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There's no philosophical dilemma here. Each participant in the conflict is using the tools at their disposal to get what they want.

The protestors want change from the company. So they protest. The company wants to shut them up. So they fire everyone.

The protestors still want change, now plus compensation. So they sue. Not suing makes no sense, as it concedes defeat and gets them no closer to their goals.

This is a terrible example given the PS5 controller is compatible with Windows machines.

A fair interpretation, but consider the work the artist is known for: https://www.maggioregam.com/artists/42-alberto-burri/biograp...

Did he see the disaster as an opportunity to ply his trade at an even greater scale? Sixteen years after the earthquake, he was asked not to build a memorial, but to help reconstruct the new city. He declined and created this piece instead. Your quote in context:

> mayor Ludovico Corrao called upon numerous architects and artists to help with reconstruction efforts. [...] “We went to Gibellina [...] When we finally arrived to visit the place, the new city was nearly complete and full of new pieces. ‘I can’t do anything here,’ I told him immediately, ‘let’s go see the old town’. It was almost 20 km away [...]

There's lots I find objectionable about our built environment, but at least it has a purpose. Between butchering an animal for food, vs doing it for fun, this artwork is the latter.

I find it grotesque.

It could have been a park, a farm, a forest. It could have been left as an interesting ruin for humans to explore and nature to reclaim. But in the name of some selfish artistic vision, this person built a vast concrete wasteland.

Good art triggers strong emotions, I suppose. I feel horror and revulsion.

Herculaneum, where these scrolls are from, is 75% unexcavated! And it will likely remain this way for some time, as Naples sits right on top of it.

More interesting as advertising gimmickry than physics.

You named all of them - jank, a new language, and crucially, long-term support from Google, who are so untrustworthy in that regard that it's turned into a meme.

Every tech has abandoned repos, especially popular ones.

As React Native matured in the past few years, the community developed improved solutions to common problems, and many older stop-gaps were rendered obsolete. Perhaps that's what you're seeing.

The only major competitor to React Native that I'm aware of is Flutter, but it has several drawbacks that make me hesitate to recommend it.

Humans kill wasps even though we landed on the moon.

Parks Canada says bear bells are not an effective deterrent against bears.

https://parks.canada.ca/pn-np/mtn/ours-bears/securite-safety...

Aurora colors are visible to the naked eye. I've seen it myself.

Electric vehicles must produce sound by law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_vehicle_warning_sound...

To add: Quebec police infiltrated a peaceful protest while wearing face masks and carrying rocks. In this case the protestors picked up the ruse and kicked them out. Of course they claim they weren't trying to instigate anything.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/quebec-police-admit-they-went...

The comment speaks for itself: "I think he approaches it the wrong way," and the only problem is the ambiguous 6/9.

If there's something else you intended to say, I'd love to see a clarification.

> Not much serious counting needed.

An optimal algorithm that solves the normie's problem by completely ignoring it.

I.E. "you're holding it wrong"

Would you offer this solution to a 13-year-old using GitHub for a school project? Or a 60-year-old trying to keep up with tech? Or a busy parent trying to catch up on things after a long day?

This utter lack of empathy saddens me.

I disagree with the way these behaviors are portrayed as a cultural dichotomy. To me, the author's examples all fall under ineffective communication.

Their example of "ask culture" involves stoking resentment by making unreasonable requests. This can be avoided by practicing a little empathy. Ask questions, provide some basic context, and offer an escape hatch: "What are you busy with? I need X because Y. It's fine if you can't, I can also get it from Z".

Their example of "guess culture" sounds like mind-reading and ambiguous non-verbal signaling, maybe even to the point of being passive aggressive. Again, use empathy. Volunteer information that others might want to know. Be genuinely curious, ask questions. Communicate.

Make sure both parties know enough to make informed decisions.

That's fun to think about, but Precambrian life was generally microscopic. Many impact craters across the world date from that era, so any extinctions they caused would not be visible to the naked eye.

In post-mortems involving pilot error, what strikes me is that airliner cockpit design sounds so convoluted, unintuitive, and just plain bad. The burden of disentangling this bad design is always placed on the pilots - through extensive training and rote memorization - which inevitably fails under stress.

In this particular example, consider:

- the opposing pilot inputs being signaled only by a pair of little green lights

- the cacophony of warning lights and alarms which, together, say little more than "something is wrong"

- instruments that direct a pilot to pull up during a full stall

- sensor failures with no clear indicator

- computer safeguards suddenly removed without a stated reason

Etc. And the expectation towards the crew is to quickly and corrently reason about this stream of conflicting signals, while embroiled in a sudden emergency.

It smacks of pure engineer-driven design, assembled with serious attention to the technical issues, but with near-zero empathy for the humans who will be operating the contraption.

Reminds me of internal web tools at so many companies. They present giant messy forms, with checkboxes and dropdowns for every conceivable edge case, which have to be manipulated just so or the system explodes. And when something breaks, of course it's the user's fault every time.

Re your last question, the article states Air France was in the middle of upgrading the pitot tubes across its fleet when the accident happened.

The claimed maximum altitude on previous flights was 87.2 km.

There are arguments for and against calling that "space", especially since the vehicle isn't designed for orbit. Either way it's an achievement, and I don't see value in belittling it. Why not express excitement for one day going higher?

If that were true, then why do prison sentences have an end date?

Styled Components is a library for React that moves CSS styles into the JS code. Depending on how junior the interviewee was, and what tech they were primarily working with, it's possible they never encountered those terms even as they contributed to the code.

Or maybe they just pitched themselves as "full stack" when they were really more back end focused. Doesn't seem that far-fetched to me.

> Imagine if someone said that to you about something you liked, would you make a sincere attempt to explain why someone might do such a thing?

"I like my hobby because X, Y, and Z. It poses no danger to anyone".

Seems a bit rude to accuse OP of concealing anything. The owner of the Porsche is proud of the shoddy state of his vehicle, and this rubs him the wrong way. It's not hard to see why.

Car culture forces us into daily contact with folks who are also proud of their vehicles, and their blinding lights, their lifted suspension, protruding rims, tinted windows, overpowered engines, etc. I am reminded of this vehicle [0] and its owner. Running "beaters" is one facet of that same culture.

It's a very public hobby, which puts the public at real risk. That makes it fair game for criticism.

[0] https://www.motor1.com/news/597254/1300-hp-mercury-comet-bra...

Depending on the age of the child, they may not be able to legally consent to whatever happened, especially if coercion was involved. I suggest giving the victim some leeway here, given that so many airlines have a track record of passenger abuse.

That might be reading into it too much. I'm pretty sure it's just a joke that capitalism is cancer. As in, "late-stage cancer".

In case it wasn't immediately clear (it wasn't to me) "2 asses" refers to the as/assarius, a coin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_(Roman_coin)

> Are you sure climate change had a greater destabilizing effect?

Read my comment more carefully. You don't get to dismiss contributing factors simply for not having the greatest effect. The world is complex, nuance exists.

The concern is not that people will start dropping like flies, it's that the changing climate will have destabilizing effects on the economy, geopolitics, and the ecosystem. For example, drought contributed to the Syrian conflict, the rise of ISIS, etc: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1421533112

If individual citizens can affect their local politics to mitigate climate change, it is important to do so.

It's in the post. One of their admins was charged with something in relation to a protest. The data was seized along with the admin's devices.