Perhaps economics and game theory will in the long run but here and now the Department of Justice and the class-action plaintiffs are doing a good job taking down the cartel.
Whenever someone moans about not being able to hire when other companies can do it, the solution is obvious. Offer better jobs! Better working conditions, better projects, better benefits, better salaries. The fact that this did not occur to the author of the article is pretty sad.
I keep thing separate by doing only Google things in Chrome and everything else in Firefox.
I will continue to shun Google+ because of the stories about people being shut out of it over the 'looks like a real name' rules because I have an Android phone and can't risk losing access to it.
In practice the two kinds of leave are treated differently even if they're from the same pool since vacation has to be requested in advance and sick time usually cannot be requested in advance. Unless you can schedule your accidents, injuries, and infections 4 weeks out.
It is extremely expensive in the US for small companies to provide health insurance for employees. Not as horribly expensive as individual insurance, but still outrageously high.
Which is exactly my point. The job description states that the salary is higher to compensate for the lack of health insurance, which doesn't make sense to me because the increase in salary would cost the company more than offering health insurance through a group plan.
I do take bphogan's point, in that it might not be possible to find a single group plan that spans the entire country, or that those nationwide plans cost more than individual plans.
This is a great example of a launch page, not an MVP. It's not 'a version of a new product', it's marketing information about a proposed product.
One reason it's a good example of a launch page is that it tells you before you enter your address that the product isn't available yet. Many launch pages these days talk about the non-existent product, ask for your address, and only then tell you the product isn't available. They try to start a business by lying to their prospective customers. I'm glad to see that this one shows integrity by telling the truth about availability.
I just looked at the Amazon sale page and saw it had one review from the author saying that he is the copyright holder, then refreshed the page and the review was gone.
So it seems that Amazon is aware of the problem and is deliberately continuing to distribute his book while concealing any information about the copyright challenge.
"a business model threatening crisis that everyone should have seen coming"
Airbnb did see it coming and were careful to cover it in their TOS section 1.2 and 1.4. They have, however, been marketing their service very differently. They've now taken down the FAQ answer about security that had only a joke about grand pianos, but it shows that they were deliberately trying to obfuscate security issues in order to make more sales.
That makes it even more amazing that they had no PR or operational plan in place to deal with the inevitable criminal user.
No, it doesn't cover illegal transactions. In many places the Airbnb rentals are violations of local or state hotel laws. Even in places not covered by those kinds of laws, it's unlikely that insurance for owners and renters of a private home covers commercial services in the home. Of course everyone should check their own policy to be sure.
