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disposableuname··on Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone
I can't speak to the EU, but living in the non-California US, yes. I've gotten next-day replacements accompanied by a box for returning the bricked phone. This is accompanied by the caveat that if they don't receive the bricked phone in something like 30 days, you're on the hook for the full purchase price of the replacement they sent you.
disposableuname··on Doing too much work on one's own before looping in others
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> It can also happen if the team culture is toxic and engineers fear getting criticism early in the design process.

I think the author would agree with you.

disposableuname··on Doing too much work on one's own before looping in others
> as both an IC and a manager

When juxtaposed to manager, it usually means individual contributor - someone being managed rather than doing the management.

disposableuname··on Smartbolts
Not just me, then. I played around with scroll, with zoom, doing everything I could to try to see the actual main feature.
disposableuname··on Metallurgist admits faking steel test results for US Navy subs
We do drop criminal charges left and right in order to bring forth information. We have whistleblower protections; we have immunity in exchange for testimony.
disposableuname··on Classified tank specs leaked on War Thunder game forums again
In every intro book on espionage. MICE is the short-hand for why people become traitors / how to turn people into assets.
disposableuname··on Activision Blizzard Hires Notorious Union-Busting Firm WilmerHale
They're a biglaw firm, which has its hands in many, many fields. If WilmerHale had anything resembling a specialty, it would corporate/finance law.
disposableuname··on Schools opened, suicide attempts in girls skyrocketed
I'm not clear on what you're arguing. In Year 2019 there are N suspected suicide attempt visits for females; in Year 2020, there are 1.506N attempted visits for females. Regardless of comparing males-to-females, the year-on-year comparison is valid, unless you can make a convincing argument that there's been an abrupt change in the method/effectiveness of suicide that females are using.

In terms of comparing male to female, the comparison is still valid as well, assuming that males haven't gotten more successful than they were last year. Assuming that males are successful some proportion of the time, P, if that proportion hasn't changed, a bump of 3.7% in their total number of failures should give a general indication of the trend. If you'd take a position like "a 3.7% increase in failed attempts was accompanied by a 30% increase in successful attempts," you'd have to support the argument for why they're not only committing more suicide, but why it's more effective than it was before. That's hardly where occam's razor falls.