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Re:Meta Fined $843M by EU over Marketplace Ads on Thursday November 14, 2024 @12:12PM (#42138401)
> I imagine at the very least that the company formerly known as Twitter will be protected.

verified: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-polit...

No, I didn't move the goalposts. I was refuting your incorrect assertion that the only non-PFAS coating is that one Goretex product for $500 jackets worn by coastal elites.

Literally every part of your claim there was incorrect.

Anyway, you have proven that you are ignorant, that you are ludicrously rude, that you are aggressive for no reason, and that you are either unwilling or unable to have a civil conversation. We're done.

Re:Amazon Makes It Harder for Disabled Employees to Work from Home on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @04:58PM (#42130526)
There were some teams that never stopped coming to the office, due to sensitive aspects of their work.

And there's a boatload of data from centralized project management and ticketing systems, as well as centralized source repositories.

The data was absolutely available for data-driven arguments.

Re:Amazon Makes It Harder for Disabled Employees to Work from Home on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @04:56PM (#42130509)
There were countless natural experiments available from teams that had differing levels of in-person attendance; as well as teams that either were or were not colocated, and teams that took steps (or didn't) to align their in-person appearances.

After all, there _were_ teams that never pivoted to WFH.

There are at least a dozen of these coatings, and you can get em on $99 jackets. You can also get em on purpose built hunting jackets that no “coastal elite” is wearing.

You can be as rude you want. Your original claim remains incorrect, as are your follow-on claims.

> that’s how they make all raincoats waterproof.

Nearly every major outdoor clothing manufacturer is making rain-gear without PFAS. Patagonia, The North Face, Arcteryx, Helly Hansen, Columbia, and Fjallraven (just to name a few) all offer a variety of PFAS-free raingear.

This has been an ongoing effort for 10 or 15 years at this point; with a lot of progress occurring in the last few years, as the PFAS-free DWR chemistries have reached parity for most use cases.

Re:The Death and Life of Prediction Markets at Google on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @10:48AM (#42116465)
That’s mostly a marketing myth on the AWS side. As recently as three or four years ago there were _new_ initiatives being built in the legacy “corp” fabric; and even today Amazon has internal tooling that makes use of Native AWS quite different than it is for external customers; particularly around authn/authz.

And that doesn’t even mention the comic “Moving to AWS” platform that technically consumed AWS resources, but was a wholly different developer experience to native.

Re:I Quit Google to Work for Myself (2018) on Saturday November 09, 2024 @02:05AM (#42092967)
I would bet a substantial sum that Tesla was insolvent early in the m3. They suddenly were firing people all over the place and not paying many vendors, and paying others quite late. Additionally, the finance pros kept quitting right then....

I think it went bk, but Musk bet that he could hype up the stock enough to raise cash in the next offering and then pretend it never happened...

Re:Albertsons kills rural grocers with land use restrictions on Monday November 04, 2024 @05:55PM (#42046920)
That's a bit disingenuous.

HOA's can (and regularly do) enforce rules that governmental entities are constitutionally prohibited from enforcing.

Yes, technically not a violation because the HOA isn't technically government.

Re:Sam's Club CTO to Exit Due to Walmart Relocation Policy on Saturday November 02, 2024 @02:51AM (#42024519)
Here is an example of the deaths that dishonest, woman hating, authoritarians like you promote:

https://www.propublica.org/article/nevaeh-crain-death-texas-...

I know you won’t care, because you’re a worthless monster. But just a reminder that you are, in fact, a horrible person who deserves a horrible life.

Re:Ghost jobs are wreaking havoc on tech workers on Saturday November 02, 2024 @02:49AM (#42024513)
Because sometimes we fail to find a qualified American candidate.
Re:Ghost jobs are wreaking havoc on tech workers on Thursday October 31, 2024 @04:20PM (#42011090)
At large tech companies, the pay is entirely driven by level and rating; so there's no savings in salary; just added costs to comply with the directive.

It's endlessly frustrating that the US government wants to centrally plan my hiring decisions.

Re:Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEO on Monday October 28, 2024 @10:02PM (#41978636)
Cash was often the fastest way to pay back then.