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byOswald McWeany
ember 13, 2019 @12:30PM
(#59410456)
Attached to: Next in Google's Quest for Consumer Dominance -- Banking
Now your bank account can be a "Google service"
So who handles my money when Google abandon this project in 6 months?
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byOswald McWeany
ember 13, 2019 @12:29PM
(#59410452)
Attached to: Next in Google's Quest for Consumer Dominance -- Banking
They haven't had the opportunity to yet.
Now when you type "how do I claim unemployment" in google your account will go into automatic review.
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byOswald McWeany
ember 13, 2019 @12:16PM
(#59410396)
Attached to: Next in Google's Quest for Consumer Dominance -- Banking
Presumably some shiny app, the same as Apple.
That, and they can advertise to you more expensive items on payday and cheap items towards the end of a pay period when you have less money...
oh wait, are we talking about benefit to the consumer, not benefit to google... Benefit to consumer, that's funny.
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byOswald McWeany
er 11, 2019 @03:05PM
(#59404286)
Attached to: Amazon Will Open its Own Grocery Store Next Year
Woodland Hills is anything but poor.
It will be after Amazon takes all their grocery money.
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byOswald McWeany
ber 05, 2019 @02:02PM
(#59384166)
Attached to: A Glitch in Robinhood App is Allowing Users To Trade Stocks With Excess Borrowed Funds, Giving Them Access To What Amounts To Fr
When the company itself goes under you will find it's all the people who had accounts with them that are backing those positions.
Now would be the time to move away from robinhood before they collapse from this practice. Innocent people using this service are going to crash and burn alongside those abusing the service.
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byOswald McWeany
ber 05, 2019 @12:36PM
(#59383848)
Attached to: Don't Reboot Your Computer After You've Been Infected With Ransomware, Experts Say
You're right Dallas!
Debbie did that!
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byOswald McWeany
ber 05, 2019 @12:11PM
(#59383752)
Attached to: Warehouses Are Tracking Workers' Every Muscle Movement
I speak from experience when I say that posting to Slashdot does not improve productivity.
No, it certainly doesn't, at least not in any short-term capacity. Long term though, if you work nose to the grindstone every day, every week, will you eventually burn out? Quite likely.
Unhappy employees eventually quit and move on, and then the company needs to hire fresh again and train fresh faces... it might still work in the companies favour to force work non-stop, even with higher turnover, but it's certainly not in the employee's favour. There is certainly a needed amount of slack in a human's day for their long term well-being.
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byOswald McWeany
ber 05, 2019 @10:32AM
(#59383324)
Attached to: Warehouses Are Tracking Workers' Every Muscle Movement
The point is that people who are not moving as much or who are taking breaks and goofing off are not performing at maximum effort. They are in effect stealing from the company, who is paying them for their time and not their output. If you can identify people who are short-changing the company in the time for pay trade, you can fix the arrangement. One could argue that salvaging the waste from your most efficient people has a better return on investment than trying to whip your bottom 10% with a stick to make them move faster.
Are you on the clock right now posting to Slashdot?
I understand the point, but it's still a scary thought. For human well-being a certain amount of slack is needed. Obviously people who abuse the slack and slack too much are not good for a business, but there should be a certain amount of slack. Being watched every moment people will think they can't have a "humane" level of slack.
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byOswald McWeany
ber 05, 2019 @09:33AM
(#59383054)
Attached to: Enjoy Netflix While It Lasts. It Can't Keep Going Like This Forever.
> Or instead will they [disney] just assume they know how to make content and not really listen to viewers the way Netflix does?
Have you SEEN Star Wars lately?
Star Wars isn't that bad, it's just what Star Wars always was: a kids film. You've grown up and the magic is gone. It's also kinda like the Olympics, the Olympics would be no big deal if they held them every year... Star Wars is killing itself by making too many films too quickly... there is a lot of fatigue.
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byOswald McWeany
ber 05, 2019 @09:31AM
(#59383042)
Attached to: Enjoy Netflix While It Lasts. It Can't Keep Going Like This Forever.
