I would send this to my CTO but I would rather be employed than right.

He's got the "everyone in the office, no matter what" mentality even though most teams are spread out across our entire country and work together just fine using remote tools already in place. He gives no justification for his regressive policy. He just doesn't like remote workers or people who are part time in the office.

Of course once this becomes more widespread all of our talent is going to bail, leaving the dregs to have to pick up the slack that they can't do.

Which will justify a proposal to outsource the work since the in house teams can't do it.

I hate corporate politics.

From the summary: "Lyft claims that it supports the spirit of the law to raise wages for drivers, but opposes the formula used to ensure higher payouts."

Which interprets, in my mind, to "Well, we think that it's a nice thing that people should be able to live off what they earn but we don't want to do it for OUR drivers. It's fine for everyone else, just not us."

They don't like it when the rules apply to them as well.

Since FoxConn isn't actually doing any of what it promised in return for majorly corrupt incentives then vote to rescind them. No more tax breaks. No more illegally diverted lake water. Nothing. Let them reapply for standard breaks open to any company.

Then see how much they really want to continue this charade. If suddenly they lose their sweetheart deal and the ability to continually string the state government along then I'm guessing they'll decide that they really don't want to have anything to do with Wisconsin.

This whole thing was a pet project of the then-current state administration who bent over forward for FoxConn so they would look like they were doing something for the state. They weren't. They were doing it for themselves and now that they're out of office all the local resentment towards the deal has some teeth.

Spoiler - I'm female so if you want to let that influence your responses to my post then so be it.

I saw the movie this weekend. I have zero exposure to the Marvel comic universes and went in without seeing trailer, reading articles, etc. I went in cold expecting to be told a story. I knew it was an origin movie and adjusted my expectations accordingly.

As an origin movie it works. The new characters are developed enough to fit into future movies, existing characters are true to what is already in the series, and there were a few "Ohhhhh....." moments for me where things clicked from previous movies.

Do you NEED to see it before seeing the next Avengers movie? Probably not. Some simple searches on the internet will get you enough information about Captain Marvel in the MCU to get you up to speed.

It's not in my top X list of movies but it's not something that is too much out of line with the others. Thor: Ragnarok had more things that bothered me than this one, to be honest.

I will admit the opening scene with the Marvel logo had me tearing up and I wasn't the only one.

My (probably not) cynical view is that she didn't look good enough on camera. It is a visual medium and no matter how well she presented her points if the producer didn't find her attractive enough she wasn't getting into the story.

I support 4 different Patreon accounts. One is for the creator of a piece of software for 3D printing that is continually updated and improved. Three are for artists who provide a ton of content for 3D printing - including an online designer for making builds out of some of those same designs other people are creating among others.

In those cases Patreon is a great platform. They can interact with their patrons easily, have a community board, have posts restricted to patrons and ones that are open to everyone, and they get an audience without having to maintain their own website. They can focus on creating content and working with the people who choose to support them.

Facebook severely overestimates their value here. Funny enough every Patreon I subscribe to has their own Facebook page so there's more reach but I have no doubt that they're not even looking at Facebook for their subscription platform. I don't blame them even with the over the top fees and the casual assumption of their rights to their own work.

My experience may be different since I'm mostly getting physical products. These aren't people streaming video. They use other platforms for that and there's no charge to see them. But who in their right mind is going to say that they want to lose revenue and rights to their product for no gain?

This was a while ago (about 15 I would say) and I managed the IT service desk for a large bank. We used pagers and the ticket system paged on various events. They were necessarily cryptic but the intention was to let the right people know when stuff was going on. The CTO would get paged if email went down, that kind of thing.

It was the dawn of the not-so-smart phone era and the executives got them along with people getting their own flip phones and such. Texting was starting to build. It was a great new world on the horizon. And the executives wanted us to step boldly into it.

Every few months I was asked why we didn't switch away from those old fashioned pagers and use this marvelous new technology. No more cryptic messages! No need to carry two devices! Stop being stuck in the past and move with the times!

I would politely listen to them and tell them (again) that SMS relied on email to get the messages to the towers. So just how I was I going to send a message that email was down if .. I used a system that depended on email to send messages?

It kept happening for years but that TAPI system just kept chugging along and the pagers worked everywhere, even in the more remote areas of the states when cell reception was 'stand on a hill and point your phone in the right direction' level.

