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Didn't they only say that their backups are fucked, but not that they didn't try to make them? I've definitely run into situations where the business is only willing to pay for the most rudimentary conception of a backup strategy, and then it turned out to have been subject to corruption.
They said they knew they haven't been able to restore backups for 2 years. Which is another way of saying that they don't have backups at all.
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Or, you know, you let unprofitable endeavors be substituted by profitable ones, and you just import food from different places where it is profitable. Just make sure not to wage war with them all. That's always an alternative to subsidies and tariffs, but it's not as politically useful.
This is how the US gave up its ability to manufacture so many goods.
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The exact same thing is happening in Australia in regards to farmers and fruit picking labour. With international borders shut they are unable to exploit foreign workers and complain that young adults are refusing to relocate for $5 an hour hard labour jobs.
> complain that young adults are refusing to relocate for $5 an hour hard labour jobs. USD $5/hour is what I earned as a teenager working the fields by hand (picking corn, beans, and fruit for sale same-day at the farmers small stands throughout the area) in the early 1990s... That's insane. Is that USD $5 or AD?
What I've seen first-hand in some farming communities was closer to $10AUD/hr, but that is still far below our actual minimum wage of $19.84AUD/hr.
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Well perhaps that's the problem of the market. That it can't particularly function to enrich some people without gross levels of exploitation.
Being paid $5/hour farming in Australia vs $0.50/hour assembling shoes in Malaysia. Wow, such exploitation. "Exploitation" is a relative term, some people would rather be exploited in the countryside of a first-world nation rather than the countryside of their homeland.
The Australian national minimum wage is $19.84/hr.
Getting paid about a quarter of minimum wage is very clearly exploitation. There may be other benefits for actually working in Australia, but that's not really relevant here when you're trying to attract native Australians to work for you.
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Consider that you are only hearing one side of the story and taking it entirely at face value.
I mean... what could the other side of the story actually be? "We tried to hire back an employee to build something that we didn't train or try and figure out ourselves and a deadline forced us to pay a large lump sum to that employee". No matter how you slice it, that's really shitty planning on the businesses side. They should have spent the time and money learning how to maintain their shit. By not doing it, they…
Every negotiation is about the best alternative the parties have, and it's generally harder in real life than in fantasy because you underestimate the alternatives to a deal.
Applying maximum leverage has a way of creating "out of the box" alternatives. And vindictiveness.
I have no need to judge it if it were true.
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Even if they did "pin it on him," why should he care, exactly? Seems to me like he had no obligations here, contractual, ethical, or otherwise.
Well because if he was taken to court that costs time and money, even if ultimately the lawsuit fails, no?
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This is not extortion. The company made choices that left significant leverage in the hands of another business. That business correctly perceived the value of the services it could render and priced them accordingly. This is exactly the free market at work regarding labor. Have a problem with the free market if you like, many of us do but do not accuse this poster of criminal action equivalent to a protection racket…
What's the rationale for doubling the first price ? Why is it a more fair price ?
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> I had to inform several users that I could not restore the file that they had only just noticed was missing because it was last seen more than two years ago and presumably disappeared longer ago than our longest backup cycle which was one year of monthly full backups. If you can afford 12 months of backups then you can almost certainly afford >=12 years of yearly backups by buying a new set of monthly tapes once a…
But you are then archiving data (not just backing it up), and will need to work out how to delete records you are no longer legally able to keep. (GDPR and earlier laws, etc.)
The best way to delete user data is to encrypt it all with per-user keys so they can be shredded immediately upon request. Backups of user keys themselves can be very short-lived since the keys are static and the lifetime is scoped to GDPR/other laws. Then the encrypted data can be archived indefinitely, so long as encryption keys are never stored in those archives.
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Here in america farmers hire illegals to harvest crops, claiming that no american would do the work. This has always struck me as a really terrible excuse. I'm sorry, you can't simply break the law because you'd have to pay an american $20 / hr to do the work. Sure, it means that your tomatoes are more expensive, but also, now there's a hell of an incentive to apply automation to the problem yes? If you don't like th…
Here in america farmers hire illegals to harvest crops, claiming that no american would do the work This is a political talking point that has been repeated so often that people believe it is true. During the recession of 2008, there were stores on local TV news in many places showing unemployed Americans waiting in long lines for the opportunity do do those jobs that the politicians kept saying no American wanted to…
How do you determine from TV that the people lining up for meatpacking jobs were not undocumented immigrants?
Like, it is generally accepted there aren't any in "flyover states" or something?
I never really thought of it until this moment, but you know how within 100 miles of any border, your constitutional rights are somewhat compromised so DHS can operate? That ought to mean a pretty substantial incentive for people who are undocumented to migrate inward. So I would bet they do.