No matter how much people love Netflix, it doesn't change the fact that they are already $20 Billion in debt. A lot of companies have gone bankrupt and gone out of business with a lot less debt than that. And the debt is growing because their spending exceeds their revenue. The premise of the article is correct -- this can't go on forever.
You're right, they can't go on forever like that, although, it is worth pointing out Amazon. For a long-long time Amazon was losing huge amounts of money doing the equivalent of what Netflix is doing, investing in infrastructure. Eventually Amazon became not only profitable, but massively so. Many people kept saying Amazon could never be profitable, but look at them now. Took a long time to break even but they're swimming in money now.
Now, it might be harder for Netflix. Amazon's warehouses and distribution centers... they're long term assets. Maybe films and serials are too for Netflix, but the problem with most shows is, they lose their buzz after a few years and are of much less value. Not every show can be "Seinfeld", "Friends", or "Star Wars" and still be popular decades later. That's the less than 1%er of shows.
So, all that money they spend building "infrastructure", much of it has a very short life (of reasonable value). They have a much harder time to become profitable than Amazon. Cities rarely disappear over a decade, so distribution centres are guaranteed to stay useful. Netflix needs to hit the ball out of the park to guarantee their "infrastructure" stays profitable.
Netflix, could become profitable one day, but it's a much harder job for them. More likely they'll be bought out by a major network or Hollywood studio before they totally crash and burn.
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byOswald McWeany
er 04, 2019 @09:35AM
(#59378562)
Attached to: What Happened When Microsoft Tried A Four-Day Work Week
...the test case was MS JAPAN.
I'm not sure that the results in the US would track identically, as Japan is pretty different culturally.
I'd like to see it tested here on a large scale before we decide that this is something that should be widely adopted.
I used to work 4 ten hour days... and technically that's not the same thing, because I still worked 40 hours... but I can attest to having that extra day off, I was way more productive and focused to work on the days that I was in the office-even though the days were longer. (actually, I think the longer days actually helped me, I get more productive the more hours into the day I am, it takes me a while to fully find my focus)
I don't need shorter hours per week, I just need fewer days per week. I think 3 13 hour days would be a sweet spot for my productivity and happiness. (but everyone is different)
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byOswald McWeany
er 01, 2019 @07:12AM
(#59369280)
Attached to: Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and PSA Group Are Merging To Become World's Fourth-Largest Automaker
A really damn big loser. Might as well say goodbye to these brands now.
Yeah, a list of all the most unreliable European brands mixed with a list of all the most unreliable American brands. The new Fiat group is a verifiable whos who of all the world's worst brands.
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byOswald McWeany
ober 30, 2019 @08:49AM
(#59361626)
Attached to: AI Will Soon Be Able To Decode Your Poop
I recently learned from my doctor that I have an aggressive form of butthole cancer that could have been treated if it was caught early on.
Is butthole cancer the technical term?
The thing about stool analysis is that they need to know to analyse the stool in the first place. (unless pooping in a bag becomes a standard step for your annual physical). Having tools to look for problems is great, but they need to know when to use them, or use them regularly.
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byOswald McWeany
ober 30, 2019 @07:15AM
(#59361400)
Attached to: EA Comes Back To Steam With New Games
EA lost my business a long time ago.
Incidentally what do they need to do to get it back? In a time when Epic games is fragmenting the community by bringing the worst of the console world to PC (paid exclusivity for 3rd party titles), EA deciding to share their catalogue outside of their own store is a move that will gift them a lot of goodwill.
Can't speak for OP, but for me EA lost my business for all time when they started putting DRM in software that snooped through people's efile tax documents and disabled ReadWrite CD-ROMs from working.
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byOswald McWeany
er 29, 2019 @11:54AM
(#59358880)
Attached to: 50 Years Ago, the Internet Was Born In Room 3420
A story about Al Gore!!!
I can't wait for the scene where he gets inspiration for inventing the internet whilst single-handedly saving a whale caught in a fisherman's net.
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