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hace 21 horasdiscuss

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.

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hace 21 horasdiscuss

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

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hace 21 horasdiscuss

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

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> [...] 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.

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hace 3 díasdiscuss

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...

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hace 3 díasdiscuss

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.?

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hace 3 díasdiscuss

I think this is just materially incorrect.

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hace 8 díasdiscuss

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.

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hace 11 díasdiscuss

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.

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hace 16 díasdiscuss

This reads like a Markov Chain's output.

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hace 17 díasdiscuss

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

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hace 17 díasdiscuss

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

Articles like this are just further proof.

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hace 17 díasdiscuss

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

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hace 18 díasdiscuss

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

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hace 18 díasdiscuss

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

Our economy is a fraud.

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hace 19 díasdiscuss

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!

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hace 22 díasdiscuss

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...

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hace 24 díasdiscuss

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

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hace 24 díasdiscuss

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.

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hace 24 díasdiscuss

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.

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