Re: Big Tech companies should simply divest
Obvious it's even called alphabet.
Just split Google search into 26 different companies and you just go to a different one depending on what initial letter you want to search for
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Google runs ads for other people's successful business. The ads are priced and sold automatically by a bidding algorithm. It needs a couple of admins to keep the lights on. All Google has to do is reduce it's own costs faster than other successful businesses reduce their ad spend.
They do moving the Avebury stones for British summer time
(Of course they had to pretend it was a joke when news leaked out)
Not revealing the salary is obviously an advantage to the employer
If a candidate asks for less than budget you smile inwardly, if they ask for more you negotiate them down, or your own budget up. This obviously depends on the confidence, experience and other options of the candidate - and so statistically disadvantages disadvantaged groups.
But publishing a range still means that a more desperate candidate will accept the bottom and a privileged one will demand 10% more than the upper limit
I can see the point in publishing salaries, then it's easy to see that everyone female or whose name you have to ask how to pronounce seems to be earning less than the white guys. But IIRC this only requires that current salaries/gender/race are reported, not published.
Here the govt jobs paying more than $100K have to have the person's salary published. Then somebody retires after 40years with 12months of unused medical leave that is paid out and the local paper makes a fuss about binman or school caretaker being paid $$$$$$
For fast-food the salary range will be $minimum wage to $minimum wage+$epsilon and guess what you will be offered?
For professional roles, that I guess this is aimed at, it will say $50K-$120K. And some people will negotiate for 130k and some will accept 50k, and this will be as exactly correlated with race and gender as it is now. The only advantage I can see is that you don't waste time applying for "senior roles" that then offer you $50K
For executive roles it will just say $200K+ options where the options can be worth $0-$MM
So if Truss wants to be Thatcher she just has to wait for Labour to build lots of council houses in London. Sell them off to the tenants for pennies, have them become fantastically rich on house price rises and give all the credit to her.
It's not the least credible plan in the last 12years
As long as you kill 1/4 of them in safe seats you're fine.
Ideally you kill more of the other lot's pensioners than your own. That's easier if your own pensioners are richer and live in the warmer south
The real problem is that red-wall Tories might be at risk from too many dead poor pensioners in the North.
Perhaps a targeted program of tactical lagging ?
>Given the choice, there wasn't going to be a good outcome.
Was rather hoping for the more traditional "Gatorade Punchbown" ending to a cult
>the same selection process that produced Boris has produced Truss. Why would it do better this time ?
Given a choice between a woman and brown chappie, neither of whom went to Eton, I hoped that they would all give up.
Canada and Australia - you can get HP Sauce and Yorkshire Tea easily and the house prices will make you feel nostalgic for home.
New Zealand - is imaginary
USA - as long as you stick to Seattle (or possibly New England?) and never turn on the TV news it's not too bad.
Everywhere else you can't understand a thing they are saying - and they won't let you in anyway
There is no upside if it goes well - the head of the agency doesn't get a bigger yacht, the civil servants don't get stock options and the minister has moved on to another dept.
If it goes at all badly - then the press rip apart the head of dept and the minister responsible, and the current head and minister who had nothing to do with it.
So the only motivation is to avoid every possible point of blame and ideally drag the process out until some new guy is in charge.
There was a story at the end of 2020 that he CIA had suddenly lost a surprising number of agents abroad.
If so Trump should probably stay away from book depositories and there is going to be a long running conspiracy of which government agency wasn't involved in his assassination
Rabbis don't bless things and salt is always kosher.
This is more like Transubstantiation. Through the power vested in him by the ineffable electoral college. Trump was able to miraculously convert the documents into unclassified paper, while to the unbeliever they retain the same mundane physical appearance of highly sensitive national secrets.
It's one of those mysteries of faith (like the popularity of Justin Beiber) that mankind are not meant to understand.
It didn't need to be implemented widely.
You register your Eu office in the country with the lowest tax for US corporations and in return they ensure that all GDPR complaints are investigated fully - by the part-time assistant that comes in on the 3rd thursday of every month (unless her cat is sick).
Yea funny how starting a massive project by cutting corners makes it take longer and cost more on the long run.
Anyway we can now start HS2 cos we found some spare Brunel gauge engines in a museum so by designing around reusing them we assume the cost will be halved