Hah, I thought of Kommu when I saw this post! I've used their slack to stay in NYC and had someone stay at my place in Austin. Would (and have) recommend to a friend
If I were giving a security recommendation to famous people and congresspeople I would recommend using a password like this. You might think it’s incredibly insecure, but imagine this GIF contained that 6 digit number that the congressman uses for all of his accounts. Suddenly, a ton of other services and passwords are vulnerable to an attacker.
In reality a lot of iPhones now require authentication at the app level for apps that have sensitive data.
To each his own, but knowing how public you are and how many people would want your passcode, I think the best practice is to use something dumb like 6 of the same keys.
This is itself bad advice. The proper solution is a truly random password, committed to memory, and all others being stored in a password manager, which is itself secured by a separate strong password
Amazon gets all the attention because it's Amazon. Work a retail job anywhere and you will discover that MILLIONS of retail workers must do similar checks.
I wonder if there is any limit at all. What if the screenings were 3 hours long before and after each employee’s shift? Would the company still be allowed to not pay them during this time? Seems this is pretty abusable. How long is too long [EDIT: according to the law] to force someone to work without paying?
Employees should always be paid for their time, regardless of volunteering, or it allows employers to negatively evaluate and find parallel reasons to fire employees who don't 'choose to volunteer' as a method of institutionalized wage theft
Grossly inaccurate is the best way of describing the screening time, I've done the amazon fulfillment center tour and seen employees check in for different shifts, it does not take 25 minutes to go through the screening process. There's no way Amazon with its efficiency mantra would let this happen knowing how it eventually impacts the bottom line.
> Grossly inaccurate is the best way of describing the screening time
Amazon agrees with you... they contend that the screening doesn't actually take this long. I'm not clear on how a question of fact like this can be in dispute unless we are arguing over definitions.
> I've done the amazon fulfillment center tour and seen employees check in for different shifts, it does not take 25 minutes to go through the screening process.
No one is claiming that the check-in process takes a long time. The check-out process is the one where the employees are screened for theft, and that is where the employees claim they must wait (unpaid) for a long time.
> There's no way Amazon with its efficiency mantra would let this happen knowing how it eventually impacts the bottom line.
I find that completely unpersuasive. The courts have just told Amazon that they DON'T HAVE TO PAY for this time. So it isn't inefficient for them to allow it to take lots of time. It doesn't affect Amazon's bottom line until the point where it becomes difficult for Amazon to hire any workers.
> I find that completely unpersuasive. The courts have just told Amazon that they DON'T HAVE TO PAY for this time.
The headline is a little misleading. The appellate court was letting the case vs. Amazon go to trial under state labor law; the Supreme Court decided not to intervene, so the dispute is still being litigated.
(Previously, the Supreme Court said time being screening doesn't require compensation under Federal law).
> There's no way Amazon with its efficiency mantra would let this happen knowing how it eventually impacts the bottom line.
How do workers trying to leave the warehouse affect their bottom line? They are no longer on the clock so it is no longer Amazon's problem. It is a big problem for workers who have to waste 5-15% of their free time on this obligatory work task.
Sure, but the court case is only going to involve one company. In this case Amazon, which is not surprising, since their policies impact far more workers than almost any other corporation. But the result of the case impacts all the rest.
Well, Amazon also employs more people than entire industries, and has a long track record of grotesque Labour abuses, so this is just an additional data point for when people ask why amazon is awful
The additional revenue from this stream is a drop in the bucket to Uber. I could be off here, but this seems like they will likely use these type of things just as advertisements and branding.
It is. They did Uber helicopter at Cannes ad festival last year or the year before but it was a stunt. They also have Uber boats in Croatia but the locals told me it basically doesn’t exist as nobody local wants to do it.
Great experience with Amazon Lightsail. The smallest instance is only $3.50 a month, and you can add a swap file if you need a bit more than 512 MB of RAM.
Lightsail is like swimming in the shallow end of the AWS pool. Doesn’t have a drop down with 50 services like AWS, but has enough to run a small or medium sized web app.
I still think the US has hope for rail and high speed rail that won’t bankrupt everyone. If, and this is a huge if (bc people love their cars), the US can replace a lane or two of major highways between cities with a rail. This would avoid forcing people to leave their homes or have massive payouts for stubborn landowners. The highway infrastructure is a pretty reasonable layer to build on as many highways already take close to the hypotenuse between major cities.
Anybody know why this concept isn’t talked about more?
It doesn't work like that- the geometric design of high speed rail and interstate highways are significantly different. The same is true for heavy rail vs high speed rail. You need much larger curves, and much smaller gradients for high speed rail.
Also clear space requirements for interstates would likely be infringed, which is one of the biggest factors of safety.
A more workable approach would be to reclaim abandoned rail ROW, and purchased additionally required ROW to extend curve length, where required. However much of this ROW has already been reclaimed by landowners and built upon.
Most companies are stuck in the dark ages, despite what you think after browsing HN. A lot of money to be made in consulting if you can market yourself well.
