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Spain has a 15-days notice for termination and Luxembourg 1-month, France 3 months for IT jobs (I'm French) and I guess employee protection laws are proportional to those figures. …

The default accountability rules say 3 years (or maybe "minimum 3 years"). Therefore older hardware is assumed to have no value, unless someone takes the time to think about it.

I was thinking the same thing. I'd like the choice to rebalance my donations at the end of the month. Stackoverflow (if it were a charity) is immensely useful to my business while …

Is 1-3$ enough? If we had to invoice "the internet" and OSS to users instead of financing it with ads, wouldn't it require something starting above 1. $40/month for the charity web…

In many countries, companies have a tax incentive to contribute to charities, up to 1% of their income. Billing this as a normal service to customers then transferring the money to…

There's only one way to reach peace: By not attacking the other party and by giving up past debts, altogether at a country level. Example: The current way we deal with respect for …

It often happens in US to fire executives because of bad PR, undepending on their work. It doesn't have to be - How do they do on other continents? And this kind of be-perfect-or-b…

> inexperienced driver's reliance on Google Maps for navigation When I lived in Sydney, I used to take the taxi often. And the rule was pretty much: If your address doesn't exist o…

I've had positive experience with Postgresql, but I haven't personnaly witnessed how it behaves in production. In my opinion there aren't good alternatives to a recursive query: - …

Whether you like it or not, redistribution is the basis for most of the laws of my country (and certainly yours). It's not up to you or me, it's how the People think. In fact, that…

I'm worried about the form of the redistribution. In France, we have small taxes in many places. Just one example: We dealt with copyright issues by creating a tax on storage mediu…

... or they could develop badware for Ubuntu.

If I pay 1900-2200$ for a deluxe laptop, I would be keen to pay about 300$ more and have a deluxe Linux. Please Canonical, charge me but give me the deluxe experience ;)

And drop the services we like a lot.

How is it legal to talk about it? Surely they've brickwalled them in the employment contracts saying "The employee agrees not to publicize events happening inside the company, with…

Yes it explains a full range of behaviors in life. It seems we can go over such "facts" in non-challenging situations and dismiss them as non-relevant, but there's a point where we…

A relative worked for an alcohol post-rehab center (Patients would get the severage in the hospital first for a fortnight, then go to rehab for several months). She says former dri…

Atlassian shows the source code to their customers, even without being open-source. They don't give redistribution rights obviously, but this has proven very useful in developing t…

Technically, this is impossible because their build system and shared libraries [0] Commercially, this is exactly the right thing to do! Then you can only blame customers for not b…

In a previous video posted on HN, a police officer explains how they would use a concession made by a honest humble person during an interview to boost their conviction rate: "Sure…

Why should global warming taxes be also an instrument to rebalance wealth? That's exactly what discredits them when I push for them as a debate: The middle class feel very insecure…

Correct, we all are in startups with 90% chance of failure ;) More seriously, I laugh when former colleagues think of me as successful. It's correct that I've launched a successful…

Good from EFF to advertise companies who have a good behavior, but what sensitive information does reddit manage? It seems to me like it's only logins and IP addresses, so it's not…

I've always been i trigued by the CAPS in the BSD license. On what criteria was the text uppercased? Does it give it more weight in a court? Then why isn't every clause uppercased?…