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Because most VC founded companies are not about results. They are about virtue signaling to attract even more capital. Profitability has been thrown out of the window long time ago. Success is measured in the stupidest KPIs you can imagine. That's why 9 out of 10 VC founded companies fail. So you need to indoctrinate your minions to make them act accordingly.

Well I can see your point, but this is not exactly the same.

As a thought experiment imagine that someone now builds a website called Linkedout and they post your profile with a layover animation resembling a big red stamp which reads 'Slacker'. I guess you are not OK with THAT information about you.

I would say you are probably talking to the wrong audience here. Apparently those flex drivers were OK with it, for unknown reasons.

I upvoted your comment because the blog author even references that book, and the book goes into great length to make this distinction between the two. So I think it's only fair to point it out.

On Android you can use a private DNS service, for example nextdns.io which will block all advertisement on the page for you. I wouldn't be surprised if iOS would have the same option.

Exactly. I feel for you. I am in the same boat. With young kids around I was forced to wake up 2 hours earlier than my circadian rhytm would dictate and it's been a nightmare so far.

I need to compensate each day with even more coffee than normally and my head's just spinning by the end of the day because I am too exhausted.

Since my rhytm cannot be forced to the early waking, on average I only sleep 5 hours each night.

It's a constant torture.

Google/Amazon

I find it ironic that the author points out in the first part of the post that companies are the real culprit but later puts the blame on governments. I wouldn't do such differentiation. They are equally wrong. Regarding free speech too. Case in point are the recent de-platformings.

I don't know which industry you worked in, but outages in the telecom industry was strictly forbidden and came with severe financial penalties even 10 years ago. And those companies managed to adhere to really strict uptime SLAs even then.

It might take less resource today though to achieve the same, I agree with that.

The real question is: what was wrong with the website in the first place?

This claim is completely false. As others pointed out the EU applies stricter and stricter emission regulations each year forcing all manufacturers to comply.

Or conversely having a public domain does not give the right to any private enterprise to do business in a sovereign country. I guess that's a pretty solid argument and that's what most people argue for.

This is counterproductive in an English speaking country. There is a few similarly good alternative like Bing for example. In non-English speaking countries though this strategy might work.

Where did you read that? The article doesn't mention it.

TLDR You basically described what I wrote but in long format instead

I think that's a very strange way of looking at the real estate industry. They don't determine who gets to live where at all. They simply gather and withhold information that they then offer for a fee.

In most situations the same information can (or at least could) be gathered in different ways also, leaving out real estate industry from the loop.

Also just to clarify what I mean: real estate owners =/= real estate industry. They are just part of a bigger picture.

And stackoverflow and hacker news...

You mean the cynicism that the nations producing the most waste (UK, US, etc) are not part of the effort? Yes, that's very cynical of those nations indeed.

In our case: 1) slow and long transpilation times, 2) although not that common these days but missing typings used to cause some head scratch 3) overly permissive/overly restrictive type definitions 4) wrongly configured sourcemaps 5) unreadable type definitions/declarations... The list is long but these are off the top of my head

What are you talking about? Did you even take a look at the table of contents?

This discussion doesn't revolve around how things should be but how it is in the real world.

I feel for you. I also had my fair share of labor rights abuse in Japan. My experience is that only foreigners are 'brave' enough to ever bring this up, which makes the whole situation even more miserable since you cannot expect any help from Japanese colleagues.

If you want to know, the same system happens in Japan too.

When you get the offer letter it's an outline only. Then you either accept the offer letter as it is, or walk away. Asking for the detailed contract (called 就業規則 in Japanese) will always end up losing your job offer, because you have no legal right to see the contract before you join the company.

Some companies are so hostile (and this is the norm in my experience), that even very valid questions along the line of "Do I get severance pay if I am forced to retire?" or "How do stock options work?" will end your job application process right there because you will get labeled as overzealous.

Also, Japanese law doesn't require to state in the contract the exact position that you are hired into. So you will often get hired with the job description: "engineering team member". Of course HR will tell you mealy-mouthed or mellifluously that you are a senior/principal engineer and/or a manager, but none of that will hold any legal water in a lawsuit since your contract doesn't say so.

If you ask me, Japan and the US, some of the largest economies of the world are constant labor right abusers and the UN and other nations simply turn their head when this ever gets brought up.

But that's not what the comment says. He says he is not neglecting the bedtime and despite of that he cannot sleep enough. It can have a whole range of reasons why someone cannot sleep, many of them out of the commenter's control, so there cannot be any neglect whatsoever in any sense of the word in that case.

Stop blaming yourself. Even the article mentions that it is the employer to blame. It even suggests that the solution is to show solidarity and put pressure on your employer by talking to him as a group. Otherwise I don't think there is anything you can do.

> But she does advise employees to talk to their colleagues and collectively approach their boss, with evidence, if they want to ask for change.

Yeah, because that isn't what the labor unions are for, am I right?

I guess people enjoy living in today's neloiberal utopian nightmare rather than supporting labor rights and labor unions.

But this is not stubbornness at all. There are way better alternatives like mercurial but you have to fight with the pious Git believers because they just don't give a flying...

And I would argue it's the other way around. I haven't seen a Git believer who would give up his blind belief in Git even if there are way better alternatives. So it's the opposite camp which got stuck in their mindset I would say.

You complain about a blog post right here right now. Time to switch to trucking?

Similarly applicable alternative title: "How to identify brainy smurf who writes articles starting with "How to identify...""

And also: "How to identify everyone based on their childhood dilemma"

Hard to take this article seriously. I thought that we have already passed this kind of cheap pseudo-freudian psychoanalysis a long time ago.

May I ask if you didn't have enough experience how/why were you allowed to make such decisions? Is this common in some companies that anyone can make fundamental decisions regardless of number of years in service or experience with the technology?