It's nowhere near as important as medical professionals needing to be paged but it's an object lesson in using the right tool for the job. In this case the pager system is unlikely to get overloaded when there's a crisis or some other event where everyone is on their mobile phones. It might seem like it's an unnecessary expense but I'm guessing they looked at it like the executives at my bank did - a cost without knowing the value behind it.

I've had my share of whiteboard interviews and in general I've found they fall into two categories.

1 - A basic scenario to show you know the broad outlines of what needs to be done.

2 - Some esoteric problem that requires knowledge of obscure functions and is a pet project of an interviewer.

The first kind is useful. It lets them know how you think and that you know what's going on. The second one is a dumpster fire you're never going to answer to their satisfaction so you might as well thank them for their consideration and walk out the door.

My personal favorite interview story about the second was actually a logic question. The problem itself was flawed in that they didn't give a critical piece of information necessary to solve it. There was an assumption that was quite literally wrong. When they smugly told me how I should have solved it I pointed out that error. Needless to say I didn't get the job. Also needless to say I told everyone I knew about their lack of proper requirements for problems and to avoid them as an employer.

I RTFA even though I know that's not what we do here.

One bill doesn't put a limit on what retailers can charge to have it deleted and has a $20 fee going to the state. They also have to maintain a way to report content and keep it current.

The other bills require admission fees for anything remotely adult entertainment oriented to go to the state. Venues and stores have to keep a customer count and then pay up monthly.

SCOTUS has already declared this sort of thing unconstitutional. So they're fighting a losing battle from the onset.

They pull out the 'Think of the Children!" rag, they try to tie it to human trafficking, they try to say that they would be surprised if it wasn't hailed by the public as necessary. They're wrong on all counts. It's a money grab by the state and another way to show that Kansas legislators really have no idea how the world works.

I wonder what a search of their browser history would turn up.... Not that I'm advocating any Anonymous group to do such a thing...

Sure electronics get all the headlines but as one post pointed out the farmers are the ones shafted the worst.

They're locked into a service contract when they buy new equipment. There's no choice, So if something breaks that they can fix the equipment still won't work until a factory tech shows up and enters the secret code that tells the thing it's OK to run. They don't do any more than that but the farmer is stuck without working equipment while his crops rot. And then he has to pay for the bill for this kid to show up to enter the stupid code.

There are always going to be repairs that are beyond regular consumers. That's what repair shops are for. There are no independent repair shops for John Deere or other locked-down farm equipment. It's the dealer or an expensive field ornament.

If it takes the Apple name to get this moving and passed then that's great. But don't forget that the people who grow your food are the ones who get hurt BAD by the inability to repair their own equipment.

Director: "We want to produce these in China but we're getting a bad rep for not sourcing in America."

Manager: "But if we produce these in American then we lose our relationship with the Chinese markets!"

Director: "What can we do so this can happen?"

PR: "Pick an American supplier who can't deliver what we need, make a big public stink about how it failed, then go with the Chinese vendor we wanted all along?"

Director and Manager: "Perfect!"

The best value going to me are the private groups. I belong to several hobby related groups and they're the new forum of the internet it seems, even if the format is terrible for forum-style posting. I can share information and questions with people all over the world and get answers. We show off projects. And they're all on one platform.

I've seen some arguments about going back to personal websites and an extension of that would be the forums that are still going but not nearly as diverse as the FB groups it seems.

The personal information they collect? If they want to know I'm finishing collecting the Chessex Festive dice line or that I'm asking about where to get cooling fans for my 3D printer they're welcome to that information.

As others have noted true dollar stores (as opposed to stores like Dollar General which are not fixed price) are great deals for the right things. Party supplies, household goods, holiday decorations, greeting cards, etc. They're not so great on other things but you also have to figure in the cost of shopping.

Am I willing to pay 20 cents more for that can of evaporated milk I need? Sure. I'm there. The eggs are fresh but medium size for the same price as large at the grocery store? I can deal with that. And hey! This soup is less than the grocery store!

The store near me has started carrying more fresh foods such as dairy and bread. So it's not all junk food. There's aisles of decent foods as well as frozen vegetables and fruit. They know their shopping target audience.

There's no real socioeconomic boundaries to the stores around me. They're in strip malls next to upper middle class subdivisions as well as low income apartments. And they're always busy.

I'd never be able to do true grocery shopping at a dollar store. They simply don't have the inventory. But when I need picture frames, pens, paper plates, and such there's no better deal out there.