Hacker News: zero_intp

New comment by zero_intp in "A new weapon in arbitration: sheer volume"

zero_intp — Tue, 07 Apr 2020 14:34:41 +0000

as a salaried worker I refuse to participate in flex PTO, it's not how the labor laws are written. I work for a significant part of the day and have a legitimate reason to stop, I do not submit any leave requests.

My company recently granted an extra 40 hours of COVID PTO to use for flex, which is nice, but they could just stop trying to work around labor laws.

New comment by zero_intp in "Australian Gag Order Stokes Global Debate on Secrecy"

zero_intp — Sat, 15 Dec 2018 12:46:47 +0000

crimes against humanity

New comment by zero_intp in "Facebook exodus: Nearly half of young users have deleted the app"

zero_intp — Wed, 31 Oct 2018 12:47:47 +0000

Your observation is only true in the ephemeral surface. there is no moral equivalence. there is no legal equivalence. What is your purpose in this deflection?

New comment by zero_intp in "Investigating Implausible Bloomberg Supermicro Stories"

zero_intp — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 20:41:44 +0000

exceptional claims require exceptional evidence, Bloomberg has not done so.

The article raises a fair number of solid criticisms regarding BCP to eliminate the described vulnerability.

New comment by zero_intp in "The extraordinary influence of the Iliad and Odyssey"

zero_intp — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 11:28:54 +0000

Those pages are filthy cesspits of depravity, "The true right rejects egalitarianism root and branch."

Fuck these people

New comment by zero_intp in "Is the Aeneid a Celebration of Empire or a Critique?"

zero_intp — Thu, 11 Oct 2018 11:43:15 +0000

Rome of that age was very self aware of the histories of the many city states that had risen and fallen before them, as I think the very story describes. The personal choices made by leaders of those many prior city-empires were the very reasons for each to fail on the global stage. The Aeneid was the zeitgeist of Roman manifest destiny under the imperial banner.

New comment by zero_intp in "Mastodon Bone Findings Could Upend Our Understanding of Human History (2017)"

zero_intp — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 12:32:06 +0000

Disrupting the Clovis paradigm is definitely upending in a field where new ideas take root by retiring the past generation of professors.

New comment by zero_intp in "Gut directly connected to brain, by a newly discovered neuron circuit"

zero_intp — Sun, 23 Sep 2018 12:39:17 +0000

Hopkins has a gastroneuro department. Abdominal Migraine.

New comment by zero_intp in "New bridge collapses into river in eastern Saskatchewan hours after opening"

zero_intp — Wed, 19 Sep 2018 00:58:30 +0000

I am to understand that in all of her Majesties kingdoms they have regulations against making things of cardboard such that the front does not fall off.

New comment by zero_intp in "Google throws away 12 years of work by investors (Portfolios in Google Finance)"

zero_intp — Sat, 15 Sep 2018 12:57:14 +0000

This is an under appreciated/represented sentiment. I wholly agree.

New comment by zero_intp in "Google activated battery saving mode on multiple phones, then rolled it back"

zero_intp — Fri, 14 Sep 2018 11:46:41 +0000

Thank you for the vocabulary.

New comment by zero_intp in "Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Poverty. They’re Not"

zero_intp — Wed, 12 Sep 2018 11:46:36 +0000

try being a person of color in a coffee shop or hotel lobby. Maybe you heard about some difficulties for a pair of young men had in a Philadelphia Starbucks?

New comment by zero_intp in "Whole Foods workers seek to unionize"

zero_intp — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 11:15:52 +0000

Thank you for the realism without any snark.

New comment by zero_intp in "Whole Foods workers seek to unionize"

zero_intp — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 11:13:12 +0000

'layed off' means different things in the US versus Europe.

In the US, an employer may 'lay off' as much staff as they want and then hire new people into those positions.

In France, for example, a 'lay off' must close the position and not hire a new body into that role for 12-24 months.

This may be difficult to prove, but the laws exist.

New comment by zero_intp in "Whole Foods workers seek to unionize"

zero_intp — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 11:06:14 +0000

America is known for practicing social darwinism as though it were a positive thing.

New comment by zero_intp in "Startups Flock to Turn Young Blood into an Elixir of Youth"

zero_intp — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 10:57:32 +0000

you have found a trifecta of reasoning. What a brilliant idea!

New comment by zero_intp in "Someone Is Waging a Secret War to Undermine the Pentagon’s Huge Cloud Contract"

zero_intp — Tue, 21 Aug 2018 16:30:34 +0000

My first job in the '80s was doing RFI/RFP shotgunning for a mom & pop (my mom & pop) defense consulting firm out of the GSA register. We would essentially cold-respond to everything in our domain. From that experience I learned that there were some genuine requests with no fix in.

New comment by zero_intp in "Credit-Card Backlash Mounts as Kroger Weighs Expanding Visa Ban"

zero_intp — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 09:32:35 +0000

amex platinum offers rewards that easily pay back the cost if you travel. 2 cards, $450 ($300 + $150) $15 uber/month/card $200 in airline fees Automatic hotel and car rental upgrades more...

New comment by zero_intp in "Credit-Card Backlash Mounts as Kroger Weighs Expanding Visa Ban"

zero_intp — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 09:29:16 +0000

I visited Stockholm this summer, it was 100% card acceptance, and 25% cash acceptance.

New comment by zero_intp in "Australian firm Meriton fined $3M for misleading consumers on TripAdvisor"

zero_intp — Tue, 31 Jul 2018 13:12:42 +0000

I used to work for Cogent Communications, this was common practice in customer service. Comstat scores are 100% gamed.

The Global Director of customer service has his managers change ticket parameters for two weeks around ticket closure so that only 'happy' customers get review emails.

Hacker News: zero_intp

New comment by zero_intp in "A new weapon in arbitration: sheer volume"

New comment by zero_intp in "Australian Gag Order Stokes Global Debate on Secrecy"

New comment by zero_intp in "Facebook exodus: Nearly half of young users have deleted the app"

New comment by zero_intp in "Investigating Implausible Bloomberg Supermicro Stories"

New comment by zero_intp in "The extra­ordinary influence of the Iliad and Odyssey"

New comment by zero_intp in "Is the Aeneid a Celebration of Empire or a Critique?"

New comment by zero_intp in "Mastodon Bone Findings Could Upend Our Understanding of Human History (2017)"

New comment by zero_intp in "Gut directly connected to brain, by a newly discovered neuron circuit"

New comment by zero_intp in "New bridge collapses into river in eastern Saskatchewan hours after opening"

New comment by zero_intp in "Google throws away 12 years of work by investors (Portfolios in Google Finance)"

New comment by zero_intp in "Google activated battery saving mode on multiple phones, then rolled it back"

New comment by zero_intp in "Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Poverty. They’re Not"

New comment by zero_intp in "Whole Foods workers seek to unionize"

New comment by zero_intp in "Whole Foods workers seek to unionize"

New comment by zero_intp in "Whole Foods workers seek to unionize"

New comment by zero_intp in "Startups Flock to Turn Young Blood into an Elixir of Youth"

New comment by zero_intp in "Someone Is Waging a Secret War to Undermine the Pentagon’s Huge Cloud Contract"

New comment by zero_intp in "Credit-Card Backlash Mounts as Kroger Weighs Expanding Visa Ban"

New comment by zero_intp in "Credit-Card Backlash Mounts as Kroger Weighs Expanding Visa Ban"

New comment by zero_intp in "Australian firm Meriton fined $3M for misleading consumers on TripAdvisor"

New comment by zero_intp in "The extraordinary influence of the Iliad and Odyssey"