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Re:Epic’s new motion-capture animation tech has to be seen t... by PragmaticPulp on Thursday March 23, 2023 @07:40PM (#35283097)
> I had a client who wanted to negotiate two rates - one for the active part and another one for the training time part (barely covering AWS costs).

This doesn’t make any sense. Training time is billed according as a passed through cost plus, not an hourly rate for the person who started the task.

I don’t know anyone who would have gotten away with billing AWS training time at their own hourly rate as if they were working. That’s ridiculous. Would be hilarious to see someone submit 24-hour days for long training runs though.

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Re:Epic’s new motion-capture animation tech has to be seen t... by bitL on Thursday March 23, 2023 @09:02PM (#35283711)
I can understand that for outside-working hours tasks. But not for working hours where many companies really try to do the activity tracking-based payments like as if the consultant didn't have time allocated on working on their tasks already.
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