Yes, naivete is the the other issue besides culture. People without work experience, especially tech work experience, won't push back as hard or negotiate as effectively with their management, which translates to lower salary and a willingness to go along with what the company wants. I don't want to paint young folks with too broad a brush though, I've met some young coworkers that were pretty savvy, it's just in general what I have seen.
I underestimated how much of warfare was about grain shipments until I read Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic Wars. Now it's all I think about whenever I see pre-modern armies depicted in media, is where they get their bread and corn.
I think it's also about the "culture fit" that these high prestige tech companies look for. Young people fresh out of school will not have been "tainted" by the workplace culture of other companies. Moreover, young people in general, but especially those still in the highly social school mindset, tend to be influenced by peers more easily than adults, especially jaded adults. This all makes young people fresh out of school much more easily molded to the company culture.
Game of Thrones is based on a book series and for the first couple seasons was very faithful to that book series in terms of characters and plot. You can't really give credit to Hollywood writers for something created by a novelist. In fact, as soon as they started running out of book material you see a noticeable decline in the quality of writing.
Considering the precipitous decline in Oscar viewership over the last decade, it's safe to say Hollywood's death grip on American film and television is all but broken these days. The jump in the most recent Oscars viewership has more to do with tabloid antics (i.e. "the slap") than anything else, and even then it was still the second worst year on record.
>Moreno recognizes that large segments of the population might never enjoy the slower-paced, localized life he envisions. “Of course we need to adapt this concept for different realities,” he says. “Not all people have the possibility of having jobs within 15 minutes.” But he emphasizes that many people’s circumstances could be profoundly changed—something he believes we’re already seeing because of the pandemic’s canceled commutes. In his view, centralized corporate offices are a thing of the past; telework and constellations of coworking hubs are the future.
An embarrassing case of "oh yeah we forgot low-wage people" which shows where his priorities are and who these cities are actually designed for.
The minute I started reading I was waiting for the phrase "made in China" to appear. It's in the 7th paragraph: " M Salam noted that the mistake occurred when containers were made for Sea Lloyd in China."
This is the method that works for me. If I go heavy on water between alcoholic drinks I can avoid having a hangover entirely, or at least reduce it to a very mild headache that Ibuprofen can deal with.
The only downside is you will have to use the bathroom a lot.
>devs don’t want it to read like an ad (hate advertising)
This is pretty much why I only use browsers with ublock origin installed, and avoid browsing on devices I can't filter out 99.9% of image/video ads. I don't see ads on youtube or google or most other common sites. The only way I get advertised to is sponsored segments in videos or podcasts, or reading a product review I see on a site like HN.
In the case of the former, the sponsor is hoping my willingness to watch/listen to the content provider talk about stuff I like will transfer some level of tolerance to listening to them shill a product. In reality I either mute it until the segment is over or skip past it (if able). For the latter, I do sometimes look at product pages for gizmos and software posted to HN but I bee-line straight for the specs and ignore the marketing fluff, which is either a wordy summary of the specs, or else completely lacking in substance.
So I think some audiences are simply not targetable by their own choice and you have to accept it. I have certainly tried pretty hard to make myself impossible to advertise to (at least in a consistent and reliable way), and I don't think this mindset is uncommon in the industry.
And people called me paranoid for years for never making a Facebook account and staying off social media sites. It's hard enough to avoid being propagandized without being plugged into a firehose of information curated by CIA (sorry, "ex" CIA) agents.
Still my preferred media player as a windows user, been using it for over a decade at this point. There was a time an MPC-HC setup required a lot of plugins (or bulky codec packs) but now all you need is MadVR, and a subtitle renderer (I like xy-subfilter) and you're good. Doesn't really have the utility of VLC or MPV but the playback quality is fantastic with MadVR.
Riding the bleeding edge has its risks in more ways than one. For now, law enforcement are taking full advantage to nail some easy targets with it. Wonder how long before this particular loophole is closed. Probably not until they start arresting people more sympathetic than pedophiles.
