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Comment They *JUST* bought Cyrus Security (Score 1) 20

by Kris_J (#63813579) Attached to: Malwarebytes Lays Off 100 Employees Ahead of Business Split
https://www.malwarebytes.com/b... I don't know what size it is (was?), or how many of its staff are affected, but come on, acquire a new company one week, lay off 100 staff the next? How are people supposed to have a life? Companies that complain of falling staff loyalty have actions like this to blame. It's like trying to make a home and have a family in a video game level where every floor tile you touch falls away a few seconds later.

Comment Did they infect too many people or not enough? (Score 1) 389

These articles are so frustrating. They have a go at Sweden for being reckless, which population behaviour is roughly the same as many countries in official lock down. They then move on to stats about how herd immunity didn't work because there aren't enough people with antibodies. So, did Sweden recklessly infect everyone, or cautiously infect not enough people?

Also, the stat that matters with Sweden is death per infection. Sweden does appear to have a much higher than average death per infection rate. Is this a reporting issue related to gaps between excess deaths and coronavirus deaths in many countries, or is there a factor at play in Sweden that isn't anywhere else? Did the miss a vaccination 40 years ago that helps? Is it a genetic thing? What's going on?

Finally, we don't know yet which country has/had the best policy. No one is out of this yet.

Comment Re:RSS for the masses? (Score 1) 109

I use TinyTinyRRS on an old laptop I leave running at home and have a variety of ways to connect to it from outside the house. It's my main source of news, and in fact the way I was alerted to this Slashdot article. It consolidates feeds from the following sources, allowing me to quicly keep up with a ton of news and other stuff that interests me in one place:

I know that's an unwieldy list, but I also wanted to point out to anyone that thinks RSS is dead that it's not. This list is about a large as I can keep up with in the time I have for such things each week.

Comment Re:Productivity not boosting wages (Score 1) 160

That's not the only broken assumption in that paper. There are two important points here:
  • Jobs are changing: What you were trained for even 20 years ago may be a viable career for the next 5. Meanwhile if you're 40 you probably can't afford to stop working and go back to school.
  • The number of unskilled (or low-skilled) manual labour jobs will fall from now until it hits zero. As will any management job that can be done by software.

In the short term, governements have to help people retrain in a way that keeps a roof over their heads. In the long term, governements need to stop producing mindless drones for jobs that don't exist. And they need to stop calling businesses the engines of employment while they throw tax cuts at them.

Comment Work is not why I'm not sleeping enough (Score 1) 223

Any article that thinks that working less gives you more sleep is ignoring the majority of life. I do my 38-40 hours of work, rarely more, and I'm lucky if I get an average of 6.5 hours of sleep per day. I'm not partying, I'm just trying to maintain my health and my house.

Comment Zero customer service + deals managed by computers (Score 2) 239

When there are no customer service agents to assist, and the answer is always "what does the website say?", this is the risk you run. At what point does it become a customer's responsibility to sanity-check a massive corporation's self-service portal? I say at no point. If your system stacks multiple discounts and you don't have rock-solid rules and checks, and I find a way to reduce the price to zero, then I assume that *is* a really good deal I've found. This is extreme couponing, not hacking. If an instant cash-back offer is more than the sale price, am I stealing? I think not.

Comment It's about belittling other people's strengths (Score 3, Interesting) 1256

by Kris_J (#54995533) Attached to: James Damore Explains Why He Was Fired By Google
I would suggest that he got fired for everything between the headings of "Personality differences" and "The harm of Google's biases", where he belittles every traditionally feminine strength. His belief that the male way of being an engineer is inherently better than the female way of being an engineer demonstrates a deep ignorance of what the company is trying to do and the way he handled it is exactly the sort of thing the company is trying to get rid of.

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