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by Stranger43 3y ago
Costly in terms of eventually being forced to choose between allowing unionization and leaving the nordic market entirely. It's something that just about every other big anti-union American company have had to deal with and it's i
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by Stranger43 3y ago
I think we’re making a mistake in conflating stupidity with irrationality as it’s the latter that's truly dangerous. And irrationality doesn’t correlate with stupid in any meaningful way as people can be intelligent up to the point whe
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by Stranger43 3y ago
From a financial perspective IBM's model of buying up customer's by taking over smaller successfull outfits, maximizing profit's while the quality goes down the drain and using that profit to restart the process have actually
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by Stranger43 3y ago
But running that tank factory is probably the least effective way of converting tax dollars into employment. And thats one senator in one district it takes 50% of both senate and congress to pass a bill and not everytone gets contracts that
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by Stranger43 3y ago
It's probably not that simple as they could do what the EU does and create those jobs in purely civilian industries. It's more about the political economy where funneling through certain well connected companies generate a lot of
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by Stranger43 3y ago
Isnt it also true of every big success NASA have had, that it only existed because of lobbying and political pressure. We like to pretend that political influence on government institutions is a new "bug" and not something build i
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by Stranger43 3y ago
I suspect the big dark secret of the public cloud is that some regions/AZ's are not all that big and that there is no secret tech that's the big players have that the smaller regional players dont when it comes to the actual
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by Stranger43 3y ago
It's on brand for "the register" whose editorial staff never miss a chance for a good pun or double entendre so the awkward phrasing is likely intentional.
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by Stranger43 3y ago
A lot of this is that anything electric needs to be an order of magnitude heavier and significantly large to achieve any range due to the much lower energy density of batteries. It's possible to have small electrics but those often hav
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by Stranger43 3y ago
And were of cause forgetting VisualBasic because who cares about microsoftland those days but back when python/ruby emerged even windows server and IIS was relevant as this was kind of the peak of microsoft's dominance.
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by Stranger43 3y ago
yep the Perl community kind of had issues around the turn of the millennium and the perl6 debacle did a lot to convince people that Perl was kind of a dead end. I don't think there was any toxicity in the Ruby community but it was made
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by Stranger43 3y ago
And of cause the fact that the Perl community relished in inventing new and exiting shorthand tricks that allowed perl script to be essentially write only unless you stuck to an style-guide that had not been codified. Perl like VisualBasic
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by Stranger43 3y ago
Python kind of had three things that really mattered, an culture of “one correct way”, an invisible but conservative type system, and an style guide build into the language an dictated from the language designers in the form of significant
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by Stranger43 3y ago
Thats kind of not true, someone bought windows(and not as cheap as people think) it's just that nobody really sees it as something different from the computer because it's bundled. Enterprises pay a surprising amount of money to M
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by Stranger43 3y ago
That assumes that the company lets journalist talk to non marketing people. The term might in marketing department vetted communications often cover over "the techies droned out for 10 minutes using words we did not understand" an
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by Stranger43 3y ago
It's always puzzled me how much <insert appropriate epithet here> people are willing to take from Microsoft for products they pay good money for, without ever considering that there might be an world where not everyone buys their
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by Stranger43 3y ago
Why? this is a serious question, i work at a place where we use both and i would love to standardize on ansible rather then terraform even though i hate yaml and significant whitespaces. Terraform especially kind of feels like something tha
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by Stranger43 3y ago
It's worth noting that not paying fines in one country is a serious enough deal for the entire European Economic Area that it can escalate to that company not being allowed to do any trade in the entire EEC. And this fine will increase
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by Stranger43 3y ago
The doubling of fines was tried successfully against microsoft back in the web 1.0 when they refused to acknowledge the antitrust fine. Basically the EU(or even Norway) is way to big a market for advertisements for the industry to just igno
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by Stranger43 3y ago
Yep but isn't the problem that his employor demand that he drives right to the limit of his legal limit on corporate time and leaves no buffer for say getting home. The limits on time is not meant to be "norms" but extreme ca
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by Stranger43 3y ago
speed and driving times have been recorded mechanically for drivers in Europe since at least the 90ies so going electronic was maybe not as radical a change for European drivers when they went electronic in 2006. It's also worth noting
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by Stranger43 3y ago
The basic problem that gives private Equity firms a bad reputation is that winding down an fading company that have fundamentally stopped growing over a 3-5 year lifespan, is a pretty good way of getting a good return on investments so it h
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by Stranger43 3y ago
Firstmost an close relationship to SAP due to being headquartered in the same German region. Secondly SuSE have an relatively good track record of delivering an stable and predictable distribution with SLES, and have been around longer then
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by Stranger43 3y ago
If that was that easy why did the 3rd party apps shutdown rather then raise prices to cover the API fees? Reddit's model was kind of novel in that they did it in directly by expecting the 3rd party apps to collect the payment from thei
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by Stranger43 3y ago
But it's only really an subset of that demographic and i suspect the age spread reaches far lower then 18(reddit might pretend otherwise for regulatory purposes). And i suspect a reason for the entire debacle is that a lot of the user
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by Stranger43 3y ago
Given that the reason there were protest was that reddit wanted to monetize a part of their platform that was not generating ad revenue those two things could be completely related. if reddit cannot monetize their users, either as a product
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by Stranger43 3y ago
There seems to be a general problem with social media as a profitable business models as there don't seem to be any real path for companies to monetize their user base that don't end up causing damage. Given that Discord and Reddi
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by Stranger43 3y ago
They are the same entity now that's kind of what happens when a company gets merged into another company. It's also what a lot of people expected would happen when IBM bought RedHat and the whole centos-stream debarcle happened an
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by Stranger43 3y ago
The US immigration services uses the term Alien, and the US State Department have historically used both. Given how byzantine the US military industrial complex's paperwork and pretend regulation is someone might have been relying on l
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by Stranger43 3y ago
When it comes to "strange lights in the sky" there is a fairly uniform body of observation around the world with some(typically dry or mountainous) regions being hotpots so there is definitely things happening in the skies we don&

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