The alternative is it being an Hitler salute.

When something is subject to the network effect, competition requires interoperability. This applies almost universally to technical standards.

That’s not true in any big city. While the laws keep the landlord madness limited, real estate and rent prices are out of control because of speculation, and there are tons of horror stories to go around - and by experience, I would say they are even more common with individual landlords than with large companies, at least large companies don’t usually do anything obviously illegal and have less venues to make their tenants homeless.

I don’t think you understand what the word bloat means.

Why should git have a mediocre ticketing system instead of getting out of the way of dedicated ticketing systems?

Small personal projects just need a text file with a Todo list, large organisations might need something super heavy weight like Jira. If your VCS has a ticketing system it’s going to be dead weight for a large chunk of users, because there’s no one-size fits all solution.

That’s the bar of proof for a court, because a court can suspend some of your human rights if you are proven guilty (like freedom of movement by sending you to prison, or even take your life in some countries). It’s not a reasonable standard for day to day interactions or personal relationships.

Most people would also press a button that will save a random human of their country over a random human from another country. Does that mean people have different value depending on which country they are from?

I have a gun pointed at your dog and another pointed at a guy that’s going around eating people’s pets…

You are mixing the rational component of the question in general with the emotional attachments of particular situations. This kind of “I know it in my heart” drive is the same that drives things like racism and xenophobia.

That’s just a superficial reading of the news.

But there’s another level. Why did the dentist kill his wife? Was it some chemical dentists use that needs to be forbidden or at least regulated? Was it a mental health issue that points to failings in the healthcare system? Was it a problem with how he was a raised as a child that can be used to inform education policies? Can the dentist be redeemed or should he just be punished?

And on an even deeper level, should we as a society even care and intervene or should we move to a sociopathic mindset of embracing full individual responsibility and no collective responsibility at all?

That doesn’t help if they have software that assumes it can reach all sites. I remember a few years ago AWS had a EC2 outage in eu-central-1 because of 1 of the Availability Zones went down and the service that allocates instances threw a 500 when it failed to get that AZ’s capacity instead of just allocating the instances to the other 2 AZs.

Instagram was already forcing people to self-censor before TikTok became a thing

Social media forcing people to see self-censorship as normal has to be in the top 5 of the most harmful things they are doing.

500 million justifies using some very fancy data recovery means, as long as he’s sure it’s the right drive.

Gmail and Oral B are still much smaller on android (158MB and 139MB on my phone). So no, that doesn’t summarise the article.

Shouldn’t they do it while the COBOL people are alive to fix the code?

They also kicked Jack to the curb went he tried to go full Musk on content moderation.

On the flip side, in Europe extreme right parties are mostly being propped up by young men, while in other age groups men and women vote relatively similarly, which supports this finding.

They will always have slave labour as an “unfair advantage” (to use management-speak euphemisms), so prices might remain low.

Look for example at the EU Sanctions, they impact around 270 individuals and organisations, but allow Iran to conduct legitimate business. The problem is that 80 million is relatively easy to pay in the middle of some of the legitimate business.

The sanctions on Iran don’t prevent them from transfering money to most of the world, and 80 million dollars is pocket change for almost every single country.

They could have the money on a Cayman Islands or Swiss account by the end of the day, the problem is living long enough to spend it.