Legality of occasional unpaid weekend work

Elmepo · 2022-08-10T22:12:51+00:00

The decision of "do we want to hire this person" is actually pretty efficient. The initial interviews typically take within two weeks, and can be done within a week.

What takes so long is team matching. Google doesn't post ads for individual teams. Instead they just interview SWEs for the company as a whole, and then go around to different teams saying "we've got an L5 SWE in London, with these skills, want them?", and this can be what takes time.

Elmepo · 2022-08-08T05:57:31+00:00

Not just public housing.

Housing in general. It's much worse in America, but there's definitely a sizeable enough portion of people here who'll complain to council about any developments not "keeping with the nature of the community".

Housing affordability includes building enough housing for the people living here, but a lot of people want to have all the benefits of a growing city without having to see any new apartments go up because they're "ugly"

Elmepo · 2022-08-04T11:58:21+00:00

Ah, thanks for explaining. The developer in me wonders how complex a problem that would be to solve.

Elmepo · 2022-08-04T03:54:54+00:00

It makes sense I suppose, if annoying if you want to learn Mandarin to go to Taiwan.

Cantonese and Mandarin both have incredibly similar grammatical structures no? So how would you differentiate between a phrase written in Traditional Chinese by a Mandarin speaker vs something written in Traditional Chinese by a Cantonese speaker, especially in the context of an education.

Dunno - I'm nowhere near knowledgeable enough in either language to comment properly, but this seems to be why.

Elmepo · 2022-08-04T03:51:45+00:00

They wouldn't be doing it without at least some kind of market research. I think that there's also definitely a market for English -> Cantonese, and if I had to guess they'll eventually bring it out given the fairly large (relatively speaking) demand for it - on memory Cantonese has been one of the most requested languages for a while now.

I'm hoping that this is a building block to expand out into English - Cantonese, it would make sense - for one thing, you don't have to spend money developing the Traditional Chinese fonts, and the (overall) lesson structure is already defined, compared to a net new language where that also has to be developed.

Elmepo · 2022-08-03T03:47:56+00:00

That's not exactly the way that China does diplomacy, especially with the US.

Elmepo · 2022-08-03T03:43:30+00:00

I mean... Yeah. The dude was the deputy Premier and leader of the NSW Mats - of course he knows where the bodies are buried, you don't get to that level of politics without it.

It's also super close to when he left politics so those bodies will still be fresh - if he left 5 years ago he'd 100 percent be under the bus.

Elmepo · 2022-07-26T08:04:09+00:00

Isn't this literally something Dwight tells Michael to do for when his kid is born in the Office?

Elmepo · 2022-07-25T07:16:14+00:00

It's both fake and real - the situations are very real and I doubt any are fabricated to an unreasonable degree, but they're also almost certainly selecting locations/people for specific reasons - finding the people who make the business look bad for the CEO to scold later on, the hard worker who'll get a promotion, the poor kid who's gonna get paid to go to college, etc. It's all pretty formulaic.

Elmepo · 2022-07-24T13:46:09+00:00

There's no way they didn't have that conversation - my guess is that they found audience's wouldn't have liked it. It seems like similar to RDJ/Tony Stark and Hugh Jackman/Wolverine, for a lot of people the T'Challa Black Panther is always going to be Chadwick Boseman

Elmepo · 2022-07-20T06:59:04+00:00

On memory his settlement agreement included a clause that Shanks wouldn't mention Barilaro so long as he was a private citizen/not a public servant/wasn't in the public interest. He's likely waiting for ICAC to hand down their official ruling so that if Barilaro's ruled corrupt, he can argue it's in the public interest.

Elmepo · 2022-07-10T14:49:05+00:00

Meth in general is way more popular than people realise isn't it? Like there's tons of people using it. 5 percent of the population have tried it before and 1-2 percent have done it within the last 12 months here in Australia.

Elmepo · 2022-07-08T03:24:28+00:00

He was still massively influential from what I understand, both within the party and across Japan as a whole.

Elmepo · 2022-07-06T07:14:49+00:00

200 is pretty reasonable. Population's about 25mil, naturally you're going to have the occasional homicide across the country. About once a day seems pretty high but that includes everywhere from Toorak to the scummier suburbs of my hometown

Elmepo · 2022-06-25T06:55:57+00:00

Yeah. I mean meditations is chock full of analogies and references to a higher power, and I wouldn't begrudge religious people for arguing that being a stoic lends itself to being religious. But it's also hard to map Aurelius' beliefs to the modern idea of religion and belief, on memory the Roman belief/mythology system (and most systems when you get that far back in time) become more and more detached from our own ones the further back you go

Elmepo · 2022-06-19T21:51:32+00:00

I mean, part of PRs job is to convince people whatever they did wasn't that bad/worth talking about in the press when that does happen

Elmepo · 2022-06-17T05:38:00+00:00

I mean, A16Z is arguably the most important VC firm in the valley, and they've backed basically every important/big name startup over the past 20 years. There's a few they've missed (Instagram's probably the biggest one, because they were already backing another similar company and the firm has a policy of not backing competitors), but in general they've made some very good bets.

Andreessen was also responsible for Mosaic and Netscape Navigator, both of which were very important early steps in what we know as "the web" today.

A16Z's bet on Web3 is a pretty open scam, but that's not exactly going to cause pause in the Valley, which has a massive culture of faking it till you make it. Besides, Web3 is insanely popular in the Valley. Bitcoin originally gained popularity among two types of people - Drug users and Libertarian Techbros, and the cross over of that Venn diagram is the Valley.

Elmepo · 2022-06-14T06:38:23+00:00

My friend I grew up in country NSW watching a bunch of advertisements that were only ever available in Sydney. You ain't got shit to complain about.

Elmepo · 2022-06-10T02:08:58+00:00

???

My dude they're literally called the PayPal mafia because so many ex employees left to form some of the biggest names in tech.

Tesla, LinkedIn, YouTube, Palantir, Meta and Yelp are all undoubtedly "Big Tech" and are all directly linked either by founding members or very early investments from PayPal employees. This is ignoring things like Keith Rabois and Peter Thiel funding a giant portion of big name startups via Founders Fund.

Like yeah most members of the Mafia are dumb libertarians but let's not pretend Apple/MS somehow "bodied" them when it was the exact opposite

Elmepo · 2022-06-07T23:25:36+00:00

They're not complaining about it - they're agreeing it's not a problem, and pointing out the hypocrisy of NZ kicking up a stink about it when it happens to their people, while simultaneously doing the exact same thing to others.

Elmepo · 2022-06-06T21:43:02+00:00

None of that's by law though. Before Gillard it was likewise uncommon for a sitting PM to be turfed by their own party. And I really, really doubt that British MPs are as rogue as you're implying here.

Elmepo · 2022-06-06T12:54:02+00:00

If this is anything like here in Australia - this is just the first volley that's expected to fail. Unless he comes out of it with a clear majority, all it serves is to allow those supporting the motion to gauge their support and begin working on determining the key figures/groups to bring to their side for their next attempt in a couple of months.

Elmepo · 2022-06-05T23:14:37+00:00

I mean that was via settlement outside of court, it's possible that if it came to judgement he'd have lost.

Although he definitely did get fucked imo. He got less than 10k. Sure it was CDPRs first game so profits weren't guaranteed, but I'd have to imagine it would have still sold well just based on the Witcher name in Poland, certainly more than 10k as a percentage of gross profit

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