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Google finally allowed personal legacy free GSuite accounts to opt-out of “upgrade” to Google Workspace. You can continue using your custom domain with Gmail, retain access to no-c…

I’m more concerned what happens when we bring some microbes from Mars.

> For me it is "here". The fact that for you it is "there" Sure, and I know some people for whom it was also "here" and now it's "there" because they can't live any more in their h…

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It's a fucking war there, people are sent to war to kill and to get killed. GDP in Ukraine is ~3,5k$ per year. Your software developer friends are just outliers there.

List of countries where "the West" organized a coup against a "corrupt murderer dictator" to establish "democratic elected government": - Ukraine - Syria - Libya - Georgia - Iraq -…

You don't need any of that, but not because Windows is somehow "better" but because it's Windows "culture" to package almost all dependencies with the application, while on Linux a…

> It does appear as if this government really does not want freelancing to be a viable option. This is the key. Freelancers earning their living on the internet are not inherently …

Sorry but Signal is just not a "better app". Yes, it has privacy and such, but the app itself is worse. I'm not even talking about missing features like not having chat backups, bu…

Sorry, but maven is an order of magnitude better than gradle. In most cases it just works and is blazing fast compared with the alternatives.

Depends on what you consider "real work". I would say 99% of business analysts in any enterprise level company do real work 1% of the time. The rest is filled with bulshitting, tal…

I hope this never takes off. This whole machine learning, optimization etc, story, but the end goal is that Google can easily transcribe your voice calls and store it as text. Then…

The reason cultural difference was an issue is one dominant culture enforced by presence culture. Without presence culture there would be no dominant company culture, it would be m…

> Absolutely - in knowledge economy, insisting on physical presence is darn damn stupid. Insisting on presence is the only reason knowledge workers in western countries can claim i…

> I can understand in the abstract that of course you could rap in German, but it's quite another to encounter evidence of this in the wild so to speak. Depending on what you consi…

and those authorities approved it because it's good and effective, or because it's the only one available on the market?

Who says AZ works around the world? It's the vaccine of the last resort, people will get it only if they can't get anything else because it's still better than nothing, at least fo…

Of course, in the USA exporting vaccines to other countries is simply not allowed, and if they want to sell, they need to sell it to the US government. The same applies to UK. The …

AZ ban game in EU has more to do with the internal politics than with the medical argumentation. For many of the corrupt governments it's easier to say "we don't vaccinate because …

Now as a politician, you just need to find the right expert that will recommend you whatever you want to do.

> Same goes for South Ossetia and Transnistria: these conflicts would long be history without Russian military footholds. You mean "history" in a sense that the local population wo…

Nassim Taleb actually cites Prof. Gigerenzer in the topic of simple heuristics.

> I like Bitcoin as a diversification for being a “better version of gold” - it has the scarcity ... Why do we repeat the claim of Bitcoin scarcity when we all know it's just a pro…

The most secure communication is the communication that doesn't happen. He can be pretty sure his communication channel will not be abused by some big advertising corp.