The Civil War saw a US Army General, Robert E. Lee, defect to a cause he did not truly believe in, because he refused to fight against his home state. You might also want to consider how many veterans there are in the USA, that is, people with military service experience now living as civilians. Last census poll put that number at over 18 million, across all branches of service. Some might re-enlist to fight for the government, but you wouldn't even need 10% of them to go rebel to have a multi-million man rebel force with military experience and contacts within every branch to possible sympathizers. Absolute nightmare.
It's an attitude I've encountered with some Californians. I wouldn't call it a common one, since most Californians seem to be aware of their dependence on their neighbors for energy and water. But as for "kicking out" California, I'm not sure any such mechanism even exists in the Constitution. While the USA might not be a proper federation of states anymore, vestigial bits of the federation still exist, particularly when it comes to representation and self determination of states.
If a civil war or rebellion did break out I don't think it'd happen along state lines. The kind of power the states now wield actually depends on the existence of the union, so I don't see them wanting to destroy that relationship.
While the USA was once a true federation of sovereign states that really hasn't been the case since at least the Civil War, over 150 years ago. States depend heavily on the federal government for assistance, standardization, and regulation, and even depend on their neighbors for logistical support in various industries as well as energy and water.
For all its touted net-contribution to the federal budget California would not survive on its own, as it depends on electricity from other states and water from the Colorado River (a shared resource between several states). To be sure, California puts these shared resources to extremely productive use and pays back the value to its neighbors, but this kind of interdependence probably would not exist if California went rebel.
The article itself espouses similar doubts from one of its subjects:
>Barbara Walter, a political scientist at the University of California, San Diego, who was also not involved in the study, agrees. But she suspects the survey responses overrepresent the number of Americans who would be willing to turn to violence because, she says, surveys tend to overstate what people actually think. “The numbers always tend to be shocking, but in essence, are probably not true.”
Hardly sensational to lead with "all this is probably BS" but that probably wouldn't get as many clicks. For sure the alarmist title got me to read it, only to wind up feeling I wasted my time.
I see this as a kind of Stockholm syndrome. Your time is being held hostage by your commute, so you cope with ways to use that time. I was the same way. At first, I was stuck commuting for 75+ minutes to and from work on public transit. Most of this was spent walking, because it was actually faster to bee-line on foot for the office downtown than trying to jump between inner city transit options. I read books on the train or did crosswords when able, but the train ride altogether was maybe 20 minutes long, with maybe 5 minutes spent waiting at the stop (if it wasn't late). So about 25 minutes I could spend "productively" by reading on the way in, and another 25 on the way back. Assuming the train wasn't jam packed by the time it arrived, leaving me hardly any room to even hold a handrail let alone do anything else, which was not a rare occurrence.
Then my employer finally got me a free parking pass for the building (there was a waiting list) and I said goodbye to public transport. My 75+ minute commute became a 25 minute drive, saving me 100 minutes a day I could spend on leisure instead of commuting. What undercuts this happy turn of events is that Covid came in a few months later and my prized parking pass became irrelevant as I was working from home.
And this made me realize enjoying ANY kind of commute is essentially Stockholm syndrome. What's better than a short drive OR reading on the train? Reading at home, in my big comfy chair with a cup of coffee, right up until it's time to start work, never having to take off my slippers.
Apple is not even close to a monopoly, especially in Europe, where they have less than a third of the mobile market. That said, the rest of the market is divided up between several different Android phone companies, so Apple is in fact the largest single mobile vendor in the EU (Samsung is neck and neck with them though, and may have overtaken them since I last checked).
So from a regulatory standpoint, Apple is the problem child even if it isn't a monopoly. The EU sees a third of its phone-using population as being "captured" by a uncompetitive foreign corporation that is far more restrictive and locked down than any of its competitors. Apple has also tenaciously resisted any attempts to open its platform by citing user security as a reason for its draconian level of control over the iPhone platform, so it became necessary for the EU to resort to powerful big-guns legislation to act. Well the big guns are here, and I don't think Apple's "user security" defense is going to be aegis enough against them.
I think he doesn't like the fact that a corporation is controlling people for its own profit first and their customers' welfare a distant second. Apple is not a charity or a government, it's a business. The EU is a government, its purpose is to regulate and legislate for the sake of the people it represents. It's more sane to trust the motivations of the EU, even if its actions are ill-considered at times, than a corporation whose primary, overriding objective is to make its owners wealthier. The former will generally pursue actions that benefit consumers, the latter will only coincidentally do this, if it stands to make a lot of money in the process.
