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Comment Before The Gig Economy (Score 4, Interesting) 258

Will this change also affect contractors that were independent contractors long before this new gig economy trend? For example, if a family owned rug store offers to tell rug installing contractors about sales done that day (with the approval of the customer), are those contractors now under threat of becoming employees? What if the store offers to arrange the timing of the appointment for installation?

Comment Some arguments don't hold up (Score 1) 322

Changing a state to follow the DST time zone year round is saying that you want 1:00 PM to be close to solar noon, not 12:00 PM. So 1:00 PM just becomes your new clock noon. And the sunset time difference of greater than 1 hour between Maine and Detroit is completely expected. If time zones were evenly distributed and did not follow geopolitical borders, then locations inside the same time zone but on opposite sides would have sunsets exactly one hour apart on the clock. So it doesn't take much fudging of the time zones to get locations that have sunsets more than one hour apart on the clock. It's nearly unavoidable. And though we loose an hour of sleep in the Spring, we gain an hour of sleep in the Fall. So for that particular metric, short term it's bad, and long term it evens out.

Comment Re: Mirrors your attitude (Score 1) 179

Yeah, I was wondering, how does one do a systematic external analysis of YouTube algorithms? There's hundreds of markers used in the algorithms, from the geo location of the viewer's IP address to the fonts installed on the system. Can anybody really account for all those possible variables without having deep internal knowledge of the algorithms used?

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