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In Austria, there is the concept of "Amtsbekanntheit", meaning if the government officer knows you, that's also valid proof of identity.

Czechia, Austria, Sweden, Finland, Portugal, Croatia, etc. pp.

You assume that bay area technology jobs are the norm. They seem, as far as I can tell, to be the absolute anomaly in the U.S.

Tiger insurance seems very necessary for e. g. retail, restaurant, construction etc. workers in the U.S., as they seem to be disproportionally targeted by tigers and earn next to nothing.

Everyone deserves to be treated fairly, even if they don't live in California and know how to programm.

“We don’t mind losing customers” Former Oracle CEO on their unwavering support for Israel.

They'll be fine.

Yes. Had.

In Europe it was the norm far longer than in the U.S.A.

That is totally incorrect for many parts of Europe. Pre-paid anonymous sim cards were used by the majority of mobile users until very recently.

do you really believe they don't know what you do on your personal internet connection linked to your name and payment data?

Many people in the Western Europe used, until very recently, prepaid anonymous mobile data cards that they recharged monthly with charging vouchers paid for in cash.

All this ended in the last 5 - 10 years. The U.S.-American corporate glass citizen slave mentality is actually a little tad bit new here, thus the outrage.

Only because anglo-style curb cuts are designed horribly. In Austria, they are unobtrusive add-ons to the sidewalk instead of literally obstructing the sidewalk.

My conclusion, as always, is that U.S.-Americans and Brits do not walk. Otherwise these design choices do not make any sense.

Who is "we"? Do you work somewhere that specialises in the curb cut effect? Would love to hear more about your organization.

Yeah. In many countries, EMS is also heavily volunteer-based.

[...] but only if my boss and the company decided to be real jerks about it. Another reason not to work for jerks if you can avoid it.

Worker protection rights in the U.S.A. truly are seen as a joke.

This is a lie. Joseph Biden pardoned Francis W. Biden, James B. Biden, Sara Jones Biden, John T. Owens and Valerie Biden Owens among many, many other dubious choices.

The U.S.A. is the embodiment of crony capitalism.

https://www.justice.gov/pardon/pardons-granted-president-jos...

I never understood why you can't just take any random European country where ones company also has a presence and stick to the (government mandated) vacation time there, usually 5-6 weeks p.a. - is this considered unacceptable in the U.S.A.?

I think this is just materially incorrect.

Have you ever tried publishing a paper to an IEEE Section 8 conference? The page limits are ruthless. TELFOR 2026 has a 4 - 8 pages maximum.

Working with tape storage was part of my high school education. So was mainframe job scheduling...

Europe is as much ahead as it is behind.

This reads like a Markov Chain's output.

Is Vienna the place to be for security researchers in their 30s starting to doubt their life choices?

The future will belong to China. The U.S. has fallen.

Articles like this are just further proof.

He worked for devrel under Osmani. These guidelines and processes do not apply to them, last I checked.

Adore it! Why did you not become an auto mechanic, then?

This vendor claims that they can service their customers with 21k less employees... in the same quality?

Our economy is a fraud.

Funny, I celebrated Father's Day on June 14th. I thought there was a globally agreed upon date, but alas I have been proven wrong.

Happy Father's day, most of the world!

Please read Directive (EU) 2022/2557 and then tell me how a disgruntled office worker is supposed to do anything they aren't supposed to, given full compliance with the directive. I've seen some preliminary national implementation efforts and it's really serious stuff physical security wise.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...

Google has historically always sucked at being a product company. Despite this, they're quite successful at it.

You need to legislate effectively.

This is something U.S.-Americans often do not (want to) understand. The misconception often is that just because their legislative efforts are an ineffective, lobby-ridden crapshoot, that the free market is automatically the best answer to everything.

You can affect really good and positive change through lawmaking, the entire point of it is to regulate and intervene when the wellbeing of the populous and fair competition is in jeopardy.

This kind of support should be mandated for any digital utilities company such as Google.

The difference between small business success and insolvency was based on the shier luck of being graced with the presence of someone in contact with the priesthood of Google, where no real contact from the plebian citizenry is allowed.

Exactly this kind of thing is why the EU feels the need to regulate the shit out of U.S. big tech.

This comment is a little creepy.

I'd argue that this (your) comment is much weirder. Could you provide a reason or point us at least to what you find so particularly weird?

I genuinely didn't know about their OSS efforts, thanks!