I agree that it probably would be a bad idea. That said, Russia executes state enemies on foreign territories already. And Vietnam kidnapped an asylum-seeker in Berlin in 2018. Another example, are the recent kidnapping allegations against Iran (https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/manhattan-us-attorney-a...).
Because it effects people's lives and mental health. I wouldn't want to live in a society or work for an organisation where a person's value is only measured by their output. If that means accepting (temporary) inefficiencies, so be it.
For me, this would be a major issue for personal emails as well. Even if an undelivered email wouldn't cause a monetary loss it still could have significant consequences, such as upsetting friends or family or missing the signup deadline for your kid's sports team. Personally, I don't mind paying the higher Fastmail prices to not have to worry about this.
For me, a hybrid system combines the worst aspects of both worlds. I think employees should get clear commitments on WFH days so they can decide if they want to move out of the city.
For example, I wouldn't mind moving from my apartment in central London to a commuter town to have a garden and dedicated home office. But that would only be possible if days in the office are limited.
Why put all this responsibility on developers? I'm pretty sure none of my former managers could have been swayed by talking about the long-time independence of the web. Usually, the most pressing issue was fixing bugs in prod and delivering features on time.
I think this needs to go even further than just disclosing the algorithm and code. The companies and prosecutors should be required to fund independent audits and bug bounty programs. Otherwise, it would be very difficult for resource strapped defendants to do anything with it.
How would a military escalation help in a conflict in which Russia is involved? Besides that, I doubt that there would be any public support for this in European countries that are not direct neighbours.
Do you really expect to notice a difference on a HomePod? Most people have difficulties differentiating 128kbps mp3s from lossless using high-end hardware.
How is not supporting "24-bit/192kHz" making a headphone obsolete? I would be surprised if you can even hear a difference on any AirPods compared to "24-bit/48kHz".
What type of API integrations would you need? In my experience, it can be very difficult to get any type of support from a big company if you're not paying. If possible, I would offer a free POC to a potential customer, who is also a customer of the services you want to integrate with.
This is very much my experience. I went through a couple of very lengthy and detailed RFI processes to select the best vendors, just for the procurement to fail at the final step for some arbitrary reasons with the VP's prefered solution being the only valid alternative.
In recent years, I've noticed that more and more vendors offer quite lavish "training" events for the tech teams evaluating their products. I'm sometimes still surprised by the type of questionable practices that are common in otherwise highly regulated industries.
Is renting out data centre GPUs for cloud gaming currently financially feasible? Considering how much GCP charges for GPUs, I would be surprised if they would be able to offer it at an atractive price (~$10/month). Other providers' services look quite experimental and not ready for mass adoption as well.
I tried it out when Stadia was launched but never got it to work reliably. Despide a wired 1gb fiber connection, I still got frame drops and lags quite frequently. While I wouldn't call it unplayable, it really doesn't compare well to dedicated consoles. Even for a very casual gamer myself, I feel an Xbox Series S is a better purchase.
In many cases it's about running retargeting ads on multiple platforms and tracking campaigns. For example, you might want to run ads on LinkedIn only for users who have visited your page.