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What would you prefer instead? That they not hire these 50 people at all?

I'd say that my tolerance depends on the kind of project. Does it do 3D maps? I can understand that the UX will be terrible even with a lot of progressive enhancements. Does it dis…

Parent was probably referring to closing down entire products (e.g. Google Reader).

Though this requirement is moot even in Germany, as it is impossible for you to verify such a deletion.

I think parent assumes users send their confessions and sins to people after they die instead of clearing things up beforehand or living an honest life. Says more about himself/her…

No, but you can use Chrome Store Foxified to install most Chrome extensions in Firefox. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/chrome-store-...

Of the top five results Google gives me, all are by recruitment agencies who have a strong incentive not to loose candidates and their commission. The notion that accepting counter…

Can you give some examples for these non-fitting cases? It would be interesting to hear as a non-US citizen since this debate seems so cryptic to me.

You can: Assuming that Powerball simply collects all earnings and pays them to the winner (they don't and keep a share), simply regard your lottery ticket as your share and deposit…

Because just like with lotteries, there are a lot of blanks, few small wins and a tiny amount of never-work-again wins: Many startups don't net the investor much, some make quite a…

From my personal experience, a good vs. a mediocre IDE can be the tipping point between really getting into developing or only doing it because you have to. Of course CS students w…

> When [you are infected with ransomware], you can’t get to the data unless you pay a ransom. However this is not guaranteed and you should never pay! What bothers me about their a…

Let me human-translate the two relevant paragraphs for you: > A tesla electric car with activated autopilot rear-ended a bus on the A24 motorway on Wednesday, as police reported on…

As a customer, return rates would be an excellent signal to decide between two similar offers, especially if ratings are scarce.

Yes, but this does not diminish the value of the companies in the long term. Remember that index funds are an investment vehicle for decades, not months.