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Help me understand why a family farm would have such an issue if the owner-operator dies, but Walmart didn't when Sam Walton died? Is it an issue of incorporation/business structure?
Suppose you're a young 20 something with maybe $300 to your name. Daddy gets struck by farming equipment and dies. Now you have two choices:
1. Continue operations of the family farm, assuming you can come up with the money to cover taxes.
2. Sell the farm to Big Farm, Inc., get a $5M check and forget about it, regardless of the consequences that means to your customers.
asne11 commented on Committing to Rust in the Kernel lwn.net/SubscriberLink/99... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
There’s a recent drama where the Rust folks asked some people to clarify some of the semantics of some of the filesystem APIs, and this request wasn’t taken well. There’s been a bunch of hn threads about it.
like which?
Nah, you'll probably get $3.84 and the law firm handling it will get several hundred million.
Or, a bill for costs after you lose.
Stay away, you may end up owing money. From the Retainer Agreement:
> XVI. FIRM DOES NOT GUARANTEE RESULT
> I understand that there is always a risk to litigation. If I were to lose a case, under some circumstances, I may have to pay costs and/or attorney fees to the prevailing party. I acknowledge that FIRM has made no guarantee regarding the successful termination of my case and all expressions about the relative chances of success are matters of opinion only.
asne11 commented on Bosses Are Finding Ways to Pay Workers Less wsj.com/lifestyle/careers... · Posted by u/petethomas
Already been happening. This is exactly what's been going on for over a year now at the company I was most recently working for.
When I check in with folks still there, they mainly talk about how the time difference and distance has done nothing but add churn to the entire process both between devs but also between devs and management. Hopefully higher ups will recognize these inefficiences too, but that's wishful thinking.
> When I check in with folks still there, they mainly talk about how the time difference and distance has done nothing but add churn to the entire process
I don't buy that. Saudi Arabia and the United States, via Saudi Aramco, have figured out a solution to that long ago. Business "flows" unimpededly between the two for decades.
asne11 commented on Bosses Are Finding Ways to Pay Workers Less wsj.com/lifestyle/careers... · Posted by u/petethomas
> wages for new hires in construction, manufacturing, food and other blue-collar sectors appear to be ebbing too, according to an analysis of millions of jobs posted on ZipRecruiter.com. Job seekers report seeing roles that once offered salaries between $175,000 and $200,000 a year ago now being advertised for tens of thousands of dollars less
You mean, I can quit software engineering and install flooring for $150,000/year!? Count me in
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