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I've also found that the extension configuration isn't very durable. I wound up having to re-do the arcane setup process semi-annually on each device or my searches would 403. Eventually just gave up. Brave search seems to work just as well.

Some companies supply that information voluntarily. Experian (iirc) even has a product offering that ‘helps employees qualify for loans and demonstrate stable earnings’ if the companies will just only send them payroll history. So it may not have been scraped necessarily, just “shared” in the ordinary course of business.

Having gone through this myself recently, it should not apply to parents attending events, if they are just a passive attendee, such as being in an audience for a school play. It does apply to any administrator, employee, or regular volunteer. Iirc the regular volunteer part has a number of hours of total volunteerism over the course of a year that is relatively low so if you are helping out with any frequency then yes, this probably applies.

Ad-free premium search is already an option with Brave Search

Is the premium search ad-free in the sense that no user-derived data is utilized or extractable for advertising purposes?

Or is it ad free in the sense that no ads are displayed to premium tier users, but user data can still be an input for ad measurement, conversion, and modeling?

When I was in private practice at a small firm, I would often take care of things like this at no charge for good clients if I could knock it out in a few minutes. It's the old "ounce of prevention" bit. Not every engagement with a lawyer has to be a "nuclear option."

That said, at a big firm, lawyers often don't have that flexibility.

Also this is magnified with many kids out of school. With reduced child to parent transfer those that do need to go in to the office may have less background infectivity. When my kids were in elementary school I had more sick days in a year than the ten years prior combined.

Is the CPM assertion supported by data? Does it factor in incentives at the federal level that are subject to sunset provisions? Does it include local incentives that are inconsistent when looked at across the entire US? (ie: CA vs TX) Is it utilizing a normalized cost structure for maintenance (hourly labor rate, for example) which is also highly variable geographically?

Not true. While hurt feelings isn't the legal standard, it doesn't have to rise to firing or hiring impact either.

The ADEA standards apply to age discrimination. The ADEA prohibits requiring people to work in a discriminatorily hostile or abusive environment. … The standards for assessing a hostile work environment claim under the ADEA are analogous to those utilized under [Title VII]. … Thus, the ADEA is violated when the workplace is permeated with discriminatory intimidation, ridicule, and insult … that is sufficiently severe or pervasive to alter the conditions of the victim’s employment and create an abusive working environment.

Citation: Murtha v. New York State Gaming Commission et al, 17-cv-10040, 2019 WL 4450687 (S.D.N.Y. Sept. 17, 2019)

Part of the issue is that Gitlab's approach signals a "we don't know what we don't know" problem.

Enterprises have been dealing with GDPR, CCPA, and data privacy issues for several years now. The apparent fact that Gitlab doesn't recognize when they're running afoul of opt-out standard practices mechanisms, and has those vulnerabilities appearing to be not caught during the SDLC is probably causing a lot of second guessing of competency by your more mature customers.

edit: This isn't a problem unique to Gitlab. Microsoft, for example, has encountered and dealt with this problem (telemetry privacy issues) as well (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-ie/DeployOffice/privacy/overvi...). Search for "Microsoft Dutch DPIA" for all the sordid detail.

Many data protection regulations, GDPR included, have exemptions that ensure that smaller organizations are not impacted until they are sufficiently large to bear responsibility for and provability of their actions.

Stripe Capital 7 years ago

Garnishment is against accounts held by a third party. If the right to withhold or draw from already-authorized sources is part of their contract on either the payments or lending side (and I can't imagine it wouldn't be), no garnishment should be needed as they're in direct contractual privity.

Part of the problem is that tracking at scale really does add convenience (automatic home to work detection, traffic pattern detection, real-time routing around events.) But then using that information for other purposes (advertising your nearest fast food restaurant) isn't seen by users as compelling compared to the user's purpose of sharing that information. That's one reason why GDPR and its enforcement has been so weighted towards the _purposes_ of data collection and enforcing adherence to stated purposes.

The problem, of course, is that incentives are misaligned and the company's purpose in collection and use is often different from the user's purpose. And the laws are still written to the service provider's purpose not the users' purpose. Its left to the company to align them.

I use Waze, Google Maps, and Apple Maps. Each has a perceptibly different balancing of those purposes.

... if incremental income is tied to number of deliveries. If the driver was contractually obligated to work that day anyway, and the incremental load simply increased the time at work without an increase in compensation, then maybe not.

Tolerance for and expectation of "please" can be cultural. OS code may receive contributions from global contributors.

Anecdotally, in my team which spans individuals from each continent except Africa and the poles, US english speakers are the least likely to use 'please', whereas our APAC (asia-pacific) contributors use it liberally.

The disincentive to new entrants is that the existing market participants can always drop prices enough to make the new entrant unprofitable. If you're in a control of a monopoly or oligopoly, you monitor for signs of new entrants, and when they begin to raise or deploy capital, you offer to buy them out or drop your prices to unsustainable levels and wait for the new entrant to run out of capital.

This is a pretty common post-startup experience. You'll likely find that positions in the Senior Manager to Director/Senior Director range are a good fit. It's often easiest for hands-on CTOs to transition to Director of Engineering roles but look at Product Director and VP of Product roles also.

The most likely challenge if you haven't been in large enterprise before is that the level of formality around processes and permissions can be a hard-start for people accustomed to the speed and autonomy of a startup.

Given the motivation to read and learn, a developer can read and modify legal 'code' just as easily as a lawyer can read and modify software 'code'. The question is what exceptions are thrown at compile time? In most SW stacks, you find out where your errors are pretty quickly. Unfortunately with legal code, "compile time" may not occur until the code is executed in a court of law. Are you sure that's when you want to do your debugging?

[dead] 7 years ago

Still needs to be adjusted to reflect correlation, not causation.

I tried Priori as an attorney service provider. After their "screening interview" which asked a bunch of lead gen questions, they set out contacting a bunch of my clients to poach them from me, even though I was one of their "members." Thank goodness my clients tend to be pretty loyal and they alerted me to the unsolicited contact. Shady stuff though.

Why is this, do you think? Is it generational based on the average demographics of the service providers? Is it a result of poor tooling for initiating and maintaining privileged relationships virtually?

As you noted, there's no reason the casework can't happen remotely, and appearances can usually be scheduled adequately to allow for client travel. In criminal of course, the judge and prosecutor is going to want Defendant to appear in person except for misdemeanor charges.