Please define what "woke" and "SJW" means. Whenever I see it being used on HN especially in contexts like this, it's a strawman for "anybody with a political opinion different from mine"
> Uber had a woman complain about not getting a jacket in her size
That is a wilful and bad faith misrepresentation of the Susan Fowler situation to such a degree that I am skeptical of everything else you've just written.
We're a design agency that went fully remote for the first time during the pandemic last year. It was a bit of a shock, but we tried our best to get to this new way of working.
With remote teams, there's no end to the tools we can use to be more efficient, productive, motivated... you get the drill.
But time-off tools are almost always an afterthought — that is, until information gaps and unplanned absences wreak havoc on project plans.
When you use all-in-one HR tools and spreadsheet hacks, some pretty hair-raising stuff happens:
1) When applying for time off is complicated, teams don't take a break
2) You lose track of who's in and who's out, and plans start to suffer
3) Overworked teammates start feeling burnt out and unhappy more often than usual
4) Too many features overwhelm your team and the pricing makes you cry.
These scarily common problems hamper the well-being of high-autonomy teams.
We've been there — so we decided to built a product internally last year to solve this.
It worked so well that we started slowly sharing it with other folks and now, more than nine months later, we're really excited to announce that our product's finally launched on Product Hunt and is currently at #3 !
Pause helps teams:
1) Take time off
2) Know colleagues' availability
3) Create transparent policies
4) Plan better together
We've built Pause to integrate with some commonly used work tools like Slack and Google Calendar so that it's easy to use and you don't have to switch contexts too much.
We're looking forward to answer any questions you folks might have!
> Facebook added that Oculus users will be able to hide individual ads or choose not to see ads from a certain advertiser.
Very interesting. The Oculus is quite a good deal at 299 USD given its technical specifications. I suspected that they were selling them below cost and subsidising them through stuff like this.
The issue is that, as a data-driven organisation I am certain that they would have assessed the likely impact of including ads on turning away users and made that the decision.
I don't know if you've read Mike Isaac's book on Uber? Michael Ovitz very famously screwed over Travis Kalanick when he invested in Travis' first startup.
You've pointed out that you have to absorb information to be able to get to a point where you can engage with a topic - but also, there's value in having beginners discuss and analyse stuff, because they're not set onto the paths that other experts have and would be more able to connect disciplines or arrive at an insight that others might not be able to think of.
Because they are largely hypocrites. In fact a lot of them identify more with the capitol rioters being delatformed and are scared that they could be next in line, and this was not the case with ISIS for example.
I've never understood this "what-about-ism". I see it as a bad faith tactic of deflecting attention from one issue to another, when the person doing it knows exactly how bad and indefensible their chosen stance is, and is trying to downplay it. I think it would be vocal to see why this OP is so instinctively fixated on BLM, Seattle and Portland and not on the Capitol attack. What does this reveal about the OP's own biases and what and whom they consider important?
Trump pardons former Uber executive Anthony Levandowski on the recommendation of a panel that includes Peter Thiel and Palmer Luckey.. (EDIT: Palmer Luckey) -> who famously caught on camera flashing a white supremacy sign in a photo with the conspiracy theorist Chuck Johnson and Steve Bannon (who was also pardoned today)- just hilarious levels of corruption all around
There is also an issue of maintainability and spare parts. For example, the technology behind how phone screens work is broadly understood, leading to people being able to replace their phone screens if they are broken or no longer working. There is no such thing for Kindle or e-readers more generally, because a lot of this is hidden in patents. so if you're a consumer and want to purchase one, and it breaks somehow you're SOL.