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Comment Re:He's right, BUT defines winning like a sociopat (Score 1) 113

This. And if you're one of 180,000 workers, how much difference can putting in a few more hours make? Not nearly enough to move the "winning" needle. And of course when the company "wins", it's investors and the c-suite who reap most of the rewards.

Incentives...how do they work?

Comment Re:Netflix actually hit me with it (Score 1) 54

Yeah, my Netflix stopped working a couple weeks ago. I share with a few others, and pay extra to do so, so I'm not sure what the issue is. Haven't wanted to spend the time to dig into it. Been watching Prime instead...which now has ads.

Getting very tired of this BS. I have tons of games I haven't played, books to read. Guess they don't want my money.

Comment Re:"Erroneous" or not... (Score 1) 18

Was anyone harmed by this error?

Good question. Seeing as how the government doesn't send apology letters to everyone whose data they "accidentally" hoovered up and potentially abused in any number of inventive and worrying ways, how are they to know what harm they may have suffered as a result?

Regardless, they've all been harmed statutorily as there was no probable cause for any warrant to issue for their data. The Constitution doesn't have a "no harm, no foul" clause.

Comment This is Starbucks' real business (Score 4, Insightful) 73

I saw an interesting post a few years ago whose thesis was that Starbucks isn't a coffee company; it's a poorly-regulated bank, masquerading as a gift card company, which happens to own some coffee shops on the side. Someone broke down all of the company's public reports to demonstrate that the vast majority of their income derives from investing the money customers pre-load onto gift cards (whether they ever spend it, or not). The amount of cash that Starbucks holds "on deposit" through gift cards rivals the assets of some of the larger banks. I wish I could find the post again.

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