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"Loyalty" has been dead for decades, just look at that many accounts of successful teams and people that have been laid off in the last year alone. The same exact stories of hard working and dedicated people being laid off on a whim can be found going back decades.

There's a reason that so many people now get prompted by moving "horizontally" between companies, very few companies today properly reward loyalty, if anything most actively incentivize individualism and disloyalty.

According to FBI data, crime is actually decreasing year on year in almost every metric despite police dereliction of duty. Ironically this is creating a stronger case for further police budget cuts and moving that money towards non-traditional policing alternatives. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/29/us/crime-data-fbi-homicid...

Tim Tok has been struggling with a massive problem where many creators that actually start to get big on the platform end up migrating to YouTube anyway because their pay sucks compared to YouTube, the same goes for instagram and every other platform in the industry. Youtube has a lot of problems but nobody pays better than them https://youtu.be/jAZapFzpP64?si=KrLqetuhzmer2T8H

Your link is dead... but the idea that the "vast majority" of Palestinians support a group that was elected way back in 2004, then immediately dismantled elections violently attacks any dissenters is laughable, Palestinians were bravely publicly protesting hamas (again, a group known for executing dissenters) just 4 months before the attacks, internal support for hamas is not high. https://apnews.com/article/gaza-hamas-demonstration-israel-b...

The incentive is probably to get their profit margin up to the maximum 15-20% https://www.propublica.org/article/cigna-pxdx-medical-health...

While there may be trends none of the examples you cite are new, the only thing these trends definitively reflect is that society is changing, which is to be expected.

1) Feudal Society was overwhelmingly debt based with serfs in debt for life or even generations, medieval European society did not collapse but rather changed over time in part due to the unstable nature of this system.

2) not sure what "demographic cratering" refers to here, low birth rate? Low birth rate is a well understood economic phenomenon when a society reaches a position of high comfort and well met needs for its population. I would argue this is a good thing.

3) participation in communities of faith has historically fluctuated, such as during the renaissance era. and high participation is not necessarily a good thing, high religious participation among populations also coincided with religious wars where massive scale atrocities or genocide occurred.

4) increased drug use is generally not even a new trend, if anything just a change in what drugs are used. In use United States, Opioids currently are far less prevalent than nicotine was during most of the 1900's, weight loss fad drugs have been recorded as far back as Ancient Greek society. the increase in prescription drug use over the last 100 years has also coincided with a large increase of the average American lifespan.

The "expectation" of tips making up the rest is really just an expectation from the business that you will needlessly subsidize their payroll, in all 50 states the employer is mandated to always pay the minimum wage even if zero tips are earned https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/wages/wagestips

I say tipping is unnecessary because there exist a few states like California who ban the practice of paying a lower "cash wage" and allowing businesses to keep tips for themselves. Anecdotally, I notice that typical restaurant bills in California are not any more expensive than nearby states like Nevada, Colorado, or Arizona.

Do you tip the janitors of each place you frequent? What makes wait staff any more deserving of a living wage than other occupations? Realistically tipping is just a subsidy for corporations who choose to take more profit instead of pay a living wage to their workers.

The government regularly uses taxpayer funds to bail out or support failing private corporations anyway, so it's already our problem when private companies go into debt, why not force out the profit-seeking middle man?

My understanding is the supposed "attack" happened 25 miles away from the airport and over an hour after the last tweet from the elonjet account. It's also suspicious that the LAPD came forward saying no police were ever called nor was a police report on the incident filed. This whole situation seems made up or at least strongly exaggerated.

really just flimsy excuse to ban an account musk personally doesn't like and any journalist who criticizes him as well.

You know that “quiet quitting” just means doing the absolute requirements of your job and nothing more above and beyond right? What cause could you use? “Employee only works exact amount of hours as required in employment contract and completes average number of tasks per day” is absolutely not a just cause.

Since you'd get more pay without these protections, you can save the excess for a rainy day. It sounds like you are speaking from a position of extreme privilege, more than 165 million Americans (over half) do not have a spare ~$400 for an emergency, much less savings to pay rent after a sudden job loss.

And when people get desperate some turn to crime. Which then increases your costs through increased taxation for policing and incarceration and secondary effects such as reduced safety and increased personal costs due to crime, such as increased insurance costs and the greater threat of being targeted.

So when all costs are internalized, worker protections pay dividends at making a society better for all involved, for example the many northers European countries with very low crime and very strong worker protections.

You should show pricing somewhere without requiring a sign up/login. Maybe it’s just how your site renders on mobile but I could not find pricing without signing up.

Cloudflare has guides on several different approaches for preventing access from non-cloudflare IP addresses[1], I’m pretty sure they also direct you to this information as part of the setup process for new domains. For paying customers who aren’t technical they also offer “cloudflare tunnel” which is very simple to set up [2]. It would be nice if cloudflare has automation to proactively checked and reach out to paying customers who do have their servers exposed though. [1] https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200170166-B... [2] https://www.cloudflare.com/products/tunnel/

Why not target the individual with the most influence in the organization, the highest C-level executive responsible for overseeing the operation? The threat of punishment for oversight failures on high level executives will naturally result in strict company cultures of safety and caution since the most powerful person faces real risk.

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Do go in on Monday, if you don’t you are unable to defend yourself. Do just close your computer right now and go to bed. If a manager has unreasonable deadlines and other staff are not doing their jobs that’s on them, and it. Absolutely is NOT your responsibility to destroy your work life balance to make up for other peoples failures. If you don’t have a major stake in this project/company you should absolutely not be overworking and stressing yourself out this much, this will lead to burnout. If you feel like you are being strongly pressured into overworking yourself like this regularly it’s time to start looking for another position.

This doesn’t make sense, hydrogen fuel cells are essentially batteries/an energy store, and it takes a large amount of electricity to produce the hydrogen. Hydrogen fuel cells are closer in relation to lithium ion batteries or gasoline, you still need a massive energy producer to extract the hydrogen (like wind, solar, hydro, fossil fuel, or nuclear). So hydrogen is not an alternative to nuclear, if it ever took off it will really increase demand for large energy producers like nuclear.

I recently stumbled across this custom uBlock filter from another HN commenter, if you use uBlock origin this filter completely removes that annoying “feature” on google.

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AFAIK there is no country who forces a company to host anything they do not wish to (with exceptions to government/political entities in some countries), if any company decides they do not want to be associated with something/someone they generally have a right to withdraw their business. Your best options are to 1) self host, 2) use a decentralized hosting platform, or 3) find a hosting provider who is willing to host your content.

“DevOps” is currently a hot buzzword in the industry, many non-technical people in management hear about DevOps and how it’s good but do not understand what it is. They proceed to conflate DevOps culture as a position or individual skill and seek out to hire anyone with the term on their resume.

You could store the phone number in hashed form and require the user to enter their phone number for the one-time text every time they log in, if the hashed phone number matches the hash you have stored for the user account, then send the verification text and let the user enter that to complete login. This way you can use a phone number for verification while not actually storing the phone number.

you do run into the issue that getting ahold of extra phone numbers is fairly trivial, so you can’t really rely on phone numbers alone to keep bad actors out.