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Setting aside this specific case, what is a business supposed to do if a union's demands are unreasonable and make it infeasible to keep the business profitable? If they try and re…

It happens to a degree in the US with federal research grants, but maybe not to the extent of other countries.

Reminds me of my last job when an unexpected 1% drop in our team's primary goal metric would trigger VPs and directors to have us launch a full investigation into potential causes.…

Among other drawbacks, that would interfere with satelites

Increased ridership on roads does increase revenues via gas taxes.

My understanding was Google's rebranding was mainly targeted at investors so that when financials were reported, it would be split out between Google vs. other divisions. It would …

The Saudis support US oil interest by for example selling their oil only in dollars and buying US weapons which props up our military industrial complex. This is why the US govt li…

The world overall might have too high a birth rate but almost all Western countries have a birth rate below the replacement level of 2.1 (e.g. US, UK, AUS all at 1.7 [0] and fallin…

I think this is a good take, most news doesn't directly affect you but is necessary context to make sense of the news that is relevant to your life

e2e encryption was only added after being acquired. Not sure why FB leadership would undermine the effort that they helped support in the first place

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The court of public opinion, even if sometimes unfair, still exists and impacts your business's ability to operate. By using the carrot instead of the stick, you protect yourself s…

> They also change your behavior in somewhat indirect ways with the goal that you continue to engage with their platform more and more How is this different than any other kind of …

The product they're working on might be super specialized, but oftentimes the skills needed to do the work might not be.

> one of the top up-sells is insurance That's because most storage facilities require insurance and no one is trying to buy it on their own, so they accept whatever the facility of…

I mostly agree with you, but I wish we could come up with a better word than "greed" to describe the almost universal and constant desire for humans to improve their own lives, whi…

If you followed his MS days closely, like many in this community, I doubt you'd change your mind about him. But I imagine large part of the public knows about him mostly from his p…

> The employees and the manufacturer can all withdraw the money at any time This isn't quite correct. If all parties go to withdraw their money at the same time, the bank will not …

Sure but the title of the article is saying one is worse than the other, so it's fair to refute that. No one is arguing the US situation is perfect and we shouldn't also seek to ma…

Anecdotally, I've heard companies that tried this (something like 3 months unpaid after 5 years tenure) found that most of the employees who take this end up leaving soon after com…

I think the bigger issue is the ambiguity of what constitutes a violation. As written in the article, this guy was under the impression that what he was doing was acceptable. If it…

Whether or not humans are biologically inclined to it, it's still a valid question to ask "Are you considering this potential mistake when telling our story and taking precautions …

The risk is a bad actor could hack into this network and control the cars

Author here: I couldn't find any sources that show the number of cases over time broken down by US state / county, so I decided to build one myself. Github source: https://github.c…