Keirmot

That is not a new phenomenon, per se. The hospitality industry was shaped by monasteries, based on the Rule of St. Benedict.

The way I read it is not to be needed for normal functionality of the team, not to "not be needed" at all. Akin to a ship's captain - for the most part a ship works without a captain just fine, but that doesn't make the captain's job redundant, it's just he's needed for specific occasions, otherwise, he's just making sure the crew works as a well oiled machine.

I 100% agree with the sentiment. To me, it feels like most bloggers nowadays think only in very superficial abstract idea, and then prompt ChatGPT for a blog post.

This comment is disingenuous.

In everyday speech, people don’t carefully separate “the people” from “the state.” A French person talking about the U.S. usually says les Américains. A German talking about the French will just say die Franzosen — or, if they’re in the mood to tease, die Froschfresser. It’s only in news or diplomatic language that you see “the American government,” “the French government,” or “London” when referring to Britain.

The phrase “this administration” is mostly used domestically, by citizens talking about their own rulers. In Portugal you’d hear "este governo é uma merda", and in Spain the exact same sentiment — give or take a letter or two.

And “Nazi Germany” is only used when distinguishing regimes — Weimar vs. Federal Republic, Estado Novo vs. the Portuguese Republics, the French Fourth vs. the Fifth Republic, and so on.

Sanctions have a theoretical basis behind them. In the Western Political Philosophical Canon, leaders and elites are expected to strive for the Common Good. From that perspective, sanctions aren’t meant as “torture for fun,” (as you put it) but as a way of creating pressure so governments change their behavior without having to resort to war. They’re basically a tool to raise the cost of bad actions and make it more attractive to adjust course.

At the same time, sanctions also work in other ways: they punish governments that break international norms, they send a signal to the world about what’s considered unacceptable, and they reaffirm shared values. That’s why they’re still used despite the harsh effects on ordinary people. They aren’t a perfect solution, but in Western thinking their role is to combine pressure, deterrence and symbolism, rather than just collective punishment for its own sake.

I don’t want to argue with you. I just want to say I understand the pain in what you wrote replying to other people. Life can make people hard, but that doesn’t make your hurt any less real. You don’t owe anyone optimism, but you also don’t have to carry all of what you're carrying alone.

I’m going to echo what others have said, and please, I ask you to read this with the most generous light possible. You deserve support, and it’s okay to reach for it when the weight feels too heavy, you ought to seek help, mate.

The board will not participate in the meeting, vocally.

I too thrive in that chaos.

Because one of the 3 basic principles of sovereignty (as is understood by western political philosophy, known as Westphalian sovereignty) is that there is no other authority inside a State’s borders except its own.

This means no other country has jurisdiction in North Korea, besides, there’s also no incentive to help in case DPRK asks for help.

France doesn’t investigante crimes that happen in Spain, Portugal doesn’t investigate crimes that haven in Canada, the USA doesn’t investigate crimes that happen in Germany, etc…

I bought one when I lied to myself and said I'll learn to do this in less than a minute. After 3 weeks I just got an app and solved it. Now I use it as a motivation tool to force me to close all my rings on the Apple Watch - whenever I don't, I move one side per ring not closed, and when I close I can fix it my how many rings I did close.

You must be fun at parties...

Some people do stuff just because it's fun, not to be the best of the best. If you only do something to be the best, why do anything at all?

Some IDEs have gotten slightly less frustrating with better processors: e.g. Xcode, which in my opinion deserves the star rating it has in the mac App Store

I’m in Europe, but the first thing I said to the renters of my Grandmother’s house was “here’s the keys, these are all the copies, but feel free to change the lock if it makes you feel more comfortable”.

People need to feel safe in their own homes.

Garden leave also happens in Portugal, but only when the relation between employer and employee deteriorated to the point of no return. As an example in the same company I had a co-worker layed off with 3 months notice, while in the previous year a different person in the same team was called to HR during the day, and let go - we all found out he was fired on the next daily stand up.

Well, there’s hot coffee and there’s coffee that give you 3rd degree burns.

I don’t see a problem with someone publishing 5 great papers early in their career and nothing else. I mean what were the meaningful publications from Oppenheimer in his later years? Or Einstein? Publishing should be done when it matters, not when it’s needed for a salary increase.

Well, Apple is trying a 'do as I say, not as I do' approach, which isn't exactly working.

For example I got an Apple Music notification the other day telling me how awesome the new Classic Music App is, or how the new season of whatever show is available in Apple TV+ is just fresh out of the oven.

I like their products, and even their services, but in this particular case, they're as bad as Uber, just at a different degree (I used to get an Uber Eats notification everyday until I uninstalled the app)

I’m positive GP doesn’t write in their phone in more than one language.

Or that, thinking logically, if you pull yourself by your bootstraps, you either don’t move or fall down.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t a double positive just a positive while a double negative is a positive?

Opt-in by default: you are in You can’t not select opt-in: you are in

This is true even among western languages. For example, it’s basically impossible for any other western european speaker to say the Portuguese ão sound.

First thing I did in my company, which is mostly German, was to abbreviate my name, instead of having multiple people trying their hardest to call me singing I don’t care for, I chose his I’m called in that context.

I wonder if it’s different where you are (I assume US) compared to me (EU).

I’ve used McDonald’s self checkout in Portugal, Spain, Ireland, and Germany, and although they aren’t deserving of any awards they’re functional.

I think both answers are referencing the Central Limit Theorem, that states [simplified] that once you get over 30 samples for each independent variable, you will get a normal distribution.

I fail to understand your point. What kind of feature do you to be excited to see in a product that is 16 years old?

Do you think the and thing when you buy a new dishwasher, a couch, a chair? That it’s mediocre?

Smartphones are not the future anymore, there’s people starting university soon that always had one, and never lived in a world without the iPhone.

Also, besides arguably the first few iPhones, Apple never distinguished itself from the competition with the technology it uses, but by the quality of its offering, which is why bending phones or poorly designed antennas are more important for them than having the newest tech available half a second after being commercially viable - that’s what Android OEMs do to differentiate.

I know that for me, personally, having a new iPhone with USB-C is a must have feature, which is why I have my iPhone 11 still chumming along.

If that’s the worst you think it can happen, you lack imagination.

I Myanmar fingerprinting helped the military find dissidents, the the US Cambridge Analytica managed to get enough data to influence an election, and there’s many more examples.

Besides, if a private company can sell access to you through ads, less benevolent actors can use that access for other more nefarious practices.

'Absence of evidence is not evidence os absence' is a mantra that was instilled in me when I was trying to figure out my uni undergraduate and went with history for a year.

This was also a center point in Historiography, and how, when analysing old documents by historians, one needs to be aware of possible bias, not only of the writers, but also of one self.

I think any kind of career move, be it freelance, corporate or anything in between, has risks. You shouldn’t regret the decision you made if when you made them you used the best information available to you - no one can predict the future.

The same reason no one talks Esperanto in their day to day. Just because it's easier doesn't make it the right thing to do.

Wouldn't everything heavier than Iron be older? IIRC, gold for example is generated when stars go supernova, which implies all gold on Earth existed before the solar system formed.

Is wmusic roughly unchanged?

It was scandalous when Madonna sang about sex, and masturbation in 1986, not as much when Christina Aguilera did it in 1999. And today you have people like Troye Sivan singing about taking poppers and the biggest drama is that the music video only has skinny and athletic young people.

In my opinion music, specially pop music, got horny as (the proverbial) f…