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> For the other "business falling apart", maybe they consider it’s part of the business owner’s responsibility to make sound business decisions when involving someone else’s liveli…

> These are mechanics that will just create certain kinds of behaviors. Yes, but if platform API allows using customizable third-party clients it is not really a problem for me (e.…

> For everything else, including desktop and mobile operating systems realtime sounds like a good idea. Why on earth would you need real time on desktop? Every time the topic is di…

> we don't want to help other countries at our short term cost (even if it is a long term gain for us) It is not even that since what they basically propose is to dial down the war…

> What crawls on four legs and causes women to drop out of the labour force? "Women earn less due to sexist discrimination" and "women earn less due to bearing the brunt of raising…

> Being a manager is about more than just getting people to do their job well. You also need to plan things, you need to know what's changing over time, you need to test whether yo…

Yes, and suppliers outsource the actual development and testing to cut costs even further.

> Changing course is a CEO taking responsibility for the company. Changing course and immediately resigning would be that.

> For now, most countries still have some semblance of control, usually backed by the power of international treaties, DNS blocking and control over payment infrastructure, but I w…

> Alternatively: it's what users want. So why are they so opposed to adding some toggle in the options to allow chronological feed then?

> Edit: the 49-euro ticket is great though! As a Swiss person you want appreciate German tax rates that subsidize that 49-euro tickets. The money has always got to come from somewh…

Yeah, just went over their pricing and they apparently don't have any lower tier subscription besides 20$/month "unlimited Phind + 500/day ChatGPT" version. I don't need that, what…

This is true in my experience. Before searching for something I often try to guess whether it will take me more time to quickly go over Google results or watch Perplexity Pro slowl…

> Ukraine. We spent a week being confused because the Ukrainiens expected the electricity bill to be calculated based on the size of your house and how many animals you have. The c…

> I heard that wges are less than 50% but you end up saving more Curios regarding how you came up with that conclusion. After paying rent, taxes and buying some groceries from EU s…

> I could still buy a car, a house, raise a family, have some savings, etc. You are an outlier. Very few SDEs in EU can afford to raise a family in their own SFH on a single salary…

A very boring kind.

Why would it be "a Mac thing"? I only ever close FireFox when updating the system and I'm on Linux.

If 1/3 of their employees quit over innocuous "no politics at work chats" policy, then it seems to me that the problem is in the hiring process and not communication.

> Templeton recalls a turning point when being asked about her recent reads felt more like a competition than a shared interest, prompting her to reevaluate her relationship with r…

> Besides (potentially) rehabilitation, prison serves to protect the populace from dangerous people who would harm others and as a deterrent to others who can see what punishment t…

> What could anyone ever do to convince him to not commit fraud again if given the opportunity... IMO 10 years in prison should be more than enough to discourage SBF from repeating…

> Google is also a multi-national company and would need to comply with laws in other countries too. If the individuals are represented as being minors (again, changes with jurisdi…

Prison should be to rehabilitate (i.e. ensure that convict doesn't re-offend after they are released) as opposed to just punish and ruin people lives for their mistakes for the sak…

Bad faith? Erotic writing "may be illegal" in the US? o_O