvania 2 is, as many predicted, a 'vampy sequel'.
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Feb 29, 2016 13:44
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Oh that's OK then, no one would ever bully someone they were in a relationship with
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il_cornuto posted:Oh that's OK then, no one would ever bully someone they were in a relationship with The guy leading the charge against the bullies, Ben Howlett, is also openly gay and (unusually for a Tory) an enthusiastic gay-rights campaigner, so framing this whole thing as being about homophobia is probably going to work less well than it normally would.
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Darth Walrus posted:The guy leading the charge against the bullies, Ben Howlett, is also openly gay and (unusually for a Tory) an enthusiastic gay-rights campaigner, so framing this whole thing as being about homophobia is probably going to work less well than it normally would. Isn't it accusing the boys parents of homophobia? Suggesting his suicide was less to do with the tories and more because of his parents not supporting his sexual orientation. I've not been following the story though so I don't know.
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That's how it reads to me. Deflect the blame on the parents. Typical political smear tactic.
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Did grant schapps get kicked out of office over it? He used to be my local MP and actually pretty good at playing the game (he'd email you back and get involved with local stuff) so it's been fun watching the series of scandals hound him.
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Serotonin posted:That's how it reads to me. Deflect the blame on the parents. Typical political smear tactic. Yeah, me too. '"It’s not my intention to go out and upset and offend people. But we’ve got to discuss this issue, we’ve got to discuss the issue of homophobia and we’ve got to discuss why people, even as close to him as me weren’t told about the mental health problems.' I mean, if he was bullying the poor kid, this makes him even more of a Grade A turbodouchebag. And even if not, that's a 38 year old dating a 21 year old who works for him, isn't it? Which sounds squicky enough in itself because of the power differential.
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Serotonin posted:That's how it reads to me. Deflect the blame on the parents. Typical political smear tactic. It can also be seen as a dog-whistle tactic, in that it says 'the boys parents were homophobic' to most people and 'he was gay, so of course he was bullied' to certain others.
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hookerbot 5000 posted:Isn't it accusing the boys parents of homophobia? Suggesting his suicide was less to do with the tories and more because of his parents not supporting his sexual orientation. I've not been following the story though so I don't know. I feel there's a double-element to it. He's accusing the kid's parents of homophobia for driving their son to suicide, and accusing his Tory pursuers of it for focusing on him rather than on that alternative explanation.
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ThomasPaine posted:That's a lovely story and your sister's partner sounds like a prick but this poo poo belongs in E/N Considering the derails that happen in this thread on a daily basis, I'd say his post fitted right in.
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shrike82 posted:yeah, the Target anecdote is like the canonical Big Data story trotted out in every 101 class or conference for newbies. it's that way for a reason, since you can get quite scarily accurate with enough information. it's pretty representative of where you can get with just basic correlated information. you're in several hundred facebook experiments at any given time, same w/ google and friends.
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Tempo 119 posted:Did they figure it out from some subtle change in her habits or is it just like every other rubbish recommendation engine "you bought a baby thing PLEASE BUY MORE BABY THINGS" the story goes it was due to basic prediction based on what pregnant women would buy in the months leading to them buying baby goods but in any case, the general point of collecting tracking information and sifting through it for ways to optimize product delivery is pretty sound
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feedmegin posted:How are Booths? That's basically Waitrose with a flat 'at and a whippet, after all. Booths are actually posh. Waitrose is kind of middle class, Booths is upper middle class. It's nice, but it's genuinely more expensive for not a lot of reason other than the people who shop there don't care how much stuff costs.
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So posh i've never heard of it. edit: oh it's north of where I used to live. Which was the north. I didn't know there was more north. Regarde Aduck fucked around with this message at 15:00 on Feb 29, 2016 |
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I love how this Tory has said "oh no, I'm getting in poo poo for bullying a man to suicide, quickly, I'd better make it look like I bullied a gay man to suicide!"
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Regarde Aduck posted:So posh i've never heard of it. Dude, there's one in Manchester. Where are you that that's north of you and you're still in 'the north' - Normandy?
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Parklife!
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feedmegin posted:Dude, there's one in Manchester. Where are you that that's north of you and you're still in 'the north' - Normandy? North London
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dispatch_async posted:
It's stopped being a paper and is now some sort of self parodying performance art constantly trying to outdo itself in how ridiculous it can become
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dispatch_async posted:
I loving hate BrewDog. Never drank it but the whole 'equity for punks' aesthetic really puts me off. Wankers.
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Dead Pony Club is pretty drat tasty though and whatever their classic blue one is I forget, haven't drank them since they got big though /beerhipster. Best part about living in Scotland is the brilliant beer. Council-run buses and an NHS with funding are also good.
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I like Paul Mason even if every article he does is "Capitalism's dead any minute now, mates"
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Regarde Aduck posted:So posh i've never heard of it. There's plenty of North that's north of all the Boothses. There's no North that's south of all the Boothses.
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Paul Mason has made an entire career out of talking interminable bollocks about the End of Capitalism (Any Day Now) for.... decades? Can't stand the fucker.
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Oberleutnant posted:Paul Mason has made an entire career out of talking interminable bollocks about the End of Capitalism (Any Day Now) for.... decades? Can't stand the fucker. Ah, I just appreciate his continued optimism in the face of the liquid poo poo sprayed on our face on a daily basis.
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Markov-chain-Zizek title and BrewDog fellating aside, open information is economically interesting. Mostly in the form of things like the global village construction set, academic open access, and democratization of the means of production than hipster beers. It's not going to free everyone from capitalism alone as long as things like land monopoly and rentier finance exist, but it does provide interesting solutions to some of the problems of bottom-up communalization.
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