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And is using all accrued vacation days ever expliticly mentioned as contributing towards termination reason or is something else used as a cover?

The real question though - will we finally see Master Chief in Super Smash Bros.?

Glad to see a kindred soul out there. I thought I was the only one :)

Nazis and pedophiles were also avid consumers of that chemical.

You're right, it's proven beyond doubt that it's corruption

Set terms yes, bu the terms are very unreasonable, impractical and paradoxal, they imply unnecessary suffering that actually degrades work performance, the very thing good managers want to keep up. Sacrificing performance for control is the signature of bad management and a bad employer.

Sorry for the double post but I've just noticed another top level thread that you started before this reply and quoting you:

> A hormonal approach for men would probably go very poorly.

I would have liked to continue a discussion, but it seems like you actually understood the problem but pretend not to, in order to troll someone.

Your sentence is illogical and reveals a lack of understand for the underlying biological processes.

The women's pill emulates and controls an existing hormonal cycle that naturally regulates their fertility.

There is no such natural hormonal cycle for men, that regulates their fertility.

If I saw some technical similarities between those two processes I would not oppose hormonal control pills for men, but the male and female bodies work differently.

> The pill can wreck women’s hormonal cycles. It’s hardly a given that it will “control” them.

One could also say the pill can control women's hormonal cycles. It's hardly a given that it will "wreck" them.

Thankfully the pill is one of the many female contraceptive choices.

The article mentions traditional hormonal contraceptives don't work for men. This is a new approach, blocking a targeted receptor. I'm not aware of any such contraceptive for women. The apprehension in that case is understandable as it is not backed by the same experience as hormonal methods

Please, go read Gulag Archipelago, come back when you are done and share your thoughts on the limits of the soviet penal system.

Appeasement prolongs suffering and death.

Violence is the last resort for peaceful nations to stop further, more brutal violence of others.

Russia is making it harder and harder, reducing available options to resolve that war.

It's not a binary thing. It's not either they work together or they don't.

Under a common block, trading or otherwise, things are just easier and much closer together.

Consider only visas, travel and employment, the complications of these brought by Brexit, already distanced any existing and future collaborations by some measure.

There is still collaboration of course, and there will be, but it's not what it was before.

And this negative trend of distance in collaboration is more worrying in an increasingly threatening environment.

It's not a binary thing. It's not either they work together or they don't.

Under a common block, trading or otherwise, things are just easier and much closer together.

Consider only visas, travel and employment, the complications of these brought by Brexit already distanced any existing and future collaborations by some measure.

There is still collaboration of course, and there will be, but it's not what it was before.

And this negative trend of distance in collaboration is more worrying in an increasingly threatening environment

Correcting just one side will incentivize a higher number of unruly people in the opposing side.

It would be best to reduce or eliminate unrulyness, not just move it around, even if it ends in a small reduction.

Sure, it's the law, screw ethics, that's how it works, right?

What do we need, exactly and realistically, to achieve a real lockdown?

> (3) Firstly, Arm China was robbed from Arm. The CEO stopped taking orders and just kept IP and is running company like their own. Chinese courts did nothing. China does what it wants inside China.

Did ARM cut off any new IP access from ARM China? Seems like a logical next step. And how is ARM China going to continue innovating? On their own?

Skepticism is like an anchor, too much and you go nowhere, too little and you're adrift.

The interesting questions are how much and where do you place your skepticism?

NFTs sound enough alarms for me that I feel the need to drop anchor on that before steering to any BS with potential financial consequences.

Consider this: a) literally zero government intervention. b) some government intervention, to keep the market competitive, as described above. c) total government control.

What do you, jlcoff, call a)? If I understood you correctly, it's "free market". What would you call b) and c) then?

There is no doubt that a) is strictly incompatible with any government regulation or intervention. Label those two concepts however you want, but I don't think anyone argumented against that.

A lot of people seem to use "Free Market" for b) instead of a) and that is confusing.

I agree with Diesel555's idea of calling b) a "competitive market" as it avoids a labeling confusion between a) and b).

> Hobbes identified this trap, and found an ingenious way out of it: redirect the fear to a third party. If I am less afraid of my neighbor than what the government will do to me if I kill my neighbor, then I won't kill my neighbor. And if the government is vastly stronger than individuals, it will fear neither my neighbor nor I, so doesn't need to constantly terrorize everyone going about their daily lives.

There are certain fundamental freedoms in a democracy, such as individuality, choice and movement. Democracies, of course, are weak to challenge those, as that is the point of a democracy to protect such fundamental freedoms.

However, this pandemic has made it so that some of those fundamental freedoms are now perceived as a serious threat. The virus spreads individually and thus to control the virus individuals must be controlled, by themselves or by the government.

Are we seeing constant terror in our daily lives because governments now fear the individual, their choices and their movements?

Is this why we see a reduction in democratic values? So governments can regain power to control the pandemic and thus inevitably also control individuals?

States of emergency were such temporary mechanisms used and still in use in some cases.

> Western culture has taken over the world. People from all corners of the globe wear western clothes, listen to western music, watch western TV, talk about western current events, speak western languages and practice western religions. Not all, of course, but western culture is more dominant than any other. The place for white Europeans to practice their culture is called Earth.

Couldn't agree more.

I see this appeal to the early common roots of western culture as a point of union and positivity.

Sadly I think the mentality of division and protagonism, as opposed to the western value of individualism, has poisoned the well of our culture and people are much more susceptible to react taking offence that their micro-tribe isn't represented in full HD.

There is value in seeing the world painted in a broad spectrum of strokes and observing the patterns that emerge from different perspectives, but this requires tolerance and curiosity.

I feel the same way.

Aren't npm and GH all owned by Microsoft anyway?

What if those principles are applied in a market where customers are forced to buy the product because it is essential and they have little to no choice in product providers?

Some philosophies would say that's a market opportunity, others would say it's up to the government to regulate, others would advocate for a different corporate management style. Has any been effectively implemented or worked in the past?

For countries neighboring west so much, particularly Germany, neither Poland nor Czechia seem to have capitalized much. I find it more impressive how Romania progressed, given the cards it was dealt.

> If you overestimate everything - and you never finish things close to the mean estimate - that's a sign you're a low performer...

It's very hard to find axiomatic statements like those, that actually work in the possible multitude of contexts.

Which assumptions are behind that statement?

Does the team have uniform experience working in a single product? That statement feels more applicable here.

Or are there multiple work streams that aren't even touched by a few members and everyone is involved in estimations for everything? That statement feels less applicable here, and trying to enforce it could lead to experts in one workstream to be considered low performers, which motivates a consulting style lowest bidder environment, probably ending in overworked people and low quality code reaching prod.

No quite baseless, more like speculation with established precedent, motive and opportunity.

Should customers of a product be forced to either spend 100$ for a new product and generate more ewaste, or tinker with their device leaving it in an unsupported perhaps even out of warranty state?

Maybe some people are happy with either option, but it sure is unethical to force that choice, especially when all the effort it could have taken from the manufacturer was to add a boolean flag.

I'd complain too, not everyone is in the same situation, and this is dodgy behavior anyway regardless of me liking the workarounds or not, simply having to workaround is bad enough in principle.

I think the shock is how old the reports are, and how since then things have not changed, but in fact worsened.