It's a shill article pumping a false narrative. Hacker News is part of the problem. The headline should read "Martin Shkreli launches website to shame pharma..."
The whole "disgraced" thing is a disingenuous slam to send the reader into the link with a predisposed mindset. The same type of play on confirmation bias that Trump employs.
Working from home was removed from our office because of "abuse".
Who was "abusing" it?
We have 7 Indian (not American) females working in our office in various functions. All (100%) of them were found to have been "working" from home on multiple occasions where they were inaccessible (not logged in, not responding to emails). Their reasons for working from home ranged from children to car troubles. By all measurable attributes, their work output was less than their peers.
Now before you knee jerk, please understand that I'm simply pointing out the measurable facts of the situation. I'm not making any claims regarding cultural background. I am, however, questioning whether or not there exists a cultural component here that leads to a different understanding of the "work from home policy". To that degree, the statement, "If you don't trust your employees to work remotely you shouldn't have hired them" can perhaps come across as a bit racist.
until the problem of consciousness is solved and we have moved away from behaviourial models for automation, there's no way i'm getting into a driverless car.
I started reading the article, but it kept droning on and on. Eventually I found myself staring blankly at the page, nodding every once in a while to give the impression that I was paying attention.
I wrote to S.E. Hinton to ask about the significance of the church. "Why an abandoned church?"
She responded and told me there was an abandoned church where she grew up. She liked to hang out in the building because it was a convenient place to read.
I have the letter stowed in a box somewhere in my parents' attic.