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Comment Re: My answer (Score 1) 60

Salaried workers anywhere in the United States.

If your company allows that it's because it's a benefit not because it's a legal requirement. They can take that benefit away without notice in most cases.

Amazon is a notoriously bad company to work for so I have no doubt in my mind that any employee on salary will be doing that work for free. While also working 60 to 70 hours a week on whatever their main project is.

Comment I'm of two minds (Score 1) 60

On the one hand, this isn't in the job description, so...no.

On the other hand, I actually think it's useful for people that are programming systems that other people use to actually use the systems themselves in a production environment to see how they function. If you're a programmer writing software that people at the warehouse have to use, it SHOULD be part of your description to do that job for a few days a year to understand what the biggest problems are.

And also: no volunteering. If you spend any time doing this, they pay you whatever your hourly wage is + overtime. If you're a high-paid programmer and you do this, they pay you your programmer wage and compensate you for your time. It's such a drop in the bucket for them, there's literally no reason but greed not to.

Lastly: fuck Amazon and their shitty labour practices and horrendous (reportedly) work environment. I wouldn't work there on a bet.

Comment So the PS3 servers are apparently still up (Score 1) 5

For a lot of games and there's an entire world of people out there still gaming on the PS3. There's a guy who runs a YouTube channel who goes around asking them why they still game on PS3. It's usually just that it's Dads that occasionally get to play a little bit and don't see the point of upgrading since they only play every couple of weeks for maybe a half hour 45 minutes

Comment Re:So something I don't think anyone is asking (Score 1) 33

So in AI is basically a really really really really fancy search engine that puts together bits of information is found during the search.

So yeah it is possible but a lot of these are hallucinations but I'd still bet money that a lot of them come from real Court filings.

But you know you're probably right, lawyers are far too honest to put made up citations in there briefings right?

Comment Re: My answer (Score 2) 60

Oh my God, you're serious? Let me laugh even harder.

For the record if you are a salaried employee they can make you work as much as they want for the same pay and your only recourse is to quit. And if you are a high enough level employee and try to go work for a competitor because they're in the same field here in expect a lawsuit. Sure the lawsuit might not be enforceable but have fun battling it out in court.

We gave up on labor law around the time we got obsessed with trans girls in bathrooms and the word woke. Didn't seem like a fair trade to me at the time but what the hell do I know?

Comment Re: My answer (Score 1) 60

I'm hoping there are labor laws in the US against forcing people to work for free.

It is illegal for Amazon to even allow them to work for free, even if they truly volunteered. Workers must be paid at least the minimum wage ($16.50 in Brooklyn).

Nobody is being asked to work for free. They are being asked to help out in the warehouse instead of their normal job duties.

Comment Re:Enjoy it while it lasts (Score 1) 25

So then why don't these smart Republicans go on Fox, Tucker and Rogan and explain their positions to the audiences they need to reach to not get booted out of office? I guess I'm assuming these right-wing media outlets will let fellow Republicans on to make their cases - is that not a valid assumption?

Comment Re:Mario Kart... (Score 1) 25

Taxes are not punishment and it's silly to view them that way.

No, it's impossible to say the premium price Nintendo maintains is totally due to quality and not scarcity, it's scarcity. Steam is full of great all time titles, some right up there with Nintendo's best but PC games are commodities and that's what Nintendo has been able to avoid, becoming just a dev shop.

Lots of companies don't want to devalue their games but big Ma control of their own market absolutely helps a ton in that effort

PS3 was 19 years ago, not as recent as we think (and time to feel old)

Comment So something I don't think anyone is asking (Score 2) 33

Why do AIs keep putting fake citations into cases they generate? An AI just regurgitates what it finds in its data set after all...

The AI should be smart enough to know what a citation is and it probably is. So it probably knows what it can cite and what it can't.

So if you haven't figured out where I'm going with this it's that there are probably a shitload of cases that have fake citations in them that have never been caught.

The AI is probably getting caught because it's picking up too many fakes citations because people are telling the AIs to find something that justifies what they want to do and then the AI finds it and puts it in the brief.

So I wouldn't be surprised in the least if you could take the data set used to train the AI here and then find the original documents and find a actual court case with fake citations in it.

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