EU's a very large, very wealthy market, but not the biggest for Apple. https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/europe Android owns more than 60% of the EU market. Even so, writing off the EU would be further knee-capping Apple's global market share, and would for certain constitute a more than 10% drop in revenue, and not just for this year, for all years going forward until they find a way back into it. So no I don't think Apple's going anywhere.
Same, actually. I've seen enough iPhones in the hands of friends and family to be envious of some of the features, but I've never wanted to be part of Apple's walled garden. A more open iPhone that I would be free to choose my own apps for if I didn't like Apple's offerings? Yeah I'd try that.
It's not uninhabitable, it's simply uninhabited. It's perfectly safe to visit Chernobyl, or even live there, and has been for years. It's been open for tourism since 2011. Dilapidated buildings pose a bigger risk to Chernobyl tourists than radiation. Animals certainly don't seem worse off and they returned to the city long before people did.
I paid for my Minecraft account a long time ago, over a decade, and I've generally felt like it was money well spent. I've got a lot of hours of enjoyment out of Minecraft and I was glad to support the developer. The fact this purchase was honored for so long across changes in ownership and account migrations also made me feel good about the purchase. Now though, I'm not feeling like having a paid account is a good value. It's just subjecting me to ever more levels of control by Microsoft that pirates don't have to put up with.
I share your sentiment. People make GUIs for MPV but I'd rather just use a media player designed for GUI users out of the box. Got nothing against ffmpeg, wonderful tool, just some things I think need a proper GUI.
You can skip the first two sections of this rant entirely if you don't care about his life story or his opinions on the creative process, by the way. The product review starts over 900 words into it, in the third section. I have no reason to doubt this man is paid by the word, I bet his grocery list has an ISBN label.
Article seems to be engaging in a bit of sophistry. Yes you can claim historical revisionism has been "widely applied" when you redefine it in the broadest possible way that mostly ignores the context in which it is being used in modern discourse. I might be assuming the worst here, could just be an instance of click bait. If you changed the title of the article it's a fairly dry explainer piece about historiography and the reliability of sources. With the title it feels like somebody performing transparent apologetics for the politically charged historical revisionism trend.
It's explainable by looking at polls for how Americans feel about major institutions. Gallup did one for various public and private institutions: https://news.gallup.com/poll/394283/confidence-institutions-... and what they found is the only two major institutions that maintain a universal (across political affiliation and other demos) positive trust rating are small businesses and the military. Everybody else either varies a lot or just has universal low trust.
You'll note from this source that "big technology companies" score above all 3 branches of the federal government. Part of this is how partisan politics has become, so one party will have a majority of people expressing trust in an institution their party controls, the other hardly anybody, resulting in a fairly low score for the presidency and supreme court. Congress, it seems, is so universally despised it doesn't matter who controls it, it sits at single digit trust percentage.
In light of this it becomes understandable why somebody would be fine with big tech spying on them at the behest of the police (another institution with pretty high universal trust, though it does vary depending on political affiliation a bit it's considerably higher than any federal institutions), yet react with suspicion from something set up by bureaucrats from a federal agency.
A VPN is a service that people who are not privacy conscious (which is most people) tend to only use if they have a particular need for it, such as circumventing a region block for some service they want to use. This isn't a very common problem for the average person living in Britain right now, but it's about to be. So I think it's pretty fair to assert VPN usage is going to become more common, as it is a pre-existing, ready-made solution to the problem millions of British people are about to have.
Thank you. I see so many people here who seem intent on linking their online identity to their real life identity, a trend popularized by social media and which is in direct contravention to the common sense advice we used to give people: don't upload PII on the internet.
I understand many people rely on social media for professional networking but there's absolutely no reason why you have to use this professional networking account to trade verbal jabs with people on contentious topics, or confront trolls, or start political debates, etc. Make an alt if you want to slum it in the comments section. Again, this was common sense 20 years ago, and now seems like it's lost knowledge.