Doesn't seem like that's the case here. He's the blockee, not the blocker. You could argue that he set himself for that to happen, but it's his right to use his platform to make whatever statement he chooses. If some country blocks him because of it, that's on them, not him.

In all likelihood, not much. This is more driven by the state's need to get out from having to provide the (admittedly not terribly great) safety net that automatically comes from being an employee.

If the prospect is "Here's what the job pays, and by the way I'm obligated by government regulation to ensure that the pay and other benefits I've offered you are equal or greater than required to support yourself and your family... take it if you like," then I agree wholeheartedly.

Unfortunately, the prospect is "here's what the job pays, and by the way you need a couple of more jobs just to scrape by... take it if you like." And then the government picks up the slack with food stamps, unpaid hospital bills, etc.
   

Why not use public transportation instead? Assuming your business travel destination is a major city, there's probably excellent light rail or bus service to and from the airport. When I used to fly into the DC area, it was dead simple to hop on a bus to the metro and thence to a stop near my hotel. Ditto for Atlanta and other places I've worked. An Uber, Lyft or cab could get me there sooner, but I honestly preferred the comfort of a known schedule and cost savings. Saves the planet a little CO2, as well.

Of course, that all goes out the window if you're NOT going to a major metropolitan area or the public transportation doesn't exist or go to your hotel/job site.

Check up-thread. Another commenter posted links to several sources showing how gig-economy companies are essentially tax-evasion shell games.

It's really the other way around: it was Uber that chose to treat their employees like crap, and now that choice has been taken away.

You want Planet of the Apes? Because this is how we get the Planet of the Apes.

If we keep immunizing them, Monkeys will eventually be immune to every virus on the planet! This will give them an enormous evolutionary advantage over homo sapiens. Not long after, they will take over the world, one clean cold laboratory at a time.

These sorts of tests are extremely helpful to the candidate. As soon as a company puts you through one, you know that it's going to be an awful place to work. Politely and competently try to solve the problem, accept any feedback you receive graciously, and then follow up the next day with an email stating that you just don't think they're the right fit for the type of employer you're looking for.

Then the definition needed to be "Objects with the following physical characteristics: [list goes here] or for which a historical precedent exists to call them planets."

It's as simple as that. No danger of textbooks needing to be overwritten. No need to demote Pluto.

Really? Because I thought it was hilarious. @jenningsthecat should keep posting. Often.

In order of what I think is best:
Executive/Worker
Tasker/Performer
Tasker/Doer
Tasker/TaskDoer
Tasker/TaskPerfomer
Superior/Subordinate
Queen/Drone
Assigner/Assignee

I'm sure there are others. "Dependent" implies relying on the superior for some type of support, where it's really the other way around.

"Designed" is a poor choice of word, but it doesn't seem to be intended to mean that there's an intelligent being behind it all. From what I've seen, "designed" is often used as a synonym for "well suited." Or as hyperbole, with the underlying meaning that a thing is so suitable for a particular purpose that it might as well have been designed for it.

I doubt the author meant that someone had come up with a specification for fox skulls, sent it off to the 3D print shop, performed a craniectomy on an unwitting fox, and then passed off the cybernetic vulpine as a family pet.

The thing about coding is that most office workers are wasting tons of productivity by NOT doing it. I recently received an Excel workbook from someone who was responsible for regulatory reporting for my employer. Depending on your point of view, it was either a huge mess or an amazing accomplishment. Some of the formulas were so large that I had to paste the text into a vi-like editor and use "pretty print" to get any idea of what it was doing.

When I had everything sorted, I realized that I could generate the entire thing with a couple of VBA macros. I think it was a total of 150 lines of code. This thing had taken him MONTHS to develop, type in, copy, paste, etc. I was able to replicate it in an afternoon, without all the random errors and typos that had plagued him.

The point isn't that I'm Mr. Super Coder (I'm not). It's that if the guy who made the Excel workbook had had a "coder's mindset" from the beginning, he wouldn't have had to spend so much of his time and my employer's money on this one thing.

Not everyone should be a coder. But everyone should be taught the rudiments of coding- and more importantly, how coding can make their life easier and more productive.

Because if we are, "lots of code" developers have nothing to worry about. I tried to prototype some simple stuff with PowerApps and Flow, and my conclusions have been that a) the set of things that can be done with those tools does not intersect the set of things that businesses actually need to do, and b) anything in the former set can be done quicker, better, and cheaper by someone who took a two-day class in Visual Basic for Applications

So even though you tell it "Allow at all times," it still asks you again later? What is the behavior while it waits for a choice and/or if the choice is ignored?

If it blocks locations until you re-authorize, then it's not honoring the choice. Based solely on the text of the choice, the behavior I would expect to see is that the phone to allow location data to be provided until the user said "stop."