Handytinge

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by Handytinge 5y ago
As someone who was incessently bullied for many years, "get over it" is pretty good advice for some people. Like all advice on personal emotional problems, it doesn't sork for everyone, but for a lot of people it does.
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by Handytinge 5y ago
Sure, in Victoria. In other states we have incentives pushing for them.
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by Handytinge 5y ago
Users know they're buying into a closed garden when they buy the product. It's a feature, not a bug. If people wanted alternative app stores, they'd buy Android or Linux devices.
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by Handytinge 5y ago
The value that Apple brings - which bafflingly you seem to have missed - is over a billion users. That's a significant value. I doubt more than 50 companies in the words history have been able to provide that level of user base on thei
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by Handytinge 5y ago
Amusingly, your comment is the actual lie. iCloud backups are an opt in cloud backup solution. They are not enabled by default and myself (and many others) have never used them.
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by Handytinge 5y ago
Sorry, does anyone in tech actuallty use a commercial VPN? I have friends who are non technical who often ask me "what VPN provider should I use?", and my response is usually "Why are you using one?". They often say it&#
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by Handytinge 5y ago
It worries me how ubiqutous the idea of letting your single digit age children talk to a "voice assistant" that analyses and stores their words has become. It also concerns me that people describe this thing as a "she",
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by Handytinge 5y ago
Why? That grinds my gears. If the company believes in the values and benefits of longer parental leave (and I'm sure they say they do), why not enforce above the minimum in every country they operate in?
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by Handytinge 5y ago
It's likely your viewpoint of professionalism doesn't match that of Atlassian's here. As an Australian, it seems perfectly fine to me.
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by Handytinge 5y ago
American overcorrection is bizare. Years ago I recall hearing regularly that many Americans had no annual leave at all, or the ones who did would get fired if they took it. Now it's the other extreme of unlimited, paid time off? Just h
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by Handytinge 5y ago
I'm unsure if that passes the litmus test. In Australia, we had a royal comission into banking a few years ago, and the outcome was much tighter rules on lending, equity from assets, etc. We also don't allow people to invest in th
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by Handytinge 5y ago
20 years of continuous growth in Australia, with economists predicting a bubble burst every year. I believe we've had 2 quarters over those 20 years that didn't see growth.
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by Handytinge 5y ago
It's bizarre that prostitution is illegal in an allegedly progressive, western country like the USA. From an outsiders perspective, this is comparable to burning witches. Is there a reason for this beyond ideals from the middle ages an
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by Handytinge 5y ago
I'm shocked nobody's posted it yet, but iiNet (Australian ISP)'s coffee cam[0] is 13+ years running now: https://coffeecam.iinet.net.au/coffee/
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by Handytinge 5y ago
Did you post this article primarily so you could respond to everyone here touting your own opinions and disagree with anyone else’s? I get things are frustrating at the moment, but that’s pretty narcissistic.
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by Handytinge 5y ago
This is an interesting choice of article of the many on this matter. The title is wrong (it’s state government, not federal. You wouldn’t post “US government” when Florida enacts something). The intent of this program is as a trial to see i
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by Handytinge 5y ago
> So you're okay with increasingly stricter subversion of freedom Yes. Simple as that. Most of us are happy with the trade off of freedoms in this scenario. Your viewpoint of what defines totalitarianism or miscarriages of liberty a
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by Handytinge 5y ago
Your response is irrelevant to the query of “which many places are completely over this already?”. Naming an individual United states state which clearly isn’t over it as one of the “many places” doesn’t really provide an answer.