I agree. I like to walk and think out a problem, and especially how I'd like to approach that problem. I almost never touch the computer unless I at least know an approach to tinker with.
Are you saying the employee has the right to refuse to work overtime or the employer has the right to refuse to pay for overtime?
As people have said, if the employer refuses to pay an hourly worker overtime when they've worked the overtime hours then there are labor law issues (which means that the employee must be paid overtime). But I do know employers can ask/assert that an hourly employee is not to exceed a certain amount of hours per week. If an employer refuses to pay a salaried employee overtime then that's where this article comes in and what people are discussing in the other comments.
If an employee refuses to work overtime then that mostly deals with workplace culture, pleasing your boss/your personal decision/getting your work done. There's a big difference between why or how an hourly employee can or would refuse to work overtime vs a salaried employee as explained by the way they're paid. An hourly employee mostly deals with not getting paid more money whereas a salaried employee most likely worries about a bad relationship with the boss/company.
I suppose everyone has the right to refuse overtime (not sure if there are legal foundations for this) but since the US has a work-as-much-as-possible kind of mindset it's difficult to simply refuse overtime.
That's a quick way to get fired. As of 2012, there was no right to refuse overtime in Nova Scotia and no cap on the amount of overtime you can work. I'm not aware of any amendments to the labour standards since then
Source: Buott, Kyle, Larry Haiven, and Judy Haiven. "Labour Standards Reform in Nova Scotia." (2012). pp 12-13.
I agree...I know this is supposed to be about their relativity to each other but the way my mind interpreted the wording was "Why are neither of the two objects traveling at 1.5 times the speed of light?" and I immediately thought "Well because it's relative and you can't say that you driving 60mph and another car going 60 mph in the opposite direction means you're driving at 120mph because you're still driving 60mph
edit: Because the question doesn't specify the speed relative to what exactly, I automatically thought about the speeds of the objects relative to themselves rather than to each other or a 3rd party.
If my car is travelling at 60 mph and there is a car in the opposite direction also travelling at 60 mph (according to a inertial frame of reference) then classical mechanics allows me to say that from my point of view the other car is indeed traveling at 120 mph. But special relativity only allows me to say that the other car is travelling at 119.9999999999990394 mph from my point of view.
The higher the speed, the greater the difference in the results from "classical mechanics" and "special relativity" will be.
A couple times carrying the W530 around in my backpack I've noticed that the corner of the keyboard will pop out of the casing and I'll have to shove it back in.
Please tell me how things like "I am kind of kicking myself for making what ended up being a bad tech choice..." and "gak!" are directly informative of the point of the article? This article needs to take a tl;dr approach and cut down the statements that could be stated in one sentence. Maybe other people might want to know this guy's thought process behind everything, but I'm much more engaged with the cold facts.
1-2 months to research Elm and transition the Unison editor? Okay that's all I need to know.
Realistically you would probably only be able to work part-time because you are a paid consultant? Okay cool that's self explanatory, you need to make money and we get that.
This article is informative, but it could've been edited to a maximum word count.
P.S. Thanks for being mature. I willingly admit that I'm young and I have a lot to learn, but I do happen to know terms like HTTP+JSON and why a one-file-per-hash system is an insanely inefficient implementation.
Photography - I use my free time to take long walks (perk: easy exercise) and take photos of whatever looks interesting which is very relaxing. It motivates me to travel and discover new places...even if it's still within the same town. I've been asked to take photos of people, events and groups by friends and it's always a nice experience. I also put up my photos online on places like tumblr where they have been recognized by the tumblr community on several occasions.
Triathlon - Obviously a great source of exercise. Teaches you to expand yourself (time, goals, etc.) because you have to train for swimming, biking and running. Races are competitive, but the racers are also very friendly (perks of a somewhat niche sport). And then of course it's always a wow factor among others since races last from 15 miles ("sprints") to 140 miles (Ironman).
First sentence: "According to the patent, the drones will be able to track the location of the person it is delivering to by pulling data from their smartphone."
Further down: "Using Audi's...communications system...DHL delivery drivers would track a customer's vehicle over a specified period of time and then use a digital access code to unlock the boot. This code would then expire as soon as the boot was shut."
...well this is all a little more unsettling than having your mailman or a FedEx driver drop by your house
If the issue is someone knowing your whereabouts during the day, hopefully you consider it pretty unsettling that everyone who knows your address can be reasonably certain where you are between 6 PM and 7 AM.
That being said, I can see being uncomfortable with them having access to your trunk.
It's not unsettling to know where a person might be in the middle of the night.
It's unsettling to know with absolute precise certainty where a person is at all times of the day. It's even more unsettling to know that a retailer knows where their customers are at all times of the day.
This is Apple/Google's fault. It really wouldn't be hard to add a section to settings that very clearly defines which apps have which permissions, and make it easy to turn off permissions for specific apps. Google tried something like this, but backtracked quickly. Instead, they need to double down and kick out any apps that crash if they don't have permissions enabled for specific functions.
The reason these companies deliver to an address is because historically, that is the most convenient way for them to get your package to you.
Now it would be more convenient for you (and less so for them, given the amount of effort that goes into route planning) to deliver to wherever you are.
A truck would hardly 'chase you around', but might follow you until you've parked, and give the package to you then.
I'd say the service places an unreasonable expectation on the shipping company, rather than on the consumer.
I live in Boston where our subway transit system still has a branch of streetcars. The points about passenger density and right-of-way are spot on. Actually the only thing that holds up the streetcars are when drivers are acting stubborn and entitle themselves to right-of-way...or when mother nature dumps 3 feet of snow on the city and the old transit system can't keep up.
But everyone still uses the streetcar system because you can get from point A to B, no matter if B is half a mile or 5 miles away, for one fee of $2.10 vs ride-sharing or taxis which accumulate charges over time and distance.
