chasontherobot

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Comment · 1 year ago
ah yes, let private entities pay for it. then when there is a vulnerability with one of those entities' software, they can pay a bit more to bury it!
Comment · 1 year ago
Ah yes, because CEOs often face consequences for their poor decisions. They definitely don't get golden parachutes and move on to a new company when they run a company into the ground.
Comment · 1 year ago
Neither of these things is completely true.

1. While it is technically true a company could sue a worker for quitting, the amount of damages they'd have to show is far beyond anything they'd be able to do outside of an upper management position. As far as I know, you could not sue someone for doing a half assed job.

2. I'm not even sure how you are using the word "illegal" here. AFAIK there is no provisions in criminal law for punishing people who break employment contracts. What I assume you are talking about is that a contract worker is bound by the terms of their contract as far as notice to quit goes, but there are a couple of limits to this. - This only applies in the first year of the contract. After the contract has been renewed once, standard Japanese labor law applies, which is two weeks of notice. - Similar to the above statement about suing someone for quitting, Japanese law only allows for suits to be for actual damages, so the company would have to prove significant damages to make the suit worth it. Contract workers are generally not high value employees so it would be unusual for one to be worth suing over.

Comment · 1 year ago
Contracts might require it, but the law says 2 weeks (on a regular full time contract or a limited contract after the first year) and contracts can't supersede the law.
Comment · 2 years ago
> I have an llm inference rig that I enjoy on the weekends and the problem for the first time in my life it that I have supernormal stimulus which doesn't seem to reduce in potency the more I use it.

I have no idea what this sentence means

Comment · 2 years ago
Web3 enthusiasts?
Comment · 2 years ago
now you're just describing the business model of most fintech companies
Comment · 2 years ago
I'm trying to figure out where you are getting this "go above the CTO's head to the CEO" situation from the message you are replying to?

I am not the person you are replying to, but I've definitely made a stink my boss about my people being overworked. If the person from the original article went to the CTO and said "look, my people need a week off, but we will still have the software delivered on schedule", that would have been the right solution, not lying to your boss.

Comment · 2 years ago
ES was already huge before AWS made everyone think it was an Amazon product
Comment · 2 years ago
I don't know if it still exists but there used to be a company that advertised public lice as a service
Comment · 3 years ago
The first step is that you start rich
Comment · 3 years ago
What failures did he learn from? The other two social networks at the time, Friendster and Myspace were both hugely popular still when he launched Facebook.
Comment · 3 years ago
What is wrong with the article? It seemed to be a fairly normal piece, certainly not "braincell killing"
Comment · 3 years ago
This, but not sarcastic.
Comment · 3 years ago
#1 matters if you want to own and ride a bike for a few decades, which used to be a relatively common thing.

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