Hasnain says:

Have they heard of something called a door? The gif of this in action (in the article) is quite weird

“If a meeting requires privacy, a robot that looks like the innards of a computer on wheels and is equipped with sensors to detect its surroundings comes over to inflate a translucent, cellophane balloon wall to keep prying eyes away.”

Hasnain says:

“An Amazon spokeswoman, requesting anonymity even though she’s, you know, a spokeswoman, declined to comment on the new ruling or whether Amazon will appeal it to the state Supreme Court.”

Hasnain says:

The headline here is very charitable and makes it look like this guy made one small mistake. Even my quoted excerpt does that. This is just way worse. How did this guy get elected and why is he not in jail for longer!

Also, he tries to say “I went to jail for battery. Does that make me a criminal?”. Um...

“In another video, he tells students, “Class, you have permission to kick him in the balls.”

Parents told The Star that Samsel “put hands on the student” and allegedly kneed him in the crotch. In a video apparently taken immediately after the incident, the student is shown on the ground. Samsel is standing over him and says, “did it hurt?””

Hasnain says:

As someone points out - why would you do so much obviously corrupt stuff for less than you make in a year? This doesn’t make sense.

“As Netflix’s Vice President of IT Operations, Kail approved the contracts to purchase IT products and services from smaller outside vendor companies and authorized their payments. The evidence demonstrated that Kail accepted bribes in ‘kickbacks’ from nine tech companies providing products or services to Netflix. In exchange, Kail approved millions of dollars in contracts for goods and services to be provided to Netflix. Kail ultimately received over $500,000 and stock options from these outside companies. He used his kickback payments to pay personal expenses and to buy a home in Los Gatos, California in the name of a family trust. “

Hasnain says:

I mean if you’re going to make a bill like this, that you know is unconstitutional and will get struck down, at least go all in?

“The bill includes a clause that exempts a company "that owns and operates a theme park or entertainment complex" - which allows Disney to be exempt from this bill.

"If Facebook buys a theme park, does that prevent us from being able to regulate what happens on Facebook?" asked Andrew Learned a Democratic member of Florida's House of Representatives.

"So, if they bought a theme park and named it Zuckerland and he met the definition of a theme park under Florida statute, then yes," said Republican Representative Blaise Ingoglia.”

Hasnain says:

.... and 1/3 of the company (and more coming?) is out. I wonder if we're seeing a future business school case study show up in real time

(I saw a few resignation announcements in the morning, but now this...)

Hasnain says:

Oi. This is not a good look, and I’m quite surprised legal was ok with a VP publishing the original “rebuttal” - which reads like a six year old with a grudge wrote it.

“That tweet was the latest attack on the Intercept’s Mara Hvistendahl, who last week published an exposé detailing how reseller networks in China reportedly funnel Oracle’s tech into the hands of the country’s government. In response, Glueck published roughly 2,700 words worth of rebuttal on the official Oracle blog, helmed by a request for readers to send “any information about Mara or her reporting” to his personal Protonmail email address.”

Hasnain says:

This is an informative analysis of DHH’s recent post but also just a work of art in writing style.

“I'm guessing that is in the strictest legal sense, given that they are lawyers. And sure - it's incredibly hard to prove a legal pattern of discrimination or harassment in the United States. That's…not the point. There's a vast area of conduct that's legal, but still shitty. Some examples:

Using your employees’ past words against them at work
Telling marginalized people they're reading too much into something

Using your name and your status to push for antitrust legislation that benefits your company while simultaneously telling people to stop “being political” at work

Hosting a mayoral candidate's campaign headquarters in your company's office while pretending that work is apolitical

Using transform: rotate(-1deg); on your blog's subscribe card to make it look slightly askew”

Hasnain says:

Conspiracy theory that Basecamp needed a good way to do a layoff intensifies...

(Though I feel this is already way worse than anything they could have done had they just admitted to financial problems causing a layoff)

“Yesterday, we offered everyone at Basecamp an option of a severance package worth up to six months salary for those who've been with the company over three years, and three months salary for those at the company less than that. No hard feelings, no questions asked. For those who cannot see a future at Basecamp under this new direction, we'll help them in every which way we can to land somewhere else. “

Hasnain says:

As more and more information comes out about this it looks worse and worse - a modern day lynching basically.

Hands on the steering wheel, car was parked. And yet shot in the *back of the head* - and multiple other shots.

““These are not the days in the South when we put up with law officials and DAs that are inept, incompetent and incapable,” Barber said at the news conference, repeating the three words to a chorus of church leaders. “Inept! Incompetent! And incapable! Because of that, babies are crying.””